Brief Life History of Frank Grady
When Frank Grady Simpson was born on 16 March 1892, in Bedford, Tennessee, United States, his father, James William Simpson Jr, was 36 and his mother, Katherine Keller, was 23. He married Rollie Vaughn Thomas on 20 August 1913, in Bedford, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Civil District 2, Bedford, Tennessee, United States for about 5 years and Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1950. He died on 19 August 1977, in Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Shelbyville, Bedford, Tennessee, United States.
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- Frank G Simpson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Grady Simpson, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Frank Grady Simpson, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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Name Meaning
Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: patronymic from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Sim(m), Sime (see Sim ) + -son.
English: occasionally a variant of Sumsion with unrounding of the vowel before the nasal consonant, a dialect feature of southwestern England.
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Simpson or one called Zemson, all in Devon. The one in Holsworthy parish derives from an uncertain first element + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the one in Diptford comes from the Old English personal name Sigewine (genitive Sigewines) + Old English tūn. Both the one in Torbryan and Zempson in Dean Prior probably also have the same origin as the Diptford placename.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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