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From: "The Cook's" <>
Subject: [RHEA] FW: Ray - Migrations from Va. to Mo. 1856?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 14:03:56 -0700

Hello!
Following is an email I received and have permission to forward as some of
you on these lists are so much more versed in migration routes, etc. and may
be able to help us. Any direction would be helpful.
Thank you, Marie Cook

-----Original Message-----
From: Marvin Burge [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:31 PM
To:
Subject: Ray


Ms. Cook:
I saw your query on the Ray family on Daviess County mail list. I can't
answer your question about James Ray. However, I have a quick question
for you. Do you know how William Ray migrated from VA to MO? My great
grandfather moved from Patrick County, VA to MO in 1856, also. I'm not
sure what sort of migration route was used at the time. (There were no
railroads in Daviess County until the 1870s.) Did immigrants go by
wagon, river, combination. What roads? My only family legend says that
he and his nine children "wandered like the Israelites" until they
finally settled in Daviess County.
Marv Burge

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