Name: 07302007 -- McWilliams of Forbes, Holt County, MO, USA

Updated: 05-15-2019 05:05:35. Owner: Angela


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Thomas Gray: Birth: WFT Est 1822-1849. Death: 1913

  2. Seymour Gray: Birth: WFT Est 1822-1849. Death: WFT Est 1827-1928

  3. Thomas Gray: Birth: WFT Est 1822-1849. Death: 1913

  4. Semer Gray: Birth: 23 SEP 1822 in Lawrence Co., Indiana. Death: 8 JUN 1900 in Warren Co., Indiana

  5. John Gray: Birth: 23 MAY 1824 in Indiana. Death: 23 DEC 1884 in Pine Twp., Warren Co., Indiana

  6. John Gray: Birth: ABT 1825. Death: WFT Est 1826-1915

  7. Mary Gray: Birth: 8 JUN 1826 in Indiana. Death: UNKNOWN

  8. Ira Gray: Birth: 9 MAY 1828 in Warren Co., Indiana. Death: 24 OCT 1833 in Warren Co., Indiana

  9. Esther Gray: Birth: 17 APR 1830 in Warren Co., Indiana. Death: 22 FEB 1893 in Oak Grove Twp., Benton Co., Indiana

  10. Elizabeth Gray: Birth: 8 MAR 1832 in Warren Co., Indiana or Ohio. Death: 2 APR 1904 in Oak Grove Twp., Benton Co., Indiana

  11. Mary Gray: Birth: ABT 1835. Death: WFT Est 1836-1929

  12. Elizabeth Gray: Birth: ABT 1835. Death: WFT Est 1836-1929

  13. Dorothy or Dorothea Gray: Birth: 13 FEB 1836 in Pine Twp., Warren Co., Indiana. Death: 17 JUN 1900 in Oak Grove Twp., Benton Co., Indiana

  14. Charles Wesley Gray: Birth: 5 APR 1839 in Warren Co., Indiana. Death: 27 APR 1876 in Warren Co., Indiana

  15. Thomas Lewis Gray: Birth: 10 JUL 1844 in Warren Co., Indiana. Death: UNKNOWN


Notes
a. Note:   William Gray was remembered by one of his grandchidren, Martha Kate Rhode Heath Huff, as a fine, upstanding man who used to love telling his grandchildren stories about the "old days." "Kate" as she was known, also says that, like his own father John Gray, her grandfather was a reknown for his hunting skills. Others in the family told her that William had always kept the settlers supplied with venison and other meat even in the coldest winter months. Even in his latter years, William never went anywhere without his beloved rifle. William was born in Brocks Gap, Rockingham Co., Virginia. He married Sarah Cobb in Lawrence Co., Indiana, where his parents, John and Mary Ann Trumbo, settled around 1717. Shortly after his marriage in 1821, William bought contracted for a plot of land in the first Lawrence county seat of Palestine; this plot seemed to be in a new "addition" to the town. But he soon sold it, as Palestine, located about three miles south of Bedford near a river, seemed to have recurrent epidemic problems. Eventually, the town was abandoned by nearly 600 residents because of recurring sicknesses. William and Sarah lived in Perry Twp., Lawrence Co. until the 1830s, when they moved with Sarah's brothers to join her parents and her Rhode uncle and aunt and their children in Warren Co., Indiana. When his son Ira died, William buried him on a patch of his farmland, and he eventually donated that land to the community for a cemetery: the Gray Cemetery in Warren Co., Indiana. William and Sarah Cobb Gray are enumerated on the 1850 census in Pine Twp., Warren Co., Indiana pg. 97B or 14 of 26 on Ancestry.com. William Gray, age 77, is enumerated in the 1880 census in Pine Twp., Warren Co., Indiana. There is no one else in the household. On the 1900 census, Semer Gray, son of William and Mary Ann Trumbo Gray, says his parents were born in North Carolina.

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