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From: "Jim Ray" <>
Subject: [RHEA-L] RE: Tennessee Rays in Illinois
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 11:12:41 -0500


Has anyone much information on Tennessee Rays in Illinois?

My gg-grandfather, Abner Ray,was born in Davidson Co., Tn in 1813. In 1836
he married Mary Ann Keith in Morgan Co., IL. Several of their children
were born in the Morgan-Mason-Menard county area of Illinois before they
moved on in the 1840's to Iowa, then Nebraska, and finally Washington
state.

Abner was in the 1840 census for Morgan Co., but no earlier. Have to
believe he came to the state and lived with an older Ray. Have some
indication, but no proof, that his family might have originated in Grainger
Co, TN.

Jim Ray

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