Brief Life History of Grover Lee
When Grover Lee Harris was born on 8 June 1937, in Rock Hill, York, South Carolina, United States, his father, Andrew Pinkney Harris, was 28 and his mother, Virginia Mary McCoy, was 25. He married "Mary" Yuriko Kayoda on 27 December 1956, in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States. He lived in Electric City, Grant, Washington, United States in 1992 and Cathedral City, Riverside, California, United States in 2003. He died on 25 September 2001, in Central Point, Jackson, Oregon, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Medford, Jackson, Oregon, United States.
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- Grover Lee Harris, "United States 1950 Census"
- Grover Lee Harris, "Nevada Marriage Index, 1956-2005"
- Grover Lee Harris, "Oregon Death Index, 1971-2008"
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1940
Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
Name Meaning
English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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