George Gray

  General Notes:

Ken Gray notes:
GEORGE GRAY (Daniel, George, John, George, James) born in Monroe County, Ohio 22^nd April 1816; died in Sedan, Kans. 25^th Dec. 1894; married , near Grayville, Monroe County, Ohio 30^th Aug. 1838, Eliza Luckey - Rev. Natham Little officiating. He immigrated to Iowa from Ohio, first, in the spring of 1842. He worked for some time for a man named Reynolds, then travelled sometime through southern states (during the slavery days) but was very unfavourably impressed with conditions as he found them among slaves and slave owners. In 1844 he returned to Ohio and made preparations to move his family to Iowa and in the spring of 1845 he removed with his wife and two children to what is now, Talleyrand, Keokuk County, Iowa buying a part of the farm of Daniel Stevens. He was one of the pioneers in that part of Iowa. Part of Talleyrand was laid out on his farm. (Talleyrand, Iowa has about ceased to exist as a town - in 1916 they still had a post office but that was about all there was left of what was once a thriving village). In 1856 he sold his farm and took his family back to Ohio to visit relatives; returning the ensuing year, bought a prairie farm three miles west of Talleyrand. Some years later he was a land salesman for C. H. Moore and David Davidson in disposing a large tract of raw prairie land in Southern Iowa. He continued to live on his farm there until 1882 when he went to Arkansas to visit his daughter, Mrs. Daniel K. Dill. He then, accompanied by his son Joseph Daniel Gray, made a tour of some of the southern states, intending to purchase land in New Mexico. He finally decided not to go so far and bought a farm near Sedan Kans. Where spent the remainder of his life.
His wife, Eliza (Luckey) was born near Mariette, Ohio 9^th May 1817; died at Quitman, Mo. 9^th April 1893; buried in the Tyrone Cemetery

Children :-
40Martha Ann Amanda Gray, b. 29^th June 1840 near Graysville, Monroe county, Ohio; d. 16^th March 1886 at Ft. Smith, Ark.; m. Daniel K. Dill.
Clarinda Helen Gray, b. 6^th Sept. 1842; d. 14^th Feb. 1843.
Joseph Daniel Gray , b. 26^th April 1844 at Graysville, Ohio; m. 19^th July 1866 Columbia Jane Clemmons of Dahlonego, Iowa; removed to Kans; died ----?. No children. He served as a Private in company 1, 40 Regt. Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.

Thomas Pain Gray, b. 10^th March 1847; near Talleyrand, Iowa; died of a sickness contracted while in service during the Civil War, at the home of his parents near Talleyrand, Iowa, 1^st Nov. 1864. He enlisted in the Union Army as a "Hundred day man".
44 Joshua Taylor Gray, b, 7^th Feb. 1849 near Talleyrand, Iowa; m. Ida May Truswell
45 Oliver Sloan Gray, b. 5^th Aug. 1851 near Talleyrand, Iowa; m. Anne Marie Engledinger.
Hannah Gray, b. 31^st March 1854; d. 27^th Nov. 1864.
46 Helen Clarinda Gray, b. 23^rd Aug. 1857 near Talleyrand, Iowa; M Arthur Lee Doty.

(Records from notes of Helen Clarinda (Gray) Doty).

George married Eliza Luckey on 30 Aug 1838 in Graysville, Monroe County, Ohio USA. (Eliza Luckey was born on 9 May 1817 in Mariette, Ohio USA, died on 9 Apr 1893 in Quitman, Montana USA and was buried in Tyrone Cemetery, Talleyrand, Iowa USA.)