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From: "Johnita P. Malone" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] Isham WRAY/RAY m. Mary Ann FAUNTLEROY
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:39:19 -0700


wrote:
>
> Is anyone researching Isham WRAY/RAY, who m. Mary Ann FAUNTLEROY, or their son
> Harvey Clay RAY who m. Abigail ODELL?
>
> Want to share information? We believe the line flows as follows:
>
> Moses WRAY, b. abt 1735 Franklin Co, VA; d. bef Oct 1802 Franklin Co, VA; m. abt
> 1754, Elizabeth Mary MORRIS, b. abt 1740; d. aft 1802, daughter of Daniel MORRIS
> and Tabitha ??.
>
> Moses WRAY, b. abt 1760 Franklin Co, VA; m. unknown. (The parent/child
> relationship of this Moses is NOT PROVEN.)
>
> Isham WRAY/RAY, b. abt 1795, d. bef 1850, m. 1820 in Clark Co, Ind.,
> to Mary Ann FAUNTLEROY, born abt 1804, daughter of Maj. John T.
> Griffin FAUNTLEROY and Margaret HARROD.
>
> Harvey Clay RAY, b. 1821 near Harrodsburg, Mercer Co, KY; d. 1898 OK;
> m. 1849 Ray Co, MO, to Abigail ODELL, b. 1831 in MO, died 1863
> Ray Co, MO, believed to be the daughter of Simon ODELL and Mary TURNER.
>
> 1. Mitchell RAY, b. abt 1850 in MO, m. Sally ??.
>
> 2. John Clay RAY, b. 1853 in Jackson/Ray Co, MO; m. Arminta ROACH.
>
> 3. Samuel RAY, b. abt 1860 Ray Co, MO; m. unknown.
>
> Would be more than happy to share further data, documents, etc.
>
> Emily RAY ELLIOTT
>
>
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This is interesting as I have a little information about an Isham Rae but
thought that he was probably the Isham who is buried in the Rae Cemetery
in Warren Co., TN.

William Gantt Perkins who is the husband of Dicy Rhea, daughter of Aaron
and Nancy (Howell) Ray/Rhea/Rae, mentions an Isom Ray in the records of
the Mormom Baptism of the Dead. William Gantt Perkins indicates he is a
cousin but think he really means cousin-in-law. I thought this to be the
Isham Rae in the cemetery in Warren Co., TN., but don't suppose that it
would have to be. However, it does indicate that this Isham is now dead,
i.e., baptisms of the dead. The date of this record is 3 Aug 1870.

If these are the same Isham Rays then I would guess that he is more
closely connected to a John Rae who was a minister in Warren Co., TN.
Dicy Ray, wife of William Gantt Perkins and daughter of Aaron Rae, is
mostly likely the granddaughter of John Rae and Polly Bolon.

Here is what I find on the other Isham:

16 Feb 1813. Warren County, Tennessee, Tennessee Cousins, pages 526-527.
Rev John Ray (Rae, Rhea, etc.) of Warren County, Tennessee. From Geo.
W. Paschal's "History of the North Carolina Baptists" p. 407: (1790)
Three Churches of the Sandy Creek Association were in Chatham Co.,
(N.C.), being the church of Haw River, with 320 members, much the
strongest church in the Association, still under the care of Elder
Elnathan Davis, who had as his assistants the Licentiates Thomas Brown,
Jesse Buckner, Thomas Cate, Solomon Smith, Isaac Hailes, . . . Ray and
William Witherspoon. From notebook of Rev. Morgan Edwards, page 6:
Sandy Creek Church. The House is 80 feet by 26, built in 1762 on the
lands of Seamore York. Thomas J. Barnes of McMinnville, a few years ago,
discovered an old Rae (Ray) graveyard, not far from town, on which there
were a few markers and about ten or more graves. The markers read: John
Rae died February 16, 1813, aged 74 years. Baptist Preacher. Nancy
Cooper (Prob. wife of James Cooper) daughter of J. M. Rae (Ray) died Jun
1, 1843, aged 61 years. Mary Brazeal, daughter of J. M. Rae, died 1811,
aged 42 years. Isham Rae died in the 21st year of his age. No dates.

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Johnita P. Malone

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