When Jerry Easias Graves was born on 1 May 1903, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States, his father, John William GRAVES, was 45 and his mother, Lucy Ann Brandon, was 32. He married Medora Wright on 24 July 1920, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years. He died on 26 March 1980, in Atlantic City, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery And Chapel Mausoleum, Mays Landing, Hamilton Township, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States.
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English (northern and eastern England): variant of Grave , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: alternatively, a variant of Greaves or Grieves .
Altered form of German Greff , with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames.
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