My paternal great grandmother's family name was "Gerales" and according to family lore she gave my paternal grandfather this name as his middle name. It is said that her marriage certificate(which is destroyed), she was married during Reconstruction in the US state of South Carolina ,list her as "foreign". Some family members have insisted that she was Spanish and others that she was Mexican. Does anyone have any info on this name or heard of someone marrying a Confederate veteran in the 19th century?
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