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Note: Ahnentafel 40.
Residences: North Hill (in 1827 became Brighton), Maine; Wesley, Maine in mid-January [1836 or 1837].
His birth date: either "26 August 1826" [obituary in Machias Union, 27 April 1886], or "27 September 1826" [reported by L. Austin Gray, Junior].
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See his biography at:
< http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/o/b/Stephen-L-Robbins/FILE/0020page.html >
James Gray, Junior & Ann Eliza Pollard (26 KB)
Biography of James Gray, Junior (born 1826 in North Hill, Maine; died 1886 in Wesley, Maine), and his wife Ann Eliza Pollard (born 1828 in St. David, N.B.; died 1902 in Cooper, Maine). [A40.htm from A40.rtf ; added 15 February 2003]
Bits and pieces toward a biography of JAMES GRAY, Junior, and his wife ANN ELIZA POLLARD, of Wesley, Maine. Compiled by Stephen L. Robbins in 1979. Any information recorded or received after 1979 still needs to be added. Except for the published sources cited, most of this information came from communication with L. Austin Gray, Junior, of Wesley, Maine. Electronic text version prepared by Stephen L. Robbins during February 2003- .
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Some additional material (to be added to the biography cited above):
The "Wesley Arson Cases" [mentioned in the above James Gray, Junior biography] are more fully described in a book by Edward D. Ives (see below). James Gray, Junior's niece, Mary L. (Gray) Munson (daughter of John H. Gray) and her husband Frederick Munson lived next door, just north of James Gray, Junior. Frederick Munson was appointed to a three-year term as a Game Warden, on 01 April 1885. But poachers in and around Wesley, Maine, who did not like his enforcement of the state's new strict game laws, burned down Frederick Munson's house and barn on 17 July 1885. During April 1886 the suspected arsonists were on trial in court, but there were still threats made and fears of further arson attempts by other poachers. [For details of this incident, see: Edward D. Ives. George Magoon and the Down East Game War : History, Folklore, and the Law. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1988. pp. 71, 209-220, 232 notes, 301.]
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James Gray, Junior apparently had diabetes. Diabetes may also have showed up in other family members: his son Uncle James "Watson" Gray also had "Bright's Disease". His his grandson Roger Gray apparently had diabetes. And his great-grandson, L. Austin Gray, Junior, did get diabetes.
"In reading your page on 'James GRAY, Junior & Ann Eliza POLLARD' (< http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/o/b/Stephen-L-Robbins/FILE/0020page.html >), this part reminded me of something: 'James Gray, Junior and his son, �Watson�, both had nephritis, a form of Bright�s Disease which was an inflamation of the kidneys. [Note: Bright�s Disease is a common name for several types of kidney diseases in which the urine contains albumin.]' "
"First I thought of Rich�s [i.e., Rich LeVasseur's] kidney disease which is a result of his diabetes, which made me think of the rest. Now, I don�t know if you know this or not, but when Uncle Austin [i.e., L. Austin Gray, Junior] got diabetes, Aunt Aggie [i.e., Agnes (Diffin) Gray] remembered something from long ago. She said that when Grampa [Roger] Gray had come to stay with her [at Robbinston, Maine] for a few days [circa 1967-1972], his doctor had called her and said not to give him too many sugary sweets 'because your father has diabetes.' Well, she just thought the doctor had him confused with some other patient, he wasn�t diabetic! And so she forgot about it. But then when Austin was diagnosed with diabetes recently [about 2001?], she remembered it again and thought maybe that doctor hadn�t been confused after all."
"So when I read about the Bright�s Disease in the Gray family, I wondered if it might be one of the symptoms of Type II diabetes. 'Bright's disease� a broad descriptive term once used for kidney disease with proteinuria, usually glomerulonephritis. ... Kidney disease of diabetes, IgA nephropathy, and lupus nephritis are some types of glomerulonephritis.' i.e. Diabetic kidney disease is one type of Bright�s Disease."
[with link to: < http://www.my.homewithgod.com/jonda/health.html > ]
[Source: Email message from Shirley (Robbins) (Richards) LeVasseur to Steve Robbins, dated 21 February 2004.]
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