Gray
The following is an excerpt from Elizabeth Gray Lyman's "The Gray Family History and Record", published in 1942 about the Robert Gray family that settled in Shelby County, Indiana. If you have any questions or additions to the following, please contact Carolyn Hoffman.
ROBERT GRAY, eldest child of
James
and Rebecca (Shaffer) Gray was born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, April 16,
1791. Married Margaret Shaffer (Schaefer), who was born October 28,
1790. Robert Gray died October 2, 1876. Margaret Shaffer (Schaefer)
Gray died August 21, 1877. Buried in
Ogden cemetery [Shelbyville, Shelby Co., Indiana]. They were the parents of five children:
Elizabeth January
21, 1815 August 28, 1894 William S. October
22, 1817 January
26, 1818 Sarah Ann March
15, 1819 1895 James Samuel January 20, 1821 December 24, 1895 (Born
in Preble County, Ohio) Mary (Ann) June
27, 1828 April 27, 1872 Elizabeth married Isaac Newton. Sarah Ann married William O. Newton. James Samuel married Eliza Van Pelt. Mary married Alexander Wyllie
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Margaret Ann 1845 (April, 9 1843) 1900
(April 25, 1899) Adaline (Lucy Adeline) 1847 (September
13, 1845) (February 15, 1941) Alice Elnora 1849 (February 03, 1848) 1911 (June
17, 1919) Mary M. 1852 (1841) 1914 (May
28, 1917) James T. (July 19, 1850) (August 25, 1852) William R. 1854 (March
28, 1854) (October 19, 1938) Margaret married Thomas McClain. (Thomas J. McLane) Adaline married Thomas Stonsifer (Thomas Stansifer, see Elizabeth’s obituary) Alice married Capt. Theodore Wilks. (Lt.?) (Wilkes) Mary married John Barton. James T. is not shown in the
original. William married (2nd)
Rhoda Trees. (1st Diantha Biddinger)
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Margaret E. 1846 1932 Emma (Mary E.) 1913 Emaline (Emeline E.) (abt
1842) 1915 (March 1915) Nellie (Camille;
Mellie) 1855 1933 Margaret married Liberty Sealy. (Liberty J. Seely) Emma married James Deivty. (James R. Duty) Emaline married 1st Peter R. Stroup. 2nd Warren McCain Nellie married Drank Coil [sic] (Camille (Mellie) married Francis P. Coyle)
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Mary E. 1851 (January 30, 1851) 1853 (October 11, 1852) William R. 1852 (October
27, 1852) 1925 (August
10, 1925) John M. 1855 (February
10, 1855) (November 1, 1936) Margaret Ann 1857 (March 22, 1857) (Before 1936) Laura E. (Laura Ellen) 1860 (May 27, 1860) (May 10, 1950) Rosannah C. (Rosa May*) 1862 (July 27, 1862) (August 27, 1950) Cassius E. 1864 (December
20, 1864) 1933 (January
11, 1933) William R. unmarried. John M. married Catherine Morganthaler. Margaret Ann married 1st James H. Williams. 2nd
Robert Wyllie. Laura E. (Laura
Ellen) married John (William)
Nail. Rosannah C. (Rosa
May) married George Bassett. Cassius E. married 1st Clara McDonald. 2nd Alice
Leisure.
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John married Emila Coulter. Margaret married Cyrus Wells. Mary married Frank White. William married Emma Borders. Robert - Born 1853; died 1909. Married 1st _________ Mathews; 2nd
Margaret Williams
(Margaret Shaffer was the daughter of Peter and
Catherine Shaffer (Schaefer). Peter Shaffer (Schaefer), born February 2, 1757.
Catherine Shaffer (Albert),
born June 8, 1761.)
Robert Gray and Margaret Shaffer (Schaefer) were married in
Pennsylvania. Came to Preble County,
Ohio about 1820, and a few years later came to Shelby County, Indiana.
Name Born Died
Children
of Elizabeth and Isaac Newton:
Name Born Died
Children
of Sarah Ann and William Newton:
Name
Born Died
Children
of James Samuel and Eliza Van Pelt.
Name Born Died
* This must be a mistake. A biography of James
S. Gray and the marriage license for George Bassett both list Rosa May Gray.
Children
of Mary and Alexander Wyllie:
Alice - Born 1864.
Submitted by Carolyn Hoffman
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