Grancer Harrison - Grancer Name Origin

Grancer Name Origin

Grancer Harrison would have been given his charming name, "Grancer" by his many children and grandchildren, and not by the slaves of his plantation. Slaves, during the 1860s lived during a time when slavery had grown rapidly and exponentially in response to tripled agricultural output made possible by new fertilizers imported from Peru (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Era), and they lived under conditions which had become increasingly spartan and brutal to control such a large population of un-free people. The nickname, "Grancer" was actually very commonly given to a grandfather in the region of South Carolina from which hailed Grancer Harrison. Grancer was an affectionate term, in common use at the time by immigrants from Western Britain to the Carolinas. The term refers to a Grand Sire--which means Grand Father. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sire.'