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Frank later became a merchant and proprietor of the Hi-De-Ho Pool Room. Gramma never worked outside the home or learned to drive a car, staying at home to raise two daughters, Marie Fumich (1930–2014) and Sheila Harris (1938–1997). At the time of her death, Gramma had five grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and 8 great-great-grandchildren.
Graetz, of German descent, was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and educated in Columbus, Ohio. [2] His father was an engineer with the Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. [3] At Capital University in Bexley, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1950, [4] he started a "campus race relations club"; Walter White, the leader of the NAACP, was one of the club's speakers.
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Marshall was born Ralph Pierre LaCock on March 30, 1926 to Ralph and Jean LaCock, a show business family, in Clarksburg, West Virginia. [4] [5] Following his father's suicide when Marshall was 10, he moved to New York City to be with his mother, a costume designer. [5]
Davis's paternal family had roots in western Virginia and what became West Virginia. His great-grandfather, Caleb Davis, was a clockmaker in the Shenandoah Valley. In 1816, his grandfather, John Davis, moved to Clarksburg in what would later become West Virginia. Its population then was 600–700, and he ran a saddle and harness business.
Clarksburg is named for trader John Clarke, [5] and was established at the intersection of the main road between Georgetown and Frederick and an old Seneca trail. One of its earliest white inhabitants was a man named Michael Ashford Dowden, who in 1752 received a patent for 40 acres (160,000 m 2) from the colonial government called "Hammer Hill", and two years later permission to build an inn.
Funeral procession of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans. Jefferson Davis died at 12:45 a.m. on Friday, December 6, 1889. [1] [2] His funeral was one of the largest in the South, and New Orleans draped itself in mourning as his body lay in state in the City Hall for several days.
Clarksburg is an unincorporated community in Conemaugh Township, in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States.. It is located on PA Route 286 between Indiana and Saltsburg.. In the town proper, Clarksburg contains a post office, greenhouse, a bar (closed c. 2016), a Sunoco station, small store, and fish hatchery, as well as the Clarksburg Presbyterian Church.