When Elizabeth Gray was born on 8 August 1888, in Rock Island, Rock Island, Illinois, United States, her father, Thomas Gray, was 47 and her mother, Mary Jane Winter, was 44. She married Joseph William Coil on 28 May 1910, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Hartford City, Licking Township, Blackford, Indiana, United States in 1900 and Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States for about 20 years. She died on 10 November 1948, at the age of 60.
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English, Scottish, and Irish (especially Eastern Ulster; of Norman origin): habitational name from Graye in Calvados, France, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Graec(i)us, meaning ‘Greek’ + the locative suffix -acum. This is probably the chief source of the surname in Britain.
English: nickname for someone with gray hair or a gray beard, from Middle English grey (Old English grǣg, grēg) ‘gray’. In Ireland it has been used as a translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from riabhach ‘brindled, gray’, including Mac Giolla Riabhaigh; see McGreevy . In North America, this surname has assimilated names with similar meaning from other languages.
French: habitational name from Gray in Haute-Saône or Le Gray in Seine-Maritime.
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