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From: "Johnita P. Malone" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] Worth S. Ray (TN author) ancestors
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 00:56:04 -0700


Charla A Marchione wrote:
>
> 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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I suspect that he was not the son of the James Rea who died about 1788 as
he is not mentioned in the will of this man. The daughters of this James
Rea (prob. Sr.) married into the Bolling family, though. More likely he
is an grandson of this James Rea, d. c1788.
--
Johnita P. Malone

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