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From: Charla A Marchione< >
Subject: [RHEA-L] Worth S. Ray (TN author) ancestors
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 00:33:54 -0400


For those interested in the parentage of Worth S. Ray, the 1787 personal
property tax list "A" for Henry Co., VA, there is listed an Andrew RAY,
John REA, James REA, Jr., James REA, Sr., and Benjamin REA.

Worth S. RAY, the author of Tennesse Cousins - A History of Tennessee
People, Colonial Granville County (NC) and its People, The Mecklenburg
Signers (NC) and Their Neighbors, and other books, was a descendant of
one of the James REAs listed above and that James had married into the
MASSENBURG family before moving down into Mecklenburg Co., NC. From
there, Worth's RAYs moved over the mountains into TN. In his book
Tennessee Cousins, in the chapter about Blount County families, he
discusses the McTeers in depth and says "Martha Montgomery McTeer,
married Massenburg Pearson Ray (who was the writer's grandparents). Ray
also says on the same page "Massenburg Pearson Ray and Martha Montgomery
McTeer had children: 1 - William King Ray (Worth Ray's father) 2- Robert
Ray 3-John Wesley Ray 4-George W. Ray 5-Adalaide Ray 6-Amanda M. Ray m.
Anderson Wells. On the next page Mr. Ray says "Stuart Eliza McTeer
married one of the Bolling family who was related to the immediate family
of the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, and who also was descended from James
RAY, the writer's ancestor, who lived in Henry County, Virginia."

In The Mecklenburg Signers and Their Neighbors, Mr. Ray says in regard to
district No. 15, "The writer, of course, is personally interested in the
fact that his own family name and kinsman appears on this list,
immediately following the names of the Queary family, viz, Isaac RAY, who
appears to have had only one son and about four daughters, while the
family of the compiler's wife is also well represented by the Hugh,
Andrew and David Moore, Jr., whose names appear just a few notches above
on the same list and residing in the same neighborhood. Other collateral
kin of our family were the WALKERS - Matthew, William, Moses and Capt.
Archibald Walker. John BLACK, near the top of the list, followed by
Ezekiel, Samuel and William Sr., accompanied the writer's RAY ancestry
over into Tennessee, early in the nineteenth century, with a lot of
others, and settled in adjoining lands and along the same romantic
streams that trickle through the Tennessee valleys where, with the kin of
Sam HOUSTON, we fished and hunted when a barefoot boy."

charla in nj


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