Newsletter 2 1978.pdf - The Grayson Family

Christenla Davis Grayson 

Born: April 29,1831 Tenn. 

Died: Nov.24,1915 Garrard 

Co, ,Ky, 

~ari-ied:Jan.23,1857 

Recorded at Tazewel1,Claiborne Co.,Tenn. 

Enlisted in Civil War on March 6,1862 at Cumberland Ford,Knox Co.,Ky. 

Served in Co1'~",6th Regt.,Tenn. Vol. 1nf.as wagoner under Capt.Wm, 

~is'charge-d--oi.l. ~p~i1'27 ;I-865-at-Nashville,Terin. 

Ausmus,

J. Wendell Grayson of Versailles, KyQ has kindly sent the family 

sheets on his gr g.r grandfather Thorras 11. Gra,yson and the 3 of' his 

children who married arid had I.ss1.1e , Isaac Crecd Grayson,, Rufus ;.il l e 

Grayson, and Jnnes 1,Lrshall Cirayz~. See the next 5 for t.l~cse 

famj.lies,. It should be possible LO trace the lineage of 'i'liomas i.1, 

Grayson, born in Va, in 1830..Fox previous references to tllis line see 

the last Newsletter, pages 1 and 28, Letter no. 12, The infornation 

on page 1. was supplied by irirs. i.dt~hell,~ Is the presence of a Ge w wed*+^ srrre 

Wa~hin~~ton Gragson_ in the i'amily of Tho~~ns M. Grayson aclue to the 

lineage of %'hornas See page 10, Letter no, 11 for the other 5 George 

Washington Graysons; maybe one of these is a. progenitor. 

PIany thznks to 1-lrs. II,J. 

78620 for the 7 pages of ~ra~TGn gsnealogy material Sn this liewslett~r; 

see pages 7-13. Something in these Jists will so~l~c d ~ y int~rsec, with 

other data which we all have, The Grayson Genezlogy ivewslettf:r will sc.rva 

as an encyclopedia for any and all.. Grayscn inforztat 101: Hovrever, .-~~!nolan 

from readers which analyse the data are most welcone and arc; f'urtlzerrtloi~c 

in%eresting to read, 

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Snider of Box 71, Dripping Springs, Texas, 

Mrs. Jean llitchell of Rt 2 Box 6, Clayton, Ind,, 46118,. who gax7c 11s 

3 Grayson-bdmunclson fami1.y sheets in I\lewslettr 12 (pl-5) sellt, smother 

Grayson-admundson Family shee5 from a marriage in Pld in 1699. See pzge 

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14, Who do you suppose 1-lary Graysonrs husband, Rob~stms~n 

any one have a suggestion Mote to llrs. iiit~hell~: Lhn corrospondcnl; 

mentioned in Letter 3 page 12 was \{$lliar licl;nuhson, 1710 Van Stone 

Dr.., Rockf ord, Ill. , 61111, who I b6,ievd hcc'l-n-3dr;onson family cissaciation, 

On page 15 I reprint his letter to me of several ycars a$;o. 

On page 16 is part of a letter from Iciarilyn 81cmk frorrt 1974 regal*c;tir,g 

Nancy Grayson-John Edrnonson. This supplements the family sheet in Lette~ 

no. 12 as it contains more dztes and 1 more child.. 

A descendant of Nancy Grayson-John Edmonson (3daondson)in my files is 

Burton L. Garten, 7224 So. East Street, Indianapolis, Ind., 46227, 

He is looking for the lineage of hancy Grayson* 

Robert Strobeck , 1824 Amherst Ave., Orlando, Fla,, 32804 sent a letter 

and Grayson lineage sheets. See pages 17 and follow in^;. I4r. Strobeckts 

grandmother was Valeriu Amelia Grayson, dau of Jab Gugle Grayson, 

son of John Langdon Grayson, son of John Robinson Grayson (1779-1821). 

On page 19 is my family sheet for the siblings of Jokq Robinson 

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Grayson genealogy: 

George William Grayson, son of George Grayson, son of John Grayson, 

Madison Co., Ala. married as his second wife Julia McWilliams Luker 

in 1870. To this union were born the following children: 

1, Ambrose Grayson, born April 2, 1871;died August 31, 1953, Athens, Tx. 

deputy sheriff, married, but no children 

2. Maude Ann Grayson, born Jan. 17, 1873, Old Grayson Place later known 

as Cox's Chapel near Athens, Texas. Died Feb. 12, 1960. Married 

John "Jack" Cox, Aug. 8, 1895 

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1. Marcus Watkins Cox, b. 2-18-1897, d. 7-20-1902, 

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2. Orris Marietta Cox, born May 9, 1899, married Adolph Garfield Madsen 

Sept. 30, 1919, Cleburne, Tx. Their child: Adolph G. "Gary" Jr. 

born Dec. 9, 1920; died 5-26-1959. Adolph Jr. married Betty Sampey 

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and had following children: Douglas Gary, b. 5-3-1950, Kansas City,Mo. 

Karen Sue, b. 6-14-1952, Kansas city, Mo.; Lisa Marie b. 10-8-1.956, 

Wichita, Kan. 

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3. Infant daughter born and died Jan. 20, 1901, Sunday. 

5. Alpha Omega Cox, born Mar. 31, 1904, married Mexton Dee Smith 

Los Angeles, Calif. Child: Donald Bruce Smith married Julie Winter 

4. Guy Grayson Cox, b. Jan. 17, 1902, married Mildred Gextrude Pruit 

in Kansas City, Mo. Their children: Maudie Lou b. 10-30-1929 and 

Pattv .. Ann, b. 12-24-1932 

6. Johnnie Edith Cox b. Jan. 30, 1906, died about six months. ! 

7. Charles Bruce Cox, b. July 1, 1908, married Ruth Wahrenbrock in 

Kansas City, Mo. 1934. Children: Carolyn Ruth, Charles Bruce, J'r. 

and Judith Ann. 

8. George Arden Cox, b. Aug. 26, 1910, married Ruby Anders, Athens, Tx. 

Their children: Jack Britton b. 12-31-1935, ~laine b. 10-17- 

and Barbara Sue b. Dec. 31, 1944 

9. Triplets, born and died Dec. 22, 1912 1 

10. Twin girls born Feb. 25, 1914: Martha Pat married Henry M. Larkin, 

b. Sept. 20, Athens, Tx.. Their children: Patrick Henry Larkin, 

b. May 20, 1938 and twin daughters Janette and Nanette b. 11-23-1941. 

Other twin: Mary Ted Cox married G. Cleburn Pool, born Sept. 20, 

Athens, Tx.. Tehir children: Dolores and Garland Pool 

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11. Julia Hazel Cox, b. Sept. 12, 1916, married Philip A. Born in Los 

Angeles, Calif. Their children: Diana Joyce Born b. 11-8-1943, 

Cynthia Jean Born, b. 3-26-1947 and Christina b. Aug. 6, 1949. 

3. Samuel Mark Grayson, b. March 18, 1877; d. 4-2-1964, married Mattie 

Jo Neil. Thier children: Samuel Mark, Jr. and ~unice Grayson. 

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I(jraysins: hon%icrof isehc of English Counties in Itbrrnan library, Austin 

Jean Grayson m. Ralph Dixon 11-27-1577 Durha~ 

( rgaret, dau. George Ch. 1-17-1604 Witton Gj lbert 

B-liaD, son George Greson ch. 3-22-1619 Durhas St. Giles 

omas Grayson, son of John ch. 4-7-1622 Gateshead 

Graston dau John ch. 4-17-1642 Durhan 

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Wm. Gale son WE, Gale ch. 4-12-1648 

Gateshead 

John Grays~n ch. 2-5-1655 Gainford 

George Gale son Patthew and Isabel1 ch. 5-15-1659 IIurwarth on Tces 

Ann Grason dau. John ch. 4-5-1664 Redmrshall 

Wm. Gale son John Gale ch. 9-22-1667 Wickka~ 

Thmas Gale, s m ].atthew & Isabella ch. 6-1-1673 Sunderland 

Isabelle Gale dau. Idathew ch. 5-2-1749 Bunwerth Dn Tees St. Giles 

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i.ary, dau. Tho~as Grayson ch. 8-7-1638 Ga tcshead 

horas, son af Tho~as Grayson ch. 1-1C-169 Redcarshall 

ichard son of Iiilliarr. Grayson ch. 5-10-16q1 Gateshcad 

Thoaas $on of Thonas Grayson ch. 1C-25-1691 Gateshead 

daub Thor,as, ch. 9-11-1690 Gat~shead 

ohn sDn of Thzras Grayson ch. 2-6-1693 Gateshead 

ancelot s m Th~r as ch. 4-9-1694 Gateshead 

iinna dau. Thomas Grayson ch. 1G-27-1695 Gateshead 

son Thoxas Grayson ch. 7-4.-1710 Gateshead 

nn daub Thocas ch. 3-25-1712 Gateshead 

Sarah dau. Thor-as ch. 2-7-1717 Gateshead 

GI. Elizabt th iiiicilardson 8-2-17ll St~clrton 

son of Thns ch. 8-2-1732 Coniscliffe 

dav Iatthew zind Eliz. Grayson ch. 9-24-1749 aunde~land 

Grayson dau. latthew and Eliz. ch. l2-2-17% 

Sunderland (Anthony) 

Grayson son 1 athcw 6r Eliz. 10-25-17'&- Sunderland (Ann) 

dau Idat -hew ch. 4-21-1751 Bishop Wearrouth 

ilizabcth dau. I-atthex & Elix, Grayson ch; 10-25-1747 Sunderland 

ohn son of Iim. & Grayson ch. 11-20-1765 Easington 

illiarn son of Wm."B 1-ary Graysan ch. 5-12-179e sunderland 

Ann dau Thomas B Frances Graystone ch. 8-18-1793 Easingtm 

argaret Ann dau. John O Kamah ch. 6-6-1853 Gatcshcad 

rr,. son of James and Rosa Grayson ch. 7-12-1845 i:onkwarnouth 

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ohn Grayson, s3n of James ch. 5-14-1637 Ronfoxd 

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Jane Williams 3-28-1871 Chedworth 

thony Grays~n n. Susanna tlilliamd 1-23-1714 Evesbatch 

nja~in Grayson and I.:ary Ann had Benjamin, John, Henry, and William 1830-47 

olwich St. I.:axy l+;agadelt.n 

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llia~ll Grays~n m. Elizabeth 1~:arsden 4-25-1717 Walt~n Le Dale 

a;r, san of >.actsale Graysan ch. 4-2-1688 IrJ&blffbyl/ Garstang 

'eon Tboras ch. 3-18-1585 Orcstirl: 

son John ch. July 1568 Kirkham 

E. 1.ary P'oss 1682 Preston 

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Graysons, Lancnshire Enrlond, cont Id. 

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Tha~as, son of Robert Grnys~ ch. 5-5-17CO 'I\Jalton Le Dale 

Th3i 2s son of John Grcas3n ch. 12-24-1624 Blalrcb-lrn 

Thoc:as Grason s2n John ch. 12-"-1570 ICirkhari, St. 1:arys 

rTl ~lomss, son of iicnry ch. 5-2~;-16~4 Yrcscot, St. lary 

Robert Grayson n~. Luc Ashton k-2'-1561 Formby 

Robert son John ch. 6-11-1611 Lancaster St. 1-ary I 

Lyghall s3n Wm. ch. e-1-1648 Garsta~g 

Thos in Whalley 1595 

John in Firkhari; 1584 

E1izabc:th borr, to John and Elizat~cth ch. 4-25-1743 

Gci1jan:in san John 2nd Elizabeth Grayson ch. 11-8-1755 

Catherine dau. J~hn and Eliza .ch. 5-27-175C London St. Tatlph 

Elizabeth dau ~f Etobcrt & Reb..cca ch. F,-ll-l72f St. Ann Elackfriars 

Janes Graysan varried Eannah Iklli s 1738 St. Dnnston 

1;ary dau. Robert. and Sarah Graysan ch. 171.5 St. Botalph 

1,:ary Ann dau. John & Eliz. 1798 St. dotolph 

Thocss s3n of John 6: Eliz. ch. 72-24-1745 

Lincolnshire 

A~ibrosius son Wil.lian ch. 8229-1563 Bilsby 

Andrcas son of Wnl. ch. 5-18-1562 Bilsby 

Annas dau Thoras Grayson ch. 156~ E5ichford 

George Graysan inarried Ann Westlands 1673 Horncastle 

George and Ann had Joshua 1624 1674 Horncastle 

Edl.~ard and 1, argaret had b.ary 1657 Horncastle 

George and Ann had Richard 

J~hn had son Thon;as 1611.8 Caistor 

Jos had Wm. 16C5 Cunningham 

Scotland 

James La~~son married Elspeth Grayson 1599 tiid Lothian Edinburg 

John Grayson E. Ectsy ,.iller 1716 Clackmannan 

John rarried Agnes bell 1718 uurzfries 

York Co. bncland hucdreds of Graysons 

~estri:orland-alsa ,zany Grays~cs - 

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Ireland Tho~as and usanna Grayson had E:ary 1706 Dublin 

Lizab::th and Th~~.as had WE. 17~2 Dublin St. Peters. 

Elizabzth Grayszn 1i1. 1.r. Fcner 1714 St. Fetcrs. 

Scot land 

John Greson r:. Esrbary Scith 11-15-1656

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Montgomery Co., Va. 

summer research, 1977, County Court House 

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Marriages: 

1793 John Grayson m. Sarah CArter A 349 

1785 John Grayson m. Polly Ingles A5 

1807 Ambrose Grayson m. Betsy Wysor A115 

1903 Haxry C. Grayson m. Mentie I. Hambxick 

1904 W. C. Grayson m. Ola A. Simpkins 2-10 

1905 James G. Grayson m. Millie A. Simpkins 2-15 109 

1959 Archer W. Gxayson m. Phylis Irvin4-155, 187 

1873 James Hadcn Grayson m. Fannie Hawkins 

194) Charles Catlett I11 m. Eleanor Hutchenson 

Also there were Choo, Cho, Chen, Cram 

1798 Samuel Crockett m. Margaret REaburn 

1799 Samuel Crockett m. Elizabeth Taylor 

1800 Asher Crockett m. Sarah Blankenship 

1814 Robert Crockett m. Sarah Harrison A 142 

1829 Robert Crockett m. Elmixa Cxais - 

1839 Joseph P. Crockett m. Mary Pearce 

1850 Harxison Crockett m. Caroline Taylor 

1875 John T. Crockett m. Mary A. Dixon 

1814 Polly Grayson m. James Sawyers A 362 

1875 Syntbia C. Crayson m. G. H. Matthews 1-43 

1899 Myrtle L. Grayson m. Robert V. Cox 1-117 

1969 Nancy Louise Grayson m Eric Mills Holmes 5-82 

1976 Janet M. Grayson m. William Franklin Cofer 7-72 

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Montgomery County Court Records, County Court House, Summer 1977 

John Grayson in 1805 was plaintiff against Meredith Rains defendent in 

1 common law P251 

1801 William Grayson sued Rich Beckett defendent 253 

1883 J. K. Grayson was plaintiff in suit #71 

1 1891 Grayson and Shelor vs Hall & Smith X60 

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1804 Carter and Crockett vs. Andrew Thompson 170 

1860 William Grayson was sued by Crockett Grayson 126 

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1773 John Grayson sued Hemphill 1-144 

1774 Thomas Grayson sued Edward Pxice 2-21 

1778 Thomas Grayson again sued Edward Price 

1778 John Grayson sued Edward Price 2-173


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1779, 1793 John Grayson's suit against Edward Pxice was still pending 

1793 Robert Grayson sued John Blackmore 7-151 

1795 William Grayson qualified as overseer of the poor 

1795-1798 William Grayson sued various people 

1799-1801 John Grayson sued James Gordon and others 

1822 William Grayson was Lt. 1st Battl. 75th Reg. 

ray son town, Radford, Montgomery Co. was where Graysons lived and had 

electric plant and grist mill. 

1810 John Grayson received captian rank 1st Batl. 75th Reg. VA. Militia 

1811 John Grayson qualified for captain 

1813 John Grayson was removed from rank of captian 

1813 William Grayson qualified as captain. 

1820 William became an ensign 1st Batl. 75th Reg. 

1821 William was ensign in 2nd Batl. 75th Reg. 

1822 Wm. was Lt. 1st BAtl. 75th Reg. 

1823 Wm. Lt. 

1824 Wm. Capt. 

1828 Wm. resigned as capt. 

1803 Ambrose Grayson resigned as ensign in 2nd Batl. 75th Reg. 

1004 Ambrose Grayson refused to serve 

1807 John Grayson was Lt. 2nd Batl. 75th Reg. Militia of Commonwealth 

1777 William Littlepage was dep. clerk 

1799 John Grayson sued James Gordon, sheriff 

1804 John Grayson was executor of father's estate 

1806 estate administration was completed 

1806-1809 William Grayson's estate was administexed by wife Rachel Grayson 

1844, 1841 and in between Crockett Grayson sued various ones.

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Virginia Land Grants, State Archives 

13-1727, Ambrose, Spotslvania Co. Wm. Hallowayts-Warners corners #13p191 

Aug.. 20, 1760, William, Albermale, 134 a. #13 p.853, South 

Rov. 9, 1789, John Jr., Kontgomery Co. 174 a. #20,p 682, New River Gerroid 

Kenif ee 

I Oct. 19, 1796, John,Sr., 1:ontgomery Co.. 168 a. #34 p.652 on Clapboard Creck If. 

E.ay 21, 1799, John, Wythe Co., 19 a. A1 p. 247 Walkers Creek 

Apr. 8, ~Eoc, John, Wythe Co., 100 a. k 2 p. 558, lialkers Creek. Also 214 a. 

[#45 p. 303 on Walkers Creek 

Jan. '10, 1810, Wm. "euben, Flontgomery Co., 150 a. Little River #59 p. 4-49 

Jan. 10, 1810, Mm. "euben, P:ontgomery Co., 150 a. #59, p. 451 

Aug. 14, 1827, Anbrose,. Wythe Co.,-70.a. +75,.p. 237, Walkers Creek 

[Aug. 14, 1827, John, Wythe co. 29, 14, 17 a. walkers Creek fl6, p. 233, 214,24 

Aug. 15, 1830, John, Tazewell to., 315 a. #79, p. 220, Burkes Garden 

Oct. 16, 1837, Williarc, I:ontgonery C3., 45 a. #87 p. 455, Little River 

. 21, l84~, Willian, 1,:ontgoniery CD. 31 a. &1 . 9,, Little River 

Sept. 30, 1842, Henry, Vythe Co., 40 a. #93 p . $4 1N. Brushy 1,:ts. Hunting Crk. 

Sept. 30, 1842, Aenry, Glhthe Go., 363 a. #93 D. 323$ . Walkers Creek 

I~an. 3, 1856, James V. and John, Wythe Co., $840 a. 112, p; 36 Walkers Ck. 

Feb.. 1, 1859, John,Wythe, 3060 a.. #ll5, p. 846 W&ers Creek. 

July 3, 1860, James, Wythe, #117 p. 143, Walkcrs Creek 

Jan. 3, 1860, Andrew J., Wythe Co., 20 1/4 a. #16, p. 61C Walkers Creck 

. 1, 1864, Bland Co., 34-0 a. A. J. Grays~n, where waters of Walkers 

run*into Big Creek, p. 417 

Daniel and Eary Goodwin sold to Randolph Fewgate 300 a. on N. side of 

New River adjacent to John Grayson Jr. 

( Wythe Ca. originated 1789 f-om i:antgocaiy 1776-1789, Fincastle 1772-1776 

Bot e tourt 1769-1772, Augusta 1738-1769 

I 1735 'usannah Grayson, widow of John Grayson entered int~ bond with Arnbrose 

Grayson and Thomas Hill. Witnessed by John Gordon, Francis Teliferxso, 

Rich Tutt, Francts Tunloy to administer John's estate. 

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St .. George Is Parish: Fredericksburg 1726-1745 

1726 John Grayson, Thomas Chew, John Taliaf erro, William. Hansford were 

vestrynen. 

1726 John and Benjamin Grayson were assigned to make the tax list and John 

and Ambrose Grayson planted on John's plantation, 

Capt. Lightfoot and Thomas Chew viewed lands. 

1728 John and A~brose with John Robinson Esq. as warden were vestrymen. 

They were also vestrymen in 1729 & 1730. 

John also vestryman 1731 & 1735. John and Ambrose 1731-32. Others were 

Robert Beverly, John Taliaf erro, John Waller, Francis and John Taliaferro, 

Willia~ri Rsbinson, Francis Thornton, Kosley Battaley, Richard Tutt , John 

Thornton, Jaces I.arye, John and IIenry Waller. 

No Graysons !:ere vestr en in 1745, but were in 1737 and 1740 Arbrose wzs 

vestryman in 1743 and g. Also Littlcberrys there. 

(John must have been the father of Ambrose, Benjamin, and John Jr.) 

The First John was at Christ's Church 

1735 Am'3rose Graysm and John Wallex br~ught suit for debt 

1735 John Grayson, Jr. was on jury 

1731 John Grayson was assigned to repair eoad 

1732 John Grayson was on jury and was also allo~~ed the value of timber 

July 28, 1-755 Williao Tandy of Caroline Co. sold Benjamin Grayson land. 

Benjarrin lived in Dettingen Parish of Prince Wn. Co. 1755. Bought 263 

acres patented by Koses Linton. Daughter of Seth Quarles n. William Tandy. 

Grayson Genealogy: 

Culpepper Co., Va.. county records: 

St., Karkls Church Parish Elizabeth Carter Grayson rr,. William DeHart 

Oct..1871 and had children Annie, Roberta, John Grayson, etc.. 

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July 2, 1761 Richard burdyne died and left wife ~atherine, son Reginold 

and daughters Hannah Shotwell and Barbara Grasson 

1863 R. C. Grayson was a rember of the Brandy Rifles. I 

]:adison Co. Ala. Rueben Shotwell was guardian fcr John 

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Richard Grayson 

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St. Charles, Ill. 

Dear Mr. 

Grayson: 

Here is the information that T hve on the Grayson 

nane in connection with the Edmundson name. 

"Marriages From Mknuscri~ Collection of Friends" 

Thomas Edmoncison a.nd !kry Gravson - 1699 

Themas Edmundson b. Circa 1679 (under 20 in 1697 when 

father made will), d. 1719, married 7th dsv of ,June lb99 

to %ry Grilsum (Grayson) (a ido or^), her will vas dated 

5/11/1'7!,2 and probated ab,fl1/17/+2. 

nhrriages in Knox Co. Tenn. 1812 to 1830" 

john Edmondson married to Sarah Grayson, Auq. 13, 1815. 

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"Edmondson Marria~es - Miscellaneous Sources" 

Thomas Edmondson married )Iary Grasun ( Grayson) , 

June 7, 1699, Tslhot Coo , Maryland. Mary Relique , 

Robert Graswn (Grayson). 

t'Knox County, Tennessee l7arrdazes 1792 -190011 

Fdmonds on, Francis to Jane Crravs on by !Ji llim Morris , 

f JP on February 3, 1528. bn. john Mo ihvron 

gdmondson, John to Sarah Graysol, by ,Jonathan liyres, JP, 

on Aunust 20, 181 6: bn John Edmonson SF, 

$d~rnunds oq , John t,o Yancp Grays on; bn Ss~usl Sdmuqds on 

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This is all the informtion I hsve on GTR, Trson- Eclmundson 

connection. I have addt5onal irforxation on t,hc 

Grayson- Rc3soner c ~nnnc tio~ and thst inf ornytioil 

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if YOU SrC li:.;t 129 311;r ;i!lf0~.3~toil IS 

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William Edmundson 

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From Illarilyn Blank of' 19124 Parson Ave., Castro Valley, Calif. : 

Mv ancdstor N~#V Gralrson was born 

marrijd Jo!ln :d::iondson, b. 7-16-1736, 7C, o , # . / 

Thzir childrdn: ! olly ('darv) b. 7-23-1310 

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Thomas b .la-111-1311 in Lavrrznc~ Co. Ind. 

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Solomon b. 5-26-13i6 

John Gravson 0.11-6- 1313 Tdnn 

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b. 3-6- 1333 Ind. 

b. 2-23-1334 Ind. 

Thd Aovz bibl~ r~cord. was kdpt by John Grayson 'dmondson (5th child of 

Nancy Grayson and Jo!m 3dmondson abovd). It is jn th3 posszssion of a rdlativj 

in Danvilld , 1 ndiana. 

Th 1790 cdnsus lis 3 John Gr;l;rson in !;.j.].kd:: Go. 11 .(:. 

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WBiTED: progenitors of WREi GRAYSOIJ, born 1782 in N.C., probably 

in Wilkes county, probably son of aenjamin Grayson of Wilkes who 

also had sons Jesse, John , Benjamin, Joseph,and William. Wren Grayson 

married first Betsy , then Rebecca . Wren went to Scot co., Ky, 

Bledsoe co., Tenn, and Decatur co., Ind., died in 1865. Does any one h o 

anything about the Eenjamin Grayson of Wilkes co., N.C. who entered 

land in 1779 From whence did he come Who were hisparents. Where 

and when did he die 

--R.R. Grayson

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WHERE 

B Ulner, Mary 1st wife 

Bbt,Tp.er, Susan zna wrtg 

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I am continually mazed at hosr 7;ide spread the Gragsons are. 

psrtly to the large fadlies of the earlier settlers. 

This is due 

Then too they nust 

have been an ac~venturesoxe peole claring to go into frontier areas to carve 

out a plxe for themselves. 

It vrasn't easy to leave family and friends 2nd 

go to ;ncnjr areas where the Indians were far from fricndl;.. 

One of the early pioneer arezs the Gra;~sons settled in 7m.s the prese~t 

da$ state 01 Eentucky, 

Probably 1 of thc first to settle there rvzs ijenjaiin 

Crqson, son of Spencc LIoliroe ';rajrson and r..i.fe I.iary Elizabeth ;,;aGcne$ Wayson. 

SpWce I:OWO~ Grzyson T;as the son of 3cnjmir-i 'and Susannah (;.~o~roe) T~ler xnton 

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Grqson. lhis youngel- 'ienjamin Gra;~son :.:c.,s born in 1761 a d married l:iss Ccl.rolil;c 

Taylor, m &lglisi lady. iie settled in 3archto1cm, tielson Co., i:cnt,uc!c;,r and 

becme Blerk of the Court. The;. mere the 9arents of:Frederri.cli ;;illian S.nrnce 

v:ho narried a IIlss \Lard 2nd becme an eminent lxi,;.ger an2 j l 'zc ~ - 170 cl!_!_dren; 

AlZred ~1210 married a I:iss Coaltcr of 3lthore ; arylnnd, ant1 r,ms a ;'arine Cons 

officcr - children irere Frederick ;I'illimi Speuco, Jolrn Contec, md Alfred; 

Petcr :,agener - ll;ent to Texas in 1830 - took active part in strugyle for 

indcnentlcl~ce - hung himself - Grayson Co., 

Texas nmed for Xdm. 

Another Gra;:son !w~own to have settled in ilentuclcy :.;Es Alfred .,illizq 

Grayson, son of iiilliam and dleanor (Sxlallvrood) Grayson, 

of 3on jamin and Susaw-ah (1:onroe) Tyler Linton Grayson. 

-;liUiam vias the son 

hll'red iiillim Grty- 

son :,iarllied !Yss Letitia Dreckcnrid~e a d h2d 1 son - Jolm Yreckcnridge Grayson. 

John 5rccl:enrid~e Sr2~-son xrriec! a :,Iiss Searle and 1~~2s an officer in the U.2.k 

( md later a general in the C.S.B. 

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On pa;:e 8 of the last i'Tev:sletter are some lists of ikntucky taqayers, 

shovrs Zenjamin Grayson (see above) in IJelson Co, in 1800 and 1010. 

Frederick Ti. in rjurlitt Co. in 1010 -~,las his son and t!;e Alfred Grayson in 

Fayette Co in 1810 rr2s the son of Uillixn and Eleanor (.%.al>::ood) 

(see above). Ke vias listed as Gillim in 1790, Sut his full nane as 

Grayson 

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Alfred :I'iilliam Grayson. 

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The narriegc record for Robert Osborne Grayson to E!argaret Susannah 

Payton is ~ivcn on pg. 8 of the 12st i\Ic~rsletter. Iie 7:as an .:.Dm a d the son I 

of ~knjamin Grayson I11 and ~Afe Ann Bronaugh (daughter of ;iilliam Zronaugh 

and 2nd .rife 1,8ry Coolce), Bnjamin Grayson I11 ::-as the son of ljenjamin Grqrson, Jr. 

=and v,if e Osborne. Zenjmin Grayson, Jr. 1%-as the son or" Snjmin Gra -son, Er. 

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and vife S~:samah (:,:onroe) Pjler Linton Grayson. Dr. Robert Osborne Grapon 

and i'Fife ~ar~aret Susznn~h (2cgton) Grayson hz-d no kno7;n-i children. 

-fter her 

death he iirrricd Sarah I,~.son (Cooke) Sclden, &u ol" Col. John Cooke and ;fife 

i. ary 1'ho;;lson (,ason) Coolte and was the ~:.idovr of Carey Seldcn. Dr. Eobert Osborne 

Grqson 2nd 2nd r.if e Sarah i,:ason (Coolce) Seldcn Crl"a:~son had 1 son, Qr, John Coolce 

Gr2:,rson (1832-1894) who .i~is a doctor in the Civil iiar. Dr. John Cooke Grs:rson 

had 2 sons, one of whom v:as Admiral (ihctor) C~ry Travers Grayson, personal 

nhpiician of Pies, ;;oodro;.r \"ihon. ! 

Vn pg. lb of t,he lzst Newlatter is an obituary for Capt. i9llim Gr~yson 

in his 97th ;-ear, lie was a son of hbrose Grrjson (d, 17h2-Spotsylvania, Va.) 

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chert submitted Sy :'rs. Karjorie (Grayrson) 

CarDon of Chicago. 

Does she h~ve roof thzt 3enjanin Gra-,rson was th son of 

John Grayson If so, I ~iould love to have it as this 3enjmin Grqson was the 

brother of my fmbroso Grajrson (d. 171:2-SpotsyLvania, Va.) 

I mnt to make some corrections about information of pg, 22 of the last 

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ii~mlcttcr, John 'if, Gra,rson WAS HOT the brother of Ambrose*Grayson (1813-1253) 

vrho married Sally Vmn. 

Ambrose G, Grayson was a brother of Jmes Gordon 

Grayson and thus an uncle of said John l'r'. Grqwm. 

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as being Jackson Co., Alabama should be Madison Co., Alabama, The'might have 

1-ivcd in Jackson Co., Alabma later but in 1850 they y:ere in iIadison Co., Ala, 

I have checked tld.s census several tines. 

In the Census record you have 

John ;illiam Grayson: p. 110. born 1830 in !:adison Co., 

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was L!;e son of Jams Gordon Grajrson. 

Ala son of John Cordon 

Some people might lilce to know something further about lk. (llaj, ) t!aurice 

K. Gordon (PC;. 26). i-!e descends from Elizabeth Grayson (clau. of John and Zirbara

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kdyno Grapon of IZU~XEX Co,, Va. md later 'r.'ontgon.:iry Co., Va.) ~:ho married 

John Gordon 11. kIaj. 1,;zurice K. 

(~irby) Gordon died zbout 2 yews ago and a 

great-nephmi, ink. J. Fleming Gordon, fell heir to all of his pzpers. I v ,ill be 

happy to furnish his zddress 

an;'one is interested. 

0n.pg. 25 of tile last iL'mrslcttcr hlaine Soden wishes to Itnov the descendmts 

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of the 3enjanin ~Eapon v:2-10 ~xas 1 of the 9 children 02 Ecnjaxin 2nd Ann (Dronaugh) 

Gra;rson. Of their 9 children - \;illian, Eenjmin, John, Alexancler, iiobert Usbcrne, 

Richard, George, i,Iary, and Xlizabeth Cjsborno I have data on itobert Usborne (L1.J). ) 

end aizabcth usbornc. 

I to14 rrhai I Lnov about i)r. 2obert Cjsborne Gra.yson on 

pg. 2 of this letter. Zlizabeth Osborne Grayson ~nczrricd (1) LmcLs 2nd 

(2) George Carter of ~lOatlcands" son of llobcrt znd i.'ral:ecs 

(Tas!ier) Carter, 

and grenclson of Itobcrt ~~Iiin~;~~ Carter of Lancaster Co., Va. 3~ her 2nd ln~sband silc 

had acnjmifi Ccrtcr (n. i:itzhuzh) ant1 George Carter (12. IIsrte ro-;rell). 

Congratulations to the lady -,.rho plans to index $he l:n;.lslettcrs, 

That will 

be a big help. 

I hope that you and yours xi11 have a very merry Christmas and tliet the 

coming ije;.; Year holds many nice things in store for you. 

from: PIrs, Ella May Underwood 

907 Picardy,' 

Lufkin, Texas 

Sincerely, 

INDEX ON THE WAY! 1-lrs. Katheryn Reeves Jean, 1022 Lawton Circle, 

%a6nolia, Ark., 71753, has volunteered to index the 1977 Eewslettcr, 

At her suggestion, the 1978 Newsletter will be Volume 2 and the pages 

will be consecutive for the entire year of 1978. Volume 3 will start in 

one year,. 

On the following 4 pages are data on Young W. Grayson. Refer to Newsletter 

no,.4 , page 4 for the initial query which was fron our reg ular 

member Robert Capell. 630 Olympia Rd., Plttsburg, Pa.., 15211. Bob, 

I found this material in my files just recently. Would appreciate 

comments from you.,,.R.G, 

Mrs. Underwood, Thanks for the corrections above. I4ay we have the address 

of J. Fleming Gordon Perhaps I can obtain copies of those records. .R.G.

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1411 C8plowood 

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Yrs. E, 9. Dnvi6son 

297 Triadis on 

Twin Falls, Idaho 

Dear 1:~s. 

Davidson: 

Thank you so much for your intcrestinq letter. Unfortunately I can 

not f ir,d the answcrs to rnost of the questions which you raise. IIovever, 

let n!e tell you what I do know. 

In Thomas M. Owen, --- Historu - .;-I of !ilabonla . - - and Diction~.ry . --__--.- ..---- of _I -41~bma .--- -, 

Biograqh:~, ---.-A Vol. 111, pp. 3-6, there ere biographical sketches of v~~ious 

close rclotsves of mine (all nsrled ~bernothy) t.rhFch ner,tion that 

',!ILlionl Jmcs Grayson end Susan 1:Jillieni~ Grayson were the parents of I 

Yo~m, Grayson who married Enclinc I.:oorc capei Grq-son. Other f ami.ly data 

In these skzetches ha-ce been verified by me from vhrious sources ~tzrl: 

rihilc. not withoat error, they sre for the nost pzrt accurate. I hsve I 

nothing elsc om !.'illim;i Jmcs C-rzyson except fmily trzditlon rqhich sfiys 

thot he czxe Trom VlrglnFa, without; specif'yirl:; the ccunty. 3: 1:ase seen 

it stated that he C C J ~ from ~ Cul.pepper County but PJI unce~tain about this. 

Another line (:~ith tvo G P ~ on S IntermarrLa~es ), tnc Abernc.thy f mily , 

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came from Zrunswi ck County, Vir~inia. . I have considurablc i~formetion on 

these Abcrnsth~ znces tors, 

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conjcct~we, I - did m.k find 2 statoxent th~t he died 6 Janucrg 189, 

2lth~11::h I do not rerncx5er the sowcc. As to the child.rcn of Idilliam I 

Janes Grays ~n I have morn Inf orrlation (rcarrince bonds, di.lls, census, doccls , 

etc. ). Tiis scri, Young Grqrnnn, ;,lar, born 4 Deceniber. 1803 in I.;ont~one~-~ 

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County, Tennessee. In iiizrengo Cou.nty, Alzl.b~,rrln, he narricd (3 July 1325) I 

&eline Cepcl (horn Xorthmpton County, lrorth Carclina, the widow of 

1Coore ). i presuiie that the 'd. in Youns Grayson's nzme is for 

I;f-Z1IiEim* 

Cl.iver Green Sr~:son Was born in 1615 In Tennessee ar,d rlovzc! to 

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!~~ntuckqn 1322. I oresine - that he was a brother of Your:: 8. C~zyson. 

[Inc!.dent~llp, :-.is son vas tax asseesor of 1,:arenr;o Count:: for me": yenrs 

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R C ~ arter hlrr, x;: cariZTat:he-r, monlas I.:illlarcl Sr~yson t:.as tax assessor of 

the scr;.ie countp for sono 25 yrars, until he rctired becat:se of' old &,re. 

1: rcnenbor my g~~anclfather i~ell as I had finished college 'cef ore he died. 1 

P!:llim Ja:lies 3-2;-son w~.s born in 1818 in Alabama a.nd was, 1 prcsumc, 

e. brother of Oliver Grcen Grcgsor, and Yom.3 W, Greyson. Thse birth dctes 

aye f ror;i t;hc mc.nus cript Ccnsus ~cturns . !.ividontly tlicy mcar, that; rny 

Grn.:\rsons rzoved from 22r,~ozsec to !-%at\ano 'uattlroen the :rccrz 1315 m d 1.318. 

J.lhb;ma becme 2 st;lJ~e in 1919 lrhj2.c Jamen i.:onroo was pz-csident. I 

SU:JCSC thr t :;he:: >JOI*O C~LIS jr~s of !.;oi~~'oe 'DCCZUDQ of interz:a.rrin~c Setvrarn 

the tirayson an. i.:on~oo f c,dl lca. Abernetky f~!Ply and otilcr sottlc-s 

alzcl.: Eelt cmc into 1l1abar-i~ from 

in i.:cren;;ilFc:: 

rnovl!~;; Lnto tiis T,ovlcr So1tt;fl ~ri~cn thc cott~n kincdom tins opening up Ln tilt 

carly dccadas of tho cinetconth contwy. 

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Ralph Grnyson, who married Catherino I.IcCarty 18 January 1024, was, 

pres~urc, another son of !illlinm Jmles Grayson. 

Youn.~ ':. Gravson hnd a son name!+; JD,XOS ';Till.j.am Grayson, who was born 

in Alobene in 1829 end was buried in the Lucy Graveyard (Kerengo Cotuntr) 

. about 1336. IIc ves np ,pect grnnMether. Ile me~ried 11 iTovember 1345 

(Fhrengo county) Zebecca Jene hberr~ethy about wbose ancestors I have 

considerable infornation. 

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Other children of Young 5J. Grayson are mentioned here so that yox 

can see their given nanes. IIis will and other legal docmlents inclic~.i;e 

thelr nmes as follo:.rs: iioratio Capo1 Grngson, S~man Habecca G Y ~ ~ G O ~ , 

I Charlcs Oliver Sr-yr 02, HarcLei iliz.bcth Grayson, Sar;h Grays oc, :.:rrtka 

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othel-s. 'i"nere Ere many Sraysons in Alabnma slrlci I linotr of ::one in Texas. 

Scores of these I can locate on f mily chsrts. Somc oti~crs I cannot place. 

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I appreciate the infomation which you hnvo al- rood.^ given ne. If yo:^ can 

advise rr,e as to !lo,r to Pind the ancestors of iiillim, 3m:cs G~agsor! (died 

1859), I shall be most rpatefnl. I should like very much to obtain copies 

01 tile family group sheets which you so irindly off'cred. 

Slncc! vre are dealjna with a problerrr In history ar,d ~oncalo;y, pez-haps 

1 should identify myself further as I PA a profess:ion~.l historian. I atn 

I iioad of the i)q:rtrnont ol :ii.rlory, Univcrait; of ila"sm-., nnrl have isuhht 

here for 20 gears. 

Sincerely yours, 

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AlrSeza 

Ws, E, E. Davidson 

287 IIadis on 

Twin Falls, Idaho 

Dear Frs, avids son: 

I saw your article in the ITetrport TTet~s Vir~inia Gazette of 25 Pebrua19y 

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a.nswerin~ t'-e query concerninq Thomas wayson and Jalie Field, I 

bolleve th~t he died in 1796, Since I am a mem3er of the Sr~yson family 

and tryln~ to fill in a gap in my genealo.~, I have talien the liberty of 

wr2tZng this lckter to make inquiry of you, 

The following is a partial diagram of my ancestry: 

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6KrJir6sZj a 17'7 

(possibly 1777) 

died 6 Jen. 1859 

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3 July 132,s 

Plontgomcrg County, Tennessee 

dled 16 ~IRPC'~ 181~6 . 

!arcnp Com-kg , Alabz~a, 

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born Korthmpton County, 

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Oliver Grcon C=ra;ison, born 1815 in Tennessee , 

Miliizm Jarncs GP~:TSO~I. born 1818 in t.lob,ma 

Ralph Giqayson, whb moved to Alabaixe 1017. 

Could the Thornes Grayson of ~:rhoni :-ou rite >eve Seen the father of 

my Jmes IJilliem (177) Another possible tecrp or me to explore is 

that the line msg have bccfi thct o33e Eenjamin C~ayson-Spence ironroe-- 

and S~cnce 1s son ':lllliarn S~rryson. Sol-ae of tilo giver, npmes of my docmented 

Grayson ltnc are : 'Ikonas, Jerlcs '~iilliem, Susrn, abozco., Cha~.l.es, :.IP.,~ tha, 

Elizpheth, Alexar,clep. In each generation there hos been a llillim and E 

Sus an, 

If you can sugzest nng ansvers or appr)oaches to answers to tbese 

I shall ap~rcclate it very much, 

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V.OLUPE 2 No, 2 Page 28, 

Howard E. Grayson of Alexandria, Va. has written in response 

to one of the Sodens' postcard Grayson surveys; Be states tnat 

his great grandfather was Jesse or Jessie Gr~:~son, born in lT.C, 

probably in 1811 whose wife was I~iargaret, born in l'enn. about 

1816; children of Jesse and lglargaret were William Grayson born 

Feb,, 1834 in Ill; 2 sons b, in mid-1830's-in No,; Eioch -- ,cone 

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G r a y s b, ~ ~ 18b3 in then Scott coo, now Logan COO, Ark, i~owsrd 

E. Grayson and his brother Ralph Grayson are grandsons of 

Enoch Grayson, and are sons of Albert Grayson who was b. in 

Sebastian co,, Ark Jan. 1894, Howard Grayson knows cf "hundreds 

of descendants of Jesse ~rayson"znd thinks the family is of 

Scotch descent, Jesse died in the "early 1850'~~~, Howard thinks 

that Jesse was related to the Graysons of Wilkes co., N.C., but 

needs proof. Ed note: I think that the above Jesse Grayson nust 

be either a son of Jesse Grayson who bought land in Wilkes COO, 

N.C. in 1796, or one of his nephews; for example, the Jesse 

Grayson born in 1811 could be the son of Jesse Grayson, ST., or 

one of the senior's brothers, John Grayson, Benjamin Grayson, js,, 

orrof William Grayson, (but not the son of Joseph Gragson or 

of Wren Grayson, since we know the children of these 2 brothers, 

and there is no Jesse.) The Jesse Grayson in Ill. in 1834 above 

is possibly a different Jesse Grayson from the Jesse Gsayson 

who witnessed a deed with a Hu~h G~i.,yson, Bk. C, p, 328 Deeds of 

Marion coo. Feb 11 1835, Ecn,janin F. Grnysorl to Hen.ry - Grayson ( T ~ ) ~ 

$330,00/ 106 acres on SE side of Sequatchle ~ i v Yhc g ~ above ~ 

.Benjamin F. and Henry Grayson were sons of Joseph Gm, brother 

to the Jesse Grayson, sr,, mentioned above. See page 41 of this letter 

for- more on Jesse Grayson, 

Does any reader have listed a Jesse Grayson born about 18111 

Another Soden postcard produced a letter from Mrs. Naomi 

Grayson Smith of Box 24, Louin, Niss, 33338, with some fragmentary 

but interesting family history, She writes, ItThere were 3 Grayson 

brothers whose father was Rube Grayson, who was known as Squire 

Grayson, who came from England to S.C., then to Ga, on to i~Iiss,. 

at Stonesiall, PIiss. Their names were Saauel, Cam, and LeeOi1Sainuel 

Grayson lived in La., and Tex, Cam and Lee in Miss. Cam had 12 

children, Lee had 22 children, among whoa were Joe, Dick, Tom, Pete, 

Brown, George, Sallie, and Clairborn, Clairborn begot kip1 Taylor 

Grayson, Ophelia Grayson Shoemaker, Richard Rosie Grayson aoyd, 

Monroe, Ollie, Ora, B Troy, William begot Wm Curtis Grayson, STo, 

Nettie Grayson Thompson, Etta Grayson Blackwell, Saauel Jo, Burtie, 

and the writer, Iiaomie Grayson Smith.

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What is of interest above is the naae Rube Gravson, ,- It >rould 

appear that the name Rube is probably anichame f'or the naxe 

Reuben. On page 30 is our listing of all horm Reuben Graysans. 

Does anyone know anything that would further identify EIrs. Smithi s 

Reuben Grayson 

Note to Cheryl Grayson in Savannah, Ga,: could you possibly 

visit iiIrs. Joiin !j. Graynon, 1904 Bozeilc 29., Augusttt, a . 09011: phc: 

404-736-4153 She has the only existing copy of a book callc6 

"Our Grayson karnilgt8 , pub1 1952, 127 pages, which has sone 

exciting genealogy in it that all of our readers are waiting t o 

read, I think she needs help getting pertinent parts of it 

xeroxed, arid promised 10i:g ago to send these to me, 

The following information was copied f some, "IflARYLAND MARRIAGE3 1634- 1777" 

compiled by Robei-t Barnes, Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimcrc , 1976. 

p. 18 Botsfield, Michael, July 1746, Sarah Grayson ,Talbot ,County 

source : L eds ' List of Marriage Licenses; p. 60 Handwritten 

Copy of MS.801 at Maryland Historical Society. 

p.30 Carslake, Thomac, 3 FEB 17h3/4, Eliza Crayson, Talbot County 

source: Leeds ' List of Ilarriage Licenscs : p.47 Handr~rl.tten 

Copy of KS.801 at Naryland HistcrS.ca1 Society, 

p.58 Elston, Ralph, 12 JUIJ 1739, Sarah Greason, Talbot County 

source: St. Peters Parish Records, p.167 copy made in 1895 

by Hamison, at Maryland Histofical Society. 

, p. 167 Smyth, Thomas, 12 MAR 1752, Sarah Gresham, Kent County 

source: St. Pads Parish Recods, p.330 copy at Maryland Hist. Scc. 

p.200 Wooden, Sollomon, 17 AUG 1726, Sarah Gresham, Anne Arundel County 

souxe: All Hallows Pafish Records, p.103 of copy made in 1e88 by 

Lucy H. Harrison, at Naryland Historical Society 

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were new to me, and suggested a new geographical area for possible 

research. 

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Kettering OH 

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Many thanks to PIrs, Ellz Underwocd for the name 

and address of the Plr, Gordon who now has the Grayson genealogy 

papers of the late 1.I.K. Gordon, I Have written to the holder 

of the papers and hope to klave an answer soon. I wonder if there 

is any Grayson ge~ealogy there which was not transmitted to 

IrIrs, Wulfeck and to lairs. L)::t~idaon, who both lent me theirL liJiC, 

Gordon naterial for copying 

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Can anyone help with ancestors of _Charles 2;rler and his 

children,, who was the second of three husbands to Susanneh kionroe, b,. 

1695 in Prince Wm, co, , Va., who married 3rd to Fenjnrfi5-n Gra:y'son$, 

the father of WiJliarn G r ~ ~ ~ the p c ~ senator , from Va. Charles 

Tyler died 1725, Inquiry is i'ron Dorothy West of 23 Smart Hd., 

Acton, Ma. 01720. (Jan 6,. 1978.) 

Thanks to IiIrs, 

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iJar jorie Cardon for the name of &!&I 

Grars.hn of Iqornan, Okla. who has done sone Grayson genealogy. 

I have written to her and requested inforaation from her and 

offered to share data that we have, 

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Several people have suggested I write -st C. Gra,yson, s u 

erintendant of schools in Louisvill.e, Ky, , for his family history, 

and I have now done so. 

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Bob Strobeck reports that ,,--~-, 

Cheryl Grayson &- has left 

a. family bible with him to photograph anu clccipl~er which he will 

forward to the iiewslettcx, 

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The next 7 pages (PP, 32 through 38)are from J. 

Wendell Graj:, of Versailles, Hy,.l'he letter and 3 family group 

sheets are fron a Dzvid Grayson -- which resulted from Wendell's 

contact with Wrs. Walter L'alaadge (Lillie Elynm) Grayson, Box 523 

of Noble, Okla., 73068. 

Does anyone know the ancestors of the Williaa P. Grayson 

in the 1st group 

The next 3 pages (36,37,38) are on the formation 

of Ky,, and Tenn, and should be valuable tools in researching the 

early genealogy ih those states. These were done by Wendell Grayson 

also; many thanks, 

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On page 39 is a query that J. Wendell Grayson found in 

the Tri-State Trader regarding a Robert Gragson born in Ireland 

who lived in Winchester, Ill. In 1845. If you are keeping a list of 

Grayson imigrants, this is one of the few we have found. Does 

anyone here have a file on this Robert Grayson 

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On page 40 is a nice biography of William Grzyson 

of Spotli, who died age 97 in 1829. Kindly sent by our faithful 

Elaine Soden. Elrs. soden also asks if anyone has a record 

of a Sarah Hunter marrying a Grayson, particularly a aenjamin. 

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(Letter to J. Wendell Grayson of 

Versailles, Ky. ) 

Olton, Tex. 

Oct. 23, 1977 

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j Grayson. I w i l l send the record of W. T. Grayson [who you wrote] 

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DATES AND FACTS RELATING TO THE FORMATION OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE 

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April, - The boundary line, beginning at a place called 

1727 Point Comfort, was approved between the two 

colonies. 

1769 First settlers into western North Carolina 

(now Tennessee) . 

December, - The 36-30 parallel became the division line 

1776 between the two colonies. 

November, - People in western North Carolina adopted a 

1785 constitution and declared themselves the 

State of Franklin, or Frankland, 

1788 - State of Franklin went out of existence. 

February, - North Carolina conveyed to the United States 

1790 soil and sovereignty of the western lands of the 

State of North Carolina. 

April, - United States accepted; Tennessee created. 

1790 

June 1, - 

1796 

State of Tennessee admitted to the Union. 

JWG 

July 18, 1977

DATES AND FACTS RELATING TO THE FOmWTION OF THE STATE CF KENTUCKY 

1606 - King James I of England issued the first charter 

to that vaguely defined part of North America - 

called Virginia. 

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Colony - - of - Virginia - - was established under the 

third charter. 

1634 - Virginia divided into counties; Henrico County 

was the most westerly county. 

- Virginia jurisdiction was supposed to extend 

as far w est as any Virginian cared to go or 

had business to transact. 

- So the civil district that Kentucky belonged to 

at this time would be to Henrico - it is doubtful, 

however, that Henrico was defined so far west 

as to embrace Kentucky. 

JUNE, - Carolina Colony became southern boundary of 

1677 Virginia; Colony of Carolina included a11 of 

what is now the State of Tennessee. 

1734 - Henrico County became Orange County; and since 

Orange encompassed all of Virginia west of 

the Blue Ridge Elountains the same state of 

facts exists in regard to it as did in relation 

to the jurisdiction of Henrico. 

1738 - Auqusta County was the next frontier county of 

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Virginia and extended to the same point west as 

had Orange; the eastern portion of Orange 

County became Frederick County. 

1763 - Treaty of Paris made the Mississippi River 

the western boundary of ~irginia, and consequently 

of Augusta County. 

- Botetourt County followed Augusta. 

1772 - Fincastle County became the frontier county; 

it extended, like Augusta and Botetourt before 

it, to the Mississippi and embraced all of 

what is now Kentucky, as well as much of 

Southwestern Viginia. 

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July 18, 1977

PAge 38,' 

DATES AND FACTS RELATING TO THE FORMATION OF TH3 STATE OF KENTUCKY 

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December Fincastle County dissolved by Virginia legislation. I - 

31, 1776 - Kentucky County, Virginia was now the western most 

portion of the original Fincastle County (all of 

what is now the state of Kentucky); the eastern 

most portion of Fincastle was divided into 

Washington and hiontgomery Counties. 

May 1780 - Kentucky County, Virginia divided into three 

parts - Jefferson, -- Fayette and Lincoln. So thus 

for a time the name Kentucky passed out of history. 

1784 - Nelson County formed from part of Jefferson. 

May 1, - Bourbon County created from Fayette. I 

1785 

1785 - Mercer County and Madison County formed from 

part of Lincoln. 

May 1, 

1788 

- Mason County created from portion of Bourbon. 

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1788 Woodford County created from part of Fayette. 

- This was the last of nine counties of Kentucky 

established by State of Virginia. 

1789 - Cession by Virginia to the District - of Kentucky. 

February - Cession ratified by Congress. 

1790 

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: Questions, Commentary by t h G~,leology 

~ Staff 

Send guesrjon on sources 10 rhfs column, P 0 Box SO. Kn,ghrstown, IN 

461Jg Note - We can 1 du f~srsfch on J lamtly but w,# try to suggesr 

new .+p~rodches ro problems df no charge 

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(If you wish to mntari Bomeonc who= 

question appeerR in this column, 

WEYT TO NEW ORLEILUS 

please 

write un mentioning their iniii~la and dB. Pobert Grayson, originally from Ire 

town, and including the I~tter to tw far- land. lived in \Vinchestor County, IlL, 

warded in a hlnn k ~it&nped envelope.) when he was widowed ca 1845. He then 

+ * + * v took, his two ciildmn to Kew Orleans. 

Prior to this his son U'illiam, (born in Ire 

land 1832) had gone to blissouri in 1844 

.. witfi neighbors, who had promised to 

return with him in thrw to four months. 

IIowever, it was not until after Robert had 

left for New Orleans, thinking his son William' 

had been drowned, that \V illiarn 

returned to Winchester County only LO 

find no trace of his family. 

how could I find what happentxi to 

Robert Grayson and his children. Maria 

on&Thomas Grayson We may have remarried, 

of course. William never heard 

from his father again. J. 11.. Hazlehurst, 

hliss. . . 

A. The 1850 Census from Louibiana 

should be checked, as well as for other 

states that seem a probable residence for 

Robert and his children. 'The Public 

library at New Orlcans has city dircc. 

tories from 1805. and there may be records 

at the courthouse that would help, perhaps 

including marriage records. 

Coming from Ireland in the 1830s, the 

family might have been Catholic. Possibly 

William made an attempt to trace his 

family. and if he did not succeed it co\~ld 

.be quite hard to do so now after so many 

years. - m. s. . + ._- .

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HISTORY OF ALBEYARLB 

GRAYS0 

mrilliam Grayson mas a native of Spotsylvania, and came 

to Albemarle some time before the Revolutionary War. 1, 

1761 he, bought land on the head of liechum's River from 

Speaker John Robinson. who was then selling off the im, 

mense tracts'in Rockfish valley, patented by his brother-in. 

law, John Chiswell. Having sold this property a few years 

after, he purchased from Gamaliel Bailey and Obadiah 

Martin at what nras then known as the Little D. S., ~ h ~ ~ . ~ 

the old Richard Woods Road forks with that passing through 

Batesville, and where his descendants have been living ever 

since. In lS@l he sold n small parcel at this place to Ii'i]. 

liam Simpson, who there established a tanyard that for 

many years went by his name, and afterwards by the name 

of Grayson, and that mas one of the most noted landmarks 

in that neighborhood. Simpson in 1818 sold it to Joseph 

Grayson, a grandson of William. IVilliam died in 1829, 

having attained the remarkable age of ninety-seven gears, 

His wife was Aun, daughter of Thomas Smith, and his 

children were John, Thomas, hfartha, Elizabeth, the wife of 

Joseph Sutherland, and Susan, the wife first of Isaac Wood, :, 

and secondly of a Tomlin. Joseph Grarson married Rhoda, 

daughter of Daniel White, and died in 1867. His children 

were Thomas, who married Mary, daughter of John Jones, 

Ann, the wife of James H. Shelton, Frances, Elizabeth, the 

wife of Benjamin F. Abell. John and William. 

. HAbIh'ER. 

Tradition relates, that the immigrant Hamoer bore the 

name of Nicholas, that he came from Wales and settled in 

Middlesex County, and that hc had six or seven sons. Three 

of them fixed their homes in Alhemarle. The first wbo 

appears an the records was I%'illiam. In 1759 he bought 

from Thomas Fitzpatrick nearly five hundred acres on the 

south fork of Hardware, not far from Jumping Hill. The 

same year he obtained a patent for nearly two hundred acres 

on the north fork of Hardware, and acquired near by upwards 

of seven hundred more, all of which he sold in 1782

Page 41. 

Howard E. Gr-7vsnn just wrote a second letter since I typed 

page one of this Lssue in which his name and naterial on -- Jesse 

Grayson is described. Borvard mentions one of his sources as being 

a Fks, Rebecca Pickens of Booneville, Ark., who was married to a 

Houston Grayson, son of Giilliam Gxayson who was the son of Jesse 

Grayson.~lrs. Pickens stated that Jesse and Piargaret Grayson his wife 

are buried in a small cemetery just south of Booneville, Ark, 

in the small cornunity of "Gravsor,". Co,n.~ent onz: 'de have Iiszed. 11 

Grayson Places in che last year DUG the only om in Arksnsas 

was Graysonia srhich no longer exists; Botvard, can you tell us more 

about Grayson, Ark. Be it recorded liere that Grayson, Ark. is the 

12th Gragson place found thus far. Howard Grayson sends this tentative 

Tamily for his jesse Grayson: (Yife ib~argaret) 

1. William Gra,yson, b, Peb. 1834, Ill., d. Oct. 1915, Ark., buriei 

French Prairie cemetery, Iona, Ark. 

2,. James Grayson, b. 130, ca, 1.835 

3. John Grayson b. Moo ca, 1837 

4. Charles Y, Grayson, b. 1839 140 or Ark., d. 1862 Ft Pillow, lii'em 

5. Enoch Boone Grayson, b, 1843, Ark. , do 1904, Ark, 

6. Benjamin Grayson b. 1847, Ark.,. d. 1910, Ark. 

7,. Jesse Grayson, b, 1849, Arko do 

8* David Lett Grayson, b, 1851 ~rk,-d. 1898 Ark. 

9-13: 4-5 daughters. Caroline is only name recalled, 

Comment 2: Regarding the Iiouston Grayson - mentioned above; It nay be a 

c~incidence, but there was a fiouston Grayson (1834-1917), son of Hexry 

Grayson in iIarion co., Term. Henry Grayson in turn was the son of 

Joseph Grnyson whcse brother was the Jesse Grayson (b. ca. 1772) 

who bought la6d in Wilkes co., N.C. I mentioned on page 1, (28)~f 

this issue, 

- C o m n : In swary, we seem to have 2 different Jesse Graysons 

here who might be related, one b. 1772, the other b. 1811. However, 

some records on the younger one might have been misinterpreted 

and might belong to the elder Jesse. Howard Grayson promises nore 

research fox us, 

Clifford Grayson of 9011a Mo., a faithful member of our group, 

writes that he wishes to know what passenger lists others have searched 

for Grgysons. He has searched these: Immigrant Ancestors, by Vinkus; 

Immigrants to America 16974707, by French; and Original Lists of 

Emigrants to America, by Hotten, Who has searched what others W i l l 

somebody nake us a list of a11 known Grayson immigrants for the next 

Newsletter 

A similar question, but one possibly easier to answer, is, how many 

Grayson lines are g here it might be useful for someone to tabulate 

all knowhlGrayson lines, For example, in re-reading the pages of last 

year's Nenslc-tte, I find that I get lost and confused with all 

the names, If we could assign each Grayson to some Grayson line 

and then to a generation, we could annotate each name. For example, 

the earliest generation might be number 10 and the lines could be lctters. 

(E.g.: A.A..Grayson, A-5). I would appreciate coments on this 

idea or a volunteer. 

One problem with lines of Graysons as fixed entitles Is that of the 

unidentified Gr3,ysona. These will go cn a separate list. Caniel 

Grayson has ccz:structed a list of these. You all will have far looking 

through th3s Ilst for nanes you know as belonging to lines ar 

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families in your files. IA.en please sexd me your information for the 

Newsletter. Also arid nore unidentified Graysons that you have. 

see pp, 42-49

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ANw GRAYSON, Jar. o! 

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Emergency Bulletint Page 50. 

Flash, Help. Elaine Soden needs help sending the printed 

postcards. She writes that she is about to give up on sending 

out these cards because of lack of money, Can anyone 

help I think we all should chip in and send her contributions 

because of the good replies we are getting. I have 

published all of the replies in the Newsletter and if you will 

go through your copies you will see that there are many Grayson 

genealogists who have been contacted by the thesepostcards, 

Mrs. Soden has been mailing to GYaysons in all major cities 

and her husband prints the cards. delow is a copy of the card. 

Send yourthanks and contributions directly to I4.x. and Plrs, 

Floyd Soden, 5535 N,W..Fourth Court, Des Moines, Iowa 50313. 

Elaine, let me know how this works out; your surveys are 

valuable to all of us., 

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We are searching for family histories and other genealogical 

records of all persons of British or Scotch descent, who are 

Graysons or who have Grayson family lines. We will be glad to 

exchange genealogical information. In particular we are 

interested in Graysons who lived in Wilkes County, N.C. from 

1780 and on. If you have such family tree information of any 

Grayson lines please contact me and tell me what you have. 

R. R. Grayson, M.D. 

Grayson Family Association 

Box 167 

St. Charles, Ill. 60174 

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Note to Cliff: Received your material on Jessie Grayson. Will 

put that in the next issue, 

Note to Leon: Thanks fox the big contribution, 

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Note: I received good data from J. Fleming Gordon for the next issu 

the 1st Graysons in America8 6 pages, Thanks to Mrs, Underwood. 

Note to Bob Capell: Am saving you letter for next time, Thankso. 

Mrs..Cardonr my letter to Ruby Grayson came back as undeliverable, 

See You All Next Month 

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GRAYSON GEI.;ULOC'II NET;JSL-STYER, VOL. 2 No,. 3, Page 51, 1 

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On the :!:lax-l; 5 paqes aye Grayscn cxcerpt;~ I'YOZ the Cene~.l.og;y rloo;r 

writtcn by I*..~*,~ i.j:l jrir .- ..-. .. :I,I. 

1 ,) El.5. zsbctl-1 (;.r;3.g~on. a. Charles Rapier, issue : I~Inr~i-;re t , In,. 13. ,iz.,n, 

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1829 to S-Lan2:;larrs dpczlc13.ng b. Iielson co,, iig,, son of 2a:ces & 

Eleanor Sp~lding,. 2,) Idilll.nm. C, ,. GYD.Y~O~ 

,-,L:L.A t lf~sted in deed bo01is of 

Clwirborlie c.o,, Tcm, 1 ~ biho is ~ he ~ ~ ~ . 

ILrs, Underwood has EL nice let$er to us on pages 67-63, 

On pap 69 is a letter from the files of lks. WuLfeck fro@. a, year 

ago. I~TG. W~lfecic has just donated all her Grayson notes and correspondence 

to ine an6 I will be gleaning the niaterial fo: the i\rewslei;ter, 

Does anyone have coruuents on the page 69 letter fron 1-lrs. katkl'leen 

Grayson Johnson regarding her ancestor Juba Gra.yson b. 1807 in Term.7 

Howard Grayson reports that his office is only 2 blocks from the 

National Archives in Washington! Does anyone have any leeds for Board 

in finding the parents of his gr. grendfather Jessie Grayaon, b. 18117 

I'll bet Howard would trade searches at the Archives for leads to his 

Jessie. 

23 Grayson genealo~ists still on the active list as of last issue. 

lf we could have 50 on the mailing list the ldensletter could be 

offset prlnteC at a cheaper rate than the present Xerox method. 

To those who asked: sorry, no more back issues, The best is yet to 

come, 

On page 70 is a family tree from a PLrs, 3mdy requesting help. 

Will send her this issue and invite her to join us. --RRGrayson

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Maurice Kirby Gordon, I1 

JA~PS F. Gordon, --- Jr. 

Marialllla Gordon 

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Edqar Monroe Youuu - 

bApr 25, 1887 

mMar 26, 1919 

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Eep 25, 1859 

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bMar 22 1840dDec17,1872 

A. Young 

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~lizabeth Grayson 

wife of John Gordon, II 

Daughter of John Graysoa 

and Barbara aurdyne 

The accounts of thz origin and relationship of the 

Graysons in Lancaster County, Virginia, arc confusing, inconsistent 

and contr~~icta~:~~, which is sti-ang~ considcrinq son2 

of the prominent ciesczn~:ts of th2 Srnyson family. It is 

determined that John, A~L~rose, Benj ainin a:;d sister Anne Gray sun 

are jnlmigrnnts from Scotland or Northerland Ireland. Record 

has been found that these Grayscns arrived in Christ Church 

I';~ri:~Il in Jv.ly, 3.690, or 1695, which gj.v.;t; rise to s~vcl-a1 

nccc)c~rlt.s a:, 13:~ :-:'IC ~SCS, i~lli.nr_ls 85' t;l~:~e 10i.r i;rc'*ys~ns and thci : 

an: cs Lax$>. 

Of these four Graysons, the following is considered to 

be factual: 

I, Anne Gravson ---- (sometimes referred ta as Mary). 

Elarried first John Quax-les on October 3, 1722, in Spotsylvania 

County, Virginia, and secondly Thomas ~iarri'son, circa 1731, in 

&'aquier County, Virginia, Anne Grayson died testate in that 

county in 1774. 

11. -- Benjcmin --.-- Crayson. -- As it is reliably stated by 

Mr. George H. S. King (Rzgister of First Parnilies of Virgi11i.a) 

tlrat Benjamin Grayson married Susanna Monroe, daughter of Andrew 

Monroe, (died testatzd 1714) in Westrcoreland County, Virginia. 

Shc was successively thc widow of Charles Tyler (died Stratford 

County, Viryinia in 1725) and of Will.iam Lendt (died Prince 

William County, Virginia 1732-33). Susanna Monroe died in 

November, 1752. She was the mother of William Grayson, a U.S. 

Senator. Mr. King writes that the family seat of the Grayson 

family was a little below Fredericksburg on the Rappahannock 

and is shown on Lord Fairfax's map of the Northern Neck, 1737. 

Senator William Grayson received a 6,666 acre military grant of 

land in Hopkins County, Rentucky, for his services as a colonel 

in the Revolutionary War. This land was later conveyed by several 

deeds of record to his heirs. Colonel Grayson also received 

acreage by military grants in Fayette County, ~irginia and it 

is considered that he had 90,000 acres of other grants in Kentucky. 

Other sons of Benjamin and Susanna Grayson were: 

i, John Grayson 

ii. Benjamin Grayson, Jr. -- died a prosperous citizen 

in Prince ~illiam County, Virginia in 1757. 

iii. Spence Grayson 

iv, William Grayson

k: 

111. John Grayson. It is "said" that he married 

Susanna White, daughter of Cavernor White. There is not a citation 

of record. At any rate, John Grayson of Christ Church Parish 

bought land in Lanczstzr County, Virqinia, on October 29, 1703 

(Deed Book 9, page 70j from >lark Gendr~n. is was involved in a 

lawsuit, was a church warden, bought proprty in King Gcorqe 

County, and on April 2, 1714, bought 700 acres in Spotsylvania 

I County, Virginia (9eefi Sock E, Fagc 171.) from Millian Snit.. 

In 1719, he rec~i~;i5. c. 1i:~rd qrant of v;hich sold a past to 

Ambrose Grnysor, ill 1323. Joh;~ G~.a>'sor~ died i.ntcstzte in Spotsyl- 

I vanin County, Virqiaia bzEorc ;

Page 56 

the daughter of Richard and Catherine Burdyne. She lived. the 

majority of her adult life in Culpeper County, Virginia. Unto 

this union, seven known children were born: 

i. Ambrose Grayson -- killed by Indians near 

Logan's Ford two miles from Danville, Kentucky, 

on August 22, 1777, as was reported 

by George Rogers Clack, see Kentucky History 

Illustrated 1885 by J. H. Battle. 

ii. William Grayson -- married Rachel Conley in 

Montgomery County, Virginia, leaving issue. 

iii. John Grayson -- married Sally Carter in 

Montgomery County, Virginia and hence moved 

to Alaba~aa territory. 

iv. 

Molly Grayson -- married William Hall, died 

leav k g issue. 

v. Susan Grayson -- married one Thompson of 

vi. 

vii. 

Wyethe County, Virginia. 

Nancy Grayson 

Elizabeth Grayson -- married John Gordon, 

XI, direct lineage. 

John Grayson died in 1802, a resident of Montgomery 

County, ~irginia. During his lifetime, however, he received a 

lease from George Taylor on July 7,1749, for a plantation in 

Orange County, Virginia, Deed Book 11, page 169. ~dditionally, 

John Grayson served in Fincastle County Militia during the 

Revolutionary War. Barbara Burdyne died 1881, a resident of 

Montgomery County, Virginia. 

On November 24, 1767, of record in Culpeper County 

Deed aook El page 474, John Grayson and his wife conveyed to 

John Gordon 254 acres of land in Bromfield Parish on the 

Courdvine Fork of the Rappahannock and Beaver Run, which property 

seems to have been received by him under the will of his father, 

Arnbrose Grayson.

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Cw~ry or Prch7i-:nrr, dc. Srxtr or Csu~rry he.! 'k.l... on irut 

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Page 59 

February 15, 1978 

Dear Dr. Grayson: 

Pmbsbly everyone v:lbo is of this Une has copied tfiis, but Idid put it in a 

little better ord:r than I knd it scribbled in 1:y zotes. 

I hope I.% is accurate, Xk not, J: tricd t.o pv.t references so p@oyZe cc\l.t3d chcr!t. 

f L cho.u.2.d be eU.n;j.~d l'or hrn.3~ error arici tyy::,; iryhiciil errors. Lrhe till 112;s it. ,.t 

Look oddest are exact copits. 

Of;, Wiic ir, st.,r.i~tY:.L::;~ J: tc!-.>~.;.fl 5.~1 I. y EO~;PS. 

Gre. y s on, ,Tolm 

500 Acres, St. Thovzis P~ri.~il 

Granted May 3, 1768 Grant Rook G, page 100 

Bounaed on the west by said Jolh Erayson 

John Graysnn 

2500 acres on the head of Little Sstilla River 

Granted June 7, 1763 Grant Book K, page 5 

Tract is a South Carolina grent and is located in either St. P~~'criek cr 

St. Tbonm Parish. Tract located on an inlnud. swonp on brad of Little 

Satil2.a Iiiver, bouded on the ehst by land laid. out for ~!~U.~LIJA IIazznrd. 

(1 have no idea who this Jahu Grsyson is) 

I 

I am looking f okrd to the indexing as I Mrn getting a little coldused as to 

who are the Williams, Johns, etc. are. Perhaps then we can sort everybody. 

Sincerely, 

./ 

Betty Stolres

Page 60 Page 60, .. 

Huguenot Emigration to Virginia - Bmck - 975.5 B 

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P* 184 

Descer&cts of James mrye - Xssue of Rev. Sms and fietitla I4a.ri.a Ann ( S W ~ ) 

0 

Mwye 

Iiiqev. ~ames2, b 8 Scpt 1731, educated 1.11 Ergland. Rloifiter of St. l'hoc%s Pcri~h, 

Orengn Co. from 1761 to 1767 when 2e ~uceed.ed his father in St, George Parish and 

served there until hi6 death in uu0, huricd at E'nyetteville. Ihrried twice 

1st 1-etltia Courtney; 2nd Elizabeth nee Osberne, widow 02 

Gmpon, 

Loudoun County. 

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p. 17 ". .3 aald E: cuovc.,.cd Gol. John Tborntora, 7 tsactg cor1~nin3.n~: Ln %hi:: 

whole 9,048 ac- and aftenrards X purchaced the said 7 'i-mcts of land sf the stz1d 

Col. John Thomton, S give tte mid g,0U acres of lacd ta my son John Bpi;svood, 

also Nn! th3t tract of L3r.4 ~hich I b~uLl;t of A~br3se Gray~4n.. . 

Adm3nistzatfsn Bonds - W i l l Eoak A p. 56 

WOO0 Susatinah Gm~cj~n~ 

ah, of John Grayson, dtcgd vith Wirc.sc Grzyson &ad 

mmaa EIU, sec, ~ci2 2-1'735-6 

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Gunrtlitm Bazds Will. Book A pc 70 

C 500 Alice Grayson prd. to Joh~ and hbraoe Grayson orph~. of Wrose Gmyson 

.Lwith 

Wm. Cmme and Wm, W i l l h ~ s , 

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see* July 3, 1744 

Red soak A 1122-1729 p. 106 

May 7, 1729 Fcnry Willls of King L Queec Co., Cent., to Ctoodrich Lightf aot of 

Spto. Co. f 60 Ster. 200 a. of kqd in Spts, Co. an 3. side of the South West 

Mountains. Uitnesses Wm. Jobson, hbr, Gi-apon, Win, Hackney, RPC May 6, 1729 I 

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Page 107 of above book 

Gent., to John Robinson, E~qr., 

Augu~t 5, 1729 Joseph SdGh of Klng &Queen Co., 

and Anbrose Grayson, Gent., Wardens of the Church of St. George's Parish, in Spts* 

Co. A purchase of the Glebe for the Rectors of St. Geo. Par. 22,500(lbs toh 

can't read notes), 544 a. of land in St. Ceo, Parish, Spta, Co On the South st& 

about r mile above the falls of the River Po, a branch of lo&iver. Witnessed 

G. Horn, k'm. Jolmson, Zachary Tayor , Rec. A*. 5, 1729, Sarah wife of Jaseph 

Smith, acknowledged her dmcr in the above land, etc. 

Deed Book B 1729-1734 P. 111 

Deer. 9, 1729 

Job Grayson of St. Geo. Par., Spts. Co., to Ambrose Grayson of same par, and 

county. j- ster., 200 a, prt of Deeds formerly purchased by Jno. Grayson of 

UiUam Smith of Elmcbter, in St. Geo. Parish, Spte. Co. -cis Turnley, Henry 

Rwers, Jnmes x Ror, EQarch 3, 1729-30, Suumah, wife of Jno. Grayson, acknowledged 

her dower, etc, 

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Deed Book B 172.3-1n4 p. XU kcr. 10, 3.73 Axtibrose Grayson of St. Gea. Farish, 

Spots. Co. to Hemy Rogers of same parish and county. 520 ster., 100 a, a 

parti of pat. panted s.3. Grzzyzon in 172"j', in St. Gco, PcX,-ls;h Spts., CcY Job 

Chm, Zacb~ry IlnyLi;r, 'is D3.cdsoc. ibch 

&cl.am.rledg@d ker do:.'zr, e t c . 

3, 17SJ-30. AUce wife of Azbrnse Gra-fsoa 

p. 3-25 Ehy I, 1733 A::'~rasa Cp.07.-son of St. Czo. PC, S~ts, Cn. to ~:.;tt.,e~~ 

Cv>05t#~ Co. :, :L clirr, 39:;: 2. I'L; 2 ';. Geo. E ,rl 593s. Ca. T11~rss Hi3J, G* Fil;: 3: 

Z!jli 

to h>:~s X.ICtTz,tL of S-%. CCO. P~~iri sh S;1)13. (;it. 1'2. 5 211, 11.a-T. l&5 a. ~7hcrcon 

~ d III!enl . new dvellz rind fc-aer2.y %ling a ltcnt p";!u.I;ed George Calrcf;e2- end givm 

by sQ. Carter to tl~c s4. J;ihn Lea, US con-ri r;-3.tiq~ by Ceed of GPft . S39d land 

Joining the Scnils; 09 IPx-~~lwey Bell oi' kindon, Job1 W i l l iamssn, Ibhert BurZdJ.aston, 

Cob. John WaUer nniL Nichrd Colcm3n, ete., etc. Iio arituesses 8u~s-l; 4, .LT52. 

p. 34.1 Bav 21, 1778 Ik'czhrd r3zj-c ~inci Jasenh Gz3-e SO~F; Pkttha~ Gak :ate of BpM. 

GO, Cccd on2 execuior; of tk.3 rd, :&t-thsv'n ui.U . . $- 600 curr. 380 a. in Sp ts, 

Co. purcWsed. by the cr,iri ;pL-lLheir ua:(.c, dec;' .. of F~!h3-r73t= C~,"*yson .., 

1726, Ck-L 20 Jchr~ Cutlctt and t%ry Cn,y!tnon 

1'731 AyZ 18 (~110k;l) as lTfU cad EUer~ns.th Crciyson 

Lj-ntcn and Suoannsh Grqsan 

1744 AW. 26 Suc:s Stevens and Alice Grw~7san 

tfiU Book A 1722-1'4.9 us. I. 

James, John, St. George'n %r.sh 13. Jan 23, 1725, p. Narc 1, 1725-6 Wit. John 

Gmyson, Stephen S tmy, Job1 ,%ttaiI.h. Ex. Wife Alice Jmes, Ciarles Taliaferro, 

Jun. kg, afe Alice a d daurBter rkxy, mid the child ny wife now goes wlth g. 2lb 

Win B~ok A p. 5 Sha~. 

Stephen, St, Ceorges's Pmi~i, d* Ikr 12, 1735 p. June 3, 

1735, wit. George Pool, Bcnry C!~.~&le. Ex. Elizabeth Shnrp. Leg. wife Elizubcth 

Sbarp; mntions Bake Gmyson; Yhry Jones; Elizabeth Jemes; John Grayson. (p, 255) 

Colonla1 ,Militia p. 414 Captain WiU'lnm Hmsford and his officer, John Grayson, Jr., 

took y~ oath, October 7, 17s (p- 355). 

bcter of the Ya. D=iughtera 02 the Amer. Rev. p. 508 

HIUID~ Grayson, b . E.!ont~oner,y Co . SO before 1750 8. kntgomzry Cat Va. L801 

Ree. 140nt. Go. Va. Frimte pp. 54, 335

. Page Page 62 

Virginia Tax Payers 1782-87 Other Than Rzbllohed by U. 6. Census - Pathergill & 

John Mark Hauglc 

Rcibert 1 - Mont. 

Rev, Spnce 13 Lou 

C~X. ~ m . 1/73 L3u 

CoZ. t71~. 1/21 Pr . S7n, 

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1/2 Sy..r,ts. 

1:A-f. 1,'- Cul. 

C~=~yfion, Jchn, W i l l Probated QcLcber 1852 Earns chiV-ren Betty, Lucy, John, kli.t-Wm, 

ll:z~y, an4 Bzncy. hLta a ~~sbner \:ma Eall of tlyt'rle Co, 

Croy.son, Robert;, dcc, Dmrr assi~~ed Cat,licrine Greyson, his *,rife, Oct, 3, Xi97 

I)*--- 

Heads of Pmilies Va + l.875 Albemrle Co. 

Ctra:raon, John. 4 white souls no ciueUngs or other buildings 

Grayson, kades Old. Fam. & Churcherr. Woods Hist of f&enrslrle Vu. Co. Records. f 

Gzason, War-fSelds Bist of Ann Arundel and Hward Cos. PU. 

Tyler~ Quarterly, Vol. 5 July-Apr, 1923-1924 Heke - dau of Col. Wm. Grayson &r 

Eleanor Smalk~ocd mosried ,7i-,h~ Carter of loudon Co. Va. 

Spots. Deed Book B-178-1734 

P. Jno Grayson Jr. Jchn Gordon %Iilrzc;s~edeed of %&$ley httdLcy, 151% Geo. 

CO. BOV, 2, 1731 to X eq k!iUo of Spots. 

P. U6 Joln Grnyson Jr. witnessed deed for Ehmi Price to Charles krges 

A - Awnigtmtion Bonds 

&n Grayeon & G. Lightfoot. 

321+fO9 &el Johnt =E, &T, 02 ~$chs~h~n J&,naon d.ee'd ul 

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p. 146, Jany 2"{, 137 Tbmm Gmyaon af Deal in Kent eldest son of Joh Orayzmn 

o$ &pots Co, Colony of Va. lately dac@Ued to Thatas *turner of Wng (Zeo. Co. Va., 

Gent., etc. July 4, lm 

e 

p. 1830 &:X9 @33:%0.1 C8 St. f.XY'.& Ez~s~ ~11~~

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hrch 7 (East Ibo Weat sides oi New R i m , R coon Brunch, Elk S p*g of Thorn 

8lfr0n&, LlttLB Sinking Spr-irig, Crab, PW, 1kad.o~ Creeks, How Glade of Peak Creek, 

f)an C~elk of rJ. Fk, Rmnoke, %m Y e , Kittle BoUw, EUotLs Creek, Zeck creek) 

Js~eph rmkor ( c), Xra %U, 3escra Brym [o), Jmm I=nmub (a, a), E e ~ Cam~xte, y Sr, 

Jon>~trt C=ln, P-nqcis C"iiCwlton (:.I j , ,72:.29 Ci.ml%on {m) G=L50 Cmi;~, :;-z:.;lbe1 

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I February 14, 1978 


Time flies a d I alsra~s have good intentions. I an sending you a copy of 

this Grayson account that I rxmt to send sound the time you ran the Toin 

( Dooley account. 

This account -xas sent; to me 3y Mrs. S. D. Wstkins, Rt. 3, Box 54, Grapelard, 

I Texas and I typed is for her. This is ny file copy; however, I still have 

her 1c:ndwrit-c zn ~ccosnt 

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She said "This is a co~derzsd. version oi n story entitled: "lhrsh.1 of the 

Red 113 Us," by Erncat dcn~s is True Siest bkc~zinc, June 1961. Xis stcry vas 

~ P ( I C ~ CGDCCTEC~ J y71ith t. life 0:' r78:-! szci>~y Gal.!; 215 Pcyern, :cd heir np 

4 % 

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..-;.;;l; ,ic-.es is a ccu;in ci* ;iio a d a raprtar 

lor our cl'ily paper. 

I live less than a mile from the scene of the Greyson murder. The smll 

cermtel-y is all but lost now. I m sendins you a c ~py of the grave ma~hcrs 

.till there. At least, they rcre rben last I 7irited the celet,ery. 1 rill 

let you Laow if I find out otherwise. " 

I 1 thought perhaps someone might be ninslng a Dr. R. P. Drayson Prom their 

family tree. 

( Hope to send more another time. 

In haste, 

Betty ~toke; 

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GRA'IISON FAMILY IXNBESY 

Dr. R. P. Grayson, Age 49 years, Died April 23, 1878 (14urdered) 

2. bta~l8n Grayaon, wife of Dr. Gray~on, Age 38 yearo, died April 23, 1078 (1wdered) 

3. Dora Lea, wife of 3. 8. Beason, Born Aug. 15, 1867, Died Match 1, 1884 

Age 16 years, 6 months, and 24 days 

4. B. T. Sanrmons, Infant of' Martin and lou Smns - (ate my be 193 - i ~e~ble) 

One unmarked grave. 

Rota: !he Graysona were murdered at Toni, in 8. E. Anderson County, Texas, en 

Aprll 23, 1378. 

The others buried by the (irnyoons are not related to them. They were 

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poplo $11 the cwhty who bad no iPPlAy cemtery or burial place.

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On nie$t oi April 23, 1878, Dr. R. P. Greyson arrd his wife, t&trii~n, vsre murdered 

Bn their homt new tha 014 Xoai Ind4.m Village aib, In Soutbeastam Anderson Comty, 

Texoa . 

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h, Omyscm, a ph-$~i~ien, had C ~ S i m the W~rt;h to serve ssttlesa In the gira-chd 

SW& hiua 61f 5WJkbc)88%tm Anderson Crmty, IEQSls he ewcd far tk2 OICL,~ 

wlfc, with LIs.3 h-3.173 of Gs.mrer rctaioc~e, cp~~ra-bed n atarc, a mist mill, t ~ 3 ~ cc::;m d 

hf8 C P A ~ ~ 

[an aa a d al;rcm new* their hw, 1% ]raved to bQ B SllscratFw fwdly pa&~l~.rcMp. I 

Fb ~SDPSO~&IB ~tepp2A 

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over Me deal ba3y nbat Fiso. Gr&r~m ta death 3n has bed,. 

Flho O~B~J@D L~by, elsepJ.ng Tn hta cdb, md a WGtlz! boy, wb Md under %he bcd, 

eaaapcd ~LW. !Fb boy Ut~d to tell IlPe ~taxy Prm a wi"im~ etarnd, 

TErc yowg tijar$ro stable boy oocm-pd Qn the (PQC~EL~.'PI fine bopasc, mti rcde ~%rtxlp$~t to 

Pdco;Lc, t21a cam~fy seat sf Andcrasn County, a- 20 r;ll~s wayr Ee hilt no tine 

en IfnB.a:i~; Wzs City. IRkrchal Chris Rai;ers, &ma medicine ta "cwa or kill" kvlce~ncst~ 

h~d sg~c:ad Big fc,n fcr md wide. Cuxlaficlr~ had COFB frm ever,where to txa* hfl. A 

Chcdi $dO&e 02 nen b-3 inat",ct, eEc~is cmd& Leu a3 rr gkaee whe%ber a ~ F O U ~ ~ C ~ $ P , ~ 

Ch~~~abear to be kriUeik OF noti. He UWCJQ waitea PO^ an ~ B v to c &w ~ ffr~t. ~ 

^Y.b um very &~L:BZ"UUD prwtAceI &I$ be never bw1; 5 mJ&t, 

At h 3 5 , tibe mm.%rq &tm tlra mr&:r, when a BIWU gmmp 03' Iamm, wbo were sb&& 

t@ oil.,r:nco bj v1~tlley fwd, &ather& c% the cane of %her crSm, C%io Rogers xaaa 

%here. Xido ono qwrsticinsd Ma 1carcMg 02 the hveetigatim. 

Chrie aepurized men whon hs knew WU be trueted, and set ime deputy on each of five 

tlx.&ls 1cEIEUag 

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W&Y frm the sp& where tho! rd@$ riders bad parbed, 

"0ne rn 9.n tP&t band of k3Uera is a ccms-d," Chria snid." Goc tbt tree La frofi% 

& tha bwcT WeU, when tBse otber~ fired tha valley of oh~ts tht MUcd Dr. G-m-flon, 

W a CCPW-~ bhsted a hole 2an the trunk af Wt tree, Me Gmcka fa3.%swd. Rc'd 

wci3.k firsst. an ofic oide, thr1 on tho crthes nide gf hie ,vg. 1% esiag after that 

C B W ~ . When I fiad h, EwJ'U tiurn stateaa evidence.* 

- Tbc lfttle E%rekal Bid;. not root until he had tracked duwn baa tnaa until indeed, 

sawn men been tu~esi;ed. AnB as m a bad predicted, vhm Gha seven were arraigned 

befa~a the Jutice af th ~cacc, me mf their n-r - W ~ Q he bad fireit inlo the 

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free tr~.~ 

i~1 a denpemte ts B V Q participation ~ ~ in the EUXICT~ - tuaed otntgm 

evidence, 

~~ Bucker, a hnndsom and cynical yemag ram, wm~ the LC&F a$' the klllare. Ha 

urn condemned ta ba hmyyxl, Prnd others cf tbe group received otW sentences. Ruckar 

bted hc wrru;ld never ba executed* 

~t dam the day set for the & g~, the specid gum^ on duty ~utsida oi ~h:&r$s 

cell in the Pnderoan Cmty jpil mlrens8 liohd, who mked that he ba el2~~ect 

ts rrap 

fan odnutora mre. T';lc r-hjl trqp-eecf, hut whas h4 looked in rmlin, kcker wGa b13edira3 

Zo &ea%b frrxl E.~TSS~& tn-i~ts. Ua clhd aarun etsr a docm -veil, a d Wus wde gadl 

t3e~ttbath;b~~a~OhdECallaRJs. 

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Dear Dr. Grayson, 

3: haven't had anjrthing to contribute lately. That doesn't meac tkqt I m 

not irteresteci. 

latest IJe-irs1el;ter. 

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,:a; be 1 can he12 ;;.ith sone of the unidentified people in the 

Oli Page !~b there arc 5 references to a T,'illiam 3rq-son in ~Culpeper Co., 

I have alxajrs thought he :.,zs the brother of ny great-scat-great 

granclz'ather Jolm Grayson ~:ho died In lG32 in i.Iontgomer~ Co., Vir~i~ia. 

The 

i~illiam Grayson I wi yefering to nzrrled Ann Srnith and dicd in klbem3rle Co., 

Virginia in 1829 at age 37. I:n ;.;as a 0a2tz5n in the k~crican 

Grays on 

I ~r2s another ,iilliam I living in eitker Cul_r,eper or Spots;.lvania Co., Va. 

If an;rboci;r cEn :;ct these k ~ i l l i m C-ra;rsons sec..rated I -:;oulC jove to !;csr fron 

then. 

;,eve!-ution. There 

I l;nsi about ;illlFml Gra;,-son, son or" Zenjmin Gra;rson, :.rho ~arricd 

Eleanor Snal.l:-ood. 

(d, 1892) cad :.rho mzrried ;ache1 Yooleg. 

I also !.norr about ililliarn Gra;-son, son of Job 5rq:son 

Gn page hs is a ~mrriagc recoi-d Tor John Grayson to i.ary Sra;ison, surety 

l:enrjr Grarson, ',~;rt!lc 

of Jmcs Gra;.son 2nd he ;:as 

Co, , Virginia Octobzr 27, 1EkG. John Grayson %as the son 

the son of ;Cilliam a d ihcilel (Cooley) Grayson. 

11ll1im 7 ~ tile ~ s son of John and. larbzra (;'urdg.lle) Grq, son, Jo-hn *

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sellhg land to Nchrd I.:use, You arc probably rigllt in sa;-ing it could Se 

the riilliam Gra;son (son of John and ;arbma) ;.rho mmried Yzc'nel Coo1e;r. 

This i1il1i.m Grayfson lived in ;~j-the Co., 

Virzinia. 

Although I rn not positive, I bet t!at t5e 2eter 'A'. Grayson on gg. 43 

xho married ;;eltha Dennis 20 August 1'118 

in Clemont,i;hia -:.as projab17 

2etcr l,agener Grqrson and a dcscendaEt of Lev. S3ence and b:arg- EU-zab.th (;.azcner) 

Grayson, ibr father ;',as Peter .,aGener and !-is narlecl xas ::assed doilm to several 

of tn~ir c!esccnciaz-ts, 

I ii~uld love tc ::IIu

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MRS. TOM M. JOHNSON 

719 STORYWOOD DRIVE 

HOUSTON, TEXAS 77024 

Mrs. Dorothy Wulfeck 

51 Park Avenue 

Naugatuck, Conn. 06770 

Dear Mrs. Wulfeckt 

Mrs. Dewey Underwood o Lufkin, Texas, has very kindly 

suggested thqt you might be willing to provide me with 

information concerning my line3g~. 

f am the Great Grand-daughter of John Gravson, b. 1807 

in Tennessee. He migrated from Hamilton County, Tennessee, 

to Ouachita County, Arkansas, ca 1859, a.lar,g with his 

wife, Sarah Frick (Frix/Fricks), and five sons and 

four daughters (Goodspeed's History of South Arkansas. 

John Grayson's youngest son, Zachasiah Taylor Grayson, 

was my Grandfather. 

The 1880 Arkansas census shows that John Grayson's 

parents as having been born in North Carolina, I have 

found a John Grayson avld a Benjamin Grayson fanily in 

the 1790 North Carolina census, but carmot connect 

either of them to my John Graysono 

I have the D.A.R. papers on a John Grayson (Na.t. No, 506248), 

b, ca 1727 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and his 

descendents, but find no connection to my family. Recently, 

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I sent for his son William's lineage, and hope to find 

a connection with him. 

A North Carolina Tax list showsa William Grayson in 

Wilkes County in 1800, owning a land grant on the 

Yadkin River. 

I have been able to eliminate a John Grayson of Madison 

County, Alabama, whose will of 1826 I have. 

I would be very grateful to you for any information which 

you might have that might be of assistance in tracing 

my Grayson lineage. With many thanks for your assistance 

and with kind personal regards, I am, 

Sincerely, 

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IOENTIFICIITION NUMBER 

Mary Q.ayson 

., -septern~er ~4, ~138- 

BL~. Albemrle Co,, VA 

October 3, 1883 

w e Rarren CO., XP 

Name d spouse 

Barnett Smith, Jr, 

4' 

r hrybthar 

Ban 

Dled 

Whee 

Thomas Qrmson 

Albemarle CO., VA 

'1796 

Jane nJennyn Field 

wmolhseptember 18, 1767 

&merst, CO,, A 

2: August 11, 1859 

Whcre 

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Above are peat-great-great grandparents 

Robin Ban@ 

b9 San Wgtlel Awnme 

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My gramhnolher 

Ban 

Where 

D~rd 

Whrre 

Brxn 

My Q g y~andmolha 

Where 

Olcd 

Where 3 

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8nif~@1%t C&., Vb My0 y @andialha 

My g grandmdher 

Uorri 

Whrre 

Whr re 

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My g g gratdmultm 

$ 

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John eaysan 

My g g grandialher < 

0 

Susarmah White 

My g g g~andmdha 

Capt. Fu'm, Ceayson Where 

My g andfa't~er 1732 bed 17L2 Miles James 

Bun 

Where 

DPd 

%re 

My g ~ ~ n c l' 

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Bwn 

Where 

Died 

Whwe 

My grandfather 

am-I 

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SFIitfi 

Amherst, VA 

VA 

Robert Field 

1829 

Were 

My g grandnnolher 

Bwn 

Whwe 

DIM 

Whcre 

T ~ o Smith ~ s 

~y g grandather 

Where 

DlPd 

Whcre 

Dlrd 

Whne 182L 

Ban 

Where 

Sallle Durrdt 

ewn Where before 1710 

D I ~ A15eaarle Ca., VA 

Wirere 

1783 - 

My g grandmolhw 

Born 

Whero 

Died 

Where 

Oan MY g gracdfa!tiw 

Dled 

Where 

My g grandlalher 

Robert 'Field 

My g g grntrtlial'tur 

My g c~ grantlrnolhv 

MY g p par~~na~fier 

MI g g 91 drrinnlhcr 

My g g qarwllathet 

My 9 g grandmother 

My g g gadalher 

My g g gand~n

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GRAYSON GENEALOGY NEWSUTTER,. WL.. 2 NO.. 4. Page 71, 

Some have asked about paying in advance and what to expect 

in costs for the future, L suggest paying 1 issue in advance 

but not for much more because if I should decide to take up 

another hobby, there is no organization as yet to provide 

continuity. That bring s up the question: who would volunteer 

to be assistant editor of this sheet as a stand-by At present 

I plan a 20 page hews3etter every 3 or 4 weeks for $3,00, which 

Is at mst for Xeroxing, envelope, 35$ stamp, and statement, 

The 13th Grayson place name: found by Howard E. Grayson of 

~lexidria, ~a, and proven by a map he sent: herc cis s "Grayson 

Creek"' which is 8-10 miles long, The creek is. in the: Fort 

Chaffee, Ark. military reservation. How~rd's grandfather farmed 

in the area many years ago, Can someone tell us how the cresk 

happened to be named Grayson 

ray son also reportsthat at the Alamo in Texas is an 

Howard 

exhibit devoted to ~homas Wims Grayaon and his wifei we have 

discussed the genealogy of this Grayson in these colums before, 

Howard says that Thomas Wiggs Grayson owned and captained the 

steamboat Yellowstone which was used to transport Houston's 

troops) and supplies during the Texas Revolution, The exhibit is 

in the "Long Earracks section. 

Howard also reports that there is currently a Vi rginia State senator 

named George Grayson; Howard , why not contact him for his 

lineage for us 

Mrw. Davidson: thank you for the offdr of the 1850 census indexes 

with the name Grayson, Perhaps we should put them in the Newsletter 

if they would fit in an issue, 

On pages, 72 thfiugh 78 is a 1969 report:,onl Capt, William Grayson 

(1732-1829) by the genealogist George H,S..King, This report 

was in the material-so graciously donated by Mrs, Dorothy Wulfeck,. 

On pages 79-80 is another nice summary of the first Graysons from 

the same a~llection, On page 81 is a summary from Kozee, On 

pp. 82-3 is a story of the name Grsyson and early families, authart 

unkown to me, but from the Wulfeck collection, On page 84. is an 

old but intxiging letter suggestin that the first John Grayson 

might have been here as early as 1 d 86. Does any correspondent have 

lnformt$ion on this On page 85 is a aopy of the 2nd page of the 

ulll mentioned on page 84 so you can see for yourself the name 

Joanna Graysdon and the date 1686/7. Page 86 is especially interassting 

since it is a photocopy of the orginal will of Ambrose Grayscn 

dated 1748, 

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JOHN GRAYSON, GENTLEMAN =married= SUSANNA 

(16 -1735/6) r She was administratrix of her husband's estate 

of Lancaster and Spotsylvania counties, Virginia 

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Thomas Grayson John, Jr. John James Alice -m( - 

2) - Ambrose Grayson, Gent. Benf amin Grayson, Gent: 

[ ~erchant ,eldest 1 #I (16 -1726) : m(3) 26 August 1744 : ( 16 -1743/41 of (16 -1759) m. Susanna 

son and heirs : James Stevens; by r Spotsylvania Go., Va. (Monroe) Tyler Linton 

1737 of Kent : 1758 in Culpeper z (1695- 1752) ; he died 

~n~ land] r Go.Va. testate, Prince Wm.Co.Va. 

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Mary James Elizabeth James John Grayson Ambrose Benj Thos Alice William Susanna Ann Reuben Grayson 

m.by 1744 m., by 1744 (c. 1727-1802) (c. 1728- # # (1732- # # 1C 

John Menefge James Kennerley d. t. ,Montgom- c. 1756) 1829) 

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* Daughters of John Grayson, Gent: 

( 1) Ann Grayson m. 3 Oct 1722 John Quarles; m(2) c. 1731, Thomas Harrison, Gent. (1703-1774) of Prince W illiam and Fauquier con. 

(2) Mary Grayson m. John Catlett in 1726 

(3) Elizabeth Grayson m. 18 Apr 1731, Thomas Kill, Gent. (d. 1741) ; m(2) 17 March 1744, William Cowne, Gent. of King tJm.Co.Va. 

(4) Susanna Grayson m. 1731 Moses Linton; m(2) John Berkeley. She lived in Fairfax Co.Va. 

# Denotes that I have at hand no further detail in regard to these parties. 

Thomas Grayson was living in 1754 when his brother Ambrose wrote his will and it would appear therefrom that in as much 

as Alice ( ) James Grayson was yet living he was expecting to receive a portion of his father's estate upon its 

final division. It also appears from Ambrose Grayson's will that at the time of writing he had unmarried brothers and 

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16 June 1969

GRASSON 

F A M I L Y OF V I R G I N I A 

It appears from the Lancaster County, Virginia, records John Grayson was living 

in that county shortly after 1700. The name has been spelt Graysbn, Grasson, I 

Graison, Grasison, and apparently even Greshad! 

This report is not an ex- 

haustive study of all these records, but to ascertain the parentage of William 

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Grayson (1732-1829) of Spotsylvania and Albemarle Counties, Virginia. 

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Lee: Abstracts Lancaster Co.Va.Wills 1653-1800, p.123, cites from WB#10, p.41 

the will of Andrew Jackson (16 -17101, minister of Christ Church Parish by 

which, among other things, he bequeathed land to James Jackson, his brother, 

then in Ireland. 

Northern Neck Grant Book #3, p. 30 = 2 JU@ 1704 

Lord Proprietor of NorthedNeck grants Andrew Jackson 908 acres in Richmond Co. 

adjoining John Wagh and James Innes. 

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Ibid., p. 35 = 29 July 1704 

Same to Same, 1238 acres at the mouth of Deep Run about 12 miles above the fa1 

of the Rappahannock River in the County of Richmond. 

h his land, then in Richmond County fell into King George County 

upon its formation, 1721, into Stafford County in 1777 upon n 

complex alteration of the boundary lines between the last two 

mentioned counties and Deep Run is now the dividing line b&- 

tween Stafford and Fauquier counties on the Rappahannock watershed~.] 

Richmond County DB#6 p. 241 = 7 July 1714 

John Sloss [or ~losej of Town of Belfast, Ireland, chief agent, manager and 

factor for James Jackson of the same place, deeds to John Grayson, Gent.: of 

Christ Church Parish, Lancaster Co.,Va., for f100, 908 acres per a surjvey 

by James Innis, said land being a patent to Andrew Jackson, Clerk, late of 

Lancaster Co.Va., deceased, dated 2 June 1704; also 2146 acres on Depp Run 

same being also a patent to Andrew Jackson, Clerk, deceased, dated 29 July 

'1704 which said land was by Andrew Jackson,Clerk,deceased, by his last will 

and Testament given to James Jackson aforementioned who was his brother and 

heir-at- law. 

his put John Grayson, Gent. of Lancaster County in possession 

of a very handsome landed estate in Richmond County about 12 

miles above the falls of the Rappahannock River and which was 

to become a part of the county of King George upon its formation 

a few years later.] 

King George County DB#l, p. 24 - 3 November 1721 

John Grayson, planter, and Susanna, his wife, of Spotsylvania County sell to 

William Pattishall of Middlesex County, 908 acres of land lying upon Gravilly 

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Run and being the same purchased from JohnBlose and being a patent to Mr.Andrew 

Jackson late of Lancaster County, deceased, dated 2 June 1704. It is 

stated the land lies about twelve miles above the falls of the Rappahannock 

River between Deep and Richland Run. 

King George County DB A-1, p.3 = 4 February 1729 

John Grayson, Gent., and Susanna, his wife, of Spotsylvania County to Thomas 

Turner, 619 acres in Hanover Parish being part of 1238 acres of land originall 

granted by the proprietors of the Northern Neck of Virginia on 29 July 1704 to 

Andrew Jekson of Lancaster County and lying upon and between the Deep and 

Richland Run same being now the fee simple estate of the said John Grayson. 

- Xbid., p. 138 = 6 May 1731 

John Grayson, Gent., of Spotsylvania County to Joseph Strother of King George 

County, 619 acres being the lower half of 1238 acres first granted by the Prop 

rietor of the Northern Neck to Andrew Jackson of Lancaster County on 29 July 

1704 and now the fee simply property of the grantor. The land is said to lie 

between Deep and Richland Runs and to be about twelve miles above the falls of 

the Rappahannock River. e ere the town of Falmouth hadlbean laid out in 1727. 

Susanna Grayson signed these deed by mark.] 

By these three deeds of 1721, 1729 and 1731, John Grayson, Gent., now establis 

ed in Spotsylvania County on the oppostee side of the Rappahannock River a 

few miles below the town of Fredericksburg, conveyed all his land holdings on 

the north side of the Rappahannock River, 

The 1737 map of the Northern Neck of Virginia made at the insistence 0.1' Lord 

Fairfax shortly after he arrived in Virginia shows various plantations along 

the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers and about five miles below Frcdericksburi 

GRAYSON and just Below and adjoining NEW POST 

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Alexander Spotswood (1676- 174011 lying at the mouth of. Massaponnax [~assa~onnax, 

Nassaponuks &c] Creek. This creek is shown on present day maps as well 

as NEW POST which is at the intersection of Route #17 [ to ~a~~ahannock] and 

Route #2 [to Bowling Green - ~ichmond]. Virginia State Library can furnish a 

photostat copy of this map. 

As client has Crozier: Spotsylvania CD.V~. Records 1720-1800 this report will 

not duplicate the mterial therein. 

The King George Co. deed of 1721 shows 

that John Grayson (16 -1735/6) was established in Spotsylvania County when 

same was formed and C:111 shows that John Grayson purchased at least some of 

his land from William Smith of Gloucester County. 

As this land lay upon Mass- 

aponnax Creek, the deed from William Smith to John Grayson should be of record 

in Essex Co.Va. 

as this portion of Spotsylvania County was formed from Essex. 

It is also possible that John Grayson may have gotten Crown grant(s) for 

land in the Spotsylvania County area. 

I have checked the original recordings against the Crozier abstracts as thest 4 

axe not definitive by any means in an effort to pick up anything salient omit-

ted and I will give the reference in case photostats are desired from 

Bill Book "A" 

~~267-8 = 2 March 1735/6: Bond of Susanna Grayson as adminisjtatrix of John 

Grayson, deceased, with Ambrose Grayson and Thomas Hill, securities. 

p.270-3 Inventory of John Grayson, deceased, 31 March 1736, per Mrs.Susanna 

p.272 Grayson's presentments to the appraisers of his goods and chattels. 

Wil Book "B" 

p. 286 W i l l of Ambrose Grayson (Jr.) not mentioned by Crozier 

To Mr. Thomas Grayson 

Spotsylvania 

August 5th 1754 

I Ambrose Grayson in perfect: mind and memory do dispose 

of my estate as followeth, vizf my will and desire is that 

these Bills Drawn by Col.John Spotswood for £60 Sterling be 

either sold or remitted home and the money arising therefrom 

together with my part of my Father's estate be equally divided 

between my unmarried Brothers and Sisters. 

THeste: John Crosse 

Lawrence Dully 

Ambrose 


John Crosse aged 21 makes his deposition re: the said will 

and same recorded 2 March 1756. 

p.304 Bond Robert Jackson, 4 November 1756, as executor of Ambrose 

Grayson, deceased. [crozier omits all executor' s bonds so this 

Ambrose Grayson was greatly neglected by him.] 

In 1729 John Grayson, Gent. granted to Ambrose Grayson (his son) 200 acres and 

in 1737 Thomas Grayson of Kent, England, sold 500 acres as son and heir of his I 

father who died intestate and by law all of his landed estate not devised csme 

to him. LC: 111;146]. To the end John Grayson must have held by deed/patent 

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C1188 fails to give the details of 245 acres of land conveyed by John Grayson 

and Barbary, his wife, of Culpeper County and check Y D B llEtl p. 7 1 found it 

was recited that the said 245 acres was part of a 1000 acres patent to Ambrose 

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and patents wereparely given in dual names to husband and wife.

Patent Book #13, p. 191 - 13 October 1727 

Ambrose Grayson 1000 acres of New Land in St.Georgels Parish, Spotsylvania Co, 

adjoining the land of William Holloway and Warner's patent. 

W i l l Book "#' [ 1722- 17491 

p. 379 W i l l of Ambrose Grayson dated 16 Sept.1742 - 6 March 1743/4 

names wife Alice, sons John & Ambrose and other children, and brothe 

Benjamin Grayson. 

p. 389 5 April 1744: Appriasement estate of Ambrose Grayson, deceased 

p. 393 3 July 1744: Alice Grayson as guardian to John and Ambrose Grayson 

orphans of Ambrose Grayson, Gent., deceased, with William Cowne and 

William McWilliams, secuxities 

p.429-430 Estate Accounts of Ambrose Grayson, Gent., deceased, 1745 

Shows widow Alice has married James Stevens 

Shows Ambrose Grayson left 9 children and they are named, viz: 

John, Anlbrose, Benjamin, Thomas, Alice, William, Susannah, Ann and 

Reuben Grayson. 

By the rime of Ambrose Grayson1s death, 1743/4, his brother Benjamin Grayson 

had moved to Prince William County and he did not concern himself with the 

estate of his brother. Benjamin Grayson (16 -17%) styled gentleman and col- 

onel in the records and his son Colonel William Grayaon (c.1740-1790) were the 

two most distinguished members of the Grayson family in Virginia. Colonel 

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Benjamin Grayson married Susanna (lionroe) Tyler Linton (1695- 17521, daughter 

of Colonel Andrew Monroe of Westmoreland County and widow successively of 

Charles Tyler and William Linton. She had issue by her three spouses. She 

was a cousin of President James Monroe and her first: husband, Charles Tyler, 

was a brother of KPresident Monroe's grandmother, Mrs. Christian (Tyler) Mon- 

roe Monroe Fry and the said Christian's first husband, Spence Monroe, was a 

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brother of said Susanna. 

It was a very complex relationship to the end tbt 

when Colonel William Grayson, one of the first two U.S.Senatorls from VirginiE 

died in off ice, 1790, he was succeeded by his younger cousin, the Honorable 

James Monroe (1758-1831). 

Deed Book "A", 

p.399 of Spotsyl vania County shows that Ambrose Grayson, Gent. 

was a churchwarden of St.Georgels Parish in 1729. 

There are probably many other references to the family in the poorly indexer( 

will and deed books as well as the virtually unindexed court order books.

All of this is far beyond the scope of this report but it is seen that a 

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Ambrose and Alice ( ) Grayson had a son named WILLIAMGRAYSON. 

Cz1 shows that John James died a young man and his will was 

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1725/6 and John Grayson was one of the witnesses. He left a widow Alice, a 

daughter Mary and a child expected. 

In 1726, shortly after the birth of the 

expecte-d child, Elizabeth, Alice James, widow, m(2) Ambrose Grayson, Gentle- 

man (16 -1743/4) and by him had nine children. At the time & John James' 

death he was negotiating for a land patent: 

Patent Book 812, p. 486: John James 850 acres of New Land adjoining Robert 

Taliaferro and Lawrence Smith and lying upon hkssaponak Creek [ i.e., Massaponnax 

creek]. This patent was dated 30 June 1726. 

C!85 shows the third marriage of the said Alice on 26 August 1744 to James 

St evens. 

C: 167 = 4 Dec. 1744 = John Menefee and Mary, his wife 

James Stevens and Alice, his wife 

James Kennerley and Elizabeth, his wife 

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James Ball, Gent., of Lanc~ster County 

850 a. granted John James by patent 30 Juen 1726. 

h his proves the names of the two daughters of John James and 

Alice, his wife, their husbands, and she joined in'the conveyance 

to surrender dower.] 

Ct167 = 4 Dec, 1744 = same to same, 249 acres. John James must have had a 

deed or patent for this land but I do not have the proof. 

C:191 & 208 shows Alice and her third husband, James Stevens, moved to Cul- 

pepr county by 1758; her eldest son, John Grayson (c.1727-18021, 

settled 

there. 

An investigation of those records might well show further genealog- 

ical facts. I cannot see how Alice could convey the 200 a, in Spotsylvanfa 

County where Ambrose Grayson (16 -1743/4) lived as she had but a dower right 

but it is Fnown that Thomas Turner, Gentleman, was a land speculator and may- 

be fixed it up somehow with Ambrose Grayson's heirs. 

The family were takin 

leave from the old plantation upon Rappahannock River and Massaponax Creek

and soon the narne was not to be found upon the Spotsylvania County records. 

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The National Intelli~encer of 4 June 1829 is quoted in 48 NGSQ 84 as follows: 

Captain William Grayson, aged 97, died 17 May in Albemarle 

County, Va. He was born 25 Nov. 1732 i n Spotsylvania Co.Va. 

In early life he was a soldier being in Forbes' s campaign 

in 1758 i n an expedition to Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh) to 

expel the French and Indians from that part of the country. 

During rllost of the Revolution he was also actively engaged, 

mostly as a ranger, and had frequent skirmishes with the 

Indians. 

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The will of Captain William Grayson (1732-1829) is of record i n Albemarle Coun- 

ty, Va. WBV9, p. 394. Those records contain other references to him. 

DAR PATRIOT INDEX, p. 282 

William Grayson (1732-1829) m. 

Ann Smith, Captain VA 

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George H.S. King 

Fxedericksburg , Virginia 

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FAMILIES 

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GRAYSON 

"There is an unverified story that Benjamin, John, lmose, and IJmy 

Grayson (who married a lnan rmed Iiarrison whoni ~othing 13 known) landed 

in Jay 1695 in Christ Church larish, Lancaster County, Virginia. IJo 

record is cited. me Grayson family is said to have r~igrcted from 

Dumfries, Scotland, and greatly credited with foundicg Dumfries, Virginia, 

to which Benjamin removed from Colcheater about 1710 having removed 

from Christ Church Parish earlier. Benjamin entered nerchandisicg business 

at Dumfries, Va. (see Bishop Meade's History of hrly Virginia 

~amiliea)"--Yajor I*aurice K. Gordon. 

The name has been spelt Grayson, Grasson, Graison, Grason, Grnsiofi, 

Grayrston, Greseen, aod even Gresham. Several different spellings 

were found in the records of LancasCer County, 

John Grayson probably came from England as his eldest son, Thorns Grayoon 

of Deal i n Kent, England, sold lnnd in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, 

which he received from his father. (DB-C, Jan. 27, 1737). 

John Grayson first apears in the records of Lancaster County, Virginia, 

in 1700 as attorney for 14arie Gibson, wife of Edward Gibson, a neighbor 

in Christ Church Pariah, who released her dower in two doeds, (deed 

Book 2, pp. 400-403) He bought land from Kirk Gendron in 1704 in Lnncaster 

County and re2orted tithes in 1716. (Giilliam and Ikry Quarterly, 

Vol. Jotm Grayson's ~ist.") , 

John Grayson purchased two tracts of land, 908 acres and 2146 acres 

(~ichmond County Deed Book 6, p. 24l, 7 July 1714) from John Sloss of 

Town of' Belfast, Ireland, agent for James Jackson of the same place 

who had inherited the land from his brother &drew Jackson, Clerk, late 

of Lancaster County, Virginia. This land in 3ichmond County was about 

12 miles above the falls of the Rappnhnnnock Uver and was to become 

a part of the Coucty of King Gearge in 1720. 

In three deeds (King George County Deed Eook 1, p. 24, Nov. 3, 1721; 

Deed Book A-1, p. 3, Feb. 4, 1729; Deed Book A-1, p. 138, 6 Ikty 1731) 

John Crnyson, Gent., and Susanna his wife, now established in Spotsylvania 

County on the opposite side of the Rappahannock Liver a few rnilea 

below the town of F'redericksburg, convey all his lnnd holdings on the 

north side of Rappabannock Nver. 

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made after he arrived in Virginia, show vsrious plantations alor~ 

Potomac and Rappahannock givers. About five miles below Fredericksburg 

is GRAYSON and just below and adjoining NZ!d POST is the well known plantation 

of Gov. Alexander Spotawood (1676-1740) lying at the mouth of Ihssaponnax 

Creek. NEW PET is si:own on present day naps at the intersection 

of Route 17 to Tappahannock and Route 2 to Bouling Green ad Richmond. 

John Grayson was established in Spotsylvania County when the county 

was formed and he purchased land in this county from William Smith which 

lay upon hhssaponax Creek. I& ray have also gotten Crown gram for 

land in this locality. 

I, JOHN GRAYSON died intestate in Spotsylvcnin Col, Va, 1735-1736 

survived by his widow Susanna, (Estate Spots. Co., Gill Book-A, 

p. 270) Susannah Grayson admx. of John Grayson decd. with Ambrose 

Grayson and Thomas Hi11 sec., 3hr. 2, 1735-36, John Gordon, Francis 

Taliafarro,. Francis Turnly were appraisers. 

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1. Thomas Grayson of Deal Co,, Kent, Great Britain, received land 

which he sold 6 Jan. 2737 (spots i)B-D, p. 1) I 

2, Ambrose Grayson grantee of land fro= John Grayson Dec. 9, 1729 

(Spots, DB-E, 1729-34) 

3. John Grayson Jr . sworn as a militie. officer O&i .7, 1729 Order 

Book 1724-l.430, p. 355) 

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4. Benjamin Grayson named as brother in Will of Ambrose Grayson 

11-2, AMBnOSE GRAYSON, son of John Grayson and wife Susannah, married 

in 1726 Alice James, widow of John James who died testatadin 

Spotaylvania County 1725. (1JB-A, p. 24) After his denth 330 

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but died on Ma way to Washington before alectlon. There is a 00- in 

Texas named after him. 

4-4 EUsabeth, m, Philip Quentin, who Boon died and she me James Dm 

Breckenridge, son of Cen, John Breckenridge, who soon died leaving one 

daughter, Kiisa Grayeon Breckenridge, m. Shrkeapear Cddwell of Va., and 

left issue: 

3-3 Nary, b. 1764, m. 1794, Jams Re Dennott, rm bish gentle-, 

d. 1795 without issue. 

3-4 William, b, 1766, ma 1st Octavia Edmods, dau. of Ccil, Eli- 

&OMS 11; d had issue* 

(~ote: There is more in this book.) 

~ B L Y FMmm CF EASTERN AM) SOUTHEASTERN KENTEKY, APD THEIR DESCEHDANTS,~ 

by William C. K6me. Strasb~g, Va. 1961. 

pp. T13-274. The Grayson family of Virghda an3 Xentucw is of 

English or Scottish extraction. Yorkshire, Englard, appears to be the 

trus early hane of the family. Waver, members of the f d y lived in 

Scottland. Tbe poll tax liats of Yorkshiro, England, aa of the gem 1379, 

bear the names of Thomas Graysson, Johannee Grayfson, Thomas Crayfson, 

Ebma Grefeson, Mary Grayson alrl George Grayson resided at Salwicke, 

Ergland, in 1639 rtnd John Greason lived at Isonaster, England in 1637. 

1, Benjamin Grayson was the first of the name who emigrated to the 

American colonies of which there is any known record, He was believed '. 

to have oome from Scotlarrdt He settled in Prince William Cowty, Va., 

where he was a merchant and acquired great wealth. Ib m. fbst9 Susan 

or Susanna Monroe, a daughter of Andrew Yonroe and great aunt of President 

James Monroe, and m. secondly, W3. Linton, a widow. (* Note by 

DFW. This at;radit;ion has been dispmven,) 

CUdran of Benjamin Greyson and his wife, SuJan Monroe: 

2, Benjamin Grapcn, Jr. 

3. Spance Grayson 

"4, Wlllicun Grayson 

5. han Monroe Grayson, 

4, WXi.iam Grayson was b, Prince William County, Virginia, in 1726, 

was graduated from the College of Philadelphia in 1760 aa3d is aaid to 

have atudied law at the Temple in London. Entering the service of his 

country during the Revolutionary War, b~ was aid-de-cmp to General 

Washington in 17'76; wa;s c&ss&onad colonel on the Continental Line in 

1777; and later, in 1779, was one of the Commitisioners of the Board of 

War. He was elected a a member of' the Continental Congress in 17% & . 

waa president of that body in 1758, Upon the mgdzation of the Federal 

Government, he was chosen by Virginia as one of the two fhet United 

States Senatma - Richard Henry Lee being the other one. 

Colonel Grayson m. Eleanor (&be) Srd.lwood, om of the five sistere 

of Captain Haaberd Smallwood of Charles County, Niryland. Captain 

Smallwood had service in the Revolutionary War on the Maryland State 

Line. 

Childran of Colonel William Grayson anel his wife, Eleanor Smallwoodt 

6, William Grayson d. without ism. 

T, George W, Vrayson 

%. Robert H, Grayaon 

9. kaberd 5. Grayaon. Very little has been learned concerning 

him, 

YO, Ufasd Grayeon 

Y1. &be SmaJlvood Grrryson; m. Robert Wcrmrarly Carter of Laudoun 

County, Virginia. (See Carter ~amily)

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The mne of GRIiYSON is of Anclo-Saxon derivation and is said to mcm 

Itson of the reevew, the reeve (old EnzLish grecve) being a bailiff or steriard. 

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m ancient Engush an+ap.ly American Cecords the nao appems in the various 

spellings of Grayfson, Grefason, Graueson or Graveson, Gravesen, Greveson, 

Grceveson, Graysson, Greyson, Grason, Grayshon, Gration, Greason, Greeson, 

Oresson, Grasson, Grayson, and others. 

Of these, the last is the form most 

frequently used in Ametiica in modern times, while several of the otlhers are 

still occasionally in evidence. * 

In early tines the family was chicfly seated in Yorkshiro, hglanc!, 

branches of this family later settled in Lancashire, Lonclon, and various pmts 

of Irelancl. 

classes, 

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Among the earliest definite records of the nme in Englantl ~ xtIlosc c of 

Johannes Grayf son or John Grayson, Thomas Gi*nyfson, Grcf oson, Tinonas 

Graysson, Johannes Graueson of John Graveson, and :lam Grayson, 211 of whom rrcre 

livhe in Yorkslfire zbout, tlie year 1379 A.D. 

of the name are not, hovrever, conrplete. 

The records of these saru bcercrs 

Cutilbert Greveson or Grey son,:;probdiLy of Toxjtsif~re, was regis-l;~.-ed 

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in 1516 at the University of Cndord. A fcmily of tile nanc VJZS ewly seated ; i 

in the Parish of Kirkburton, in Yorl:shiiie. 

Of tIds branch, record has been 

found concerning ;';illim Graveso-., :;hose vrLl"e died in 1548 and ~ h vias o 

married \ in the follovdng yesc to 2 1.Yss lklL, probably that Johanna, wife of 

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George Graveson, who died - c, 

Johanna Elliston. 

1556; 3eorg. ;raveson, who was married in 1557 to 

The name of George contiri~led in this line for nzny gcneraiions, 

and a C;c~rgo Gr~son, of the sane vicinity, married ]:stha in the latter 

eighteenth century. ! 

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the Lamashire vdlls at Riclmond; Joan Grcyson, of LIonlc Fryston, County York, 

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was nwied in 1567 to BDes Fanshed; and in 1593 Gervao or Corvase Graveson 

In the follo~ci~~g century record was made of 

George Grayson, who r m living at Sc.-I&ckc in 1639; of John Grenson, of , . 

County Lancaster, in 1637; and of Parnoll Grejrs011, of Sal~cLclc about the year 

1668, These records are, however, f rapentasy. 

John Gresson, an early member of the Irish brmch of the family, was 

living about the beginning of the eighteenth century, if not before, at Augher, 

County Tyrone. 

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He died in 1733, leaving issue by his rrife ELizaheth of bm 

Of these, George Gresson resided at &adinbar, 

in the County of Cam, Irelar.d, and was married in l'j'14U 

to the Widorr biary 

His son, 1'Jilliam, married L!argaret Leslie, by whom he had issue of the 

Reverend George Leslie, Henry, the Reverend Slrelton, Alice, Kary, md Penelope 

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Gresson. ' 

While the exact ancestry of the first emigrmts of the family to Imerica 

is not in evidence, itj seas probable that all of the Grqrsons were of comon 

origin with the before-mentj.oned lines. 

One of the first of the family in America Tias John Grqson, YTIIO purchased 

five hundred acres of land in Spotsylvmia Counvj, Va., 

in 17l4, Ee tm 

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County, Va. I!@ died in 1736, 1eavi-n~ at lezst Gii~ sons, T:iomcs a d John Jr. 

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period, are believed to have been brothers of the first John, a d 

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had a sister nmed LIary, vdlo m~ried John Cstlett. Ambrose 

these 

bought two hundred of Johnls five hundred acres of Spotrylvania land in 

1729 and twu years earlier had patented another hundred acres in that county. 

By his wife Nice, Ambrose vras the father of at least one son, nmed John, 

Benjamin Grayson, vfho is generally believed to have cozc to incrica 

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from Scotland in the early eighteenth ,cent.wdr, settled for tine TI estnorelznd 

County, Va,, 

and later made his home on the Occoquan River, now the >lace 

which later became Colchester, in Prince Viilliam County. He 

marj cd ~usant-~)3& 

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Dear Mhs IInmisont 

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I have a photostat, of a tmnscrlytfon of the 

Will of 17m. Trz* of Old R~npahannoclc &.Led llr. Fchnlary, 

1@6/7 originally ~ecordcd on pa@ 88 of lb. 6 Dood & WL~, 

1.677-1682. 

It purports to be witnessed try "J&~.nna Gmyxban". 

I think t,hh is en error in tnnscxition, a& 

tfris W i l l view witnessed by John Grayson. 

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I have photostats of mcords of Lancastcr County, 1700, 

wfiem John Grayson's ait~aturo PY Latinhad by tk. Clerk in 

his comicntes making his siwture JOiU tfil: Gi'AYSCFI. 

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record from which this 

tnnscrl.ption ma mde , X thi~k you will ftnd th5 si&~~ture .t;o 

ba that of 3% - Grpyson, w/thor so written or L~tinizcd to 

'Vohann: '8 

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I note the Utbizations in the Clerkt~ Certific~tes on 

this hotostat Ifut supra in Cur. Conv. napna 20 .!2rtis ano 

1606/3 ET r~ooFdat~~. lkProbat in Cur. Conv." atc. 

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mrlfied, it r.ms back the arrival of said John Onyson in 

Vir~inia to 1#6/7, and shorn that he vms in Old Ramatunnock 

befom ha appo.arod in Christ rhurch, L~ncaster County, in 1700. 

Thanlcing you again, I am, as ever, 

youm truly*

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On page 51 In the last Newsletter was reported an unidentified 

William E. Gxayson listed in deed books.of Clairborn co,, Tenn. 

in 1859-1868, I think I have information now: therc was an 

old letter in the Wulfeck collection (1957) from a 

Gra son of 3208 Michigan Blvd,, Racine, Wisc. who said that 

& grandmother Lucinda Marilly Bates, bo 12/11/1826 in . . 

Va. (7) d, St, Louis, 5/25/1891, married William E. Grays3 

b. NoCe. (7). married in Wytheville, Va, m5, moved to Yenn. () 

about 1852, then to near Lebanon & Tren*on, 111, where the father 

of John D, Grays.on, the late Charles Drayton Grayson and his 

brother William H. Gragson were John U. Grayson was b. 

Monroe City, Moo, 1905. 

On page 88 is a new letter from anothes descendant of Zachary 

Taylor~rasgon, Claude Gra,yson. Note to Kitty Jean: would you 

express our appreciation to Claude for his letter 

Page 88-90 are the 1st 2 pages of a 21 page summary of Grayson 

records by Mrs, gor~thy Ford Wulfeck of Naugatuck, Conn,, now 

a retired genealogist, The last and 21st pageis on page 81 of 

this Newsletter, inadvertantly. I will gradually publish the other 

18 pages In subsequent Newsletters, 

The 14th Grayson place name has been uncovered; In tho above nentiontd- 

1957 letter from John D, Grayson, he states that there is 

a ~il~iam Grayson Shdiurn in S~.vannah, Gao, and that a politician 

in that city at that time was a Clinton Grayson. Clieryl Graysolz 

is in Savannah, Ga*: Could you look into this for us 

Fortunately 1 have more material this time than there is room 

t;lD print, so therc will be more issues definitely. I am trying; 

to cull the material so that it is the most universally interesting 

and important, 

~ r b , Sodon, my cont~ibution for your post cards will be free News- 

letters, so please do not pay for anylnore but keep up the good 

work and tell me each m{th what you and your husband are doing. 

A letter came last week in response to a Sodcn post card from 

Thomas Gra.ysori, P.O. box, Pine Bluff, Ark,, 71611, stating that 

his father Rich- 

d. 1962 came from Campbell, Ala in 

1917, was son of a Frank G=~on - who had 18 sons and a Daughter. 

Anybody know this o-lan 

Mrs. McCoy; noone has tried to tracethe N,C. 

female names such as Wren or Sanford. 

See you all again soon,, 

cousin Dick Grayson 

3/19/78 

Graysons through the

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3. WDA, p. a. Wfll of Joi~ J-s, dat.4 3~~1. 23, 1725, PC* 

von 1, 3$;1)M, !it;. J~fln Grayoon, SttIwr! :;harpI John 3iti;uilie~ 

B, wife t0.i~~ Jc:ea, CI'XP~S Tdtlf~rro~ JUT.^. kc. wife Alice 

doqqhtcar '21~8, t!zo c15bi P;\Y 'bfm TX6W CUC8 ~lth. 

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dated Par. 12, 1735, povorl June 3, 1739. Lit, t:anrga 1~0o1, 

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fibb (ipa;mony >$.7 JCR:YI; KLi m;~#3$lr ~ ~ T L; O John G FQCIQFI. 

3. Ui!,\srmp. 27.). ULIl of hbrosc GX%q:EIoil, st, iieor~a's r'ttris!:# 

cll:ihd 240%. G, I;&, pvell 4ir, 6, Ir11J, ::At, :!abrt ~A~PI:XL~ Cerqb 

flh, lLPrco Porr;r, !k:, brotbar Ikn3aur.S~ Cnq+aon; ,T$ vifo ~Q~-uo CPWsong 

son Joi~ Crrpgy30n. hc.. idifa Uico; son tlof~q son +kbra3fi; 

mlltia.gfs other c!~urjrcs, ~.;J",;~ocs 3 ~% !"&W 4;1*~.* 

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ha lad boiqybt of A\bf"f,se ::raysow. 

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16. E)ad Dook A, Aw, 5, 1729" Jmeph Smfth of fir!: shnl Gwan 

C0.p Cant*, to John RdArson, Eoqr., ord hbmaa Gnsyaon, Cent., Ltezrdom 

of tl:~ Chaarclr of St. Caltti~~ 'a i'arieh, In Spb. Corn A wckim~8 09 

CS;a CIeb for t2m lbatom of St, COO. !\tire ;.12$503 ltmb tob., !%4 u* td 

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lic,r,., 2W u,-prt o!' ;X3mltl Pararly purck~a~3 by Jno.Grqrsa~l cf L+J. 

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Bptt:. CP., to !.r.terlctw g.d,a of Qf mtsjr Cob 12 r~um:h CUS*X.r, 3'33 fir in 

str C.B+, ).oip,, ;ilt,s, Coo t!itr,oanm; 'i')i.mm~:iLJE, C. i'v~e, I rrimLt 31ri* 

I+.J.'. Thy 1, "103. Ute-, wife of ;;tfirn~e l;rtlg-asn, ~ctkaswltv3grcB llek 

dct~~r, etc. 

%A, I.aok Cb duly 7, 1737, Thrx%.t.ci Grq,tsnr: cf h:&, 23 

&nt, eld03t oon of JclFn Grq~rtcrr. o!: $;1fSe Cn., calm*; oZ "dc., I..ut4t2~ 

(lc3rsh\li(s 7, CO TI;OI,RIS~S li'~tn~9-r of' Z~ECI, GBCT;:O CD., St. * (;onto ;!f;n ,p+urrrri 

attjp, 5% u,, IgLrzg Pr. tl;n ca}..ory of' Ye,, SF. :; its, CO,, rtfi~ tho 

of tho i!nr~~k. %VOP an1 rc3akr fict.$cliLinp tba St,,.tl!le of' b~ar~ots Ttll3xtfnrn-1 

m, 3 :.&n ]lliry, i::qrr, dr lcxl, !~,itm;fiar,s t ,fbt:xes !luc, Jo~ n Cm:m, John 

:Ioxcurvt, I;:~ato :ia3~3,!'&or $I.-, lbr,ry Ihr:lrldlrcn, Jaha 2c-~-~ln. 3iQ.y 

4, 1'3'. 

25+ De& !look il. kt. 2# 150+ J4:n Cruj.aon of St,. Y:arkaa ihr,, 

C;39;,nper Cn., !%r>i~r~, Ilia tdff'at, to ld'ar(t5n 4~2e cf St. Goo. I'RP., 

8pL.71. Co, 20 puzcls cum, 331 it, in S{:ts, Co. Wit~oscaot -rialmrt ikaddloobn, 

Jobs x Xl oan. Cctr, 2, 175% 

26, Zkorl -fc~ok E, t , I, 751 Joka Crnyoor. am1 Dnrbra, his 

wiSo, of Culpcnar Cob, to Al~mx~lcsr, Ikdriao ELM 2onjanl.n Fhrtin of ZFJ~S. 

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CF, 103 pow:in curr, a.5 a. in St. -0, I'nr,, Spia, COI Uitawaersr 

Jco, !'d;rttuley, liob. i3ud30;r, !i~k.~rd Slantma. kt. 1, 1751, 

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WYSON GENEALOGY NEWSLEXTER, ITSOL.. 2 NO. 50'. Page 92. 

'On pages 92 through 97 are selected sections of the 127 page book 

Gracen (Grayson) Family of S.outh CarolinaN sent to us byl 

hr. ana blrs, John We Grayson(, 1904 Rozella Road, Augusta, Ga,, 30904.6 

I..have Xcxoxes oT the entire boolr on file if anyone needs further 

family data..What is remarkableis that this is a Grayson line whhch 

heretofore was unknown to any of us even though the immigrant, Sob 

Gracen~ came to South Carolina in 177s0 At first glance, it would aeofil 

that this Grayson clan must be related to the Graysons of Beaufort, 

S.C. who included the early congressman, William John Grayson, - who 

marrieh Sarah 60mareretll (1788-1863). The Tather of the congressman 

was Wllllem John Grayson who marrie&~Susnnnah Grcsne 9 Oct..1787 itr 

the St, Helena Parish of Beaufort. SIC.. and. who died- Scpt0 179'7. 

William J-ohh Greyson senior had a-brother, Thomas Wigp- GraysbrY' 

who married- Mary Hilll 27 Feb. 1794,. a sister ~lizabct- 

who 

marrichJohn Mark Verdier; in 1785 at Elcaufort, SIC., and another 

sister Mary Graysom.born 7 Aprhl 1764 who marxfeCL-.Michael 0@13rienl 1790. 

The father of the above 41 siblings (of William Johh,.Thomas Wigg,,ElPzabeth, 

and Mary) was apparently Joh.Gxavsan, b. 1733, died before 

1785. marrjed Sarah Wigg on ~prh-j1~,!1~ile famous Texas brothers, 

Thomas. 141 Gra son (1808-1873) and Ben S. Grayson ( .- 18491, both 

born in Beau %.Co, or were probably sons o m e r William John 

Grayson, sr., or of his brother Thomas Wigg Grayson, but there is no 

evidence for either lineage, 

The point of the above digression isthat we have two John Graysons 

in S.C. who died about 1785, oach of whom had a son William and 

a daughter Elizabeth and they are different John Graysons, The origin 

of the Gracen family irr the book by Dreyer seems to have been Ireland-, 

whereas, the other John Grayson came to S.C. via the West Indios 

from England, according to my records, (See Newsletter Vol, I No,. 2*') 

If' it wereLimportant, to anybody, actual proof of oach step in the 

lineage would be necessary to be dogmatic about these two families, 

s5nce it would be easy t o assign Erays.ons t o one! line who belong in the 

other. 

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Recently I was in Windsor, Canada where 11 stopped in Graysunts Jewelry 

store and asked the pmprictcr why he was using my name. He sald that 

his gradfather came from Poland at the age of 4 and could not spell 

his last name which sounded like wGrekont', so the teacher spelled it 

Grasin or Gracin, The name was offidally changed to Grayson later, The 

man said he had an w l e by that name in Detroit-: I found. a Grasin listed 

in the Detroit directory* Also, our new assistant hospital administrator: 

is A1 Grayson who says his family came from Poland and the name was 

changed but from what he did- not know, The moral of the story is that all 

Graysons should not assume they arc English, but must prove it, 

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se of all the above research was paid personally by 

a pension to hls wi ow, in existence. (-on 

and myself. There has been no financial gain to , ington, D. Cb were searched.) 

either of us. here was one exception, where six interested people . All of dates and names are proved in William Gracen's fnmilyvolufltnrily 

donated money to pay a genealogist in Ireland. The Un- . by hir ~ibl&'a~d tllosa of his two sons, ~ d birth ~ and death ~ .a ~ 

used I'ortions of this were refunded to Mrs. J* P* Grayson; dates are not jn these BiMes-only his mnrrja~e date to Ann Sarah & 

hfrs. V. Gral~am, Mrs. George Sheldon and hfr, D, W. Xnox, Mr.lE. C, ; Burgess, and the birth dates of his first three children. According a 

Grayson. I was the sixth donater. . Several were kind enough to . to the War Indent, Edward had to be born between the dates of his \o 

donate their refullds toward expense of postage stamps. The in- sisters' birth, 1783; and the cleath date on Indent of his father, Dec. w 

formation sent from the gelledogi~t in Irclnnd has not been "Proved" 1 1785 (or soon after in 1780). ~ 1 Indent , ~ proves the deadl of John, 

to connect with our first ancestors, in this country, namely-John and 

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between his appearance in July 1785 and Payment made to his estate 

Isabella (Skilling) Gracen. 

: in Dec. 1785. The Census gives Edward's birth in 1787, which gives 

Ilere nre some fncts to prove that our search for the marriage::' a difEe~~nce of one or two years. According to descendants, 

date of this couple seems I~opeless, unless n "Known" old Bible comes

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My father, Mr. James W. Prencher, told me that the following wes kr bh rno&mbs ' 

blble. "John Crncen married Isabelle SkilSings in 1775." 

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They cama to America from Irelnnd. They settled in Prince Wniiam Parish, Beaufort 

District, S. C. Isnbella Skilling Crncen h~d a brotl~er, Wiillnm, and a sister, Kata 

(younger thnn she), who cams over with tliem. 

: John and Isnbclla (Skllllngs) Cracen hnd three children, na folIows: WtUiam war 

I born in 1777; Ellzal~eth In 1783;'and Edwnrcl In 1785 or 6. Wllllam moved to some : 

1 other place end settled. Eliznbcth never mnrried. Edward Ihed In Bcaufort Dist., . 

1 then moved to St. Bartholomew Parlrh-near the present town of Walterboro, S.,C.- 

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The old BIbla war In possession of my fatlmr'r sister. She was blind, and unknown .' 

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tha Iint Cracen couple In Amerlca that we know of. AH records In Beaufort Dlstrlct , 

woro burned fn the years OF the Wnr Between the States. + i 

hfy father'a rrandfather, Edward Crncen, married Ann Sarah B~&I in 1816. hey , 

were parents of James Edward, Margaret EIIzabeth, John Burgh, William, Arthur Bell- . I 

her. SoghIn. Rebecca. Thomtu and Isnbella. 

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lssbella, after the death of her parents In 1860'~~ marrkd Nathaniel Rhodeu md 

I moved to Ca. Aunt Sopllia end Aunt Rul)ecca went to live with her, as they never dld 

get mnnled. Uncle John end Uncle Thomna also moved to Georgia. The othen ~tayed 

: ia S. C. My grandmother, Margaret Elizabeth, mded John Preacher h 1841. She 

and dl of her brothers and sisterr-were born in Prlncs Willfam Parish. Beaufoh DLhict 

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Jane Isnblfa (Gracen) and Nnthantel Rhodes; and nm seventy slx y;nrs old. J. Isabell. 

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;, Crnccn Rhoda was the daughter of Edwnrd and Ann Sarah (Burgis) Gracen. Shs 

I: and her brothers nnd sisters wore born In Colleton Co., S. C. Edward we^ the ~m OE 9 

" John and Isabella {Skillfngf Cmcen. % 

. ' Mother always told ug thnt our Great Grand-parents were Lord and Lady Crncen a 

'-. from Irelnnd. They spell4 tha name "Cracen". Later memberr of famlIy changed f 

the spelling to "Grayson". 

F ;. . hfother had five brothers, John, James E., William, Thomas, and Bellfngor. 1 rm 

mt'sure, but I think she had a sister, Elizabeth, who married In S. C. Aunt Sophl. 

:.: and Aunt Rebecca cama here to Georgla to live, soon eftcr the War Between the Stater. 

" nloy stayed with my Mother the rest of dldr llvas, as they never marrlbd. 

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There was a little Bible, alw~ya kept In Aunt Sophfa'a trunk. Motller md Aunt 

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Sophla always said, "Crend mother wnr French". The record In the Blble mugt haw 

been written in French, as wa could no! read ft. Motllar add that her Father told bsr 

: ' thnt ~ hfavored s her French Grandmotlier, and the Frencl~ peoplo. Mother wu bsnutl- 

7, full ~Ith pretty bluck wavy hair and rosy clleekr. Now rU of thla muat be true, or 

Crandmotlier would not have told her about It so much. 

- Whon my Motliar djed, my broher Ivy (only child at home), broke up howe=. 

Ircsptng, and rtored the thlngs, to keep, In one room of the houae; rnd mated Lt. 

When he want a year later@ stored thing were "l gone' Tb uttls Bib'r 

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- wu lost with these things, aa were our family pictures, 

He wnr born September 23, 1855. 

Rucher. 

I am the daughter of hs and Enm (Padm) 

of my knowledgo, the above fnformation Is true. 

Sworn Mom me thh 24 day of June l ~5k 

RAY U. BRELAND, Magtstrrts. 

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1780 Census (taken 1787)-St. Helena Pariah, S. C. 

John Crayson-2 song under 16-1 dau.-11 slaves-(no known connection). 

homns Grayson-1 femnle over 18-2 gk11 under 16-41 r1avm.-(unknown), 

William Skilling-2 mnles under 18-2 females.. 

*NotrIsabelln SkilIlng (wife of John Cracen) had a broth WIUlam and a 

rIster Knle who camo over to S. C. the snme time that she and John came. 

Sinco die nevolutlonnry War necord glvu John's death between July and 

Dec. 17854 appcnrs that she nnd her Juughter and two sons were Uvln 

with 11cr brothcr Wiiiiuln in 1787 when this census was taken. 1Ie coal8 

have merried whlclr would mean then-2 aoss and 1 fomala besldes wlfa, 

possibly sister, Knte. There t no way of knowing-as the census report8 dId not 

give nnma in fam1lle.s until 1850. 

1800 Cenrur 

No Cmcen or Grnyson bated In thlr cansur. 

1810 Censur- Prince Willlam Parish, S. C. 

Ibb bmhen WLlIhrn and Edward lrst eppsaj u hourohold haab JJY thlr cam^ 

' (only family heids of householcls are named in all canma reporb up to 1840). 

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Willlam Crncen-3 boys under 18. 

There were 3 other men batwatn 28 to 45 yean add 8 miwn kr 

Willinm'r household, 

Edward Crncen-head of houre, but no fomlly, , . 

1820 Census- 

William Cracen-2 bop undar 16. 

1820 Censur- 

Edward Crayson-8 rlava 

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WLIliam Gracen-king In houra of "A, DannerW-3 bop under 15, 

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1830 Cenaul-- Prfnce Willhn Padd~, 9, Ci 

Edwud Gracen-1 boy under 5-4 girls under 20-3 slaves 

1840 Ceruur- St. Bartho~o~nsu P&h,'S. C 

Edward Crncan-4 boys and 4 girls, (8 chddren) 

Jam- Edward-23 yeRn of a e, the aldat vvlu nunad, 

2 male slnvu-aped 24 and 38 yean 'I 

1 femnIe slavc-age over 55 

5 of household engaged In a ! 

aU whites over 20 could raa P'="lhre and write I 

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WLllfun Gncsn moved to Wilhmsbur~ Co. ia 1839-mtrsd cmk'takts ' . ; 

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JOHN GRACEN 

Ill-Edward B- 1785/0 Alncs W ilh Pu., 9. C 

(Thb dote wt In Bible) 

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Rsvolutfonary War Record of John Gram . 

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JOHN GRACEN 

His Acct. for 67 days dut from 15th March 1780 to 21st May followiog and f~ 

61 days in 1781 bolh Toum L Copt, McCnuloy Company. Col. McDonald's Reg. 

Eight pounds, saventecn sl~ifIIng and one punny, halt penny rterling. 

Exa J. Mc; d. 

Gravin Withenpoon signed a pa 

r on whlch was mitten the followingt 

4'Personnlly np ired before rno E m Cracen who mnkcth oath thnt the .ba. . 

acct. of nine pouncpsix rhllllngs atcrllng ngninst the publlc b ("st and me. Sworn r 

before me tllis 13th dny of July 1785." 

This paper proves thnt john Cracen wns living on thls data. 

Another paper signed by Gravln Wlthenpoon to &a commtslonet of rha T~u= 

ayl "Gentlemen please to deliver to the bearer, McArthur Bradle the Indent d* 

the Estato of ~obn Crncan, deceased for the account agahrt the PU b lick. 

I om yr Obdt. Scrvt. 

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"Red. 14 Dec, 1785, full satisfadon for th6 wIthln account Indent n t15e y" \o 

This a er prcrva that ]oIm Grscen dked between data July 13, 1785. whan b~ @ 

appaarcd worn than -- and Doo. 14.1785 when 8wunt wu pdd to hL mbU. 

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D-Aug. 25,1853 WiIllamsburg Co., S, C, . 

Ebbeth Ann navu rnrrrtcd. 

She llvcd at Salton, S. C., with her brother 

Willlnm Cracen, at the tlme of her denth. They are both burled at ~r1erson'r Ceme 

tuy-near Salters, S. C. The' tombstoner are rtlll in good condition, and the dates 

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In response to a Soden post card; RichardGrayson, MOD. of Selma, 

Ala, writes that he was born 1902, that his father was Claude C, 

Grayson born 1857 Auburn, Ala., and that his father was Spcnce 

Monroe Grayson born 1812 at Alexandria, Vao, the son of Revo Spcnca 

Monroe. Grayson of Be1 Aim near Alexandria. 

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Prs* Hod~es reports that she is working on some Grayson material in 

the Draper ass- of the Wisc, State Histo So& I have nottheard of this. 

material and it will be welcamefor the Newsletter, 

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Thanks to Mrs. H,A..Brown far her data sent in. This has been printed 

in the Newsletter before, sorry, but keep trying* 

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On page 99 is an article onr Ambrose Grayson of Texas from a Hendcrsom 

newspaper of 1901 scnt bp,Mrs, Petty, Also are reprints of Graysons 

from who's who of 1938 and of 1944 sent; by Eoward Grayson, These are 

Interesting artioles. Also from 1934 Who's who and a supplement are other 

articles on that page. On page 101 are 2 biographies sent by 

Howard Grayson, linking the SoCi.oongressman to the Va. senaton, This 

appears to be a mistake in the record. The congressman was of a diffcr- 

ent lineage entirely. 

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Howard Grayson asks our new member Mrs. Robin Bandy If she is related to( 

the Dr.. William Bandy Grayson on page 99, 

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On pages 100-101 is an article from a 1975 Washington Post I found in 

the Jlulfeck c~llection. Xeroxcs of this were also sent in by Howard 

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On page 102 is an interestin& letter sent by Mrs. Underwood, In reply 

to her query: Mrs* Betty Stokes address is.5902 Warm Springs, Houston, 

Tor. 77035. 

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Pagea 103 through 106 arc from the Dor~thg Ford. Wulfeck IJlanuscript which 

I-am serializingo The 1st 2 pages were prlnted last issue and are 

listed as pages~89 and 90,.There are a total of 27 pages In thismanuscript, 

so today's 4 pages makes a total of 6 printed serially, 

plus the page 21 which appeared out of order i.21 last issue. 

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I-plan to donate a copy of each valume of the Grayson Newsletter 

to the Newberry Genealogy Library in Chicago when the index is completed1 

Perhaps others of you might wish to do the same to your favorite 

library, 

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Pages 107.8.9 are War of 1812 Pension and Roster records- from the 

National Archives sent from Howard Grayson, Many thanks, Howard: these 

should prove valuableo I notice myiancesto~ Wren,his br.othcr Jesse, and 

his cousin Benjamin on the list. This will be convenient for Grayson 

researchers, Howard, I know of no Charles W. Grayson born about 1839. 

Does anyone else Howard thinks the Grayson Stadium in Savannah, Ga. 

was named for a Lt. Cove named Spencer Grayson, Howard,for the record, 

finds Grayson streets in: le.San Ant onio Zo.Austin, Tcx, 3oWoodridge, Va., 

and 4, Portsmouth, Va, Lbelieve we listed tho San Antonio street 

alreadg, so the other 3 Grayson streets make the 15th. 16th. & 17th 

Grayson place names. 

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QRLYSOX, David, nutbar. h Kay Stan- - 

nrrd Bakrr. 

Sam Grayson and Mrs. Jack Cox, his 

ORXYSOX, Thaodors J(uliu3) -of. sister, are yet living. Ambrosc was 

fin:ic.,c: blir. 4, 1930-Utc. 3. I'j.;;. S,e'~uf: 19 born April 20, 1872, in Henderson County, 

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and hence is a tlrntlerson County pro- 

GRATSON, William hady, 11.D.: b. 

I'nragc~ulgI, Ark.. May I. 191;; a. .+.i.~.n Dsvis znc1 duct. He grcw up on the-fdrm nith all 

BIsrs. Luu~i..~ (iIew!eoc)n1 c;.: ttrdrnt L-. of ,M.. of its difficult es and hirrd-ships, 2nd yet 

I'IIR-17; bf.D.. Tr~!.:nr L. :',:n. rE >t+.-!kine. I:,[; 

n. Florcneo E. T~~fir~z:~~~d. (kt. iq, ::t.li; 1 til~r.. 

e:rjo) ed all of i:s advantages and hene- 

Hutv Jtnnnc. Int:,rne LI.l'.l{.lt. licsp.. Littlc fits. He attt-ndrd the Athens schools 

Iiw;;. lo>[-, 214, i::str. in ph:,sia~l. th: .L~fy, K, oi 

and alter due preparation went to Omen, 

.\rb. Srh. of >lw.ir.i~:e; sr. in:emd rh.iity s ~p.. 

Xeiv O;ltins. I:,;-2:; instr. 13 :t!-zi;l!u,:~ rid and secured the advantages of that (,Id 

physiol. chr~tlli:ry. C. cni .b!,: hb, of !.:hiLir.e. 

and use!ul Institution,Sum~i~er Ijill Sc- 

1'92.;-24, zeu. prof. ~h:,s~oi. ~lte~..is!ry and "\$io!~:.~tn lrct School. Upon his return home he 

~rcrp., JJ~.JIII.v ~!l:.i. ~.wt.t. ,:I:-. surgenn :~l.k'. rctilrn d to the farm aild is now sen- 

H.,..,at hll.;:. Orrmi ~r$,i upr~fr(1Gra~- tially a farmer. Whlle this is true he has 

WBU ii~p. Jlci;ei~e. ~vi;;l; rt-:B hrltri co~.~,~. : hen selected to occupy the responfit~le 

oi .kk.si&e Jum IIIJ: Ilk. ;I,. k . t i xt:vii:~b 

fur .Ark, ~:u~er Phler rl G!ltzr-:.cj. F:e.id .timia;j- ; 

po"-ition of lat Dep~ity in the Sheriff's 

tr~tioa since Suv. 19.:;. >[el>. s'..\.T.C. C:ir Cn. i ofl~ceand be it to h ~s credit, it is said that 

h'o. 11, Car.:p bl~rti~;. TI:I~:~J I;.. ~;~,-SOV. l!llY. 

he is faithful and true in 811 things. Eorn 

cu~~rnvl. 1st It. hirl. ILwr\e. I:iter ~1i.t.; airc*,n 

H.C., C.S.P.11.9. !.L.I!,~v .\..i..i.S.; I::I.III..'uI:. :.I-.!. atlJ reared in the county, acquainted with 

;\en, Fmsthcrri lle.1. .4,73. Ark. i;s.~:e ;inti !i'.ubi is ~~eb~plc, its towns, its crezks, its rdads 

County nt~xI.s;w.s, Acro :!I.!. .!sr~.ni herim kq. 

Put. Ltr~lth ;lsn.. An:. Legi,,u. :i~cw C&, .!;.!:I 

and by-l'aths, knowing it altog~ther, he 

KW~U Iix1111:i. ~ $0. b,%tr~~r~t. Ai:lc~tkt. \!.~n is able to speedily perft,rm his rest nr- 

(;;hr~:~tr). C'ontttr. nn ri~nl. scbjec!~. A~TP~C 

State Cniitol. Little Iit~:k, .irk. duous duc ies to the best advantage. He- 

CaYACSN Xdtlcnd, nrtist: b. N.Y. riw. 

ts y~ ung, handsome, enjoying a fine con- 

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. CRAVE. Froni A19 Virginians during the debatr 

1 Ihc way to the other end ol the 

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sti,tr to do it." Grayson ratify it that the new con- CONGRESSIONAI; BIOG&TIES 

.(lounlv touclles ~ ~ slitution ~ t ~.ould h ma,ke the 

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,li,rolil,a iII,d ynlnessc. in North the dominant power in 

hivest Virginia. 

the Union. 

;tysol~\ras borrl ill 1736 on Folln\\illg its approval, 

Ik,llp rslnlc \,.here Virginia chose both Grayson CRAYSOS, N'illiarn (father of William John Grayson and 

Fisllcr lives ,,.ith his ~rnd Lee as its first senators. uncle of Alexander Dalryn~ple Orr), a Delc~nte and a Senator 

IaIlli~y, (;r;lySoll la!,. Suhwquent fcdernl actions, from Virginia; born in Prince IVilliam County, Va., in 1740; 

f)llnlf,.ic,s in 1774 \vtlich (;rayson fell supported attended the Uciversitv of Pennsylvnnia at Yhi1;rdclphis; pur- 

. fommd a l,,i\iti;r group his enrlicr fears. led him to 

aged dassic31 studies in England, and was graduated fronl the 

I,rincc \villialn, 1 1 ~ later ivritc Patrick Henry that the 

University of Oxiord; studicd law at the Tcmplc in Londo~~; resrr\.c,d 

as nlil,tnry aidc lo So~~lh was now desti~led to 

"tlrc milch COW of the 

turned to Virginia and practiced law in D~tmfrics; during the 

\\'nshin~t:ton. 

, '.l,atcr he serwd in the Unidn." Revolutionary ]Tar n . appointed ~ aide-de-carnp to General 

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I'ontinnll;~l Congress. C;ntyson was the third child Washington August 24, 1776; cornn~i.;~ioned colonel oi a Virginia 

,,cc,,rtlillg to a locally of Bvl~jafrnin Grayson and , regiment January 1, 1777; distinguished himself at the nnttle of . 

prndusccd history of Princ.11 - hfonmouth in 1778; menlbcr of the board of war in 1iSO and 1731; 

f \Yilli;ln~ County, Gravson was 

Mcmbcr of the Contincrrtal Congress ITS-1-1787; dc!egste to thr: 

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. Illc a- Susma Monroe, the aunt of Virginia co~lve:;tiork of 1783 for the aJoptiorr of the Fzdcral Conprohjl)it 

ing slavery in the J"~s RIonroe. HC married stitution, which he opposed; elected to the United States Sennte 

~ ~ ~ l l Territories , , ~ ~ ~ th;, t t Eleanor Small~vood, sister of 

and served from $!arch -1, 1760, until his death in Dunrfrics, Va., 

i. was drsipncd as n cnncession Thonlas friend 

! William Smallwood. hlarch 12, 1790; interment on tile old faniily estate at Belle Air, 

lo Snrtllern sentiment. 

, near Durnfries, Va. 

,rl1i1 is discounlctl . ' I-)escribed as skilled in 

~ ~ ~ I)ictionary i l of , debate. ~ ~ he \vas ~ said ~ to ~ have 

.' American Biography. \vhic.h e~~t'lld "in fascinating GRAYSON, William John (son of Wil,iam Grayson and cousin 

rl:lims that qrayson only manners. in humor, in wit" of Alexander Dnlrvmple Orr), a Representative from South 

approveti of Ihc clause. and "in an almost unrivalled Carolina; born in Rcsufort, S. C., November 2. 1785; pursued 

I . (;r.;lxsnll :~pparcntly was not play of tile intellectual classical studics, and was grnduntcd frorn South Carolinn Col!cge 

; n~otiv;rtctl by antislavery ; poivers." at Columbia in 1809; studied Ixw; \\-as admitted to the bar in 

; f,y,l,ng in \,,hatevc,.;tction he lie died xt Dumfrics during 

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look. tic irl'ole lo james ' the second session of 1822 and cornrnenced practice in fieaufort, S. C.; n~rrnber of the 

State house of reprcsentativcs 1822--126; served ir: tkc State 

hlo,lroc>, :3 fc~~o\v Virginian. (:o"grC". 

. tllat tlo to it 10 prevent "He was a relatively major 

senatc 182G-15331; elected cornnrisainncr ill equity for Bcariiort 

.. ..tol,asco al,d illdigo from figure in Virginia history." District in 1631 and reeignctl from the sen~tc; clcctcd as n hi^ 

on north5vest mid 1)r. tlenry \Yard, a , to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congrcsscs (Jlnrct~ 4, 

Ohio" and for 1833-hfarch 3, 1837); collector of customs at Ch~rlcston 

E l from 

\,era1 other political of Richmond August 9, 16-11, to hrch 10, 1S53; retired to his plarltation; was 

Tobacco and indigo 

a frequent contributor to the Southern Qu~rterly Review; died in 

historian. 

have a 

I were crops grown almost probleln, because Newberry, S. C., on October 4, 1663; internlent in Jlagnolia 

esclusively in the South and 

con,parPti to Wasllington and Ce~nctcry, Charleston, S. C. 

much of their cultivation 

Jefferson (both 

. tlcpndcd upon sl;rve labor. 

all 

the rest seem like secondary 

Crityson, along with l.igurcs,q 

liiohard Ilenry I,cc, the great 

Grayson was buried on a 

~randfotllcr of Rolxrt E. Lee, 

Tracking down your ancestors 

hillside overlooking the 

'constilulion. Grayson told .A branch of the firm that publishes the British 

. are single-family 

homes, and the gravesite sits peerage guide has gone into the business of deon 

about 4 acres of land owned signing tours for Americans who want to seek out 

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by the Fishers-all that is left their family origins. So far its services cover 

of. the original 400-acres-plus 

plantation. 

England, all the West 

The county has agreed to European countries and 

I pay for the rcstoraation, but 

most of Eastern Europe. 

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on ihe condition that the lored ancestry tours can 

I public is granted some form of include genealogical 

access to Fisher's land, ac- 

tracings, visits to family 

cording to counl y officials. 

"You just can't go invading 

localities and sites, and 

private property," said Mrs. 

briefings by local his- 

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+ torians. For more inforwhat 

the counly a.an1.s to do." 

She said that if IJisher rejects mation write to Debrett Ancestry Service, 67 

the county's restoration Parchment St., Winchester SO23 8AT, England, or 

I proposal the hislorical groups to Fourways Travel Limited, 950 Third Ave., 

probably will try to build the . New York, N.Y. 10022. 

memorial to Crayson 

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"It's sad that it's taken this I 

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It ::as good to sc.2 so nuc!~ c2 113~ ~Cra:-:-son lineage in the lest issue of 

tl:e c"rra;,%on :;e~rsle,tter, 

on ;laf;c 56 it -siloris John Grajrson ~arried Sally Carter in i::ont~oncry, 

Cour.ty, Virginia arid novcd later to dlabma. 'i'hkir r.!ag;7iage date l::as ict. pi' 23, 1792. 

GnLfonc is ~iescer~dcd fron this couple please Tee1 free to cofitact !-lee 1 ley 

;.;ere ny ~rezt-grcat pmci~arcnts and 1: have done cons id~rable researc2i on their 

fmily. Also on p2~;e 56 it shoxs riillim Grayson r;lzrried l;aclel Conley, Xsr 

WJ.IC yras ;t8chel Cooley. This is born out bl DAR records. ~JSO on ;xip 56 

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27. Deed Book D. Sept. 28, 1750. William Grayson witnessed a 

Power of Attorney. 

28. Deed Book E. June 3, 1752. James Stevens of St. Geo. Par., 

Spts. Co., ldanter, and Alice, his wife, late relict and lerntee of Ambrose 

Greshan (Grayson), late of Par. and county nfsd., Planter, Decd,, 

to Thomas Turner of sme Pzr. and county, Gentl. 35 pounds curr. Deed 

of lease. The plantation whereon the sd. hbrose dwelt and 200 a. in the 

par. and county afsd. Witnesses, Thomas Phcredie, John Dent, George 

James, Richcrd x Turriley. Augt. 4, 1752. 

29. Deed Book E. June 24, 1753. Thomas Turner of King Geo. Co,, 

Gent., and Thorns Turner, the younger, of Spts. Co., Gent., and Ihry, 

his wife, to fiancis Taliaferro of Spts. Co., Gent. 1150 pounds ster. 

500 a. in Spts. Co., near adjoining the sd. Taliaferro, part of a tract 

sold by Wm. Smith, late of Abingdon Par., Gloucester Co., unto John Gayson, 

late of Christ Church Par., hncnster Co., Decd. , as by dseds, in 

General Court, April 22, 1714, which sd. land descended to Thorns Grayson, 

late of Deal, in Kent Co., in Great Britain, from his father, the 

sd. John Grayson, Decd., who died intestate, znd was by the sd. Thow 

Grayson conveyed to the sd. Thomas Turner of King Geo. Co., Gent., as by 

Deeds, Jany. 27, 1727. Witnesses, Rd. Brooke, Edward Dixon, Jmes Tutt, 

Robt. Brooke, jr,; Hy. Brooke, jr.; Jo-h Catlett, Lawrence Taliaferro. 

July 3, 1753 

30. Dead Book E. July 2, 1754. Phrtin x True of St. Geo. Par., 

Spts. Go., and Sarah, his wife, to James Ball of Christ Church Par., 

tancaster Co., Gent. 35 pounds curr. 331 a. oh l~hssaponnsx Swamp, in 

Spts. Co., conveyed by John Grayson and Bar7:ary, his wife, to sd. True, 

as by indenture dated Oct. 2, 1750. Witnesses, John Ballandine, 2mes 

Pollard, Jas . Glendining. July 2, 1754. 

31. hed Book G. Sept. 4, 1766. Glilliam Grayson of Sptn. Co. 

to Henry Allison of ;Jhitehaven, bkrcht. 13 pounds 7s. 10d- Curr. 

Hortga&e. Goods and Chttels 

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Feby. 4, 1767. 

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deed of gift. 

33. Deed Book K, Aug. 23, 17E32. Benj. Grayson was a witness 

to a deed by Peter 2-tuye of Culpeper Co. 

GRAYSON FAMILY aF VIRGINTA 

(The ampleto King report is4 in v.2 NO. 4: pp;'. 4-7 skipped hero* 1 

lu'GlT,: The following is a report fron George Harrison Sanford 

King, certified Genealogist of fiedericksburg, Tla., to Dorothy Ford 

Wulfsck in 1969. :&. King unquestionably has done more research on 

and analysis of the Grayson family than anyone. 

It appears from the Lancaster County, Virginia kecords, John 

Grayson was living in that county shortly after 1700. The name + has 

been spelt Grayson, Grasson, Graison, Grasison, and apparently even 

Greshan, This report is not an exhaustive study of dl these records, 

but to ascertain the parcntcge of lJilliam Crayson (1732-1829) of Spotsylvania 

and Albemarle Counties, Virginia. 

he: Abstrects of Lxncaster Co. 'h, Wills 1653-1600 p. 123, 

cites from WB#10, p. 41 the will of Andrew Jackson (16 -1710j, minister 

of Christ Ch~zch Parish by which, among other things, he bequeathed 

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aHi~tarical Register of Virginians in the Revolution: Soldiers, 

Sailors, Ehines, 1775-1783'' by John H. Gwathy, 1938. 

Grayson, Robert, Me WD. Of Spotsylvania, E, 

Grayson, Spence, Chaplain Grayson's Reg,, May 1777; retired 

Ape 22, 1779; died 1798, 

Grayson, Thamas, 3 CL. 

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Grayson, William, Assistant Secretary to General Washington 

June 21, 1776; Lieut. Colonel ad Aide-de-Camp to General Washing- 

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to@ Aug, 2&, 1776; Colonel one of the sixteen Additional Regimen* 

Jan, 11, 1777; retired Apr, 22, 1779; Corumissioner of the Board 

of War Dec. 7, 1779; resigned Sept. 10, 1781; died Ymch 12, 

1790. Awarded 6,666 and 926 acres, 

Grayson, William, CJaptain, Albemarle Ml. I 

WD \.Jar Depmtmnt bas his record 

1%. Virginia 14ilitia 

E. Listed by Eckenrode 

3 CL 3rd Regiment of the Continental Line 

"History of the Lower Shenandoah Valleyff: Counties of Frederick, 

Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke) edited by J.E. Norris. 1890. 

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W. F, Fhrbchinson, surgeon dentist, was born in Page 

county, Va, , 1856, son of Philip and Clorinda Ann Rutchinson. 

His mother was the daughter of Col. A. F. Grayson, lieutenantcolonel 

of the Elnety-seventh Regiment of the line in the Seventh 

Brigade, Third Division of Virginia Militia, being commissioned 

lieubnant-colonel Thy 1, 1852; was over sixty at the bredking out 

of the War, but went as volunteer; was division-ad jutant for scme 

time until eaptured one night while on leave of absence at his 

home near ~ ~ k ~ ~ iPage l l Co., e , Va., by the Federals, )le then 

withdrew from the Arq. 

aEstorical Southern Families," Vol, IX by John Bennett Boddie, 

1965. 

Robert Black Doveny was b, 4/1u1773, in Rutherf ord 

Co,, N.C. I3e evidently m, Sussanah Grpyson who was listed in 

&on Devenyls Bible record as be 5/25/1777. In the 1810 Census 

of Rutherf ord Co., N.C., ~oseph Grayson and his w32e were listed, 

both over age 45, and in the 1820 Census, Joseph Grayson an3 

Benjamin Grayson, both age 26 - 45 were listed, Sussanah wao 

probably the dau, of the older Joseph Grqon, as thia was the 

name of one of her sons, and the sister of the younger Joseph 

an3 Benjamin Grayson, as the name Benjamin was also introduced 

into the Deveny family, Robert Deveny appears to have left 

Rutherford Co., by 1810, but he was still living in N-C. in 1818 

when his aon, Robert Black Deveqy, Jr., was born. Robert Deveqy 

had the following children: Jane, m. a Bracket; William; Jenkins; 

Joseph G., in Rutherford Co., in 1840; Benjamin, in Rutherford Go., 

in It340 and 18%; Aaron J.,; Sarah, m, a Pruet; Robert Black 

Devergr, Jr., be 12/25/1&18, in N,C,, (of whom later) , Robert 

Deveny, Sr ,, was a flanter and he d. before 1854. A list of his

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prmd in 1842, in Rutherford Co,, N.C. 

"Landmarks of 0.d Prince William: A stlady of origins in Northern 

Virginia, " by Fairf ax .Xarrison. 1924. 

p, 151 Catesby Cocke and Benjamin Grayson, earliest 

speculators in Loudoun lands, folluwed (1731) with &rants on the 

head waters of Lhestone. 

p.156. Footnota 37, Benjamin Grayson, who voted at bhe 

Prince William election in 1741 (Boogher, 117) was one of the earliest 

of the Scots merchants to be established on Quantico, where Dumfries 

was to wise, for there, in 1736, was born his well known son, ~lillim. 

The latter, after brilliant service as colonel of a regbent of the 

line in the Continental army and subsequently ih the Continent21 

Congress, was the first Senator to represent Virginia in the Congress 

of the United States. Dying in 1790, he left a reputation which, 

says Grigsby, 'may fray fill one of the brightest pages in our 

annals (See Virginia Convention of 1783, i, 194). Grayson County 

was named for him in 1793, 

p. 402. In January., 1762, John Ballendim snd Benjamin 

Grayson entered into a partnership fox the manufacturing of wheat 

and baking of bread at or near the falls of Occaquan. 

p, 664. 1788. CARWCROUG9. Record: bning, xii, 684. 

Description: 50 acres of land lying on the south side of the mouth 

of Quantico creek and on Potowmack river in the county of Prince 

William, the property of WiUoughby Tebbs , Trustees : Cuthbert 

Bullit%, liilliam Carr; John I-Iedges, Spence Grayson, John Linton, 

William Linton, William Grayson, Burr Harrison, John Cannon. 

p, 668, 11313. UNION. Records: Acts, 1812-13, ch. 69, 

p, 98, Description: 20 acres of land at the village called ancl 

known by the name of Union in the county of Loudoun. Trustees: 

William Bronaugh, Benjamin Grayaon, William Harned, William H, Handr. 

"Upper County Zstary," by Ralph Pavers Green, Part I I, p, 80. 

Travers Cooke, son of John, m. Ivlary, dau. of lbtbam 

Doniphan, and hd Col. John Cooke, of"Uest Farms,"Stafford, who m. 

Mary Thompson, dau, of George I~Lzson, of "Gunston &ill." fillion, 

dau. of Col, Jno. Cooke, of "IJfest Fnnns,' m. Hon, John iJ. Green, of 

Culpeper, of the Virginia Court of Appeals, and had Jno, Cooke, m, 

Morton; Thamns Claiborne, m, JkDonald; Jas. 1Jilliams, me hkDonald; 

George Yuon rn. 1 st. Ashby, 2nd. Lockwood; and Lucy bJilliam, died 

single, 

Sarah lhon, dau. of Col. John Cooke, of "West Farms, m. 

Is t Cay Selden; 2nd Dr. Robert 0, Grayson, by wham she had John 

Cooke Grayson, of Stevensburg, Culpeper county, ard Robert 0- Grayson, 

of Culpeper,

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Iktoaka, and her Descedants ," by William 

Roberia on. 1856 p. 42. . Robert Ho Grayson, son of U.S. Senator William 

* Grayson, ma Sophoniba E, Cabell, son of Cola Joseph Cabel and 

Pocahontas Rebecca Bolling, sixth in descent from Pocahontas and 

John Rolfe. They had 10 children: 4. sons and 6 daughters, 

"Tho Register of Ovelwharton Parish, Staff ord County, Virginia, 

172+1758,11 compiled by George I-larrison Sanford King. 

pa 216. Hkjm Peter kdgman (circa 1700-1765) and 

lbgaret llauzy (1702-1754), his wifo, had three sons to live to 

maturity, vizz 

(1) William Hedgman (1732-1765) died without issue. By their 

last wills and Testaments both he and his father disinherited their 

only heir, John Hedm (1758-1796), and bequeathed their handaoare 

estates to others. 

(2) George Hedgman (1734-1760) married on November 27, 7756 

Hannah Ball Daniel (1737-1829), daughter of Peter Daniel, Gentleman, 

(1706-177), also a vestryman in Overwharton Parish, Their only 

child was John Hedm (1758-1796); he married Catherine Grayson, 

dalgh-ber of the Reverend bk. Spence Grayson (1734-1798)) rector of 

Dettingan P ~ish, Prince lJilliam County, and left issue. Hannah 

Ball (~aniel) kdgman married secondly on Nuch 12, 1765 Gilson 

Foote, Gentleman (1736-1770) of Fauquier County ard thirdly, John 

wdg. (17 -179~1 of Staff ord CouFj.tg. The above account will corredt 

several errors in Virginia. Genealogies, page 303, by the Reverend 

Mr. Horace E. -den. 

pa 221. Alice Strother (~ovember 30, 1732-December , 

1795) wried on December 16 1756 Robert IIashington, Gentleman, 

(~anuarg. 25, 1730-cimq 1800j of Woodstock, Saint Paul's Pnrish, 

Sml;afford County, son of Townshend and El-izabeth (~und) Washington 

of Green 1~11,- saint Paul's Parish, This couple had several children 

among whom was Lund \lashington (1767-1 553), postmastar of Washington, 

D.C., to whom we are indebted for a most informative fanily manuscript 

mitten about 1848 in which he records many gened.ogical facts 

of several Staff ord County families which would otherwise have been 

lost, I& married first on February 11, 1793 Susanna blonroe Crayon 

May 29, 1768- April 20, 1822), daughter of the Reverend I&, Spence 

Grayson (173&179E50, and seconCUy on AprU 11, 1323, Sally Johnson 

(October 9, 1797-August 15, 1971 ), daughter of John Johnson of 

Worchsster County, 1.hryland. Lund Washington left issue by both 

wives; he and some other members of his family are buried in the 

Congressional Cemetery, tlas hington, D .C , 

p. 224. Travers Cooke, Gentleman, (m 1~30-1759) was 

the only son of John Coolto, Esq., (died 1733) and Zliaabeth Trqvcrs, 

his wife, mentioned on page 223. fb lived but two years after the 

Completion of dquia Church, having married on February 26, 1754, Nmy 

Doniphan (1737-1781), daughter of NoGt Doniphan, Gentleman, also a 

vestryman in Overwharton Parish. Mzry (~oni~han) Cooke married 

decondly on October 13, 1762 Colonel William Bronough (1730-1800) 

and had iosue seven children,

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GRAYSON- G ENUOGY NEWSLETTER VQL 2 NO .. 6 .,. Page 111 

Thanks to Mrs. Underwood for another informative and interesting 

letter included in the present issue, In answer, the sources 

for page 99 axe on,page 98. Mrs, Underwood traces the lineage 

of D%. Cars Travers, Grayson; by chance, in the current issue 

I give the families related to Dr. Grayson in the course of 

presnting Benjamin Grayson of Fort Doda e, Iowa, on whom I had 

on file ssme nice biograpliles and clippings, Jdrs. Soden, of 

DesMoines was the one who suggested that I run1 the eenjamin 

Grayson material, in that she recently sent handwritten o:opies 

of the biographies, The family group sheets. of Benjamin Grayson 

and related people are done by my son Daniel G-, of N.Y. 

If you have sent in mate~ial which you do not see in prdnt yet, 

* lease wait: there will be room in future issues& Note to Dr.. 

Richard Grayson of Selrnat we have files on the family and 1-ineagc 

of Rev, Spence Grayson, your ancestori Do y,ou nae&any of it3 

Also, who- wrote thk old family chart you sent I have one. like 

it5 will publish, it later, 

Mrs*.Cynthia Snyder of Eripping.Springs:, Tex, hopes to write a. 

book abouk the Graysons:; she sends her genaalogyr-; Cynthia EfUdge 

Sniaer 1919;; 

~rtie- Jewel A3t;ema.n b, 1897 ;: Cynthia Sarah1 Lauella 

Grayson b+. 1865; George William Grayson b. 1.830;: George Grayson 

b, 1797;. John Grays.oni(md Sarah Carter) b il)i79; John Graysona 

(ma Barbara Wdyne) b 17431; Ambrose Grayson (md Alice)b c.a 1700: 

John Grays~n 7 of Christ ChurcM, Va. 

Clifford- Grayson reports: a town of Grayson, Ala,, popo 500, in 

Winston-county, If this is confirmed, it will be the 18ih Gragson. 

place name recorded( in the Newsletter to dated Cliff will research 

this placer After wlmt Grayson was it named 

Four.~rnore pages of the Wulfeck Grayson collection are printed 

in the current issue,,originally pages 12-15. The total in the 

.manuscript is 27, so abouts.3 more issues will give you the loto 

EmestX. Grayson, son of Clay Grayson, whose ancestorris Jack Gray 

wn probably of the Rutherford county, N.C,, clan, has writtan 

and joined, bur group. He is superintendant of schools inJ 

Louisville, Ky. + There are now 31 member s... 

I found the following spellings in the Chicago 1976 telephone 

d;ircctorprt (How many more can you find.,,send them in.) Graesen, 

Grawn,,Gration, Grayston, Graziam, Grcasham, Grecian, Greeson,. 

Gresen, Gresens, Gresham, Greys.on,.Grk~om, Grisham,,Grison, 

Gxhssom, Grlsson, Grition,


Many thanks t o Mrs. Davidson of Burlay, Idaho, for her letter 

and her 1850 Grayson census which she so carefully typed, I'm 

sure this will be a valuable reference tool for a11 of usbo. We 

will be happy to obtain the 1850 Miss. and Calif. indexes also. 

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In this. letter is a 1974 paper from a corresponden%; Harold Rollins:, 

about the Ruthcrford county Grayson clan. Note that he gives evldence ( 

that the clan cane from Virginia, Can anyone suggest a clue as to 

where In Va. or to which Va. Grayaon family 

Ms..Robin Bandy writes that she has been asked to identify - Sarah H 

Frayson of Va, who md. Major Wa. Martin of Marylan&; aht Wm GMartin: 

bc ca 1775 mdl Sarah MlOhia; Caleb Martin md Mary Greeno Ms. Bandy also 

reports an a Grayson Graveyard near Oakland, Warren m., Ky.: N,J.. 

Gra son 7/16#1834- 12/16/1899; C.A,. Grayson. his wife, 6/10/18537 

- 6 8 . H*JJe. Grayson 9/25/1880-10/5/1905. Ang cduesl 

goward Grayson writes that there were Creek Indian Grassons in the 

Confederate Armyjin the civil war, lnaluding Eli. Jim, & Johnson 

Grayaon of the 1st Creek Mounted Vol. of Arko Howard also writes that 

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that his grandfather attended a murder trial in 1877 in which 2 Negro 

parolina and Peter Grayson were convicted of murder at Ft. Smith, ArkS 

It seems to me that I had heard before that thcrc were a lot of 

Indian Graysons in Western Tonn. at one time. I 

Cheryl Grasson reports that Grayson Stadium in Savannah, Ga, was name 

4: 

for~hcr grandfather's-1st cousin William L. Grayson, son of Edward 

Puriley Grayson, William Grayson:b. 1870 d. 1941 had 6 children: Spc,, 

Lynnc,.Dorothye, Leon, Edith, and Wiliiam Morris. Spencc is. Jude 

Sponce MI Grayson, 208 American Blds , Savannah, age cao 80 who told 

Cheryl they are descended from the Va, Grayaon lina. not^ t-o Cherylr I 

have not heard from Bob Str~beck. 

- Ruthcrford Coo, N.C. Grays,ons again; from 8 1976 letter from Milea 

Philbock, 612 Chateau Apts, Chapel Hill, N.C. r Joseph Grayson was I 

~robabls from Va,s "based on the fact that his dawhter Susanna 

bEmineyis child!, in 1880 said Susanna was born in a in 1777r8' Ernest; 

C. Grayson note this: MAmong a number of Meltonfs who movedrto 

ford- o., N.C.. from Albemarle co,, Va., . were Daniel Meltr~n, Daniel's i 

sister Sarah, and Sarah's husband and 1st cousin John W&lton. Daniepa 

daughter Lettics 3ones.Mcltnn married Joseph Grayson, j r b John 

and., Sarah's daughters; Hannah Melton and Mary Melton married Benjamin I 

&d Isaac Grayson, rasp. Daniel Molton~s daughtex Mary married John-! 

M. Grayson, son of Benjamin and Hannah.!' (Ernest C. Grayson's- ancesta 

Jack Grayson of Ky. married a Melton and came from N.C. . or S.C. ) 

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2 of the ,ci*sons on this Daze. fo.brosc Gra;son (um~.rried) TiZS t:ls son of 

Gloy~e ..illLo~ Grz*rson and 2nd :iiic Julia A. ( c i s ) Ldier C-rq-son. 

George 1 o n I S the son of Cicorge ail Cytl~in (~~n2.h) PI I m,aon. 

Gcre. 'jrq-son 7;:z.s the son of Jo!~ and Smah (C~.rter j r2:-son. .rw crrlio- 

-cncrotio:ls !lave b:cn fully covcrcd. Gcor~e Cr~:~.;-son -;;cs nzr ~rcct-grr.nt'Lcthcr's 

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(iua1:>ros rl 3'4-son) brother. 

Also 011 pc. is ;i&iral (!~ocior) Czr7 T'r~~vers Grayson, ncraon2l j;~sici-n 

o",resb .,'oodro;r .,:ilson. T;:z.s t:lc son of Dr. John coo!:^ i~ra;~so&,(doctor in 

..~ .. 

1 2 ) Ir. Joln Cool:e (ira~7son-~i.s the soil of -, ik. :.o'ort Cs3orne 

Grajson 2nd r-ilc Amah (l..nnon) Sclden

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P.O. Box 314 

~urley,Idaho, 83318 

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Dear Dr. Graysonr 

I have typsd up 5 pages of the 1850 census index on the surname of I 

Grayson and Grason. I decided I had better type themup as it might be ;'L' 

legal to xerox the pages and send them out. So suit yourself. 

But I did xerox you a copy of the pages I took them from. In addition I 

am sending a page of the marked census index we have in our library. 

However, If there are any you would like on the list, we do not have, I can 

get them the next time I go to Salt Lake, They do have them all. However 

I couldn't do that for everyone, as My time when I go for a day is limited to 

research, Several of us go for a day, and It is 200 miles, and I usually 

have many goals set to accomplish. 

I am also sending the 1820 index to Va, The 1850 index to Texas, but we do 

not have the book which gives the counSty, I have however put in to our library 

to get the book put out by the Bountiful group. So maybe before long we will 

have it. 

For your help. I am sending the 1800 N,C, 

sent this before. 

census, I am not sure, but I think I 

I am a professional geneagolist, so my time has to be put in first with my 

patrons, But I will help where I can. 

I do hope this will help others. I note we do not have Mississippi 1850 index. 

Hopefully soon we will have that. It might give answers to others, 

The 1850 Census to California, is Alphabetical by counties, If I get time, 

I will go thru them and abstract the Graysons, That also me be of help, 

but it will be a job, 

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NORTH CAROLINA - 1850- 

David Grason. .............Guilford 4-44 Northern 

David Grason...~~.~,....,.A1amance 035 South d2. 

Jonathan Grason. ..........Gullford 428 Northern 

William C, Grason....~~..~Ruthe~ord 288 Whitesid

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ALABAMA - 1850- County, 

A Grayson ............Choctaw 

George Grayson .e...,l...rDallas 

George Grayson.. .........Madison 

James G, Grayson.,.,.....Madison 

James W. Grayson,.,......Flaren@;o 

L.M. Grayson. ..........,Flacon 

Nancy Grayson,. .)Tadison 

......... 

Nepoleon B . Grayson, .,. ,);adison 

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Oliver G. Grayson ..Marengo 

Ralph Grayson .,,,........Sumter 

5. G. Grayson.. ........Wilcox 

W,B. Grayson............Maxengo 

twp. 

no twp lispd 

Pence Be 

District 

District 

No tq 1. 

District 

District 

District 

NO TWP Lo 

Panevil 

No twp I. 

NO t ~p 1. 

ARKANSAS - 1850- 

Jessee G'rason ,,.,,,..,..Scott 160 Boon twp 

Kartha Grason....,......,Scott 156 Boon twp. 

Abraham Grayson .......,..Crawfod 309 

Adam Grayson. .....,.....St. Francis 078 

Alfred Grayson....,.,....I~Iississippi 343 

Daniel Grayson ........... Ye11 43 

H~gh Grag son ............Green 193 

Isaac Grayson. .Crawford 306 

James Grayson ............ Ouachib 053 

Sane Grayson....,.,....,.Green 194 

Jeremiah Grayson,..,., ... Crawford 309 

Lewis Grayson.......,.,..Pope 277 

Richard Grayson..,.,,.,..Cra~rford 309 

Wyatt Graysan...,..,..,..Conway 238 

Jane C. Greason .,,.,,,.Johnson 14-6 

Illinois 1850- 

Achsah A, Grayson ...Gallatin 390 Sha 

.... 

Ben jamin D . Grayson. ..... 410 

Joseph Grayson. ..........Gallatin 406 

Mary P. Grayson...,....,,Edwards 

249 

Sarah J. Grayson.,,,...,.Wabash 42 8 

Sophia J, Grayson ..,,,.. Wabash 433 

Upper tw . 

Franks To 

Canadian 

Dardenel 

Powell T, 

Upper twp. 

La Fayett. 

Powell T. 

Upper Tw. 

No twp 1. 

Upper tu. 

Washingt . 

Piney tw. 

Alfred Grayson ..,,,,,,..Lawrence 

Benjamin Grayson...,...,.Lawence 

Benjamin Graj.son.........Decatur 

Catherine Grayson....,...Lawrence 

Hemy Grayson....,.......Jenni~s 

John Grayson. ............Lawrence 

Joseph Grayson.........,,Decatw 

Larew Grayson .,.....,...Clark 

Nancy Grayson ...........,Clark 

Sandford Grayson.,..,....Decatm 

Wren Grayson.......,.....Decatur 

Wren Grayson...,,,.,...,.Decatur 

457 Perry t. 

404 Shaw 

155 Sand cre e k 

393 Shawswic 

294 Geneva T. 

446 Pleasant 

155 Sand Cre 

150 Jefferson 

150 Jefferson 

155 Sand Cree 

144. Sand Cree 

155 sand Cre.

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James M. Grayson...,.,...Montgomery 090 394th dist 

John L. Grayson gray son chat 278 # 13 Dist 

Thomas Grayson, ......... .Carroll 055 11th div 

Thomas Grayson,.,.,,,,,..Carro11 055 11th div 

IOWA 1850- 

Henry Grayson ........... Jackson 34-0 Fairf ield 

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KENTUCKY - 1850- 

Daniel Grayson 

Henderson 

District 

Elizabeth Grayson, ....... Jefferson 

Louisville 

George Grayson.......,,.,IIason 

District 

James Grayson....,......~Bracken 

No twp 1, 

Jane Grayson,....~....,..Frad~1in 

District 

Jane Grayson.....,,......Bal"ren 

Division 

John Grayson,, ...........Bracken 

No twp 1. 

John Grayson.. ..........,Fleming 

Division 

John Grayson.,.......,,,.Jefferson 

Louisville 

John Gr~yson.. 

..,..Logan 

District 

John Grayson., ..........,Lewis 

District 

John H. Grayson,....,...,Flemi~ 

Division 

Mary E. Grayson. 

Fayette 

District 

Michael Grayson. .........Jefferson 

Louisville 

Richard Grayson. .........Bracken 

No twp 1. 

Sally Grayson. . ........ 

, .Jeff exson 

Louisville 

Samuel Grayson........,..Henderson 

District 

Sophonesba Gray~on..~....Henderson 

Henderson 

Th~mas Grayson. ..........Bracken 

No tnp 1. 

Thomas H. Grayson. ....... No twp 1, 

William Grayson. .........Edmondson 

No twp 1. 

William Grayson,, ,. ,,,. ,Henderson 

District 

William Grayson ......... Henderson 

District 

William J. Grayson.,....,Logan 

District 

Te Dm G~ayson..~......,,Kenton 

Covington 

Erfianuel Grazson..,~,,,,,~Jefferson 200 Louisville 

MISSOURI- 1850- 

.......... 

........ 

B. . C~ayson.........St.Francois 159 Beirg BO 

Benjamin Grayson, ........Marion 278 Palmyra 

Edward Gra~son..,,,......Lafayette 153 Being 4.6 

George W. Grayson.,,,,,,,Platte 390 Preston 

Thomas Grayson. ..........Lincoln 413 49th dis, 

Benjamin Grason.. .,,.....st ,~ouis 011 St, ~ouis 

Edward Grason. .Lafayette 167 

Benjamin Grayson. St ,~ouis 138 St ,Louis

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SOUTH CAROLINA - 1850- 

St ,Phil 

Barnard B, Grayson...,....Williamsburg 161 William 

William Grayson. .......... Williamsburg 127 William 

Alice Grayson.. .......... .Charleston 305 

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William Grayson. , J., Jr., . .3eaufort 012 St.Hellen. 

Hannah Grason. .......... .McFIinn 

Henry Grason.. ...........,Marion 

James W.14. Grason..~,.,...Johnson 

Rebeca Grason.,......,....Johnson 

William Grason...,....,,..Marion 

William Grason....,......Monroe 

.......... 

Horatio Grayson....,.,...,Lincoln 

Joseph Grayson. 

.l"IcMinn 

Martha Grayson.,......,...f1arion 

Pleasant Grayson, ........,I;larion 

William J. Grayson,......,Henry 

William Grayson 

Monroe 

VIRGINIA 1850- 

......... 

k .... 

. Alexander ,Grayson.,........ 

Stafford 

Alexander Grayson, ... ,Alexandria 

America 14. Grayson, 

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.......Russell 

Anmy E, Grayson,.,..,,.,..Fauquier 

Andrew F. Grayson,........Page 

Ann Grayson. 

I Ann Grayson, ..............Loudoun 

Ann Grayson......,...,....Rapphannock 

Armfstead Grayson, ........ Fauquier 

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Adeline Grayson .,.....Ki ng George 

Benjamin Grayson...,..,,..Loudofun 

Benjamin F . Gxayson, , . , , , .Page 

......... 

Spotsylvania 

Catharine Grayson. ........ Fauquier 

Charles Grayson. .~oudoun 

Crockett Grayson........,.P3aski 

Daniel Grayson.. .........Warren 

Emma J . Grayson, ..........Pr. William 

Felix Grayson.. 

Jitchie 

Francis Grayson ........... I)r.Wj.lliam 

Franklin Grayson,.......,.Smyth 

Frederick W.S, Grayson..,.Fauquler 

George Grayson. ...........Warren 

George W. Grayson, ........Rappahsnnock 

Hamiett Grayson........,,Spotsylvania 

Henry M. Grayson....,...,.Greene 

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Horace W. Grayson.. .......Madison 

J. C. Grayson......,,..Rockbridge 

James Grayson. ........... 

.Pr.Jilliam 

James Grayson. ............ Wythe 

James Gra~son....,......,,Spotsylvania 

James Grayson,. .......... 3potsylvania 

James W. Crayson,...,,,...Madison 

23rd Sub. 

2nd Dist 

9th civil 

9th civil 

2nd Dist 

4th Civil. 

1st Sub 

23rd Sub 

3rd Dist 

3rd Dist 

8th Civil 

4th civil- 

224 King Geo. 

0% Eastern 

398 AZexandr 

324 9th Dis 

208 Ashby Di. 

281 49th Dis, 

374 Eastern 

217 No t~rp 1, 

121 No twp 1. 

304 304 Turners 

309 No tw-p 1. 

315 49th dis 

259 Ashby Di. 

204, No tw-p 1, 

257 48th dis 

029 69th dis 

59 Notwpl 

211 Western 

140 Notw-pl. 

167 District 

Turners 

69th dis 

No twp 1 

F'rederic 

No twp I. 

No'twp 1 

Lexington 

No tHp 1 

68th dis 

eastern 

Eastern d 

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Joel Grayson..............Page 295 

John Grayson. .Loudoun 169 

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John Grayson .............. King George 208 

John Grayson....... ..... AGeorge 220 

John Grayson..............Pr.William 137 

John Grayson Wythe 340 

............. 

John Grayson, Staff ord 01 6 

John Grayson..... ......... Hampshire 208 

John B. Grayson...........Pr,Wm, 155 

John M, Grayson...........Fauquier 206 

Joseph Grayson. ...........Loudoun 247 

Lewis Grayson.............Fauquier 259 

Lucy Grayson. Shenandoah 085 

Lurana Grayson.........,,,Hampshire 252 

Margaxe t Grayson, ......... Hampshire 262 

Martha Grayson. ........... Loudoun 199 

Martha Grayson Russel 230 

Mary Grayson. .............Pr. Wm, 160 

Mary Grayson, .............Fauquier 242 

Mary Grayson............,,Hampshire 21.5 

Matilda Grayson...........Culpeper 266 

Matthew W. Grayson ....,...Stafford 009 

Minor Gra~son...........,,Fauquier 262 

Nancy Gmyson.,.,.........Fauquier 262 

Rachel Grayson...,........~ythe 330 

Rady H. Grayson, ..........Alebmaxle 252 

Randolph Grayson, ......... Wythe 317 

Raymond Grayson. ..........Hampshire 197 

.......... 

Reuben Grayson............Hampshire 213 

Robert Grayson. .Augusta 309 

Samuel Grayson. ..........,Loudoun 174 

Samuel Grayson.. ..........wood 107 

Sarah Gra~son....,,.......stafford 017 

Sarah Grayson. .~auquier 240 

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Sarah M. Grayson.......,.,Alexandria 387 

Susan Grayson. .......... .vood -149 

Susan J. Grayson...,...,..Alexandria 334 

Thomas Grayson....,..,...,AlPemdrle 252 

Thornas Grayson, ........... ~taffard 018 

......... 

Thomas Grayson..,.,.,.....CuZpeper 269 

Thomas Grayson.. .Madison 080 

Watt Grayson.. ............Alexandria 397 

William Grayson. .Hampshire 213 

William Grayson. .......... Culpeper 280 

William Grayson. .........,Montgomery 025 

William Grayson, stafford 022 

.......... 

William Grayson.. ......... stafford 023 

William Grayson. .......... Wythe 331 

William D. Grayson........Albemarle 250 

William F. Grayson.....,.,Page 296 

Winney Grayson. ...........F'rederick 236 

49th dis 

No twp 1 

King Geo. 

King Geo 

no twp 1 

68th dis 

Eastern 

District 

No twp 1 

Ashby Di. 

No twp 1. 

Ashby di 

58th dis 

District. 

District 

No twp 1 

9th dist. 

no twp 1 

Ashby di. 

District 

No twp 1 

Eastern 

Ashby di. 

Ashby dl. 

68th dis 

No twp 1 

68th Dis. 

District 

District 

2nd Dist, 

No twp 1 

65th dis. 

Eastern 

Ashby die 

Alexandr 

65th Dis. 

Alexandr 

no twp 1 

eastern 

No tq 1, 

no twp 1 

Aleicandr 

District 

Fairf ax 

4lst dist 

Eastern 

eastern 

68th dis 

no twp 1 

49th Dist 

16th ~ist,

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2506 Cherokee Lane 

Winston-Salem, 

5 May 1974 

Thank you for your informative letter re the Grayson family of 

N*C., Tenn. and west. 

The progenitor of my line, Joseph Grayson (b ca 1750), received 

a land grant in Rutherford County, K.C. on the North Fork of the 

First Broad Ri ~ e at r the Burke County line In 1773. Presumably, 

it was entered prbor to that time. Later census returA~u i~dicate 

that his children were born in Virginia. 

In the next 27 years, Joseph received six additional land grants 

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and purchased six other tracts of land totalling well over 1,000 

acres, all located in tho present Golden Valley Community in the 

South Mountains of Rutherford County* 

Nothing is known of Joseph Grayson's wife who apparently died 

I prior to 1807. On Dec. 17th of that year, Joseph married again, 

this time to Rachel Van Zmdt, a spinster of advanced middle age, 

He died, intestate, in Rutherford County sometime after 1810* 

I Probably, he is buried in the old Grayson family cemetery which is 

' now the site of First Broad Baptist Church* 

Estate proceedings of the widow Rachel Graysan provide the only 

proof of some of the children of Joseph Grayson, a11 by his first 

wife or wives. They were (not in order)r 

1. Joseph Jr. m 1807 Lettuce J, blelton. Moved to Henderson Co,, 

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Kentucky . 

2. Isaac m 1807 Mary (Polly) Melton. Died in Rutherford Go. in 

1843. 

I 3. Benjamin rn Anna hielton and d 1843 in Rutherford County. 

4, W8lliam m 1807 Susannah Logan and d 1841 in Rutherford County. 

5. Elizabeth m Wm. F. Whitesides znd d in Rutherford County. 

6 a Susan (~usannah) b 25 Ivlay 1777 m Robert Black Dcvinney & went 

to Georgia. 

Isham Grayson who sued the other heirs of Joseph Grayson in 1815 

apparently was another. He did not live in Rutherford County* A 

I John Grayson who appears once in the early Rutherford records may 

have been another. Probably, there were more. 

While the names of the children of Wren Grayson arc suggestive of 

I a familial connection, I have no evidence and no opinion on the 

matter. If you find any evidence connecting the two lines or any 

mention of Joseph Grayson in Virginia, I would like to know. 

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Incidentally, Joseph Grayson's grandchildren of record had the 

common family names--Joseph, John, Benjamin, William, Susan, Elizabeth, 

Sarah and Ivlary, there being several of each name, 

I hope this helps.

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Hamilton Counties,, Iowa; Clarke Pub1 Co. 19028 pp 503,504,352-3: 

ENJANIN GRA'L'SOS,a proli~inelitnlld 

eaterprisi~ig citizet~ of Fort Dodge, is a 

nntiva of Virginin, liavirlg been born in 

Londoon Connty, thnt Stnte, October !27,1833. 

IIe wns ed~tcnted at a ~nntbemntiml school 

at Alesandria, then ono of the most noted 

, scl!ools of the kind in the country. His intention, 

nfter completing llis education was 

to enter the coast survey, bt~t instead accepted 

a position as civil engineer in the construction 

of tho Unnnibnl (O: St. Jo Itoilrond. 

In 1854 lie mmo to Ioma in tlicintcrests of the 

c~pitalists ot' Bnlti mom, and after remnining 

at Ilcs Noines about three months, the land 

ofiice at Fort Dodge was established, wllen 

Nr. Grayson came to this piace, as affording 

betrer f;tcilitics for operations ill real estate, 

niiicll 118s been his chief occupntion since 

tlirrt time. During tlie \mr Nr. Qrayson 

wns Assistntlt Payrnost.er ill tlie nrnly with 

l~eildqunrterfin New York City. Pew lueu 

ate living in Fort Dodgo who bemmo idcntificd 

with tlic to~v:i as early as Nr. Gr~yson, 

tllc date of his settlement being October 1, 

1856, since which titne he has taken an 

I active iuterest in tho progress .lid growth 

of the place. He is n n~nri of c~iltare, and 

possesses natt~ml nbility in a liigll degrce. 

His brother, Dr. F. S. Qrnyson, is also a 

prominent ~ild respected citizen of Fort 

Dodge.. 

Atlloilg the oltl n~ztl hollorctl cesidet~ts 

of Fort 1)t~lgc is r~i~uibcrctl L:ctijn~lii~i Grayson. 

\\-110 is n il;\tive oi the nl(l l)l,~iiiliio:l, 

his birtll 11ovi11g cwclrrrcll in Loutlouti 

cou~lty. I'irgillin. October 27. 1S33. I Iis 

parents \\-ere Richnrcl 0. atill l[nrgnrct 

(Fitztiugli) Graysoll, imtli rel)rc-+ctit;~ti\~es 

of cdd antl clistiuguishcrt ianiilics oi tllat 

state. Tlie father, wi~o \\-as n Inrgc larillo\\fncr, 

dictl ill Virginia, when nbot~t fartv 

years of age, and tllc motl~cr ~vllcn iortyotle. 

In tllcir fa~nill- \\-crc SIX ch;'rlrcti, 

~~al~rcly : Anlt. wife of Ct~lo~iel Fitz, -711, 

of Staut~ton. \'irgitiia: Mary, wife t,i .c\-. 

E. 11. 11~1rI~\v, \\'asttir~gt~d, 11. C. : Be11 ;' 

jamitr. our sitl~iwt: T. F.. n resitlc~rt 01 

Fort Dotlge: 1iic.Ii;trct 0.. \vho \\-as killed 

ill the Civil war: and IIclcn. \vlia dicd ill 

irl inttcy. 

T11e sul)jc.ct of this review \\.as grill- 

~.,,~riI;; rearctl ant1 etlttcatctl ill his native' 

cuultty. He ntte~t(lccl all ac;~rlc.niy at I,ce>burg, 

\-irgitii;t. :iti(l it150 tlic ~li~~ll~~ititti~~l 

SCI~OLII at .\lcsa~itlria. that state, ~vllcrc IN 

took n ccmrse ill ~ilathc~iiatics aurl civil ctigi~iccring. 

Leavi~ig hnlne in IV.;~, at tllc 

age of t\vcnty )cars. Ilc \lent to llicsouri. 

antl at St. 1,ouis bccniiic ctxiiicctc~l \\.it11 n 

civil c~~gi~~ccr \\-III> Ilntl ill cli:ir:,.c tlir coustruction 

of tile Tia~i~ltl~nl & St. -1o.sc1111 Railroatl. 

n~itl n-lttl i1l11~)irttetl Jlr. C;ra!-sc>n ns 

stil~eriiitc~t~lc~~t oi tlic builcling nf tllc :-oad 

alnitg- :-lie li1.3t t\\.c~~ty-fii.~ 11lilcs e;lst oi St. 

Jose~li. 1Ic \).as thus c.iill~lo~-ccl until the sus- 

~)CIISI~III of tile ~vork. \\,lien Iic CJIIIC' to Fort 

D~lgct. Oct~jbcr 

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I. 1s: j. as a ctvrl cngltxer 

in locating larirl \~at.mrlts. We also acted 

as .gait ior several castcrn lnrlcl agencies, 

and is tchtla~ \\-ell k~to\\.it arnollg tlie estcnsivr. 

latitl o\\-ucrs of lawn. 

011 t l 27t11 ~ of October. 1Sj8. 111.. 

Gm!.so~i ~nnrsietl Al iss Kantiie S. IZllutlcs. 

al tialive of Loutluun colinty. Virginia, 

anc. .L tlnuglitcr 01' Captaiin H. 11. Rhvdrs. 

of the ~'llitecl Stntcs 113vy. lie\\- t1ccr;rsed. 

Qf*the eight cliiltlrell born of tl~is utii~w, 

four are still livilig. ~iamcl~: AIarion, n 

resident of I-Iartfcxtl, Con~tecticut : Iticilard, 

;L lunibert~inn of Seattle. \\*nshington: 

arid Bcr~jarnin atid Robert. both residcuts 

of Des ;\loi~ies. Io\\-a. 

\Yi,en Mr. Gtil~son camc to Fort 

q)dge there \\.as iiclt n settletllcnt I)et\\-een 

-1% city and Sious City. and tltosc early 

days \\-ere frai1,n;lit I\ it11 cotisideral~lc pionccr 

c.iperiencc. I Ic served as assistant 

payn1:rster ill the IQtlcrnl nrliiy for a time, 

retitrlli~~g to Fort Dmlgc ill 1864. sillce 

svliiclt tii~ie Ile I1n.s ~icitlc Itis Ilomr ol~itlterruptetll~. 

Ilcrc. Flc was ~nadc a JIaso~t in 

1858. being the tirst lnan initiated into the 

lodge a: fl~is plnct.. Religiously Ile is a 

nlenllx-r of the El)isccyxl cliurcl~. 3Ir. 

Cimn!son Iia.; ~ttndc for ItinlscIi all ho~lorahtc 

rc~.ortl in I)rlsiricss, as n citizcn. irielid arid 

~~eigfilnlr IIC is truc lo cvcry tluty. nucl justly 

lllcrits tlle cstccln in \\-liicli lie is Iield.

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'$2 a day for privates wEo-*marched 

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to S~irit Lalie after '57 massacre I 

continge~lt~the State of Iowa, and hencelo€ March, and ranged above thelto the Committee on ~1; 

Dodge/you will observe that all not!average prices for that seasonlw i t h the other vor 

made ancharged to the general coni-in 1857. You n1.y rememberherewith submitted, PI 

expedition .to spirit Lake aftwimittee are charged to the State.lthat that month was very in- doubtlessly before thp 

news of a $massacre there bylThese bills and vouchers thus)clement, that the roads wereln~itlee wha the bit 

a hand-of Sioux Indians led by approved should be regarded aslobstruct~d with snow andlreferred to was prep 

Chief Inkpndutah. Several of the jsatisfactory evidence that the tranrportatinn a l m n r t imn-reportrd to the Y 

volunteers died during theiarticles charged were acrually I have already called~Representativer. The < 

expedition from the severity of furnished to and received by thelyour attention to the thoroughlthat bill as certified ' 

the winter storms on the volunteers. -Each is in fact a!scrutiny to which these billsjevidence of the estii 

prairie. 

receipt executed by the officerlhave been subjected; it is onlyupoll these claims 

Following is a copy oi theldesiignated for that duty by the necessary to add that those whoistale of Iowa prop 

,application made to the state!volunteers. 

thus examined them were menithem out of her o 

of Iowa for reimbursement for1 But, secondly, these claimsffamiliar with the subject, andj~ou will learn by ! 

'supplies furnished and forlare fortified by additionallthnt the examination was nladeiof the Secretary 

services rendered in the ex-;evidence. Although the corn-;before any provision had beenibut for the lache 

pedition. 

TO-Hon. W. .T. Cullen, 

Superintendent Etc. 

State of Iowa 

Sir: 

.Lmissary was not acting underlmade for their payment by thelof a clerical qf 

a comnlissioi~ from the general government. (would today be . 

Governor of Iowa, his cer- Permit me to add by way(and these clair 

tificates or receipts have been of conclusion under this head,/be~n paid to t 

treated as valid by both the that nearly all of the claimants,a~king their ai 

Governor and Legislature of were poor frontiers men, ~h~lgeneral gover 

Application is llercby made inithat State. At the last session surrendered the provisions thatithat the origin 

bphalf of the persons herein-lo! ,the Iowa Legislature thesethey had been enahled by thelbe f0~11d in 

named, for the paymenl,l)llls and vouchers were sub-/most rigid economy'to put in Secretary of ' 

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names respectively, viz: 

1.H. A. Cramer 

2. John Shippy 

3. ~ostwlck a Fostcr 

4. W. Clark 

5. W. R. Miller 

6. Rhaderick Smith 

7. A. 5. White 

8. Walter C. Wilson 

9. David Rlack 

10. Lalman Wiltsev 

11..M. W. Hovrland 

12. Jeremiah Evens 

13. Robertson & Bartin 

11. G. W. McClore 

15. A. R. Tillis 

16. Thomas A. Reid 

17. Jahn Shaffner 

1s. Harrls Hoover 

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His proposal: law partnership' 

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began to talk of going to Pike's peak4 

where the great esciternent for gold 

had beco~ne the cry of the day. 

"Through November and 

Decernber 1 did as I had intended. I 

thought hlollie began to love rnp. She 

knew better than to try to coquette 

me. She would kiss m &rs Bthn rind 

&kJ%t I should%nve resented any 

of her fondling kindness if it had been 

extended and she knetv it. 1 did not 

intend to be led on and she kne\r9 it. 

About the first of 1)ccenlber'. I cannot 

state the day of the ivcck but think it 

was Monday. I proposed to go into a 

law partnership. g~ving her half the 

profits arid I doing tne work. She 

made me no reply.. 

"I thcn thought she \t40uld refuse 

me, and was preparing for it. I called 

at the time fixed for 3 reply, and she 

never mentioned the suhject to me in 

any manner whatsoever. I went away 

with a sad heart. She treated me very 

kindly. 1 thought she rather pitied 

me. Of course, I shunned pity and her 

kindr]ess to me I was in my mind 

preparing to turn into mockcry. when 

on thc 14th of Ilecember. 1858, I 

received her polite note stating that 

she knew 1 could niakc her happy and 

she thot~ght she could make mc happy 

- all she asked was for me to obta~n 

her father's consent. 

"1 received the note from my clerk 

my dear Alollie 

"I had used no endearing terms to 

hrr. I had never given her good cause 

to tliink I loved her until I had boltfly 

spoken to her in plain English. I then 

lovcd her as 1 had ne\'er lovcd her 

before. I had not cooixd her w~tlr i 

flo\vers and orcsents. 1 had acted 

manly, exccpi by the weakness of 

loi0e I had been held to her like the 

needle to the polc. or magnet. . 

"Such was the history of my 

courtship witti my dear !tlollie, whom 

I expect to be my wife, to share my 

joys and for a.hom mag I ialtvays hive 

a thousand good thoughts lor her 

irclfare to one for myself ... for whom 

may I redouble my exertion to be 

grcat and good. wise and true and by , 

God's blessing if ice will hear the 

prayer of a wicked man. I pray that I 

may bc to her an ever faithful friend. 

guarding I1er as a tender flo\ver from 

the frosts of .life, a loving kind 

hnsbnnd and one worthy 01 her brave 

heart. vivid, ch;istc love and true 

spirit. God help her and me for her. 

"1 have written by the foregoing 

chapter in my life for the eyes of no 

one ... for myselfonly. 1 have on:^ two 

fears iri this life. One is that hlollie 

will be but short lived, as she is a 

summer blossorn and another is thal I 

shall not willfully - l~urt her 

dccply, neglect to do my duty and . 

that some silent hour she will weep 

over my hard heart. God is my judge 

that I do not rear that L sh:111 do this 

intentionally - no. never! I only fear 

nly thoughtless nature. 

"I believe that my dear Mollie will 

try to please me. ant1 look to our 

mutual interests. I havc no doubt of 

this. tler temper is quick and I have 

o~ily lo guard my okn, as I am ocfrom 

the P.O. from W.W. White 

casionally fool enough to get mad, 

(publisher of the Sentinel). Several 

which is simply a kind of insanity or 

persons were in the office at thc time 

lun;~cy, just as fatal as any other. Not 

1 read the note. I had too much 

that persons should ncver have 

discretion to let any of them skc my 

f~leling but that they should never 

feelings. I put the notc in my pocket 

havc anything like madness, as 

and as soon as possible called to see 

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dangerous in mankind as in the 

canine spccies. wherq it generally 

.One of the sons of Andrew Jackson proves quite fatal." 

Azcltine was William Wallace, born Five months later on May 11,' 

Sept. 1.5, lll(i8. in Crundy County, 1859, John F. Uuncombe and Mary A. 

Iowa. He married Ella Spry- \i'illi;!rns wprr niarrir '(, !!!r ~.~ZOI! 

Hathaway March 6, 1895. 

were born seven children: William 

Ohe ol" the dkljidlbrs m' .tb E.:' Charles F., publisher of the 

marriage was Clara E:lizahcth born. Chron~k~l~ and a onetime mayor of 

Jan. '22; 1'308. Clara married John Fort Dodge; Mary J., wril. crrcJ!.S 

Hardcastle in 1!J27 and their children Sen. \V. S. Kenyon; Gertrude; and 

are Jack W.. born Dcc. 28. 1939, and John A. 

Barbara Kay. born Oct. 6. 19:Ia. 

Duncombe died Aug. 2,1902. 

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1860 Census; Fort Dodge, .* 

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The only child to survive infancy of Travers and Efiary (~oniphah) 

Cooke was Colonel John Cooke (1755-1 819) who married on November 

18, 1784, Mary Thomson I%son, daughter of the Ronorable bbrge 

Pason (1725-1792) of Gunston HaJ$. Colonel Cooke was possessed 

of a very handsome estate including Ylarlborough which acqubcd 

from the Bbrcera. Colonel and Mrs. Cooke had a lorge family of children 

but I will mention only their daughter Smah Ikson Cooke (1791- 

1861 ) who, as the widow of Wilson Cary Selden (1772-1822) of 

Salvington, mied secondly on llrrrch 15, 1825 her cousin Doctor 

Robert &borne Grays on (1789-1 841 ), grandson of Colonel William 

Bronough (1730-1800) a& I4zu-y Doniphan, his second wife, mentioned 

on page 220. Their son was Doctor John Cooke Grayson (1832-1 E74) 

of Salubria, Cd.pepe~ County and he was the father of the late 

Ad&& Gary Travers Grayson (1876-193$), personal plqysician of -'..ci2:li 

President Woodrow Wilson and president of the American Red Cross. 

"Abstract of Wills and Inventories , Fairfax County, Virginia, 

17@--1801, by J. Estelle Stewart mng. 

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W I Y Book A. Will of French Ekson, proven 18 Xov., 

1748. (Excerpt) "To qy youngest son the remaining Mf of my I.2 

land including the plantation rented to Thomas Xonteith and that 

.. rented to 1Zr. Ben Grayson on which %he mill now is ., 

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Will Book E. \Jill of bnis Ellzey, dated 1 kt., 1786; 

proven 19 Dec., 1786. Sons: \iiLTiam (to have land in Loudoun 

County), William. Daughters : Elixabe th if e of Willian: &cock), 

&my (widmr of William iJes t), Thowin (), Sarah (wife of William 

Turner), Patience (wife of Thomas ~grd), Stac (her first husband 

was Burgess Berfley - second Benjamin Grayson T . Stacy Grqson 

four youngest children: Benjamin, Susan, Sara and Ann. Grandson: 

Lewis Ellzey. Sibyl Seck (dau, by second wife), E h . son William. 

W U Book G. Will of Peter Wagner. Dated 21 April, 

* 1795; proven 1,5 bhy, 1795. Wife: Sinah. Sons : Beverley Robinson 

Wagner and Peter Wagner. Daughters: Sinah, fkry Eliza (nm I 

suppose wife of a ~ert3in~~IJilliam Grayson"), Ann, Sally, Sarah. k s , 

wife, son Beverly R, ruxl George Ileneale ("my assistant clerk"), 3' 

Father-in-law Col. Daniel 14cCarty. 

nhmls of Southwest Virgini~,~ by Lewis Preston Summers. 

p. 64.0, The report of IJilliam PkXiLlen, James Bane and 

Robert &Gee the persons appointed Lo view the way from Ptichael 

Prices field to where Greslzams path goes into the Catawba rod 

being returned on considerction trhereof it is the opinion of the 

Court that the new road be opened es marked by the viewers, and that 

Philip Barriger with Robert Grsyson, William EIclELlen, Robert tlcGee , 

Robert Ritche, John Crinor, Jlickl Lake, George Feilder, John Ramy, 

h o n Cook, Joseph ikDonald, Jacob Sejler, James Bane, Wm. Preston, 

Sfichael Price nnd Jacob Smith, crnci their Tithables or any other who 

may settle within his Bounds do open and keep the aame in Rep& 

q3 , accmdi% to Fincastle Counw, 

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pa 835. William Trigg sworn and admitted a Deputy Surveyor 

of fbddow Creek and running into the Plne Spur Road about a I 

mile east of James Cornute Is on the head of the f dl branch. It 

is ordered that William Grayson, Jonathan Elswick, Thomas liallet 

and WilliatP La~~son or my three of then being first sworn do view I 

the ground proposed for a road agreeable to the aforementioned 

petition and make report thereof to court, (1bntganery county) 

p, 861. Nov. 4, 1795, Edward Rutledge, William Wallace, 

James Hoge and William Grayson appointed overseers of the road. Daniel 

Hotre qualified as Sheriff. Adam Soucler appointed overseer of 

the poor. John Crow appointed overseer of the road. Ibnry Binhamin 

granted leave to build a water grist mill on his own land on Plumb 

Creek. Jacob Benjamin, John Charlton, WiLliam Taylor appointed 

overseers of the road, James Hoge and Uilliam Graysob qualified 

tp overseers of the poor. Samuel Tlancil appointed overseer of the 

road. David Cloyd qualified aylkputy Surveyor. (14ontgomery ~ o u n ~ ) 

p, 863. April 6, 1796, William Grayson qualified as 

Overseer of the Poor, Frederick Smith fined for not serving as 

a Grand Juror. Patthias Crum exempted from payment of County levies 

and poor rates. Robert Xing qualified as Overseer of the Poor. C 

Charles IWadden bound to John Klng . Job Preston qualified as 

Lieut. Col., Commandant of a Regiment of Artillery, 3rd Division. 

(Ibntgcmery County. ) 

July 21, 1784. 1iilli.m Grayson bought 100 dres on Little 

River Branch of Woods River for L 300 from Henry Skeggs and My, 

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his wife. (bntgomcry County) 

nl.lontgmery County, Virginia - Circa 1790," by Netti Scbreiner- 

Panti8 . 

Pa 33 

1789 Person charged W h i k males White nkles 

with taxes over 21 years 16 fo 21; yeass Slaves bses I 

Mar, 30 Grayson, William Grayson, William 0 0 7 

1790 

gb, 21, Gra-, Robert Gri$som, Robert 0 0 6 

Mar, 7 Grayson, John Grayson, Jobn 1 3 8 

p. 49. John Bell -- 50 acres on Little River adjacent to William 

Grayson. 25 &y 1785. 

p. 95. &oh 30, 1789. (Litgle River and Clapboard creek) 

Thomas ~lles Vm, rays son: Philip Hogen, John Shilling, (m-these 

names in List M of i.fontgomery County 1792/93; b--this name in Tax 

List B of Wythe County in 1793) 

p. 100. February 24 .,. 

(Tams and Stroubles creek3 ) 

Gaspr ~ari~er' , Philip 8arigero, John 131ackc, Samuel ~addap, 

Robert Gpys on, Wm. ~ e c " Andrew ~ Illartin, Bcs tonolkrtin, Bryan 

&Donald , John I

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Creek) John Grayaonm, others included, (m-this name appears in 

List M of 14ontgomex-y County 1792/93. ) 

*Guardians Bonds of Albenarle County, Virginia, 1783-1 852, " compiled 

and Rzblished by M y Catharine bkpby. 

p. 4, Loose Bonds. Orphanr John TerrU; Parent: Reubin 

Terrill; Dab: 'I 1 Dec., 1788; Security: William Grayson; Guardian: 

John Wood; Amount of Bond: 1,000 pounds, 

p. 40. Loose Bonds. Orphan: Patsy Grayson; Parents 

Thomas Grayson; Date: 7 Sept., 2812; Security: William Wood; 

Guardian: Joseph Field; Amount of Bond: $1,000. 

p. 43. Loose Bonds, Orphan: Sarah Grayson; Parent: 

Thomas Grapon; Date t 6 Sept., 1813; Security: Benjamin Martin, 

John Wood; Guardian: Rdph H. Field; Amount of Bond: $1,500. 

p. 182. Bond Book 111. Orphan: Ehry fiances Grayson; 

Parent: Joseph Grayson; Date 1 kt., 1849; Securityr Thomas H. 

Grayson, John Grayson; Guardian: GJilliam D. Grayson; Amount of Bord: 

$3,000. 

* Cad Churches, Mniaters and Families of Virginia, Vol. If, by 

Bishop Williarn Zkade, 

p. 62, Letitia Breckenridge, dau, of Attorney General 

John and rky(Cabell) Breckenridge, m. (1) Senator William Grayson. 

p. 72. Among the vestrymdn of St. George's Parish, 

Spotsylvania Co., sere William Grayson and Ambrose Grayson. 

p, 206, - Grayson is listed as a Justice of the Peace 

in Stafford Co. 

p, 213, In 1784, the Rev, Spnce Grayson was chosen minister 

of Dettingen Parish, Prince Glillim County. 

p) 273. In the years 1773, 1774 and 1778, the Rev, Spence 

Grayson was the minister,. .. ., 

(Cameron Parish, Loudon county). 

p, 276. Benjamin Grayson was a vestryman in Cameron Parish, 

Loudon Co., scmetime after 1777, 

p, 435. Among the signers of the resolutions of the patriots 

of the Nmthern Neck of Virginia in the year 2765 were William Grayson, 

aArchi~ of the Pioneers of ~azewell County, Virginia,# Transcribed 

an3 edited by Netti Schreiner-Yantis. 

Will Book I, page 280, ' John Grayson was a purchaser at 

the sale of the estate of Catharina Suiter. Dec. 1828. 

Deed Book 4, page 171. John Grayson of Washington Co,, 

Va,, in a deed. 1827. 

Deed Book 8, pages 203, 236. John and Agnes Grayson of 

Washington Co., Va., in two deeds. 1844,

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@Tb Virginia Genealogist, * a qquarbrly edited by John Frederick Darm. 

Vol.lfT, p, 117. 1800 'Pax List of Albemarle Co,, Va, 

Thomas Grapon, estate. 0 Bthable, ti harse. 

John Grayson, 1 tithiable, 4 horses, 

William Grayson. 1 tithable, 6 horses, 

p. 143. Query 272. CATlXI"I'. Reuben Catlett who died testate 

in Caroline Co., Va., 1794 was same Reuben Catlett who was son of John 

Catlett 111 arvE wife Nary Grayson of St. Mary's Pariah, Caroline Co, 

Can anyone prove or disprove this statement Hugh H. IIankins, Route 3, 

Lamsnceburg, I@. 

Vol, IV. p, 35, The Virginia Gazette, 14 June, 1780, Charles 

Washington, escheator, advertises forfeited estates fa sale in Spobylvania 

Co,: John Graysonta 300 acres on Fall Hill about three miles 

from Fredericksburg, the greater part uncleared, with buildings, 

Notes from the Journal of John Ikrcer, John Hede;man 

(175&11796 Po m'"* 

i e d Catherine Grapon, daughter of the Rev. Spence 

Grayson, and left iaaus, 

Vol, VIII, p. 133, British Mercantile CTLaims. 1775-1803, 

William Grayson, Fairf ax, 3 pounds 4 shjllin~rp, due 10 bug. 1773. 

D i d about fifteen yenra agor 1eQt s lrree eeta-be, though involved, 

Val, X, p, 122, Botetourt Co. TXthables : 1770-1771, includes 

John Grayaon 3. 

p, lBO GRAYSON. Wish information on Capt. William Grayson's 

son John, believed born in Spotsylvanisl Co,, Va. Who was his wife 

John's son John Jefferson Grayson born 26 Nov., 1789, Klbemarle Co., 

Va,, did I4 AprQ 1862, Logan Coo, YC,, married Susanna Britt. 

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Efrs, John J. Banchi, 200 Hazzard St,, Warren, Ariz. 85642, 

POI, XIX, p. 140. SUT.mLAm - COUNCIL. WaUd like to 

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of Ubomarle Co., Va. Known children: Joseph and Susan, Joseph died 

1801, Albemarle Co., Va. Would like to know parents of Jesse CouncKl 

(born 1734-5, Va,; died before 1840, Knax Co, , Tenn.) who lived in 

N,C,, went to Xnox Co,, Tenn,, before 1800, His wife wm Elizabeth -* 

Mrs. Frank C, Beard, 1201 W. Taylcur, Lovington, N, hx. 88260, I 

Vo;b. W, p. 33. George Chilton, in 1762, was listed as over- 

eeer Benjamin Grayson's quarter at tbe buntaim in Laudaun County. 

p. 203. British Mercantile Cldms, 177+1802. p. 55. 

Willlm Grayson, Albemwle, L 14,16,1& by account. He is lidng in 

Albemmle and has always been willing and able to pag his debts. Just 

before the commencement of the war he pdd Richard Anderson, factor af 

the claimants, a hogshead bf tobacco which amounted to more than the 

debt, but Mr, Anderson not findim it convenient to pay him the dSffer- 

ence returned the tobacco and left the account open. 

pay the debt out of his present crop of wheat, 

CRANGE COUNTX. Will Book 2 

I% says he will 

p. 43. Payment made to Robert Grayson. 3 Nov., 1745, in 

settlement of account of William Crosthwait,. 

p, 44, John Grayson was one of the appraisers of estate of 

Satuuell James. (WB2, pp 201-02) Feb. 1755. 

pp, 2211222, Inventory of eatate of John Grayson. 28 Aw., 

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Mrs,.Irene Gragsan Tait of Florida states that she has 

verified there is no PxSnce William Pasisl~~ in S.C.. IgThc 

%.C1. line came through the factr that one of the mothers 

had been born there an& returned later with her childrsrrl 

after they had been born in Mrginia.tt ,*,,,,the plot thickens; 

for thoso of you who have been follow in^ the S,C, Graysons, 

you will recall that the current theory is that there were 

two SoC. Grayssn lines and that both came from overseas and not 

from Virginia, Mrs. Tait; we axe all awaiting eagerly for your 

evidence, (refer to page 91, Vol. 2*,Nor so..) (Also see letter p,3.35, 

Contcnts of this issue: u z : K y , hr~mGxtznta--, frcm Howard E, 

Gxayeon ; lJ+-b;: Fdrntmso*n.on omnections nnd query from Hr 

Mi t o he 11; JJ-= ~ i . C ~ ~ . s e a f r = on qDS r L W ~ i c PLBCI*~ 

Gray~~n of Selma, Also who is descended fro10 Rev,.Spericc Momse 

Graymn of BaL. Aim through Spence Wantsop G r a ; y ~ ~ ' f i r , b,. 1812 and 

C3aud.e Gray~~ni b. 1857 at Auburn, Ala* ; 145-6s. A nice Lettar 

fron Mrs, Underwood, wlth all the 1850 %'~X&S~~.~,W$ PZ a-m. i147: . 

a: nice letter fron Clif Grayson with 1690 Tenn, c$z-$LL_l~ns vet:: 

14-8-13: 3 more pages from the 27 page WuLfcalc manuscr~n-l;. 

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Below Is a list of 3974 gr~fcsso~~ f ram the Nat.kona.1 Frrc..ult:g 

DirecLory, ltrs. Soden of 5535 M,W.. 4th Co~xrt, DCR MOPYIC.~~ 

IOI~ selids out the Grayson- 

As:: oof.~,t; on CCq.x$.ge Elaina , 

would you mail to this list If any af you ],ant cards for a list 

or mnt Mrs, Scden to mail to a list, foe1 free to negotifitc 

with her dircct;ly, The list was kindJy sent by] Howard E.. Gray~un, 

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THE KEN'1'IICL;Y LATiD GMi!TS 

by Willard Rouse Jillson 

Published by Genealogical Pliblishing &., Inc. 

Bal timorc, Mcryland 1971 

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Grayson, \An. 400 10 69 178!~-3-15 Jef icrson 

Grayson, Pr~jn~in 600 13 27 1785-3-7 Fayc t Le 

Grayson, 3enjamj.n 6,212 13 118 1785-3-15 Fayette 

Grayson, Penjar~in 1,400 13 120 1785-3-7 Pa~yctte 

Paye 3 79- Old 1;en-Lucky Grants - -- 

Grayson, Ifill ia111 70,000 5 110 1785-12-2 Fayette 

Grayson, \tu. 12,000 6 57 1736-[+-I7 Faycttc 

Grnyson, ~tn. 10,000 6 98 1785-11-15 Fayettc 

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Grayson, 14.1, 1,500 15 561 1735-1-6 Plili-tar: 

Gray son, !h. 1,500 15 562 1785-1-20 Eli1 i tary 

Crnyson, lh. , lleirs 1,500 16 111 1785-5-23 liilitnl-y 

Grayson, ;l~. , 1Te.i.r~ 665 16 112 1386-6-13 tiilitary 

Graysc~n, l:h., lleirs 1,500 16 114 1795-5-LL bIi1 itary 

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Crays ~n, :a. 15,455 17 157 1309-3-6 Gal 1 atin 

Grayson, Co. Court 230 18 68 1812-7-3 llendcrson I 

Grayson, Co. Court 320 13 69 1812-7-8 Hertderson 

Grayson, Cn. Court 3,000 18 117 1812-11-27 Union 

Gray sot1 iicndcryr 119 19 334 1812-7-8 IIenderson 

Gray son Scninary 201 19 362 1821-7-3 Un i ~ ~ n 

-- Pa~e 316- Grants South of Green River - 

Grayson, 11.h. 200 2 331 1804-8-30 Log an 

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Dear Dr. Grayson-- 

Enclosed please find check for No. 6 of Grayson Bulletin and also 

advance payment for nest issue. 1 hope there w i l l be many more, 

I because, as yet, I have not had one clue that would link my Lrayson 

line to that of any of your contributors. I would like ta correspond 

with any of the 31 msmbers who might be in Tennessee or Indiana, for 

I surely, surelyk one of them has an Edmondson or Edrnonson in their 

family tree if we ran just shake him down! With at least three Grayson- 

Edmondson marriages in Knsx Co. Tenn. and one in Talbot Co. Maryland, 

whose descsndents later migrated to Tenn. and then to Indiana, I can 

I not believe that there =re not several living descendents of these 

four unions. I can furnish updated information cn the Francis Edrnonson- 

Jane Grayson branch if anyone is connected. 

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ago, and you have printed it in the Bulletin, but possibly some nf the 

new mambers have not seen


MARYLAND: 

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Thomas Edmondson, son of John Edmondson, Tred H.aven, Talbot Co. Md., 

was born ca. 1679 and died 1719, On June 7, 1699, he married Mary 

Graysan(Grasum, Greason) in Talbot Co. Md. Mary was the widow of 

Robert Grayson, presumably from Talbot to. also. I have searched 

in vain for Robert's w i l l , but Mary Grayson Edmondson's w i l l was dated 

May 11, 1742, and probated, Talbot Co. Md. on June 11, 1742 naming 

Daniel Powell and Richard Ewbanks as Sureties. Mary's w i l l mentions 

the following Graysons(Greasons) who were, presumably children or I 

grandchildren of Robert Grayson, her first husband: 

Elizabeth 

Edrnund 

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Joshua 

Mary had at least two daughters by her second husband, Thomas Edmondson: 

Ann. who married John Tibbalds and had at least, one son 1 

Sarah, who married Dennis Hopkins and had at least two children: 

Francis and Elizabeth 

Also, in my searching through Talbot Co. Maryland records, I found the 

following: 

Joshua Grason married Sarah Johnson 6/20/1730 

Elira Greason married Thomas Carslake 2/3/1743 

Sarah Greason married Ralph Alst,3n(Elston) 6/12/1739 

Sarah Graysan married Michael Botfield July, 1746 

George Grayson listed in 1790 census 

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TENNESSEE: 

9/16/1809 Nancy Grayson married a John Edmundson at Knox Ca. Tenn. 

Samuel Edmundson was Bondsman. This couple migrated to 

Lawrence Lo. Indiana, (I have corresponded with one of theie descendents, 

Burton L. Garten of Indianapolis, Ind., and have sent you 

the information he has, but he does not know who either John's OX 

Nancy's parents were.) 

8/20/1016 Sarah(Sal1y)Grayson and John Edmondson were married by 

Jonathan Ayres, J.P. at Know Co. Tenn. Bondsman John Edrnondson Sr. 

2/3/1020 Jane brayson and Francis Edmondson were married by William 

Morris, J.P. at Know Lo. Tenn. Bondsman John M. Havron 

Now, supposedly, the latter John and Francis Edmondson were two of 

eight children born to Samuel Edmondson(l761-1857)who migrated to 

Tenn. in 1802 and bought 175 acres on 0e:her Creek, about 12 miles 

northwest of Knoxville. Samuel's wife's name was, supposedly, Susannah 

Kemp, but 1 have never found documentary proof of this. Samuel died 

in Knox Co. Tenn. 

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John(1795--1867) and Sarah(ca.1796-) Edrnandson migrated to Lewis Twp. 

Clay Co. Indiana, in 1840, He was a well-known Methodist minister. 

( They had three children that I know of definitely: 

Wesley(lB23-1903) who married Caroline Moss 

Mary(1832-) who married George Puckett 

Susan Jane(1846-) who married Joel Bucklew from Tenn. 

Both John and Sarah Grayson Edrnondson are buried near Jasonville, Ind. 

Clay co. 

I Francis(1802-1685) and Jane Grayson Edmonson lived for a short time 

near the Clinch River in Tenn. before migrating by wagon to Morgan Co. 

Indiana, in 1829. In 1831, they came to Hendricks Co. Ind., where 

( they died and are buried. 

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According to family stories, Jane and Sarah Grayson were sisters, 

and the daughters of one "Big Ben" Grayson of Knox Co. Tennessee, 

who was "sandy haired and had considerable musical abilityvt. No one 

seems to know what Ben's wife's name was, but, again, supposedly, 

before Jane and Sarah left for Indiana, the mother gave each of the 

girls a piece of family furniture to remind them of their Tennessee 

home. Sarah was given a bedstead, and Jane, a cherry bureau. The 

bureau was handed down to my family by Jane, my great-great grandrnott~er. 

Sincerely hope that all of this miscellaneous information w i l l ring 

a bell s0rnek~hr.r~--it's all I have been able to gather after years of 

searching. 

1.310 Flagler Avenue 

Key West, Florida 3'3040 

Fay 3, 1978 


Our pro~enetor was John Grayson, of 

Christ Church Yarish, Lancaster, Va, in 1700. 

HIR father was John Sr, who went back to 1636 

but we have nothing on him except that he exsisted 

in Lancaster, John Jr. was the father 

of Capt. Eeujamin Grayson who married Susanna 

Monroe, grandparents of John William~ of Eelle 

Air, Albermarle, Va. My grandfather was the 

Eon of Con~res~man John Williams Grayson of 

Ala. I will send you all. that 1 have as eoon 

as I'yecieve Rome information from the last 

of our line. 

Proud to he a Grayuon, 

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i'ic all one i.:arie Bvidson a vote of gratitucle for the 189 C'nns~l.scs ;:Idch 

she sent in an(! rere printed last month. I m happy to sa:r t!:at I a! ~bl-e to 

he+ along this line 

Ow libraw here in Lufl;jn, 'i'exas is s:::all but it docs ha.vc a very 

exccll.ent pnealogy collection in its oYdn scaarate room. ii~on_~ the 12211;~ 3-terns 

Ccnsus ol 8:lexns ].us a scyrnte 

volu;ul '~'~hj.ch - is m index to the Ir i,r.~c vo.Lu:x~~. 1% is x,;; bless %ki the 

r;c have is a b volium set of the cqnplete 1~5b 

rcnson this TizS put into bound volmlzs is because the 1C53 Ccnsus is tilt first 

one taken after Texas becmc a state in Jmuary 1046. Texas -~.:E..s voted into 

the United States in 1GL5 but it ;.iasnlt w,tll sometime in January 1Ci!.6 that thq 

Stars ant1 Strk~cs ::as i'irst raised in Texas. For tie bcner"it of those vho 

night dcsire to c!!eck on these boolcs here is tile title, rime of trnnsci-iber, 

publisher 1 s cr4..2 2nd address: 

The State of Texas 

r'ederal I'opula-[;ion Schedules 

Seventh Census of the United States 

13 50 

Transcribed by 

bks. V.1;. Caq~cnter 

Grccnville, biississippi 

PubLishcd by: Century kierpriscs 

P.0. Box 312 

I!u~tsville, Xrl:~.nsas 727h3 

The fol.loiiing cre all the Graysons in Texas in 1859: 

:, 73 To;;. Grajson 41 S. C. hotel I:ceper 

Tabitha Graxson 2 7 iila . rife 

irillim 10 ~ZSS, 

Llicabet!~ fl 5' 'I'm. 

3cn jcmin 11 2 ri L~X. 

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Charles C, 1' 15 

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JUCOGDOCHES CUITY 

,;!372 Jacltson Grayson Ui Vir gida farmer 

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Anna 43 Tennessee ~iif e 

krennn 17 Uabana 

S~nucl If 1s buisiana 

Gcor~e 

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Sarah I I 7 Texas 

i .ary 11 5 Texas 

$339 Charles Grayson 47 Virginia fanner 

Gizabeth 44 11 xXe 

;,ashin~ton" 17 Alabama 

Thornas I I 11 Texas 

~amcs II 8 II 

Navalhe It 6 tt 

#!LOS L;alvha Grayson 19 Tennessee 

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(She ~ias living ~rith the family of S.'ti, Tzte, 27, born in Tennessee 

and ri-ife I.Iartha Tate, 24, born in 'I'ennessce) 

;$I004 liillia;,l Grays on 20 Al~b'ma 

(living rrith fmi2:r of 13,13, wles - 36 - born in S, C. - xiller bj 

occu:jation - viillicm GraJrson cviclenll:~ ~~orkcd for him) 

I ill no~r icicntify 

some of the above: 

1. A.G, Grayson - Leon Co. - full name vms k.Sroso G. Grc;'son - 

he was r.lj peat granrl.fat!lcr - mj- grandfnt!er ~X-S Iicnr-j~ A. (.'mbrose\ 

born 1810 in bhd-ison Co,, klabma. - son 02 John and Sallie (~2.rtcr) 

Grqrson, 13th child arid 1st born in ;~lab=;n;a, ;,arricd Sarah Vann, 

2, Jncl;son 2nd Chsrlcs Vrr~;-son - I!acogdoclcs Co~mty - brothers of 

niy great ~r~,~=~at:er kr~brose G. Grayson. I-wried sisters Am-n 

Uizabeth C I ~ ~ They ~ . -irere in Texas as carly as 1637. 

3. iiillim Grayson - --usk Count;r - son ol Charlzs Gsajson above, 

I have no informatl.~:: coilccrning the others, I hol~e this vill be useful 

to soaeonom zThatls all ior now so ill close. Oh Ires, 1 ahozt f'orgot. cm 

Lay 2b 1 leaving ;or London, ihglznd to take a tour though Lhgla~ld, Scotland, 

ca:.~d ;isles. Checrio J 

Sincerely,

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pp, 312-314. Martha Grayson gave a receipt to settlement of 

estate of fimotly Crosthwait. 26 June, 1761. 


Benjdn 

John 

Robert 

Rev, Spence 

Col, William 

Col* W illiam 

William 

William 

Virginia Taxpayers 1782 

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Alfred, son of Col. William and Eleanor (~dlwood) ; Breckinridge 

of Q. 5120'7 

Alice m. 26 Aug., 174.4, Jam= Stevens. Spotsylvania Co, Mar. 

Record. She was Alice ( ) Grayson, widow of Ambrose, Proven by 

deed, 1752, that county. 

Bmbrose m. bef. 1 Nov., 1726, Alice ( ) James, widow of John, 

who d. bef. 24 bbch, 1725, when William McConico gave bond as admr. of 

his estate, Spotsylvania Co. Records prove the marriage. 

Benjamin, d. 1757; ros. Wesbreland Co.; m. (1) Susan (~usannah) 

Monroe, b. ca 1695; d. 1751, dau. of Andrew) he was her 3rd busband; he 

m. (2).- ( ) Sinton. 5T195, 196; 3W(2)174. (Dl%: Probe the 

widow in ton.) 

Benjamin, b. 6 Nov., 1761, son of Rev. Spence and Mary Elizabeth 

(Wagener); rem. to Ky.; res. Nelson Co., Ky.; m. in Ky., Carolim Taylor. 

5!K!61. 

Beverley Robinson, b, 3 Sept. I=, son of Rev. Spnce and M y 

Elizabeth (Wagener); m. (chew) Bowie of Patuxent River, &I.; rem. to 

Miss. 5'1268. 

Catherine, b. 6 April, 1760, dau. of Rev. Spence and Mary nizabeth 

(Wagener) Grayson; m. John Hedgman of Stafford Co. 5T261. 

Elizabeth m. (1) Thomas Hill, d. 1741 ; m. (2) 17 Pmch, 1743, ~~~ 

Cowne of Spotsylvania Co, 4377173 Elizabeth m. 18 April, 1731, Thorn 

Hill, Spotsylvania Co, Mar. Record. Elizabeth Hill m. I7 March, 1743, 

William Cowne, Spotsylvania Co. Mar. Record. 

Elisabeth, dau. of William (d. 1829, Albemarle CO.); m. Joseph 

Sutherland. Albemarle , p. 214. 

Frances m. 1796, James Elliott, Botetourt Co. Kegley, p. 597. 

&be, dau. of Col. William and Eleanor mallwo wood) m. John Carter 

of budom Co, and Ky. 51207. 

Joseph, son of William, who d. 1829, m. Rhoda White, dau. of Daniel, 

who d. 1818. Albemarle, pp. 214, 343. 

Judith, b. Doc., 1780, dau. of Rev. Spence and Mary Elizabeth 

(Wagener); m, George Walton (or Walter) Lindsay of Colchester, who dm 

1818/9, Washington, D. C, 52'267. 

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Mary, daub of John, m, 20 kt., 1726, John Catlett. Spotsylvania 

Co, Marr Record, He m, bef. 20 kt,, 1706, Elizabeth Taliaferro, dau, 

of John. Proven by Court Records, Essex Co. 1ln3 

garah m. 20 March, 1769, Benjamin Ainsley. Both of Goochland Co. 

Douglas Register, p. 11 

Spence, Minister, b. 1734; dm Dec., 1798, son of Benjamin and 

Susan (bbnroe); m. lilary Elizabeth Wagener, dau. of Dr. Peter, 5T196, 197. 

He, b, 1732, Prince !JiUiam Co, ; m. Mary Elizabeth Vagner. Dm No, 56 009 

Spence, m, 1 f une, 1799, Betsey Bowler. Sur. Thomas Baker. Norfolk 

Co. Mar. Bond. 

Spence bfonroe, b. 17 Pay, 1774; d. 1809, son of Rev. Spence and 

r/by Elizabeth (Wagener); m. - Blount of Alexandria Va. 5T266. 

Susan, dau. of Capt. Giilliam Grayson, (1732-18293, m. Isaac Wood, 

son of Glillfam, Nbemarle, p, 349. She m, (2)- Tomlin. Albemarle, 

PO 214. 

Susan Monroe, b. 29 Y, 1768; d. 1823, dau. of Rev. Spence Gray- 

son and Mary Elizabeth (Wagener) ; m. 11 Feb., 1793, Eund IJashington, b. 

25 Sept., 1767; d. 4 April, 1853, son of Robert and Alice (strother). 

5r263; Ilnlq; 23VlOO; 33~156; 3W(2) 174. 

Susan Ibnroe, dau. of Benjamin and Susannah (Monroe) m. 1761, 

John Grr, b, 25 July, 1726, son of Rev, Alexander Orr of Waterside, 

Dumfrieshire, Scotland and Agnes (Dalrpple) . 4T49; 5T208; 13n5g. 

Their son, Benjamin Grayson Orr, Mayor of Washington D. C., 1811, ma 

- Flood 

Susannah m. 1731, - Linton. Spotsylvania Co. Mar, Record. 

Thomas m. 11 July, 1788, Jenny Field, Spinster. Sur. blilliam 

Buster. Albemarle Co. Mar. Bond. Jane Field was dau. of Robert, who 

d, 1824. fibemarle, p. 194, 

William bought land, 1764, Albzmarle Co,; d. 1829, age 97; m. Ann 

Smith, dau, of Thomas, Albemarle, p. 214. 

William, b. 26 June, 1766; d, 1806, Washington, D. C., son of 

Rev, Spence and Yiy Elizabeth (Wagener); m. his cousin, Mary IJagener. 

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William, Col., b, 1736, Prince William Co. d, 12 hl~ch, 1790, 

DllmFries, Va., aon of Benjamin and Susan (lbnroej; m. Eleanor Smallwood, 

(not ~ebe), ais. of Heabard Smllwood, whose will dated 1778, 

Charles Co., &I., and dau. of Gen. Sdlwood of 5T205, 207; 8T119- 

20. 

"THE BEVEFU,EY FAMILY OF VIRGINIA," by JOHN McGIU 

The R. L. Bryan Corcpady. Columbia, So. Car., 1956 

p. 939. Mary Elizabeth Wagener, d. 1810 'Aashington, D. C,, dau, 

of Peter Wagenex-, Jr., and Catherine (~obinsonj , m. Rev. Spence I4onroe 

Grayson, b, 1734; d. Dec., 1798, Prince >Jilliam Co., Va,, son of Benjamin 

and Susan (bnroe) Grayson of "Belle Air," Prince William Go. 

Rev, Spence Grayson inherited from his father the t'3elle Airn 

mansion and a 1000 acre tract on the Potonac in Prince William Co. He, 

an Word graduate, studied theology in England, was ordained 5-21-1771 

by the Lard Bislzop of London; returning to Virginia he first preached 

in Loudoun Co. and in 17e4 succeeded Ilev. John Scott as Rector of Dettingen 

Parish, Prince William Co. fie was chaplain of bia brother, Col. 

William Grayson's Regiment 5-1777 to 4-1779,

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Children: (dates and descendants are given in this book) 

1. Catherine 9. Anne 

2. Benjamin 10, Thomas 

3. Mary 11. Capt. John Robinson 

4 William 12, J~dith 

5. Susanna Monroe 13. Beverley 

6, Peter 14. Sally 

7. Anne 15. Caroline Sarah Ann 

8. Spence Konroe 

NOTE: This lineage continues for 20 to 30 pages with descendants in 

aone lines down to 1956. 

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WSECOID CENSUS OF KENTUCKY: 18001%y G. Glenn Clif t. 1954 I 

p. 114 Grapon Taxpayers 

Christian County$ Thomas and William 

Logan County: Reubin and Robert 

Mason County: George and Robert 

Nelson County: Benjamin 

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#VIRGINIA REVOLUTIONARY LAND BOUNTY WARRANTS ,* by Samuel I. Wilson 

Col. William Grayson. Warrant No. 1005 For 6666 2/3 acres. 

Served 3 years in Va. Continental Line. Issued June 23, 1783. 

flKF;r!€UCm. RECOFLIEM by &a. 

Grayson) 

William Breckenridge Ardery. 1926. (NO 

3 

mKENTUCICP PIOEBRS AND TlXlR DESCENDBNTSa by Ila Earle Fowler. 19&1- 

p, 29, Christian Co., IQ, Deed Book A, p, 88. 9 June, 1803. I 

Samuel Smyley of Nelson Co., ICy., to David Young of same county for 

$300, 100 acres survey date 15 July 1799, Christian Cob on Little 

River and granted to Sqley (smiley! by Gm. Xnt. Rogers. Jno Camp 

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bell, Tesbtor, Ben Grayson, WIP. A. Rogers, - Jor-b~h, J. P. S. C. 

els son Co. 

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p, 6. W e d Grayson of Washington, Ky., to Ydss Letitia Breckinridge, 

daughter of John Breckinridge of Fayette Co. llarried Oct. 26, 

1804, Announced in the Kentucky Gazette Oct. 20, 1804, 

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GWSOK GENEALOGY NEWSLETTER VIOL. Q': NO.. 8 Page 1 f1 

I am running law on material, so feel free to send! more genealogy 

for the next newsletters.. 

A- Soden postcard answer this May 23rd: from J.. Glenrr: Grayson, Ph:il D.;- 

Gseensfiors College-, Gxeensboro, N.C. t he is the son of Will-iam Albert 

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Gra son, md a Brddges, wlie was the son: of gab. Kenneth Grayson md a 

&who was the son- of Kenneth William Grnyson nd a iplelton and 

lived in Golden Valley;, NaC,, in Butharfard C Q A ~ family tradition^ 

is that either Kmnrth or his father came from I~eletnd.. An interesting 

observation of Drb Grayson is that 30,000 Scats came to NeCe.aftr~r 

the failure of the uprising.in 1745 in SootZwnd, 

There is-.no question that the above Grayaons are from the Rutherford! 

Graywn Clan, I have refiewed the aerticb on pages-. 7&8, Val.". 1 r!; 

Nood.8,,'t3y Kiles Philbcck on this clan, but fird none of the 

above names, Ldo note that, Kenneth, William, Johi and Albert 

are common names, in tne rarticle.'. 

Thanka to J, . OLenn: Grays.on, Howard note : this: is f rcm y o u fa caLy 3isk. 

South Carolina Graymnat 

John Grayson rnarzled- Sarah Wim h . dl 1806 c.gor73 

o-T'EpF West Indies 14 ~py&li 1754 Oraxrid 733 

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Mary ,I Elizabeth Willlem J o h ~ho.rns~:i& G Y R Y ~ ~ . 

m& dx797, : Mary, Bill 

ndl 

MicaeL 

0' Brien. 

VaTdier1 

iDec1785- 

)7 d sari &&&&o&pf3-, Gr ku%aC 

~miotm era eon 

bl5Docl794 

-lzmE& 

Maryy Susan-* b 1 June1 736 

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The above chart is a summary of Information from Mrs. Qmthip 

mydex kindly sent this month and agrees wlthmaterial on plge 91 

Val. 2,. nov. Mrs. Snyder gives as references Bsuf ort coat. SIC.. 

marriage and death not3cese4 

j&r. Snyder has a quergt Who was the Robert Grayson and who mas the 

J~hn Gray~orr who lived in,Montgonery County, Va., h.1780 and were 

hicad as Ynries

Page 1521 

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Dear Ik. Grayson, 

Another informative issue of the Grayson Nm~lctter has arrived, Sorry Itrn 

ilight noyr 3: 2.m 

busy getting ready to lesve on a long trip and it seems to 

distract m;r mind fro3 other things, 2 -A.i- 

Ycs.Le~-day 3: had a call from i:"'ss, Irene Grayson' ol" Key :;:est, Florida, Our 

gt-c&t.-granclSather Gra;::.rsons rlicre brothers and fram tiut poi32 Sackrards r.re 2re 

12;- 1 iclelltify I of the professors as listed on gage 13L. IIc is JXICS 16. 

Grayson, I)qxwk,eilt of 

tor no logy at Virginia Polythccl~ T~-,sti-Lute, El:~cks'a~irg, 

Virginia , I carrespor~deci :.iith his cldcrly ~otl~cr, 7.ii.s. 1x1. Grajson, in 

1Yr/2. ilt .i;:rlai; tine silt 

83 and live:! rnth n daughter in i,:theviUc, Va. 

She did not ~ive me her husLmdls nmo but she -did fill me in on his backgrourrd 

as to his Gra2;son heritage. Professor Jmes I,!. Gr~ysonls father xas tile son or" 

J;.es Floyd and Lucy A, (l~c~lutt) Grayson, 

Jmes Floyd Srazson was the son of 

3mcs ,i, .lid lhil;~ (~teele) Grayson ~;ho mnrriod 21 June 1850 in ib-the CO., V3. 

alld 14~crl in saxe county on i'lclkci-s Creek, Jmnes ;S, Grqrson vras the son of 

Al;~rocc ;nil Btsj (iJysor) Clr2;~soc v;ho nar~icd 28 !.'nsch 1807 in ;;ontgolxcry Co, 

V;L, 

i~,ljro:.e TICS the sol1 of i/i:!licm ~nc! Rachel (~oo~,c;r) Gr:;rson. 

Irillim vras 

Lhc son of Job Cra-.-son, John T~ZS Ghc son 02 :il.~broso, 2nd lrnlx-osc is thou;hl to 

hive Sccn tile so11 01 John ;rayson ~iho died in 1735/36 in SpotLsyl-vzniz Co., 

Vn. 

T th5nk it :rise to iric11iil"y persora ;;hen I.% can because then if are trying 

to idcnE-fy soncone wit11 t:ic sane name 

or latch on if it is nllo :.re a e seeking, 

Tic can either cltpiinate said peraon 

1 no-

Pa88 153 

Alexandria, Virginia 

7 Elay 1978 

Dear Dick: 

Great news-for me at least. The family of my Charles W. Grayson has been identified. 

He was the son of Daniel and Cathrine Grayson of Dardanelle on the Arkansas River 

in Yell bunty, Arkansas which is 35-40 from where my great grandfather, Jessee, lived, 

The ider1tificati.n would have cotne earlier exccat for the condition of thti census 

microfilm. Finally, I was able to gain access to tile paper documents and spotted the 

family immediately. Transcripts of the 1856 and 1560 census records are enclosed. In 

1840 the family wss in Lafayette Cbunty, Mississippi, Charles' brothers and a sister 

are identified on the 1550 and lGi32 records. According to the 1840 record there was 

probably an older brother r:ho was not at home in 1650. In 1540 there were other neribers 

of the household who appeared to be possibly brothers to mniel and perhaps hi-s mother 

or nother-in-law, A .Toel Grayson was a neighbor. Don't kilo\ who he is. I was going to 

send a transcript of the 1840 record but decided to recheck one item that doesn't loolc 

correct. Will send a cop7 thep. 

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I think that there is a strong possibility that Daniel arid my Jessee were brothers and 

that both were sons of your Jessee, However-, the Virgi-nia birth of Daniel raises a 

question. P,ly search will continue. 

Maps with Grayson place names identified were sent. At least some of the places undoubtedly 

had becd previously identified. Please disregard an: duplicates. I was 

reluctant to send Lake Greeson becausc of the spelling but dccided to let you decide. 

if it should be included. Incidentally, has Grayson, Saskatchet~an, Canada been indentified 

If not, I will send a map. Place names have been of interest to me for years, 

My check for tk, last news letter is enclosed. I'n enjoying the news letter very much. 

It is doubtful if one could ever gather so much data on the family by one's self. 

I have loaated a b~ok on the battles of the Pmcrican Kevolutton wliich goes into great 

detail. Col. Irlilliam's role is detailed to a greater extend than I have previouuly cncountered. 

@pies will be sent when I have time to find the right copier fcr t h job. ~ 

Of course I am rcfering to Col. Wi l I iar,~ Grayscn. 

W i l l close for xlow. 

Best wishes, 

Howard

E.Iississiv~i Census of 1850 

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- Name - Age 

1. James Grayson 30 

Nancy Templeton 80 

2. Chesterfield 

Grays on 40 

Plar y 25 

Robert 11 

blill iam 6 

Polly 5 

Lavisa 3 

- Sex 

0ccupaI:ion Birthplace County 

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Page Dell ing 

M Fame r Miss. Clarke 355 431 

F Tenn . 

Miss. 

Miss. 

bliss. 

Miss. 

Miss . 

bliss. 

Clarke 358 450 

3. Thomas 9. Grayson 25 bliss , Jasper 119 388 

bliss, 

Mary 1,. 1 

bliss. 

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4. Margaret Grayson 4 

Resided with a 

James D. Lee Fanily 

Samuel Grason 

Mary Ann 

Loui-za 

Margaret 

Jame s 

Hugh 

Mary Jane 

&liss. Jasper 110 330 

Tenn . 

S. C. 

bliss. 

Miss. 

Miss. 

bliss, 

Miss. 

Jasper 00 198 

John W. 

Sarah 

Anenla 


M 

F 

F 

Farmer 

S. C. 

Miss. 

Miss. 

Jones 251 148 

John Grayson 

Susanna 

M 

P 

Fanner 

Jones 251 149 

Joel Grayson 

Adel in 

M 

P 

Ginner 

Ala. 

Tenn . 

tlilliam Grayson Perry 750 8 E 


Sarah 

Lavernia 

'Ihomas 

Will iam 

Rheu b in 

James 

Dall as 

Bruce 

El in 

Wayne 503 20 

(Conthnued on page 170)

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This and the next 5 pages are from DralBi.chaN1. 

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I , Grayson of Selma, Ala. 

1776 he ~loa appW 

ap one 4 Vh+imiz nqzind. Ttht 

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urbvr OF &a via@Lih Cant~m i'h Jidqki it, anl the jhJL4t &&cv( 

eh&d by Ae LepLdalvlr ob Vinginia to die U. 5. Cmpebh & d~ 

pGeoentcMdikLtirn t dhelif/mCp~~Xwz~&timcu~.iiaderrtA 

dUR, 1790,akthrap~44(~~ 

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dup. / ~ M & h ~ 0 l ~ ~ i w t , 5 ~ h I 

6% Rev. S+mce W r n rrt "BeLLe Ah" in & CaL( 06 7786. " 

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She$& (ok a h L+Ce OF C o r n William Ocapln of-' d+, b ' w , 

by & Grap'm ij-m 

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no d ~ l pducZtiC ~ e ad adqktud nw engapti in dk 2evuiutirnrvry 

d,u.yg& .than C;& k;& C.capon. 7 h tuche nwlc uvio ambwd 

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7774, a ~431,tuny mu @sd in S W 

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of! hb ~~~ovcmd OF b'+ La xaid.ing c ~ p m p i i u d ~{~xmxt to ike 

Aratta qtf ;C/re xemod o{* f5m itk &&c mpa;ta at W'%li.2*wq . 

byLa)PdD~award;fhe&~lk& V . 

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qa~dhnce bedmen Gtapu~ 

Carp li/Mh;t-. n1ount VM ad L).+ crure in e ~ y 

v U k p &dhZ&, day d UXf2 1m P&L W u l d c 

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Cd. Cuprut ~LDO &t CM.. lihhptart & he awed OW do 

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ficm fiord o[ hk v i a om9 .to Y d /dad. Col. 

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ptiarn~ 06 m. Af he decLined h) ar fhp_ cafbRidblxr, 

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of! hp&L4 hvbq phd h an admininhdiue I ~ d ~ 

q! ih 8 d OF Wm in $ae or Li. CuL, Hannidm. 

The Rev. Jpznre &port ok 'YLt.& Aur, " 6xo~'lE.n or Cat. &par, 

m z s ~ ~ h i d ~ ~ d t e & o g c c ~ * . 

Col. Orapm cuz6 &d a m&at'o{ 

a6 c- 

d~e. ContinM C- 

in 1784 ard ~ t c , ~ v e L z i f u n t L e ~ ~ ~ & C o R 4 ~ u a d 

qmueokd by ;tAe pucat C m ~ #med n in 1788. On 24A q! 

D&, 17&, the C&&m OF hie Sfafeo o{ 1Ma~daCIuL4d and

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Hm. John rtubinam 5. 2-3-7704 d. $71-7766; urra hnum iu ' 5 w 

/+obirum," beinp .pdm 06 tk //cue oj! dmpm rvri Tneabm q! ib 

Cdmy, 1738-1765, a ~fletnba~ qL dlat bnly but 39 pmu bun 1736. He 

WMUb&dp&d1~1~ M d o @ d ~ d ~ . h & X y ( h & k ~ . 

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6. 4-5-1717 at Sidtai, b~er Cu., btptmi d. 1776 om iev. Pets 

kag.met, Raztm OF duct Placp. P d a liupwt, m Aiahmelr u u C M 

4 bath F+ ad ~'kirtaz W a n CW. 

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ilwioe (jropon 6. 7734 d. 12-7798 /'&e k u Co. ron fiwrin 8 

5- l;l)aryrm) &pot o~f 'VB~L(~ &tin," i'hce kld&un Co. Rev. 

S ~ G r a p m ~ ~ a n h i a ~ i h e ' B B e L k A i A t t ~ d a 

lCt2J m e a h d m the PaXmac in Pninre Il- Co. He, un 

qmdmak, dcdied theolqy &L w, uad 

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lvrd& 527-1777 by & 

! Lond Oi4hop 0; hdm, tuziwu* 'to V* he &t pRemhd in Laducv, 

Co, ad in 1784 uux.eded /d. J& jh& an R& 4 DettingM Pa&+/", 

I& IlU-iam Co. He m CAap4!kin u& bn& Cd. W W Cj,*uri4 

/e@wtt, 5-1777 .to 4-1779. 

I. Ca&aim Cmpon 6. 4-5-1760. 

2. r3ajanin Cjruybm 6. 71-6-1761. 

3. May &pm b. 8-26-7764 m, 1774 J- i. L)Mno;tt and 

a!, 1795. No hue. 

4. W U ijmpu 6. 6-a-7766. /.See #h%ta) 

, 5. S- Mrvurue Guydm 6. 5-29-1768. 

6. /'eta &tyaarr 6. 5-14-1770. 

7. A m L;ZIlpw A. 1772 d. in iryhqj. 

8. Spenm Almue &pm A. 6. 5-17-1774. 

9. Anne I;wv~on 

t.La*~on 6. 1-77-1779. 

10. /;lilm~ 

6, 11-14-1776 d. 1793 m. 

/I. Capt. Jdm dubimun k p w 0, ~ 9-17-1779. 

72. JUL hPlun 6. 12-1780. \ 

7 bevercliey Gzuynun S. 9-3-17b2. 

1 . J3+ (jluyoon 6. 7-1784. 

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The Pollowing pages, arc the last of the 

Wulfeck manuscript 

"KENTUCKP GENEALOGY and BIOGRAPHY" Vol. IV. 

p. 275, Dr. David tbrehead married 6 i~fay, 1841, Elizabeth N. 

Grayson, a native of Rutherford Co., No. Car., and a daughter of 

Joseph and Lettice Grayson. Children: bttice J., WiUim W., Celia 

E., Snmuel J., Enoch R,, James D. and Joseph D. faorehead. Res. 1886, 

Ilebster Co., Ky, 

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Samuel Grayson, b. 10 Oct,, 1821; d. 26 Oct., 1860; bur. Salem 

Cemetery, Vebs ter Co. 

C03\94ISSZOlJER 'S CERTIFICATE - Book 1, p. 54, Fayette Co, Ct. Clk. Off. Ky, 

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a Court continued and hold for adjusting disputed land titles 

to the Kentucky lands at brrodsburg tills the 4th November '1779, present 

William Flemicg, Stephen Trigg and Edmund Lyne, Gentlen. 

John Gordon this day claimed a right to a sottle~ent and pre- 

empi;ion to a tract of 1uAd lying on. the water of Shawnee Run, by the 

aaid Gordon who raised corn on the premises in the year 1776. Satisfactory 

proof being made to the Court they are of the opinion that -th~ 

said Gordon has a richt to a settlement of 400 acres including .the 

said settlement and the preemption of 1000 acres adjoining and that a 

cerlific~te issue accordingly. 

---&, 

John Grayson this day claimed a right to a settlement ant! preemption 

to a tract of land lying on tho waters of Cnin Run joining the 

lands of James 1Klkeys by improving tho same and raising a crop of 

corn in thig country in the year 1775. Satisfactory pr~of being mado 

to the Court they are of the opinion that the seid Grayson has a right 

to settlement of &DO acres including the same improve~ent and the preemption 

of 1000 acres adjoining a~d that a certificate issue for same 

accordingly. 

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*BLACKWEU CENEALOGY,Qy Oopwdar E.M. Blackwell, U,S, Navy, Retired. 

Richmond* 194% 

pa 81, GRAYSOB, The paragraph giving the origin of Benjemin 

Grayson haa esvsroJ. errors as Micated by a certified genedogist who 

has concentrated on early generations of the Grayson fay, 

p, 82-83, The issue of Banj, Grayson axd Susma Monroe were 

three sons ad one daughter as follo~s: 

2-1 Benjamin, b, 1730 ad m. Hss Qsborne d had sne son, Benjamin, 

who m, ItLss Broriaugh of London and left a large family of children ad 

fine estate, &e daughter m, Bronaugh of London. 

2-2 Rev. Spence Gxayacn, b. 1732 - of whm later, 

2-3 Col, William Grayson, b, 1736, d. 1790, was the first Senator 

frm Va. and was a most trusted fid-ddamp of Washington, I% was Col, 

of one of the I6 Addftionol Continental Reg Its, an3 at one time had tb 

ccnnmand of a Brip.de, He orgdzod a company of Cadets in 1774, anticipatiw 

war. Ib m. Mss Smallwood, sister of Gen, Smallwood and ex-Governor b. 

of Y~ryland, Issue. 

3-1 Alfred F.liLLiam, who m. Miss Breckenridge ad had one eon, John 

Breckamidgs, who wan an officer in the U.S.A. and afterwards Gene CmSeAa 

He rn, Hiss Searle and had one son, John Breckemidge of Demopolis, PJa, 

3-2 &be Grgyson, Cola Grayson's only daqhter, m. John Car&- cf 

Iioujoml Go, ~rd they went to Kentucky, kr eldest son, Alfred Wm, &&yson, 

Ii~md in Tenmspee* 

2-4 Susan Monroe, Benjdn Grayson3s only daughter, never married, 

and it is said that Benjamin, her brother, ~quandered her proprty and 

she was cared for by her brothers Spnoe: ad blm. 

2-2 Reverend Spanca Grily;~on, b. 1732, d, 1798. Ib inherited Belle 

Air, a fins mansion, with 1,000 acres of land attacbd, on the Potomac 

River in Pr. Wm. Go., Va. fram his father hYld ma 1759 Y m Elizabeth 

Wagoner. b and his brother, Col, Wm. GraySon, graduabd at Word. 

He studied theology In England ad wm ordained by the Lard Bish~p of 

London Play 29, 1771. Ib returned to Va. and pro~ched in Zaudon C. In 

1781, he succeeded Rev, John Scott as Recfor of Dettingen Parlsh, Pr. 

Wm. Co,, Pa, where he died anJ, was succeeded by Rev. Th08. HLUTison. 

Ifs was Chaplain in Ma brother, Col, b, Grayson's Reg1%, durirs tb 

Revolution, and Justice in .. the Co. in 1769, His issue were six eons 

and eight daughtars, aa follows t 

3-1 Catbrine, b. 1760, m. John hdgeman of Staff ord, Issu@t 

4-l John Grayson; 2-Gsorga; 3-fih2-y; @usan Monroe CTapon; 5- 

Catherine 

3-2 Benjenin, b, 1761, rn, Miss Taylcrr, an English lady, He went 

to Kentuclq axl became Clerk of the CwL at Bardstown Nelson Go, an3 

M isouo: 

&I Frederick Wm. Spnce, who was an eminent laver and judge. 

He m. Miss k d and died without issue, & Alfkcd, m, Miss Coalbr of 

Bhftllmore, Mi. He waa an officer in the Marine Cmp and at Norfolk 

in the War of' 1812. In 1824 he commanded the bkines in Por-tarla fleet 

against thc pirates off tho coast of Florida and in tho West Indies rud ;.--I ; 

on his return, died of yellow fever a few hours after his landing, I43 

left: 

51 F'rederick Wm. Spence; %John Contoe; 3-Alfred. 

4-3 Pew Wagoner m. Miss Taylor and went to Toms in 1530; took 

an active part in the struggle 

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for independence and went twlce to 

Washington as a ccmmisrrioner. E3s urs Nominated for President of Texas,

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but died on Ma wag to Washington before alecuon. Thera is a 00- in 

Texas nmod CLPtcr kdm, 

44 Uir,bth, n. Wlip QucnLin, who soon died Pnd oha m. J~~BJ D, 

bakamfdgs, son of Gen. John BrecIcenrLd~o, who noon dled leavirntj om 

datqhbr, TUzs Cr~-son Breckenrldga, mr 3lxike.spaa.r Caldvell of Va., 

lef l; Issuo: 

3.-3 xmy, b, f61+, rc, 1794, Jansa R. Dermott, an lrioh $enthmn, 

aacl d. 1795 ttithout iasw. 

54 William, B, 2766, n. 1st &t;avia Mnands, dau. of Cola Eliw 

lMmn&s 11; and h d b~W3* 

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by CfUSan C, bzca, S ~ ~ b Vc. ~ ~ 1961 g , 

gp, 273-;74* TIM Gruyson fmily of V-J,rgZrda lkntucliy ia of 

EngPioh cnr. Scottish e.x-baction, Yorkskire, Enff$.m3, ap:otwB to bs tke 

WJ~ ewly l:~.e of tlm f41g. Ifmaver, a~r,Cmrs of Lhts frn1i2.y lived izn 

!jcoLtXtu:d, Ti= p1U tat lklsts of YarkoMrop Eagltxr3, us crf %h ytaP 13799 

baa .tlw nmos of Thcid Crtq~ason, Johiksmes Grayfsol;, 'L'nc!;nus GY~SOPI) 

&ma Ltsal"oar;n, by Gruyscn ad Gemgo Cra$+son resided :;sf,wick,9, 

EZ;J+~, ill q5.39 argl Job Grecaen 1Tccd at banarb;-, Engkard in 1 &3'7. 

1 13enjrd.n Gr~urscn ww thm ftrot of tilcm nmo who cnL~ra%d to Lh5 

IrdA:i~*lt.url c.~,:oi-+i~o of ;12;i~h thopa Ss wC !rcrital record, Eb trm beX:jcvc. 

%a ksvo cm~e fatm ::zir~t,;ldE Ib sottlad In Prin:~ I!kllfm Cowty, t7a., 

tshra bo vm a E E P ~ ~ ad ~ L wquirad r;rezaL ueLLt1~ 1% m. fLraL, :~uc;zn 

OT Snaulrnn I%woo, cktxghbr of Atdrew ~bmm arid paat 8txnL a! 12lenidofit 

381&9 :.b;tu.w, a7tl m, secofiy, i+ks, Linltcr, a widow, (+ Ez~~~FP by 

1 . Tlda Wdition hm boon diapmn,) 

Ch$Jdrun of b~jamlir, Crqysan and his vifa, Swm F6Dmms 

2, Benjdn Grayson, h. 

3e Spme Grwon 

e4, ~~lilllw Clrqyaon 

5, Sww rfonr~ Cruyaoa* 

/+, UU%itz~ Crraysan om b. Prime idillitxi County, Yirglada, in 172G0 

rw grwluat.ed f'axn tho Cb3.2fi;la of' PhildslpbAa Ln 1760 tlnd ia m3d to 

haw studied law at tC;m TenpJe in London. En-bring t!a8 sarvi~e uf Ms 

cau~~kry durfng the RsvaluiAomry !dw, h was &We-camp to Gamrtal 

\pdN.nrjton In Imbj was c~rr~~lss&arrad colond. an the ContimnW. Litlo in 

17'7"11 and later, 9n 1779) was one of Lfm Cccwdaoionors of tf;cs Bomd of 

tfw, ' Fk uw elected aru a rieshr of tho CoakirranLii Congrosts in 17% urmd - 

wm pcssidcrn'c of that body in 1788, Upon th mgnnltzatPon of' tb Fdsrul 

Govarmment, 113 was chosen Iry Virginia as am of t h tmo ~ firat Unite3 

Statas Senatora - Ricl.zard Fbmy Lee b5.w the atbar am. 

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of CupWn lhabord Smallwood. of Chrlsa County, ff.yY.d. Caflo,%n 

Snmllt;oad had ~lemica in tho Rev01utt;ionwy War on the :,kryLarr3. Stub 

Xlfna. 

Children of Co;lael fillfr~ln Grayson and his w%e, ~emw Smallw~t I 

6. William Grayson d, without isow, 

'47. G~orgo W. Grq~on 

*a. Robert H. Grayson I 

7. Ibabeyd S. Grayson. Very little has been Zenrmd comurning 

m, 

Y3. Alfbad Grayson 

ql. &be Srduood &won; me Robert Warmar4 Carbr of Lmdoun 

Cour~ty, Virginia, (%a Carter Far11J3y) 

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Will of arth ha H. Grayson 

In the nme of God Amen. I, Kartha H. Grayson of Albemarle 

County, being of sound mind and memory, do make this last will and 

Testament, in and form as follows: Tc wik - 

Item 1 st. I direct thgt all xny @use debts he paid by my 

executor herein after named 

Item 2nd. I give unto Sally Martin the following negroes: 

Ne~man, Susan, Elijah and Seth. Also tvo horses all ay stock of 

every description, house hold 2nd kitchen f arnitnre during her 

natural life or as lcng as she rr,ay reaain single but in case she 

should marry no longer. And at her death or marriage the above 

named negroes with their incresse to be equally divided between 

William Sutherlznd, Jr ., William Mar tin, !.:a tthew Ihr tin and Jchn 

brtin the last mmed three chlldrnn of $211-y t'krtin. 

Item. 3rd. 1 give unto William Sutherland, 53-!.ard Sut\~e~l:nd ,' 

J'ose~kl Sutherl~nd, Jr ., ;;dill-iam :Gar tin, I.1a.t +!,.,~1!w 9,:*rtin and Johi~ 

hiax tin the follovring negroes : , Jlm, Judy, I.;r3~y 2.nd Llndr;a;~, 

also the increase in those I have given Sally Kzrtin. If there 

shoulQ be any in ten years after my death to be equzlly divide3 

between them, 

Item the ltth. I give unto Joseph Sutherlznd, Sen" ,, 21-1. 

the mcney that may be in his bands at ny deeth or that n1:j.y kf2 ccmng 

to me from the estate cf Will.inm Grnyson, decfd, 

Item the 5th. 1 give unto IfiJilliaa Sutherlan, Edward Sutkerl:~.nd, 

Joseph Sutheriand, Jr ., Tdil+liam I,lartin, Xatt hs:.: Kar tin 2nd John 

Hartin &J$ the residue of my est~te wherever f cunc. I tknt no 

division of my estate be rcade ~1n.ti.1 ten ye,rs r.ft.~r rr,y death but 

remain in the possessi~n of Szl.iy .:artin and her ~i-~llc~rcn fcr their 

support exc~pt scn;el;hing shculd occur to ri;!ake it neae:~sr.r.y and 

groper that a division siicluld earlier bg nade and., In 'ih2.t cnae, 1 

fully lrll: ~wer ny exe cut cr to 

mjr ~~roperty to he 2ivided 2s 

herein dlrect,ed. I:y request thzt ay xan Te~,man be blrec! cut if 

he desire it. Lastly, I ccnstit.ute and appcint Joseph Sutterlnr-d, 

Sr., and Willia~i Sutherlend my Zxecgt~rs to this n&y last -hll 2nd 

Testargent in witness whereof 1 have set my hand and seal this 15 

day of Kay in the year of cur Lord one th~usand eight hundred ~nd 

forty two, 

Witness: 

Garrett White 

Martha H. Grayson (seal) 

E ,L . Willizns 

At a court held of A1be~;rle Ccunty the 2 day ~f Janly 1E1+3 

the foregoing last will and Testament cjf 1,:artb.a 3. Grayscn aas proved 

by E.L. Williams and the hand writings of the othsr witnesses G. ltihite 

proved by KG. White and E.P. Kates and the same was ordered to be 

recorded. 

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Dec. 17, 1957 I-:. K. Gordon to John D. Grayson, Ebq. 

3208 1-iichigan Blvd. 

Racine, Wis. 

Wythev;Ule, Va. wao founded in 1790, when IQthe Go. was erected. 

st was first called "EVIJASILJ~." WythexwiUe was the place of residence 

of Nancy fU and her husbad Willim Pdl. They were the parents of 

Ambrose Hdl. grand-father, Ambrose Grayson Gordon (1803-18&) so 

strrted in a memorandm made in 1850 and tkzt she trw a dau. of John 

Grayson and a sister of his grendrcother, nizabsth Grayson, wife of 

John Gordon 11, his grandf athcr, 

In the same memoradm, it was stated that lJiUiam Gordon, 

brother of his father, John Gordon 111 (1774-1024) was born in i!ytlle 

Co., Feb. 21, 1779, 

Wytha Go., Va, is near lbntgomery Go., erected 1770, and only 

the small county of Pulcs:d (1839) 190s between 1,Iytl.l~ and F:ontll;ornery, 

ar.d probably Pulaski caw off of ;.!ontgo~cry. At any rate, all of 

these counties and Kentucky cane off of Firlcastle Go., Va, extinct 

in 177, 

Tn the FincasUo Loose Papers Ililitary Lists, now in Christinnsburg, 

1:ontgomery Co., It appears that on Nov. 10, 1777, J oiln 

Grsgson was sworn illto Cnot, liicCorkclls Co in ths Iincastle ;:il- 

 

itla by Staphen bigg; and so had Rev. service, I think this service 

was in the Chpl-oltee cmpaign, 

John Gragson prcduced his certificate to the County Court of 

Pincastle for making 50'70 poun::ls of tobacco in 1773, PincastJe 

lG.nute ijooli I (6) p, 104, 

Cct, l9$ 1796, John Grayson received a grant of 168 acres on 

Clapboard Creek, a branch of Jew River, in I~lontgumory, 

New River runs through i)ula3l;i arid iqythe as well as llontgolnery. 

Xis son, John Grayson, Jr., on IVov., 1729 received a grant 

in 14ontgomery 013 TJcw tl3,vc.r below ths mouth of Clapboard Creek. 

I can givn you the book arid page for theso grants if inportsnt 

to you. 

On Jan. 2, 1800, Sohn Grayson made his will, proved ut the 

October term 1202. 1;ontgarnory Will Rook I, p. 156) I have here a 

pliotosta-1; of the record of this will. IIe desired that he be buried 

nezr where his late deceesod wife lies interred; he states tho% his 

eldest daughters Betty and Lucy have already received a11 and everything 

he ever designed or intended far then to hve, and gives to b-is 

youngest son John Grayson, Jrr for the tern of 3 years, and no longer, 

oll his estatx; and at the expiration of 3 yesrs the w1:ole estate is 

to be divided betxeen his children: John to take the Cnthole survey, 

and another tract held by testator in partnership with William !'~1 of 

1Jytho County lying on F'all Benks of I4ew River ad the negro girl Judah, 

and the remainder of the estate to be ccjuallj divided among his 4 

children: John, Jilliilm, ;kry and Nancy, 

Japes Gordon is a wit~ess to this w ill (be was the son of John 

Gordoc I, d. 1786, testate). I hzve photostat of the inventory of 

Jobs Grayson's estate, also of the will and evteto of his son, William, 

probated August tern 1e01 (lbntgomery W, B, 1, p. 116)

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lntestbte in Spotsylvania in 1735. I have a photostat of the original 

inventory of his cst:~+ve shcning tta autograph of John Gordon as an 

appraiser, whom I assm-e to have been my ances tar, John I. I have 

found Graysons in Cumberland, Yorks hire and Lancashire, but cannot 

identify John I or his brolhcrs or aistcrs, if any. 

Thomas Grayson, ;-ierchant, 3ed, County Kent, Englad, wzs the 

eldest son cjf Joim Gm;rson of Christ Chdrch Parish, hr~czster, later 

of Spotsylvania Co. and I inherited and convoyed his father's land as 

his eldest son. 

It Looks to me that you are descended from one of tle sons of 

John Grsyson I1 of Ebntgomery Co., Va. (3. 1e02) through ,John, Jr. or 

one of his sons, or the sons of IL'illiam (sen of Joim, Sr.) who diod 

1801, rulmed in his will, as Billy, Eeuben, John and hbl-ose Grnyson. 

I have never tried to trace any except ny orm direct line of 

descent, and that has been quite an extensive undcrtzkln,y an3 so IinoW 

no thin^ of the collutcrals. 

opened a field of rcsea~ch for sox~cone 

But I hop X 

posseszcd of nore srrpience, potience as6 dili~cncc, and more tirno than 

ia mine. 

I hope sane of your connection will he interc;s+,ed, aric! 'if they 

can trace the origin of A~Srose Grayson of Spotaylvsnia, W.G died in 

1743, and his wife, Alice Jmcs, (widow) and of Barbara, 1-1il"c of John 

Graysorl, h, circa 7727; G. 1T.02; I shnll be glnd -tr, have their dck, 

and be grateful and wcll paid for -Lbir; long letter. 

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k' Marriages of Some Graysons Before 1800 1 

Alfred, son of Col. William and FJemor (Small~ood); m. Breckinri.dgo 

of Ky. 52207. 

Uice m, 26 A%., 17&, James Stevens, Spotsylvania Co. Iflar, License. 

.Alice ( ) widow of Ambrose, m. Jamos Stevens. Proven by Deed, 1752, 

Spotsylvania Co. 

Ambrose rn, bef. 1 IJov., 1726, Alice ( ) Jmes, widow of John, who 

6, bef. 24 Elnrch, 1725, vhen William ij;cConico gave bond as nhr. 

of his estate. Spotsylvnnia Co. Records prove the inarriagc. 

Benjamin, d, 1'757; res. Uestmoreland Co.; m. (I) Susan (~unannah) 

Finroo, b. ca 1695; d. 1'151, dau. of Andrew; he was her 3rd husband; 

m. (2)- (- ) Sintan. 52'195, 196, 3W(2)lri'4. (~~l.1: iyob. 

the wid ow Linton. ) 

Benjcmiin, b, 6 Kov, , 1761, son of Rev. Spence and Yay Elizabeth 

(1~a~ener); reu, to ICY. ; res. Nelson Go., Ky.; m. in liy., Cnrolinc, 

Taylor. 57261 

Bcvcrlcy Ilcblnson, b. 3 Sept., 1722, son of Rev. Spsnce aJld I..h:ry 

Xliznbeth (~a~ener); m. - (Chew) Bowie of I'at~:~cunt Rivcr, 1.kl.f 

ran, to $iiss. 5T3.68. 

Cayncrine, b. 5 April, 1760, dau. of Rev. Spence a16 1.hry Elizt..bcti~ 

(~~n~cner), m. John IIoclgman of Stluff ard Co, 5'2261 . 

I;;li.zabct;l~, dau. of Willium (d, 7 223). m. Josepii Su'chcl*ltir~l. ,Iibentiu..la 

p, 199. 

kliza'oeth m, 18 April, 1731, Thomqs fSU. Spo-t;sylvanio Co. Irkir. 

Record. 

Frances m. Uo.tctom-t Co,, 1796, d'mos Elliott. Kcgley, p. 597. 

Ilebe, dau. of Col, WillIan and Eleanor (SL~lwood) m. John Carter 

of Loudoun Co, and Ky. 5T207. 

Joseph, son of Will-im, who d. 1829, m. Rhoda blkCte, dau. of Ilaniel, 

who d. 1PJS. Albemarle, pp. 214, 343, 

Judith, b. h.;. , 7780, dau. of Rev. Spcnce and 1k-y ~liznbethfifa~enor), 

m, George :ldton Litidsag. of Colchester; d. 1817/8, 1;7ashington, R. C. 

59'257 

Mary m. 20 Dct., 1726, John Catlott. He m. (1) bef. 20 Oct,, 1706, 

~iz~l~eth Wiaferro, dan. of John. Psovon by Court Records, Esses: 

Co.; 2SV72; 11T13. 

Sarah m. 2C bkch, 1769, Benjamin Ainsley; both of Goochland, Douglas 

Register, pa 11. 

Spence, r'tinister, b, 1734; d. Dec, , 1798, son of Eenjmin and Susm 

(Xonroe); m. Jla2'~ Elizabeth iJagener, dau. of Dr. Peter. 5Tl46, 197, 

He, b. 1732, Fri.nce William Co.; m. binry Elizabeth Iiagner, DaG NO. 

56 009. 

Spence m, 1 June, 1799, Cetsey Bowler. Sur. Thorras Eaker. Norfolk 

Co. tkr. Bond. 

Spence :,;onroe, b. 17 May, 1774; d. 1809, con of Rev. Spence and ljlary 

Elizabeth (wagenex); m, - Blount of Alexandria, Va. 5T266. 

Susan, dau. of Capt. William, m, (1) Isaac Wood, son of William; m, 

(2)- Todin. klbemarle pp. 214, 349. 

Susan Iviohroe, dau. of Eenjmin acd Susannah (lbnroe), m. 1761, John 

Orr, b. 25 July, 1726, son of Rev. Alexander Om of SJatersido, Cumfrieshire, 

Scotland, and Agnes (Dalrymple), AT49; 5T208; 13T 258. 

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Susan Monroe, b. 29 Ihy, 17@* d. 1823, dau. of Rev, Spence Grayson 

and Mary Elizabeth (~a~eaarj, rn. 11 Feb., 1793, Lund Washington, b. 

25 Sspt., 1767; d. 4 April, 1853, son of Robert and Alice (strother). 

57263; 11 TI 19; 23V100; 39156; 3W( 2) 174. 

Susannah m, 1731, - Linton. Spotsylvanio Co. )far. Record. 

Thomas m. 11 July, 1788, Jenny Field, spinster. SW. William Buster. 

Albemrlc Co. Eiar. Sond. Sane Field was dau. of Robert, who d. 

1824. Alhemarle, p, 194. 

Wil1i.m bought land, 1764, Albemarle Co.; d. 1829, age 97; m. linn 

Smith, dau. of Tho~as, Albcmarle, p, 214. 

blillian, b. 26 June, 1766; d. 1806, Washington, D. C., son of Rev. 

Spence and bkry Elizabeth (k!rxgener) ; m. his csusin, lfay \lagenera 

5T263. 

Willim, Col,, b, 1736, Prince Williaz Co,; d. 12 K~rch, 1790, Duw 

fries, Vn,, son of 3cinjami.n an6 Susan (hlonrae); m. Eleanor Sr;dlwood, 

(not Hebe), sis of IIcabard Smallwood, w'r!ose \]ill was dated 

1773, Charles Co., M., and dau. of Gen, Smllwood of Iki. 5E05, 

207; CT119-20. 

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Code for Referonces: 

''Nbemarle County in Virginia, 

Woods. 1932. 

by Rev, 

Linoage Boolcs of the Daugl~ters of the 

American Revolution. 

Douglas Register 

"The Douglas Registei*," edited by W. Junes. 

1928. 

lrKegleyls Virginia Fr~ntier,~ by Frederick 

Rittle I(cg1oy. 1938 

*Tyler 1s i;uartorly Ills toricnl and Geccological 

lbgazine," edited try Lyon G. Qler 

l'Ttie Virginia 1ht;azine of %story ond 

Biography," a quarterly by the Cirginia 

Historicel Society. 1893- 

*The Idillim and &ry Quarterly," published 

by Williaq and I4iaz.y College. 

Pis. Dorothy Ford Wulf eck 

51 Park Avenue 

Naugatuck, Connecticut 06770

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11. Ce"os-ge-lvl. Grayson 37 

Cathrinc 33 

Fiaz-y E. 1 r: 

Jaae ,n 12 

Thornas J. 10 

bJi1 1 iaa 8 

IOleub in 6 

Squire 4~ 

i~lnr tha A. 2 

El izabetli Jr;ile 20 

12. Sarah 11. Grayson 33 

Thomas Jp . 

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ll'rni~cis 17. 37 

1.3, I.Jary J. Grays011 28 

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lIiitds County Fmlily No. 1651~ 

'I. Cii j clinsai~ &LID ~y Faxily NO. 637 

w. Lhoctair Cninty Family !To. 474 and 591 

bpi ah County Fsmily NO. 

920 

l.ta~ranll>a Cour1i:y Family No. 9 75 

JcfLersr~n Coullty Fami 1 y Ncl . 501 

ICeliqxr County Family KO. 

6, 7 8 

'd. Ibnrue fiunty Fam i 1 y iflo . 1 7 

Pcx-ttotac Cr~unty Fatni!y 80. 723 

Tip1)ah County Fanily No. 

4l!., 212 and 310 

K. Tishotr~ir~~;~ Courlty Paplil y 1~0, 

1076, 1077 and 1078 

S. Tishomingo (b-niy Family ~70. 1551 

Yatoo County Family NO, 

8, 18 and 4L17 

Va.. Yazoo 393 301 

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Alexandria, Va. 

May 1978

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GRAYSON GENEALOGY NEWSLETTER VOL. 2";~a. 9 e 

Page 172 t 

Wclceme to new member Mrs. W. Harry Suthcrland (Evelyn W.) 

whose husband's anctstorlwas Jsse~h Suthcrland whe married Eliz- 

-- 

abeth Grayson, the daughter of ~apt. William Grayson and 

his wife Ann Snithe See the next page for a family sheet on Ma. 

Back issues will new be available at a premiums $5.00 each.-There 

were 12 numbers in Velume 1. nEach' refers te each number.. 

Thanks te Leon Brosks for his philanthrapio osntrlbuti@n, number 

4. 

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w r w o o d drew my attention to e 24 which is missing 

frem the last issue between pages 16 and 167. I am printing 

the missing page ia the current issue. 

Pa~as. 174-5: 

On the 2 pages: following I have summarized some of what.1 

knew abeui Ben jamin 

ray son, sxr, of Wllkes oounty, N.C.,. 

who was probably the father of my great great great grandfather, 

Wren rays son, ST,, of Westp~rt, Indiana.; Recently 1 offared 

a -~ hundred -.-- 

dollar reward in the Genealogical Helper te anyonef 

who could tell me the parents of ~onjaminr,, but-there have 

been no takers. I plan to summnrize the children , one by ene., 

in future issues, of Eknjamin Graysen, srb, of Wilkesr 

Page 176: 

Thanks to Howard E, Grayson for the lists of Grayson places. Don't 

forget the many Grayson places listed throughout all the past 

Newsletters. These places arc valuable in that they ware named 

aftor people named Grayon and in some cases clues to our ancestors 

can be found by researching the origin of the place name. 

Pages. 177-1853 

9-page letter (1974) frem Jshn Abbott which 

traces a number ofTennessee Graysons. 

Pa c. 1868 

-d letter from Robin Bandy with 3 more Grayson places 

and a query about Thomas Gragssn and Jennie Field. 

Pa~es 187-1908 

bward Grayson in the last Newsletter, page 153, said that 

a Jeel Gra-vssn was a neighbor t~ his ancestors in Yell caunty, 

&k. It is not clear which..Groysons. Joe1 seemed to be an uncrsmmon 

name so I have retrieved I) family sheets of Joe& Graysnns 

and printed them. Perhaps these will help. 

I am out sf material from correspondents for the next Newsletter. 

Please everybody, write something and send it in.

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Smwl Thm-man m~ried Susan Graysun, da~l'lter of Johr Crmpan 

in :.bntgmery 3 Jan., 1775, I.'orb:-012'a ;QnQyr-mv Co., 'hr., p. 42r 

John Grayaon, JP, md :*&I ~Lfa, Smh (born Snmh Cnrhr, !kmG t 

17%' 14orxtll%, p. 19) oonvoyod to :Jldm T:anqon af :J;;:,.tho Cour;Qr 

200 acrca in k9tha County - ; i~~t 12, I=. 

'iku trtxsva John Cr~son, Sr, who dfod in 1m vao tla 63de3t sc-n 

af 2fi~r*orru Grqyooc, wko did taaCota in Li,uotayl~ 

Cour.ty# '1743, I 

Inive Ilatctstat of !.io urn. 

PYibrooe GrraJ.aon is lato 1726 mrriad Alice Znma, b4dov of :o!x 

dmo, wko did to3bt.a in 0nrI.y 1724. !loforonca, if d~sl,fy#t, 

Z b ~vo novor bcn ~:l.dti PO find tho mcof.d of tho tam*inf;e CS 

J o JaT09 ~ which ~xmld ~llota tba p~azrikil. nw;a of 1.2s ~Ifo :.lice. 

Sl20 n'rily Izflw !man tho d:!kyhter of ::Uoa J~ma, Sr. of I;ni-t:.lir~w, 

or. IIM r53y kavo I~CJ: E;LI.CO QXL~~BFIYI); (cum3 mr~r), tajTsmr.ia in 1'717, 

!-rut ,"b.bmco, ;cr.jmin, :kr,r ww3, John aro anid ta knvo "Lnrxed 2c 

Chyiaf C! urch P-;rish, h:r.custer Co, in JLW 1'.30." 1 !.va cot 2oc -bd 

nny z*aoon. of tt'lrs rwr of ths origin of' thfs John Cs:~yoon I, w!:o died

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WJAMIN GRAYSON, SENIOR:, of Wilkes county, N.C.. 

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BE~amln Grayson firht appears on 7 Dea. 1778 in the Wilkcs 

county land book,.entry no. 530, where BenjamiB entered 400 

acresof lanckon King's. Creek adjoining the lend of Edmond Tilley. 

It ia- of intarest that In the same month and the same year, a 

Jsseph Grays~nr~entcbr~d landr in the ccaunty ad joining,. that ' . .- 

ia, in Burke crsmtg.: 0nrL31 Deu. 1778 Jbaaph Waysan 

entered 100 acres of land lyIng;,on both sides of a branch of the 

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first Little Broad River im-Burkc oounty. (Grant1 no. 387, book 

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The second record of Benjamin Gra.yaon in Wilkes county was 19 June- 

1779 for entry of 150 acres of land,--next tb Edmand Tillty, nss ,1038. 

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In 1784 on November 9th.. in f ilc no. .544, the &ate of N. - G. exanted 

to Ben jamin Grayaon 290 Eacres of lan& in Wilkes munty on King's 

Creek near Ednond Tillay's farm*. 

IrIrs:. Mary IIrsmmersmPth of Naperville,=l., has done a rcc;onstructian 

of the map of %he area and ha-as writt~n that the farm of Benjamin: 

Grayson of Wilkes containing 290 acres, was adjacent to Joseph! 

andl WSlliarn Holtiand to Edraond Tilloyo.Benjamin Grayaon's land 

was en the them Burzlre-Wilkes. county line* This. area- is now 

within Caldwell oeunty, 

On July 31sk, 1784,, the Board ef auditors of the Stntc ofN*C. 

paid Benjamin Grayson 9 pounds. for rnilitda 8ervicc in the M ~rgm 

districta 

Tax lists from Wilkss county show BcnJamin Grayson every yeast from 

1785 through 1800. In the year 1799 he was listed as Benjamin 

Grays,on, senior. In 1799 also, a BenJamin Graysoa, junior, was: 

en the tax list for the first and only tim, with zero acresan& 

1 poll,.Benjamin, sr., had 290 acres and no polls. that year. 

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In the first census, 1787, Benjamin Grayson: was listed as: 1 male 

age 21-60;; 5 males under 21, and 3 fcmalcs; In the 1790 census, 

there ware 3 males over 16, 2 males under 16, and 2 females, 

In the same year, 1790, John Grayson appears In Wilkes county lal-; 

his own household. as 1 ~ 1 over 8 16 and 1 female, 

Jsseph Grayasn appears en the 1794 tax list for the first time, then 

Jesse Grayson appears in 1797. 

In the 1800 census Benjamln Grayaon is listedr.1 nala over 45, 1 

male 16-26, and 1 female over 45,.John Grayson, Joseph Graysen, 

and Benjamin Grayson, jr. arc gone in the 1800 census. Jesse 

Grayson was pr~sent as 3molcs 16-26, 1 mala under lo,, 2 fcmolesi 

under 10, and 1 female 16-26. 

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birth year of Benjamin Grayson, sr., was. semetimo between 

1727 and 1755. This; is calculated;.as fellowsr In 1787 he was 

listed as: under age 60 (1787-60=1727) and ih 1800 he was 

age 45 (1800~4j=1755) 0 

A William Grayson first appeared in Wilkcs county in\-the 1800 census 

as 1 male 26-45, 3 males under 10,. 2 females under lo,, and- 1 

fernale. 16-26*. In the 1810 census, William Grayson ~vas age 26-49, 

and in the 1820 census- ef Wilkes county, Willlam was over 45; 

William Grayson was theref ore born sometime fron 1755-1 775*. 

(Under 45 in 1800; 1800-45~1755; over 45 in 1820s 1820-45=1775.) 

Willlam Grayson attested to the handwriting of Jesse Grayson 

15 Septh 1802. in a deed recorded In Wilkes county in the May term 

of 1806 

A new J~hn Grayson presumably the sen af Williaffi Grayson, appeared 

ih the 1810 census a few doors away frsm William: 1 male 16-26; (brm 

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A m w BcnjamllS Grayssn sppear~in 1820 near William and John 

berm1 1794-1804e. 

A new* J.oscph~,Grayaon appearsc nearby in 1820, borrk 1794-1804, I ~ G B ~ 

Infcrencest Ben jamin Grayson, sr. entered landl- in Wilkos cowty 

.the aame year that Joseph Grayson, wha was probably his brother, 

enterad land in Burke county. Joseph Grayson bccamc the patriarch 

of the Rutherford county Graysons. 

BenJnmih Grayson, sr., had 5 sons and 2 daughters, The sonswere 

Jeb, Joseph, Jesse, and Eknjamin, jx., and one other, The namasof 

the daughters are uarkno~m. The 5th son wws apparently at home 

in.1800 at the time when a William Graysan appeared with his o m 

family in the Wilkes census. The 5th san, In 1800 was aged 16-26, 

The 5th son was thus born 177j3-1784, This age in compatible with 

the known birth of Wren Graysan, sr,, born 1712, Wren Grayson is 

the probable 5th sen of Elenjamin Grayson, srL, thereforeo 

William Grayson of Wilkes in 1800, therefore is not a son of Benjamin, 

but might have been a brother. The "new Graysons!', Juhn,, 

bnjarnin+.and Joseph, in 1810 and 1820, were sons ef Willi&m GraysQno

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Grayson City/Town Place Nar.les 

Source : - Rand EkNally !.brld Atlas-National Archives-1974 - 

Edition 

-- Ci ty/Town 

State 

Gray son 

Graysan 


Gray son 


Grayson Springs 

Grayscn 

Grasorl 

Grasonville 



Grayscn 

Gray son 

Greeson 

Gray son town 

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A1 a. 

Ql if, 

Ga . 

Ill. 

Ky 

KY 

La. 

PEi . 

Md. 

143. 

N. C* 

011i o 

Olcl ahorna 

Pann . 

Va. 

Ooun ty -- 

County 'Seat 

Wins ton 

Stanislaus 

Giqinne t t 

Sal ine 

Carter 


Caldwel 1 

St. biarys 

Queen Ann 

Cli~lton 

As he 

l.1i am i 

Olcmu 1 gee 

Qlmberland 

l4ontgomery 

Do~bl.~ Springs 

Pbde s to 

hi~~renccville 

I-larrisb\~z~ 

Graysoil 

Leitclrf icld 

mIll;ili>ia 

Leonardtorni 

Ccntrcville 

Plattsburg 

Jefferson 

Troy 

Olclnu 3. gee 

Carlise 

(;hristiai-lburg 

Source: 

Rand tkNal1.v 18rld Atlas-National Archives-1912 Fdition 

1. Grayson 

2, Gray sonin 



5. Graysun 


7. Graysou 


9. Grayst)n 

In. Grayso~t 3,ringrj 

11, Grayson Sllri-~lgs 

12. Grnsons 

13. Craysnn 

111-. Grayson 

15. Grayso11 

16. Grayscrl 

17. Crrca:;or~ 

18. Grayzun 

19. Groyson 

20. Grayson Creclc* 

Ytntirn Icy. 

State 

Ala. 

Ark. 

Arl; . 

Ga . 

Oklahoma 

011 i o 

Io~la 

111. 

ICY* 

KY* 

PId , 

lb, 

Ikbraska 

La, 

r. C. 

Pent1 . 

Utah 

Ifa , 

G. 1 i. f , 

* lot a City/Town bat: a creek. 

County 

tkn ry 

C1 arlc 

Crit tenden 

GrJ&sule t$ , 

1Ic Intosh 

lli am i 

bone 

Sal ine 

Gzrter 


Gray son 

St. Plarys 

C1 inton 

Sheridan 

EXH Caldwell 

Ashe 

Cumberland 

San Juan 

Carroll 

Eenr Cakl and 

County 3xt 

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Abbevi.1 le 

Arl:adcl.pi.lia 

biar ion 

Lawuenrcvi 11 e 

Euf allla 

Troy 

&one 

Ilarrishuri: 

Grayscn 

Ixitchf icld 

ki tcl!Eicl_d 

Leo~lard town 

Flattsburg 

Riisl.,vj_ll.e 

Co1ui.nbj.a 

Jcf f erson 

Carlise 

tbnticcl1.0 

Ilil l svi-l l e 

foward E. Craysnn 

Alexandria, 'bra. 

Elay 1378

JOHN B. ARBOTT, x.1.~. 

ARCNITCCI 

ALPHIN FUILDI~IO 

EL DORASO. ARKANSAS 

A SURGH R R TtIE ANCESTORS OF 6fOl-W GMDON 

(of Tcn!~rwem and CnxichSta So, ~pk,) 

According to Zmi:ty 'lorndZt~i.on, 

Jaht, Gragrora and tdfr Sara Fsicks Grays-;n 

tngo.the~ with t,he-lr chB ldren, c3.w frox P2m13.$cn Ea, Term, &a Cu;a~~Ata 60 a /ir)caqezn 

aSru(i 1.850, Iksj 29 anEd to hav9 bra;ri@t $1330,Ba Bn gesi wh%crb ha U.QA t,g 3~1,qr a 

1.22'gi ,52@3~qIt. 

1~kr;d ntapD G5C⁢*%:iep2 f5.r Zrfi BCR6, Epi. i&'&t.b:>:g On $ha,l~ l~.r!$~ 

3~7t Y&~PFQ it n3k h.mn ah th3-z t-jwa 

I'hv wexa btrsS*x! at \%it@ Chwcb C~.LYL~I-~~ Nevada CslanLy, Askankas, just acro!~ the 

county U.na R fms' rmS.9~ aau%b waat rlf Gmxih:sp., The@ 3.8 no m.rkar at, %+he graves, 

but m -Iron f~nc,.s wa3 around. the ,a:lte unttl. a fey y@&re prim Po 297Q, wkear Pt. 

fall into d+srcpci~ m,d wan x "R~v&, The Iocatlon ~ 1 " F',h@ 

forrca ia Iuzot~~i, 

Jok~n &qv.~n kQ a bro%$ar, T h ~ ~ GI-~-J-~Q~, 

~ . 4 MY. nX3.o can' to O:mch3fa Crsmrky, frr:~ 

Tar~~asa&s~ appa~errdt52~~ ~ert%L~g nstQth of Ghidse&.er. in f ha Pliiseor!ri Chw", 

eers., , Ha 

and his wife and aavwal daacsw3anLs ore biasisd in Skixnets Cc.;sctasc$ atp Fira3:!r.4 

Clausetl . 

Srnc of t.hs children of John Grwson were Fsm-z, Cmrge, T~DPAR, Hwq-, Z. T,, 

Mmy, ad. another g11-1, 61) 

Soas of thes chfldrer! of" Tom Gx*ayam waro Jim am3 John, 

The abva data was all dhs ir~fosr~qtiasn the writes had to start k b ~cwch ~ for Co;rn 

Grayson s ancestorp~, 

Cbodsp& 'e Hietory 02 South Armtras (1890) ha8 two resferoncefi 50 ~70bx axl Snl15.: 

Fricks Grag.non, '&a first (2, T, Grayson) aap5 ha 'ms a native af i-Ia&l.ton Co., 

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Tom., mvd t.o Qwchfta Co, hrksneas in 1851, arid kna n ~herlff 3.niTenn- for 

several years, Me was Q rnmb~r of the C~unberhd Presbyt9~ian Church, He d id In 

1882 in hia 63d year, hi8 d fe did in 16'3, He Ifas a Hnsan, in psUlics, fb~t 

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and afte~ward n Hepbblican and a Uchn man in th* Civil War, This sccarunt

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says them wnro eight aans md tbae d~5.@tms, a prtial list as follows: 

Ja.une - (WBB kiU.d in Prices raid th;.ough Kfrjeouri) 

&=cia - (%ha elriaat, dkad 3x1 Cwchitn CD, 5,9 hia 40th y~r) 

EJlfsnb~th - (tho b5fe of Yoki C, P.lexan:\e"~*, of Owchita CO.) 

Jack - (died lihesn a ymmg 

in ~spane,.sua;e) 

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1Ienl-y L. - (a fnmrr in Wehitrs Co. ) 

Geo~-,~ls W, -- [cngagcd in .LILlinq kha ~ ~ in i Wuoh:tngtton] 

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Zrrchas:ich Taylor- - (psLmb.l;t~- at Prc~co'tk, AF~C . ) 

Seven of the sons uarvd in the ConfwJsratcs Army. 

Tho second accomt; in CbmSepadrs lIis'toqy sf Sattl, Ark~n~aa (Ihnry L. Grayson) 8ay~ 

Gotin &9y90h: w38 L%rn in la07 in TB~,"LUSP;BQ. He 

a famar and for a numbre of 

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533 scrkzkj rmcl, added 400 ~CP"W. Iiks w3.f~'~ rm.@ if3 g&2~~n as S~zsla Frix. Ha 

ms a lkqon, in4 him wife aas a mabsaq oi tho 1.f~!,1l~fji~t Epk5~0pjJ. C~LV;:~. 

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john 

did in 1881. and Sarah In 1875, 

Thqy had five sorza a~d faru* daug!&cr~, 33~1~ 

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ihrtim J. - (nrifo of tBm~s 14, Dougks, a farmer of Ouchitn Co,) 

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I-Iein-y L. - (a fanaer of Ocaehita Co., Ark.) 

Thorimu J. - (a fn~mor of OwcMta Co., Ark.) 

Goorgo W. - (a farmvr of Clark Col, Ark. ) 

Zachrlriah Taylor - (Postwatar of Pseacott, Ark.) 

You will note that thoso "to account3 differ in am@ rsspacta and neither gPvaa 8 

complete liot of children. 

A ehcch of 1830 Ccn~us of Hamilton Co., Tom. hilo to ahow tho Johr. Grnyson fatdly. 

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The family doea appear in the 1840 Census of !I~~dlton Co. 

Tile 18% Hamilton Comt.y 

Censu~ gl.ves probably thc mat occurato inforicntion available abut the family as 

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John Grayaon - 43 K Doputy Sheriff b. S'onn. 

Sarah 

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The 1gbO Cenaul of Il~dZton Ce. ~hws PI iic31q tknyson b. 3GK)-L610 rind fdly =u;ri 

pousibk .- -- c 13riaZ Etpan &~a dfs, bt,i, barn 2.&~1-15-$.s 

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Henry Grayaon 

b. 1803-1SlO & Pami& 

(It sams 1ikol;y thct Jolrn, Jowph, and Hanrg above are mrtia; 

son8 of W%3k3m ~tr~r:). if that ie carract ho is not tho fat.hsr of 

the arabJcet ai.mx lrifr tmn Joib isi too old and aleo had sevrsral 

children $n 1830, ) 

(1) lator cemparisono letd ao to b3liow that ttia William Grayson and relatad famlliao 

me, tho ones who ahow up in WiPkes Co., M. C, thru 1I320 csnsua but ma missing in 

the 1630 canstea.

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Wion Co. (1830 Conouo) 

Benjamin Grzyyson & ft& 

Rge not ~EYc;;~ wife b. 1.720-1'793. 

Henry Grayam t3 fanlily b, 179-1800. 

Yeswe Grayam & f~.m!~ly b. 1790-bri5:3. 

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Patsy Gs-ayson & fdly - M.dow - b. 3.770--1&d. 

No othar Grgyson famSli68 ahowed up in z:~~wsom7Li5.r~ &sGultiee, 

1880 Census, Ouarhits County, Ark. wm.9 ncierckx~d for J&m Grnyaan. Ha mc found I 

lidng with his daughter md son in la.&, Jninc"n 14. 

Io.~[:l.zr; r~id Martha Jane Grayson 

Doug.bs, Thin Census %hovs Jo.h Graynotits Satlznr =rl tothar b th baing born in 

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Co-pty as fo2lot.m: 

Bonjmh Grayson (out. b. 179-1755) 

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Yohn Grayaori & wife - (no childran only age itr O-ZGF 163 

It setma probable that Yohn ~>agsoii, above or one of the few* bys atS11 at hcna 

with Bon3rd.n Chyson was John Grtlysonln (1W7) fntbos. 

A trip to Maa~hvills axxi CkatI;anoop ravmld tha foU-crwh~g data concorrdag 

John Greyaon: 

1, Johri Grayeon waa a land omar J-n I ~ ~ l Co. o n in the early 1830 

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2. ..... me a deputy sharii'f at Chattanooga for a number of years and hicc 

m a ie on rany legal docmenl~ in the county recordn ao a witnocu, et-c. 

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I ..... m e a codssioner to by oat thc tom of Xarriedn, Xsrcllton County (1) 

and hi~a appws on mny of the old 1st dads as the lots wsre old. 

4. Old Nayriaon, %@m, c~attmg rcrscoa-de ehow: 

George W. Qapon d. 27 Ya 1B41, 27 year8 old. 

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(2) F. L, Grapun b. 26 Jm. 1833 d. OcL, 1852, 

(2)(3) John I. &ays3n b. 26 Jan, 1833 d. 10 Oct. 1852, 

(A vlait to tho c&etatary fail& t.o raveel any hondstonan.) 

I 5. Remil.%on Cc. Roeoxds Bolt 1-1, Page 349, a doemant sous what Uka a quit 

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Pa&6y-oslfa, Yasles &~pon Q V. Joseph Waymn, sons, posrrilly pmgm 

chilefrm. 

Patsy Gragson, Hamy Gragplon (t BanjmLn Grqylzon, Exect, 

(3) Fits John on 18% Cansus And Jaak as rsported by kdspaclld. 

(2) Dates arra obviot~aly incorrect. 

I (1) Harriaon 3.8 12 milea up rim from Chattanooga. Twm ruld C~ntatary mvwl whm

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2. Joeeph Gray~on apparently had proved o land pen*, of 70 ncren on the 

Ssquotchie River. 

gmzts t-o Bmj& 

~hib land in montionnd several tinso in other land 

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'0 John Grayson (180'7) mm*risd Sarah *rich slrd their Mrst child, a son, was born in 

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Ehrp, Jhrhmao si~jt~sr 

John~*q bsaiter and mu living in Blcdaoc Co. in tha 

I 1850% bat in &ion Ca, in 1830, prabab2y near har fmUy. 

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Fetq Grapon ms the widow of Joseph Grapon (~omdspad) andl mther of Bsnjmln 

11cmry, 

That lmtr@s Jesjsea a0 IikaS.7 t~ bs the father of John, l!lfosslsa, Xwy tmd hrge. 

l.t~ 1830, ago group8 in SosseoJe fdly do not fit John and hie fCaidly so, lhq was 

J.n her om !lousahold. 

Golt.ee ma barn in 1.815 and ccriid be tko 15-29 p-. 03 boz 

of Jssssn. 

Thort~3n Grt~yson ms brn in 1820, and c~nlld be @no of Ihs 5-10 ,pr. old 

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hired h~lp. XI: thi~ is iruo, then Porn 1830 tdibout 1850, Jesses aml his wife, 

one 5-10 $P. old 'my, on3 tlzrso gk2a 4i&, tth~rlcb, Wrga only hejra in 3.851, vwc 

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A trip to North CWolkm mti a ncurrch of Land recosta in Wilkea Co. ohow tho 

f oUob%ng : 

1, 1"/8!+ - Bmjsrda Qqson granted 2$€l ocrm H.C. on Kings Creak 3n 

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I 2. 1751 - 'fohn Grayrson bought Xsrd in WiI!cm Co. axld apparently aold a1 hi:^ 

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lnnd before 1603. (H@ dooa not appear in 180e) ~arneus) 

3. Jsaaecj Grmpun bought Xand in 1796 d apparently sold out about 11305. 

4. Williha flapon - Land grant - 1800 and 1815, anr! bough$ land in 1'799, 

& 1687. Ira sold land in 1824.

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A l l of abavs land w e on Kings Creek. 

It trema fran tlre nkvc ths'i;, John, Jozssa, and Willlam ware mrst'likaly aom of 

ISonjrmh, ai~d if' BQ, acco~m9,a far all 

,tm of thi3 R ~ G S 5~ tht5 175'0 cmqua. W:sc 

tmc tine o%hc;;*s sad r;;lnro did tkq g ~ 

Corxesprdonc~ d.tk ik. Otto Gaynnn of Farion Cc., TS2;2.n., b~caqh'c a photo co,q 

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fro3 a bits&raph,4.ci;1 I;intory ~113~ng Jcccph Cbey~on a. EJl~wbath Ej.r&it2l cad livd 

in Ads3rscm Go. arid i7nnx Co., (bcfars Fmia-acm ~QL'F~,&) hter ~oving to Bl~Aaoa Co. 

nn3 thin to &wbon Co. hbitwl dais on t m 09 khob sons, Jnraea (~iatoq of Tma, 

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ths pi-ants cf Jc!m,, TEronm, 1k-y & Cirga. MQPSQV~~ t.l~q wm-8 Lirdng ~dJacmt 

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Bnjcm1n Crtyaon 

1832 John Grisean 

L828 John Csay~lon 

3. 1630 Cm~eua ohcwa only John Grayson and nif e, both 60 to 70 yaare o2.d. I 

C~alngor Co. ro~crda llsve reany rsfmer~cee to s Jmea Grayton and family 

fro3 1800 - 1813 'o 20. Another refarenca La to n Jmoo Grayson and wifa I 

Eliznbeth in thio arm as wly as 1792. 

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I (1790 ce;azrrn) sons wms, John, Seasee, Joooj& W-a, and pesoilhy Jmes RId Em. 

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had probably &-eat!@ cre:rea;vI the E G U I ~ ~ to ~ ~ Ter~. B 

I The Bm,jdn ape.whzg in Co. in laQ6 and 3,N7 codd vmy U0I.y bo Bmjdn 

I (17~) shca hc had far rare 1,wd than tho sthcr, (630 acres.) I-!oxaver, ha could 

have barn a am of %na Ben .in 3.790 3J.C. Censua. 

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and hln b~*.rokh~ 

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tho river to Pmion CoWmty, etopp-a 04% Ln RTcdsoo Ca. .Eok a~H-lo. 

Bhd!30e Go. U B ehezs ~ 

proba5J_g mroya b fbs~~~acrfptfen orPr% mo 

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2fFp9Qhh;3-8sd on down 

Ir8Lcl~ W rrn - St e LJ. RIILE, 6 raysoh FIl P. 

hx l825. , Zh236 nro 3 Apr 

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t&dy Lht coma of c*Vo$sphc~ f d g 

&mas Ca., TGW., fn 1830 but f haw doaa r ,~ ~~JYL~CT chazk5n.g. 

appear it3 

I think 2% I.3kel.y that %ho abm &M 

Yoaeph wars gra~dfions of (1) John 

&won, S~t~y~nnter GO., 

~a, (wan 1735) wU~ Su3mm.h 

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the name John Seam to appm Ln nrda~b all htos ~ena~nt5saa. 

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probabJy b d the 1PoUo-vhg chi.kkea: alo%o, A~b;ros~ E. AUcq- 9 

John Sr,, m. B%F&A- : Ea %xrdn n. Susanm ; (mck ps5.nt.xI 

matarid aUbIo on hi:, dancaadmtr;] i khry, m. Job Cs~lc:%.t; EUzabeth, m. 

TFmmm Rill.; S u W , m. (lpJ.1~) Lhkon; and Hoko, (pa;ibl.y a blhm d 

not a wna of rBohxi).

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Bear Dr. 

G~~ajrson, 

For your place names file : Grayson Springs, 

a group of white sulphur springs nea Clarlcson, 

Kentuclcy. 

Are you aware of lT"Tc Grayson IIousel' on Sixth 

Street mear Yab, Louisville, Kentucky. It was 

built by John Gwnthncy before 1810, sturdily and 

with detailetl care, of bricks hrought down the 

river on keelboats from the Eyst. It was the 

first brick house built in Lo~:isvillo, and was on 

the si.t,e of an anc:ient Indian mound and was sli-ghtly -- 

elevated. O r i ~ nail-7, i it V J s ~ swrollnded by extensive 

grounds whtch led dorm to tlGraysonls Lake1! where 

t,hor~ wore parties and pic~rics in the smner and 

ice skating in the winter, A few years later, it 

was os.rnccl by the Frederick Grayson family. (~~ho 

were -they) It has been years since my mother 

lived in Loui:iville, but it ~ ould be nice tb think 

that such a historic structure stil-L stands. 

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Can anyone give the r7am(s of the children of 

Thomas Grayson and Jane lrJenny" Field (~arsia~e 

Bond July 11, 1788, Albemarle County, Virginia), 

in addition -Lo J:zry Crnyson who Barnett 

Smith, Jr , 

Robin Bandy 

119 3,- all Migel Avenue 

San ateo, CA 911b03

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GUYSON. GENEALOGY NEWSLETTEB VDL. 2 .. Ne. 1 0 Page 191 

The first letter is from Dr, Roy DavI&~Grayssn cpf Albuquazque,,N,.M., 

whese father David Gra son was a son sf Geor~e Washin~ton 

Grayson (1803-1 ' - ~ j = r a ~ s o n is a asusin, I blieve, ef 

eur correspondents Harlan A. Brswn and MarJorio Grayson Cardon,, 

in that they all share the same grandfather, G,W,+Grayson. See 

Val, 1, No. 11, p, 10; Ne 12; pp,16-21,, 30 for backgreund. Dr. 

Ray,Graysen relates. family traditicn about the father ef Gs.Wr. 

Grayssn, that he came from England to the Carolinas; this ispossl-bly 

in errer, in that Kozee in Early Families of Eastern 

& S,E.. Ky (Shenandeah Publ, 1961) pp 273.4, states thrst George 

Washington Grayson,(son of the Cal, Wllliam Grajson, the aide 

de camp to Genr George Washingt0n.J was the f ~ther af a George 

W2. Grayseni jri, and that the father George, die& 

inr!Fauquier cob, Va., prior te March 27, 1832, leaving 3,. 

ahd1drem:Prancis; a. Richard Poato, Geexgo W*.Grayson, &;, & 

William Grayssn, Tyler's has many references also* ~owekr, 1 

nata that there is no proof that the George Washingtan Grayson 

(of 1803-1888) is the SAME: Georgo W. Grayson, jr. who was the 

grandson of the Cola W i l l i a m Grayssn. So perhaps ZSre Rog Grayson 

is correct and his great grandfather Grwyson is sa~ebody else 

and was an I-migrant from England, If se, then whc~~was the @;reat 

grandfather On the other hand, I have a reference whfoh muXd 

be vepdfiedr 1810 census, Greenup Ky, , pa 2768 George We. 

Graysbn & wife Octavihi with children Frances, George We., and: Williamox 

George We Gxayson b. 1803, Otto 20. Since children werenot 

named in 1810, this i~terpolatkon might be inoarrect and needs 

proofo~ Can anyone pro ve this line 

Next, an interesting and helpful letter from the enoy,~lopadic;E1la 

Underwood-. 

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Next, a query onriJane Graysan of Wilkes GO,, N.C. 

Then, my twe chapters on my ancestor5 Wren Grayson, sr., et a1.s 

Then, a letter followed by much good biegraphical material en 

notable Graysons from Howard Grayswn. 

Then a DAR lineage re t William Gra.y&on 1750-1801 frbm eur member 

James Turnerr, sent this month; should be useful, 

Finally, 2 lines af descent frem Capti William Graysan - & Anrr, Smith 

8ent.b~ Robin Bandy with a query, 

Note you get a 4-page bonus this time. Please send mere for next 

188ue, every one;

R. D. GRAYSON, M.D. 

3 14 WINRCXX VILLAGE 

ALBU UERQI!E N. MEX. 8'1 10 

%uly 19, 19V8. 

Dr. R. R. Grayson, 

Grayson Family Association, 

Box 167, 

St. C.harles, Ill., 60174 

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Derir2l3octor Grayson: 

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P 'muat apo1o;ize for my delay in answering 

your letter, but I sm not a youngster anymore - in 

fact I am eighty-eight yearn old end crippled up 

with rheumatism, but the infomation that I am 

about to furnish you is, I believe to be, faZrly 

hutboratative as it csme to me from my father when 

he was ninety-two years old soue fifteen or Bixteen 

years ago. - , . 

He to13 me thgt hie fathep, who was my grandfather, 

was born in Kentucky in the year 1e03, in 

a little village which is now known as Grayson, 

Kentucky, but thst his father, my gr9a.t grandfather, 

came from Fingland to the Carolinas somewhere 

around the year 1740; then,in later years, 

mTr eragdfatber left Kentucky end caw LO Missouri. 

At the time my graixlfather caae to f4issouri it 

was not 9 State ~f tbe TTnion. 

-,l!y grandfather's nane was Ge ~ rge ilasi2lngton 

Grayson znd be settled in Platte City, Missouri. 

He vaa a slave holdel* but ha did not believe in 

slavery, He did believe in State's Zlgbts, and 

he free3 his slsves before corning to K-.nsas in 

1850 in an endea.vor to nake Kallsas a free state. 

.fhlle still !.n BClzt'te 7itv I.fissouri he owned a 

tobaoao plantation. IIe ~takad a claim and pur-

cha-aed s~met!~ing over 2000 acres of land about 

20 miles :rest of Leaven;~orth, ICcnsas wilere he 

mat e.nd mqrrled my grandmother in 1854, She, 

as I recall, was my gra!1dfa,tborts tbir3 marriage 

1%:~ grandf at'ner, George Yashington G.rayson, 

fathered three children by a foiimer marriege; 

on@ !vas Gc0rr.e ':J~;shiiigt on Grayson, Jr, , vh3 went 

to C.l+forns.i and b8p1~n8d t.5 be 1ucl;y 3.n tha 

old rn'ning fields p.ild RZSO o:.rged some cold nines 

and land in Californizz, old !.!exico and Idabo, 

IIe orpsnized what is kno:.~n as the Grayaon Cattle 

Com.pany 1~rhLc'n still exists in Spn Francfsco, altbougb$ 

nr3 G.r2.3r9021 1s n3:r c~ii1i~cted :rith tho firm, 

This Junior (+ra.y~m hnd t..:o dauebters end one 

eon 2nd. tho husbslld ~j: one of' the dau~hters Socame 

S on-ressman froln Calif 91325-2,. I t:lilk. 

My erandf atisr, Goorg.e iashi::~zton Greyson, died 

in. bis eighty8 and 1s b:lr:ied on of his $9~6 

farri~s near Cscsloc&a, Kansas. All o" his ci~lldren 

that I bs.19 any k~iowlaci,-e or, kilcluding my 

father, David, are ~ O ! J dead, 

Etj father, D-vid Gra.rso11, died a:; the age 

03 ninety tvo, ss did ny ~ra~drnotner' d5e at the 

age of ninety tl~ro, i.iy grandfatfier., George 

,iasbinctol Grayson , b;r tbLs last marrieee to 

my granda~t~~er, hod three Eons an3 t nree dauchters, 

As fnr as I know ~ 1 of 1 these cC;~tldro;i are non 

dead. 

1 hatre tvro da.ug:ters e.nd four grandsons,

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R. D. GRASSON, M.D. 

314 WINROCK VILLAGE 

AI.PLJQIIERQl'E, N. XIEX. 87 1 1 0 

One ~randu~n is a practicinp psycnlatrist in 

Tucson, Arizona o:ld another is an Airline Pilot 

or 33ntim1ltnl fii~;lin.-s, fly in^ obt of Denver, 

S9L9l-a- 3. 

If there is my further infomstion thct 

is pertinent t 1st 1 can eive you I ill be lad 

to dg so. I c . 1 ~ 5 retired i::edlcel Doctgr nftor 

serving B9lns fifty odd years in this profession. 

I trust t his information vrill bo of sone 

henef5.t to you.

July 8, 1978 

907 Picardy 

Lufkin, Texas 


Another newsy letter has arrived. I don't see how you are able 

to obtain such a wide range of material for these newsletters. 

May I please make an addition to the chart on Benjamin Franklin 

( Grayson on pago 189 Before I do so let me explain from whom I 

acquired this data and how. In the spring of 1963 we were living 

about 40 miles north of Charlottesvi.lle, Virginia and my husband 

was taking part of his chaplain's training in the University 

I Hospital there. One day he came across a patint who told him 

that her maiden name was Grayson. She said that she had a lot of 

material on the Grayson family and would be happy to loan it to me. 

1 Her husband brought it 1 day and my husband brought it home to me. 

After making a copy of everythling she had, I returned her material. 

She lived a short piece from us across the mountain, and by that 

[ time was home from the hospital. I never doubted the authencity 

of the material I received from her until I heard from Mrs. P:ulfeck 

several years later. It was only then that I learncd that the 

William Grayson I had listed as married to Eleanor Sanfsrd was also 

( supposedly married to Ann Smith. There is no doubt that It is the 

same Ylil-liam Grayson. It is improbable that there were 2 William 

Graysons, each born in 1732, and died in 1829, and each serving in 

( the American Revolution. I have wondered if. this \7illiam Grayson 

had 2 separate famil-ies. It has happened before. If anyone can 

give an answer to this puzzle, please let me know. 

Now back to my addi.ti-on to the chart on page 189. The chart I 

received from Mrs. White (lady I mentioned above) was exactly like 

the 1 on pg. 187 except for 1 thing. Benjamin Franklin married a 

( b*h *lril@. His 4th wife was Eh&. Mary E. Holtzrnan (Nary Ellen Miley) 

whom.,ke married October 28. 1873. . - She died June 21. 1921. Their 

children were Annie P,hodesV Grayson, Irene Tabitha Grayson, 2nd 

HA1i'T1F: C1,EVTJAND GRAYSON. Annie Rhodes Graysalz married a Mr. Iauck 

I and her son owned (1463) the newspaper in Luray. Virginia. 

HATTIE CLWEIJAN13 GRAYSON ~narried Hubert White. It was Mrs. VhiLe 

who gave me so much of my material on the Grays011 background. She 

) also lived in Luray, Virginia - 108 High Street. She was an elZcrly 

lady in 1963. It was her nephew, newspaper editor in Luray, who 

had done all the research on the Gra-yson family. I doubt that 

Mrs. White is still living, but her nephew, Mr. Lauck might be. 

( I do not know his first name or the name of the paper. - - Lura3 - is 

a small town and would only have 1 newspaper, 

I Thanks for printing the missing page from last month. I hope 

nobody gets the wrong impression from an item on that page (pg. 173). 

It says "John Graysan, Jr. and his wife Sarah (born Sarah Carter, 

htarch 1792 'Norrallt s, p. 19) conveved 

I ........It. She was born 

2 January 3.776 and married John 5; i ~.",/jill,Jr. 23 October 1792 in 

Montgomery Co., Virginia. They were my great-great grandparents. 

I have a correction to make on an item on the bottom of page 

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185, 

This deals with an article which appeared in Tyler's Quarterly 

and listed the probable children of John Grayson who died 1735/6 

intestate in Spotsylvania Co., Virginia. It lists John Grayson, Jr. 

as marrying Barbara Ir was HOT this John Grayson whose wife was 

named Barbara* The John Grayson whose children these probably were

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was thou ht to have had a son named Ambrose and he is listed. His 

(~mbrose f oldest son was named John, and it was this John Grayson 

who married Barbara Burdyne. They in turn were the parents of . 

John, Jr. who married Sarah Carter on 23 October 1792 in Montgomery 

Co., Virginia. There was a John Grayson who lived in Spotsylvania 

Co., Virginia as early as 1729 but there is no record as to who he 

married, if he married at all. In fact there is no mention of him 

at all. after the early 1730's. I have often wondered if ha wasn't 

the same John Grayson who died 1735/6 intestate in Spotsylvania, . 

Vis~inia. lie could have dropped the Jr. from his name by that time. 

Thanks for the opportunity to make corrections and additions. 

I have spent 18 years researching the Graysons and I am continually 

amazed concerning how much I still dcnvt know. 

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Sincerely, 

Doer Drs Grayson, 

In reviswing the Novenlbe~ 1974 issue of the WGS, I notad 

you^ inquiry regarding exchange of informatLon on Graysons, 

I am trying to gathar information about one Jame Gragson 

born cu 1819 in Wilker Gounty, N.C. She married Harvey 

Meadoss and they had two known children-William C and Sarah 

E. Meadows. Would appreciate any help you can give me re 

Jane Grayson. 

Sincerely* 

"% cf-,.k 

Roger E. palmor 

3752 Del Mar Brive 

lqoodbridge , Va 22193

WREN GRnYSON, SR. 

A BIOGRAPWI~~ SKEI"I'H 

BY 

RICHARD K. GRAYSON, M.D. 

The progenitor of the Graysons of Madison, Indiana, and Decatur County, Indiana, 

was Wren Grayson. He was born in North Carolina in 1782 and died in the home of 

his son, Sanfoxd, June lst, 1865. 

The earliest available docuvent of his life is a tax list for Scott County, Ky., 

dated April 27, 1805: "GRAYSON, WREN: 1 white male above 21. No slaves. 2 horses." 

No land was mentionned. The tax lists do not show white females and therefore the 

presence of his first wife, Betsy nee Owens, is not shown. S~rprisingly, he was 

not on the tax lists for previous years (to 1794) and Lor years after 1805. Otilex 

Scott County records are not extant kcailsc the court house burned with all records 

in 1838. 

Wren Grayson was 23 years old in 1805 and possibly had mi.gratcd from North Carolina 

to Kentucky either on the Wilderness trail of Daniel Boone, who also cculle from Flortl: 

Carolina, or down the great water highway, the Ohio River. Three years earlier 

the father of his future d~~lghter-in-law, Pcnncl.ia, had arrived in Kentucky fron a 

state as yet unddtclmincd by way of the river. In the obituzry of ANDIWJ CIARK 

CmlMINS, who died Jar]. lst, 1864, at the residence of his son-in-law, John Grayson, 

in Madison, Ind., it was stated: "He passed down the Ohio P.ver in 1802 and stopped 

this siclc of IIanover and the Inen chased a deer." 

The first child of Wren and Betsy was born six months after the tax list mention. 

This whs JOHN WREN GRAYSON, Lorn Nov. 2nd, 1805, in Scott County, Ky. He was the 

only one of eight children of Wren to be born in Kentucky, and 25 years later John's 

first. child, Rebecca, would be the only grandchild of Wren to be born in Kentucky. 

Let some of the next years fall directly from the pen of Wren's son, John, whose 

brief autobiography was inciuded in his obituary published by the Pladison Courier 

Feh. Ist, 1882: 

"I was born in Scott County, Ky. , the second day of Kovember, 1805. 1.1~ father's 

nane was Wren Grayson and my ~nothcr's maidcn name was Betsy Owens. I have six 

brothers and one sister: brother Lewis died in childhood and another, Henry, died 

after raising a large E~amiLy. My other brothers are Wren and Sanford Grayson of 

Dccatur County and Joseph and Benjamin Grayson of Tipton County, Irldiana, all. men 

of honest repute among those who knob{ I-hcm. Ely only and beloved sister is Ws. 

Nancy lIarnilton, widow of Will.iam Hilrnilton of Dccatur County. 

"In 1807, when 1 was two years of age, my parents moved to Tennessee and settled 

in Bledsoc County. Thcrc I almost qrcw to manhood and was familiar wit.h thc scenes

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Wren was discharged from service May 3rd, 1815, after serving 7 mont!~s and 20 days, 

incl.uding 6 days travel time. lie was paid at the rate of $8.00 a month and received 

a total of $61.33. This information is fxom copies of his military records 

on file in the National Archives. 

Two other proofs of tllc Graysons' sojol~rn in Bledsoc County havc been discovcs-cd: 

Wren siynecl a pctitiorl in 1.G15 in nledsoc CounCy "to delay enactiocnt 31: thc I,ald 

Law during tllc war Letveerl Great Buitain and the Unitcd Sta~cs" (his nane was misspelled 

- Ren) aid his n;lnle also nppars on a txix list for 1815. Arjaill tile f icry 

finger of fate inhibits our search For documents: th- Bledsoe County courthouse in 

Pikcville burned with all its records in 1908 and the Narion County courthousc 

whcrc Wren col~ceivably could have had records burlled in 1922. 

We know that the family stayed in Tennessee at least through 1824 Sccause the lost 

of tlic children, Sanford, was born j.11 Tcl~ilcssce that yc~~r 

as shown in lzter zcni-us d 

scheZules f lorn Indiana. Soinetir~c bcforc 1829 tlc>y app~rcnkly left for S zott County, 

Ky . , ' where that year John married Pcrn~elia Cunuuins . 

It is not easy to s!:)cctlntc why the Graysons left Tennessee to retu>:.'n to Kcn:.uc-!:y. 

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Pcs!ap~ sonlr. clay :.:z ~hzl!. 1Cnci~. 13i.d I2;';cy lcaye rclativas iii 'L'eiilie>scr TiiiiJ quesc:~~ 

i.s of imlmrtar~ce for future cjcncr11ol;ic;-11 rcscarch inlc I.lrrcr. ' s origins. lu'a havc: s cl.~i:: 

passed to us fro111 Mrs. Winslow Prjcc of Loui.svil.l.c-. (IIer r:~otr!icl: was Ialauc:e, dauql!Lcr 

OF ~alat.llicl. C;rciysorl, who was orlc of 3ohn blrcn Grayson's t11u.ce sons). >,Ir:;, IJl:.L~:f; 

rcmc~d~crs I-ier cjriindiathcr, Sal,lt!licl (b. 1837, c!. 1.916) saying thzt. wh:~ he \ITIS i1b01211 

11 (1.848) "they vi.sitcc1 rc.l.ations in Tennessee" . 'Snis j.s a most tnntai.%;::i ng l-;:! c: 

becan:~ce wc: I;l!or. from the census and other 1-1,istoricaJ. rcio:cd:; that t!~erc vJc2.e i,ul:y 

other C: -;lysOi:s i.n n3.cdsoc and l4ar lo:^ Count.j..cs. Even tod~y ,I:rcrny of t1lc.i.r descci ,2ill1l-...;i.:> 

s:till. live in !.larion County. 

In 1830 tllc. Pedc~ral CI~SUS for Scott Coun+y, ICy., showccl tilo Gxciy:;on f-xni!.ics a:.:.' ~r,: 

Cuirznui.ns fm:i:Ly gro~~ped on the sane enumcrc~tpr's paya 3112 tl~c:.!:cf(>rn nc5.qlhrr:: 

ANDRJnV CiJl~ll~lll\iS; rnalc 1, 50-GO; fcm'ile 1; 50-60; 0 slaves 

J011N GicAYSOI:: nialr, 1, 20-30; ic-male 1, 20-30; 1 undo- 5; 0 sl;~vcs 

It is obvious from these first two census entrj.cs that John P:rci: Graysoil, age 25 il-$30) 

hacl ~i~arricd and incvc-'d out of his father's (Wren) hc.usc. IIe movd to his ow1.1 da~:;.i.ci.l-: 

near !lot on1.y his parents' lionc but also his in-law's hoilse. Ai~cii-ci~ Clark Cur::- ins 

was living with his wife and no children. We know fron his obl tuary thcit thc1-CI :.as 

only oilc Cuw~ins child, Permclin. Wc know also fxom later rcc:ords that t!!c fi~st 

child to be born to John and Pr:rrnclia was Rebecca 3rd thus we can recc~r~sLl-uct the 

11330 census and state categoricalZy -that Johi, Perr~elia, and baby Rebecca were living 

in Scott County. 

Another interesting inference becomes posslble regarding the name Rebecca. It is 

1il;cly that kebccca, the baby, was named after John's stcpnothc,r. TlxrcCore, dcspite 

the aljscnce oi marriage records we can assume that Betsy 0;dcns Grayson died 

somet5.m~ between John's birth in 1105 and hsby Rebecca's birth in 3.830, giving Wccn 

tjrnc to rcrriarry and John titne to accept his new step-mother. 

Two lines further down tsle cnumerntor's page in the 1830 census of Scott County, Ky., 

we find Wren's naruc (mis-spelled \rip --- Grayson). According to both the 1820 and +he 

1850 census, neither Wrcll lur Rebecca could read or write. However, the power of 

attorney note hc signcd in 1815 is signed in an experienced mar~ner suggesting he could 

write at least in a Zi~~uted way.

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WREN GRAYSON: Males, 1 40-50 (Wren at age 48) 

2 5-10 (Benjamin age 10, Sanfo~d 6) 

1 10-15 (Joseph 15-16) 

1 15-20 (Wren, Jr . , age 17) 

Fcmalcs, 1 40-50 (Rebeccc age 41) 

1 10-1 5 (Nancy age 11) 

The one child not accounted for seems to be Iienry Grayson, the second eldest. If 

his ng was correct in his dcath notice in 18G2 (age 54) he was born in 1808 and 

tllcreforc would havc hccri 22 years old in the 1830 census. It is pss; b1.c hc had 

Icit homc to work cl.scwicl-e. A cn1np.I icating facl:or, hotuever, is the fact Ulat 

Wren Gr;lyson, Jr., stated in 1872 that hc cm~c to Dcc~it~ir County, Ind., in 1827. 

He would have Lccn only 14 years old at Chc tiinc, howuvcr. 

When and why cljd the GI-ay::oll:, remove to Indiana We know that cvcryonc in all. 

U~rcc households dic in fact go to 1iidicln;l even includi!~cj Uidrc~r Cun!mins. Jn 

regard Lo .Uic quc ,tion cf 1vhc.n they rnovecl, wo llave ;L nurlbcx 01 fixcc7, ddies whjch z-; 

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tllc Li~r~e bcforc Pl;~y, 1832. 

Far i une: John iinri Pt:i-1nc1.i~: s seco~iii chi l:i, Sarah, \l~, Indiana, whi Le sic o thcrs went GO milrs i~o the nou th 

of tllczl: city tc, settle in S;indcrcc.l; toorns';'iip of Dccatur Count-.y. I.lacIison js j.n JcZfer:l;l1 

L'sul~'y. kliiatc\jej: John did in M~lcli.son j.-, not known, but lle t.c!nqmrclr'.ly changcir3. 

his iilin~l ir 1336 slid enicrcd land rle;.ir his brother 011 Ai;;.:ril Eth, 1836. Oil 0cC.31sJi 

of thr; t yc.;lr llc rcgistercd hi s stocl; mark (Ix:nnci) , a sr:alI owfork. Tl~c anc;.ioer tg the s 

tion, t:;r:ri, 5:; that: 2-hcsc: Tcllnesscc farmi:rs v~cnt to 1ndi.aria for -- land. 

In lC3.0 a zcw 3.and law llod been passcd by the Conrj,rcss cillled the Land Linv of 1820. 

This act p3:ovidcd that pbnlic lands would be offered for cash at public auc.k.ion 

for not I.css than

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w1le1-r tiley are fohn6 living OII chc 9th of October in dwelling 224. Their son Sanford 

and f'mily were in dwelling 225, Joseph Grayson and family in dwelling 222, 

and Benjamin Graysol-! wit11 his family in dwelling 226. All were in Sandcreek Tobmship, 

including Wren, Jr., ill dwelling 64. Soil IJenry was in Jcnllings County at this 

time, and John PJrcn had lnoved back to Pladison. The daughter, Nancy Hamilton, was 

living next to brother Wren, Jr., in dwelling 65 with hcr husband and children. 

Wren, Sr., was listed as agc 68, farmer, born North Carolina. Kcbecca was listed as 

61, thus establishillg for l21c first time her birth year as ahut 1789, born 

Virginia. 

The Westport Baptist Cli~lrch, accordj-ng to the Rev. John N. Cassaday, was constituted 

Jan. 4th, 1851. These wcrc 24 charter rncmbers. An~ong these was Lctj-cia Grayson, 

probably Bcn-jnrclin's wife. She was received into the cllu-ch hy baptism and dislnissc:d 

by letter in 1857. 

Rebecca Grayson, I~IX~ ycars before her d~~th, was !:~ajI:ised in tllcl Westport naptist 

church Jan. 5th, 1855. Wre~l G~:c~ysoil'ri nails is 1.1al; four1~1. in the records of this 

church. Ilis r,o~l, P:re~;, Jr. , lin\~csrer, w'ls buricd Fl:om tllc sime church i.11 1887. 

aoly] b!.-~n cr::;~:::g>, y!!:~ !:3::! bey cfi,r.::r!--: kc. $-hc ~rCr;>Y-~Cr$az fzi k13 , ~ yLy&~~~.~;,$ 

church, at agr;. 17 in Tenncs';tc, and 11is wife Pe~r~,lcl.ia ;:.re fourid in the rccords of 

the Trinity ITiiited I4cthodi:;t Church of r.!~dF son, 73d. 

Rebeccc Grayson died "at iln adva;~ccct age, near Wcstp:3rt., Ind., on Oct. 26, 1858" 

according to an old newspapor accouxt on fi1.c ill tl;- InCi.iina State Lil~rcl:~-y in Lndiannpolis. 

She was about 63 years of agc. 

No furtiler records of !.,'::c.n Gj:,;l..;on are ~v;li.i.al~.l.c o:cept Yo11 his ol~ituary which 

appcarc3 i.n thc: ,ladison coui;:icr Jcnc 3xd, 1.865, on page 4, column 1. T t was ~,rriti.c.:! 

so pig'~~a11'il.y I suspcc:: that !-~iri

Chaptcr 2 

TIIE 'JENIqESSCE CONNECTION 

Page 202 ' 

I 

0 f 

\4R131\1 GIUiYSON, 

SR. 

by 

Richard 11. Grayson, M .D. 

A .Icytc:r y71-.iti-cn by KT-en Graysojl, ST. , dated Api iL 6, 1.047, has been d.isco\~cuccl 

wl>icl~ I3rovc.s Cha i: LJI~~ of liis LLO! hers ~ ~ 1 : ; Jor;ej.)l . 

I Srayson of J.lcr.io!l caul-:ty, Tc:i!ri . 

A secc..,:l I.ct-.t:er c!~:i k.Lc11 by the s(>lis oF 1:~rc.n Gr'lyson, Sr. , - I\'l-ell gray sol^, Jr. , 

Iier~ry (;~~ily~ol~, 

of IIC:I>-.~, y~i~ll, Llle son of tkie J~,~r;x)li C:i-cil~so~-~ n)~ax-e, COYL-CJ~~>;~+-~ 

I71:c:)) 

\:Is the I:reri C;:c;iyson of TIcciitur county, Xndi ;ins. 

29c3 :;anfo,.ri C;ray::on - to "Dc;lr ~ousjns" n1lc1 I;c:l>t in tlic family 

Grajrso;), Sr ., a1-n::~~ 

I 

Pu):tlrc:rlnoro, :loth Icttt~:l:s s bite t21ai: they v:erc ii;~:i.i.i:cn at "!.;c,sCrjol-t" (1:113,) I' 

I 

Nc]l~c:w" . V'llc I e.Ltc!l.: was in thc: hands of llcnry C:rij>r:;on, bojrn Ncv. 2, 1'799, in 

Andi.1-:;on county, Tcnni:s!;c 2 , 

3 

the so11 of Sos(:pll C;r:i17:-,on a~lci I.'a t:;y F_ira.i.zc,nl l c. 

IICI~I;~" s s011: iiid~::~~li Cli~:,.:;: GI-&~~:~;~~I, 

~):i:;~c:.i !-IC:;C :;~I 1.0 llj-s 

da\.i

Dr. Gxayson 

page 2 

Challter 2 

- 

Page 2Q3 

I c!-pnr;ecl to Clir;ton. T]]c :;iX ot!:=r cc:p,r.ir;sic:lprs k~crc 1.1: ~ , - A - 11 + L + L 4 -- ~ E 

f 

son, 

T 

Page 203 

-7 I Vnn-7 

A-+~,,.LL 

-.-.-A. l-hn- 

William Standifcr, Wjllj.am Robc~rtson, Solomon Plassengale, and Hugh Plontqo~nery. 

Thc first court of pleas met in June, 1802, ill the llousc cif John Licl~ where 

it continued to meet until t11~ compltltion of the courthouse the followiiig ycar 

(from llistory af Anderson countly , Tcnn. ) . 

Joseph nlld Patsy Grayson camc to Bledsce county during their son IIcnry's childhood, 

locating in the nc.iqhb~-hoocl of Stcphcnl:j chapel. Later the fa~nily ~inovei'; to 

Mar.i.on county. Mario11 county was crcatcd out of the SQU~~IC~JI par:t of Bledsoci. 

county in 1827 (Compendium of ~iograpliy, publ. by Og2.e Co., 1890) . 

Joseph Grayso~l, Sr., was said to be a b1aclrc;lnith arid a farmer and of ~ncjljsl~ Eescent. 

(Biocjl-;;phy of \L'il.li.a~n 11. Grayson, p. 341 in tile Conq;i'~~dium above). lie had 

two sons in add.it:ic)~i to Henry (according to the Ilistor17 of I~oba.tvd j-I: 1-823 a112 j.5 ill t l i ~ lic~~).i:.i of I\li.~:; lYi~kt:;. 

The 1030 ccn:;tls fartlic:r-r,;c)l:.c places hi.:; ~ifilZ11~1 Lc;fore thtit-. czr~:;us in :_hat ~';!j-.-y 

Grayson was 3.i.stc:l as ;i widow ;ind as t-lii! licacl of the J>our;cl~cld in I.:a~:i.o:i crju;:t:y, 

agc: 50-53, wit11 one nian 29-29, onc boy, th~:ec girls, ;:nd six sl.av(:s. 

A 13cnjami.n Griry.c;on on Apri.1 5, 1824, clri.i.mc~ci 90 acrc:; of larici ir; Llri~jc)!~ c:c,II:-I'~~ n:i 

I the Scq~i~t~clije 1ti.v~~ 11c):L ::o t-I~c far111 of: Scot:tl Tts~:.y. Was lie the k!~:ot:hc:r or so11 

of Jor;c:ph Grayson, Sr. Thcrc wiis a 13clljnmjli C;~i-llrr;on j.11 thc 1830 b:;s.:ic)n ccrl-i!~:;' 

cc~~s~k:;, p:.::;ibl.y ci l-,.;l:oi:hcr to Joseph Cy:;ly~;on, SL-. : "I.~C!~:~XII~ .- 11 -- ray:-;(>^^ .." ~J.iit:,!!t jltirl 

15-19 (fathe: n:*:aj~) ; five 1)oyr; ur~cic:~: 20, on \ioi>al 40--49; i.;.!o 2.i L.i.~ u:!dii~- If,, 

ci-cjl~t slave::. " 

a~icl Josi!;>h, Jr . , "1-emovec: to l.:i::sc;~-(:j. 

The two %In of J~~c!j-jll C:rayso~l, Sr. , Cc~lj;inli~; 

W~CL-E: LOSC~-I~ arid his v7i.f~ died, Ic;~vi.lig a fi

Dr. Grayson Page 204, 

page 3 

Chapter 2 

Page 204. ' 

4 

llenry Grayson was married Scpt. 11, 1820, to Na~lcjr Hixon in Blcdsoe county. She 

was born in Grcene courit.y, Tenn., July 22, 1799, died Nov. 10, 1881. Henry die 

Nov. 3, 1879. They had nine childre~l: 

1. Plctlsa~lt Grayson, b. Aug 3, 1821. 

2. Louiza Grayson, Aug. 3, 1023. 

3. WilLia,n 11. Grayson, April 12, 1826. 

4. Patlick II. Grayson, Scpt. 4, 1828. 

5. Jalncs M. Grayson, May 16, 1.831. 

6. Sara11 C. Cra)fnon, Jan. 24, 1834. 

7. Houston Grayson, June 8, 1837. 

8. Joseph I.. Grnyson, Apx il 24, 1839, d. July 1, 1840. 

9. Andcrson C'. Grdyson, Dec. 23, 1841. 

(from WE Hcnry Grayson frunily Bible through Miss Dykes). 

De:;ccr.ldc~~.~ts of ti,c.';e Graysons with whom the author of this paper has spcllrcn or 

c:o~:rcclmndcd so fax (in ca.rl.y 1.974 j irlcludc : 

1. His:: Bobbie Dykes, gxiind-dnughtxr of Andclrson Cheel: Gr;!:rsor , through Ande~:sc)ii ' c 

dauglitcr, I.~~na Grayson L)ykes. 

2. IInlLle G;:;;y:;o:; Enrkcr {m. Paul Carkzl-) , the d~~agl~tcr af Joseph G-~aysc;. , -Lhc 

grci~rcl-daugl~t.~~- of \u'illiarr. 13. Gray:;cs~, Address : 3613 Redding Rond, CIlntZ-.anooga, 

9.'cnn. 

3. Idiss OLi.ve Grayson, Whi.tvcj-l, '~'enn., has brot.hers Roy anc! Orcn Gr~iysol~; she is 

t.11~ cl;~ugI~.Lcr of Wil!.iam Grayson whose father v;l.s !,tarion Fr-a12ci.s Grays;on c~iio was 

I 

the son of William H. Graysoil. 

4. 0tt.o I. Gliiy6011, acj~ 68, retired, in the fielc! of publ..ic cducat-ion arxl agricul-- 

d 

t.ure, son of James l.loorc Grayson, who was a son of Patrii.1; 11. C;1-ayson. Addr 

is i

Page 206 

Page 206 

., ..a- .. 

. 

HISTORY - OF COLWAY 

COUNI'Y, IIRKAI'ISAS 

. . 

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I 

,,,,:," 111 1*1'..'. 1111

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nrrd. (!!I. \Y::sl~lr,:lu!~ G.is :!cltt Co. Ijcrcyr~',td: 

h'$,~ rru!,s (Lx.S.), i'n!:i~;,~~:lvr b!,lr: bf J~o;~nlil 

O'(;L::I~I), C~;,~:,o:,dr l.~~i

Page 2.08 

GRAYSON, Yiilliam Bandy, h~allh cnmnr.; 

Fara~ould. All.. 3lxy I, '1507; 6. Ahrn D:,r:s 

)Inn, 1m:is.a (Ilc~~~l~r~onl (1.: st1111rnt [J. uf d 

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I):. 1;:s; I :,,ELI 411 11.3 

hlrC,trf~, Ark. , 6, 

Ilnli! JIIII l!i,':3. 

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h.b.'A.S.: nirm. .4m. Jfrd. .4,n3,. fiou:t,:k 1 

Arrg., Ark. S:a!r %,id 1'1i!:r I! Cvonlr c.iJ. 3.. 

ACID !17'd. .fiv11. of .\i~~:ics,!.%. ~II~I. 111:Il'; !,: 

Am. IL;!CKI, S.;ma ct~i. 2~lj~~,~'J;;.8:~~ li',~,;,~, 

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9,>.,. lT,I!#,:,I \i, :,,TI. 

pub. I), , If!, t w t, t:f h.!! 1'rdb.I ,\,!II,:~~S:';.,I\: 

ln. (.i5~~~,.1 :,.:,I ,,)2r,!tc~ G~- 

tp., \I :(;5 !bV. 12;.2l: s::.!~ !! il~!) c,E.,r. 

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:, az,i,,r Y,.!:.-II I II,I~;,,:.,:~ R,!li,.f ,{:!;lli!:is- 

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(J.:.,>rs C -r~r. ct i&irt!i :ti~c,r~,,:,, 19'i!1. 

.TCT.C. 1!1.11 Co. S:,. 13, r:::!., Isvtin, ' 

tT.. S,i*t.-Xd\.. 1915, cnl: !!I(:* l;.1 el;. L-)-L, 

i lf:.;, d ,>L!!!LL~!. I At'% I.l.:! Y'P~); I! ,,v; .LC (1'1~1~1 ); J% .:, 

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, iV&.I.i .,!'4>:!, I).fC. 

YO.,^ York8 16;';; Tc:r,i,!c c,,!,l ti:~.I.l, PI. ,\[.!!. 

YAP:ON, Chsr!ed Pr3~ou:, 1f.I). St.: 

I-i::~ Art:. IS;. Rc;re.g:sIi.! i:, the p.1::. i,~:~O%, 

:i1.,4 Ct :--m.AT! 1r:dl. ('1~h:: C.', ,I!II:. F,:lr*:. ,: 

2A1 SciN. Clif arri Pruic;t, nr!i:.l: b. 

.,,!i 

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., Jcl 14, Ivu:tj C:; 

P;. ,!';J St.. ::r Ycr:. 3.Y. 

ul,!i , i.J.,\l,~r. 

4, 1,3.hn 

C'~,r,.c~sit\. I!'JI- m. Orsr.: B1:tkistatl. I>N. 13, &LC (hi 1J.I arid A[II.IPI!:$ (I'eit!~)'(.> . lTrii;!$n LIL~IILC. :ind ue*turling hirrc';. l!'IY. du~tiea of I!, 

(~+ivS,rc+~,1'l+3:.~i~ I ~I;I~I., 1~1tim lil:rl.2la V't:fl:,t.,ttc April 2, lubrnr in fin::ncr. n'ttr-trm G:d !+13ri SUIIP m. Alim Ce~tr~i.le G~rclo.~, 1'1il.s.. ,'st. UDIV. C~:(.ti~inlr PMII.; pr~.~. Nnt. 

of kir~il;~~~! 51111 Cornrr)ct*~. U. O( 1'8. llil(.."l, of \i:~t.n:!o~t. %!c., hfay 24. 1911;; children Ydv. L.rtc41-ir!fl !.EY~, 11K!.W. !.Icm. l'n. F!:!te 

prbl 6n,a~i~r, I020-L'5 ma,,. l42>'l. -.Jm.n~ l;o~dt,o, Cnry Trnicrs, Kru. Cnlxll. JQ- and 1'lriladrl;~hia tw nuns., G-L InsL SXh:J 

. ainvc 1927. ~lir. evcnil; 3n.I ert~riiion w h of terr.c, Columt,ia Ilivr,. far Pio17:en. \Vs.hirgr,n, R.icr.us, PIila. ChnuL~r C~tr~qncrce (ru..m. cdcl. 

.PC ancl acc.~ttnting ri11i.t: 131%. J~mrim u thr lV:)m: o)mrnd. act. mt. siirq. Lt.Y.N.. July c~sfn.). .4m. GM AEP~ (rdnl. crtm.), PLu G-JIJU;~ 

e, Itvlr!a~r Tp., 1':~ I'JII-13. kc. nccl wr:tn. 14. 1103: w~t. .5~i~r . n. . June Y. 14lH: ~n.*! :L-* !J*ltr. ,Dth Gb-i~:na S:~ma, Prnla I,ia:n Cairn.: trrut. S.J. 1 ;,~;~.i,Rj,;r,e 2% I!~o;: DIIILVOD. Aw. IOlil: nit*l. dir. I:c;~ut~l~w.n. I. ,;sco;>alinn Nar.itn. Clubs: Vru- 

,Cia Aano. I{t!p. of U. nf 1'3. in .4aan. 01 Cdan m ! ~ - ~f~~:~r-adr~;~al,-i~~~. 

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'3; 1916.' Sr~rpsm vcmify. Irnion .cape h Oliu d'cjr. F~YIIC!III III 

n., Nat. L'nrv. Exr.wk~n Me.; DW. Eist I U.Y. Navxl Hn,y., Ba:hir&oo, l(HU45. U.S.J. l'Li!s:l~.lpha ~-,sn\rj;.' Author: !&a of ~rortc,Q 

7 wrr:d, 1 &'5. trnd 5;cid Awc;:ct,,,rm in l'cttr.~r!vat,ia Ilnr. 

Marghrrl, 190547; crubr amt.nd thi 

i 07: aura4~)n of tha Pt~blerrt'~ yxht, Mwfl 

~2 s!!Gding atitl nlclulting phi~ic'un. h'3t;;l IjG 

na.wy Wanlington, during UIC hcrc!t and 

ul;niuia!rniot:s. ph rriri~n to I'rtaivl~t~t Wilsoa 

M m puh bcalth m;. ol~ot. Fwi AJmit~islrntioo: 

mad.'mem, Council Nst. Wcnw; mm. slsR GRAY SON. Thomas Wra , hl D': io*. 22. ' 

I;ruerpy IIrrrp; iomirxly mcnr. stiff Ea Koad jb71-hi8) 17. ~m. fioc VOL 17 6033;~). . , I 

and hmnt Rmp. hd Ymvrdrno~ 1Imyt.. pm. 

Garan Mern.rrial Innt. of I'revcntive Mmlicina rc+l 

!

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Page 209 

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': GRAYSON, Willl~m. Bandy, plo.dclln. b".Pm- 

~auld. Arian~as. Llaj 1.1 1897; .r: ~dzm' D;& and 

Xlary Loulsr lIlcn3mon) ,O.: ctodent U. Of Ah. 

1915-17; b1.U.. Tulmr U. 6ch. or hledlclnt. 1021; 

A.R.. ArLsl~& State Tclichcrr Collqc. l!;fi:"ntafrltd 

:FJorcntc &. Tuwraend, Oct. 16,. 11)1; rhlhiren- 

Rcllv'Jr~ma Shlrlev Ann Inlrn! hl.l1.ll.R. ljom.. 

AIc(;rli~$ Art.. Sept. 1P"j; or:2,-rd In rwt. trrnctlcc 

n1!1ll 'Jisie 1P3R .Aasoe.'.18:r~r. nlrdlclna, 11. of Ark. 

Rchool. Ned.. IN. Inrnrd arid o;~rrxttd Crn~non 

:Reap.. !~lc(.clirc. 1!17.31: stale tiralt!~ rarnmr., 01 

hrt.. Juuc 1933 Snr. 1!113: rnrdiol. Vets. A:i.rL!6lm. 

.Furl Rr>o!s Ilus:~!lnl, lB;i--. Dirrrtor put~!lc 

.hehI:tl arljrlllcs lor ArL'n'u. Fcdcral !:'llcrCenW 

Relic1 Ad:11ir,lvk3tiu:! K\'crcni!~.r 1933 to i\'uir:chtr 

1943. l'r~, SLSIC. !IN! i'~~,.!:~~i:~l IiruJth 0fitc.r. roil[. 

'of Korlh .4;!!:.rira I!!) 3I;m .S h T C. I!iilt Co. 

. . 

A x l~gio!! Si:.~tlx rlrl, A!;,'II I~II:II . 1~.;1;,8,c:c. 

s 1)~morral. ,'~sp!i~!. XI:.soil :Si.r.t,cr). . 1'o:ilbr. on 

mrd. sul~krts. Flnl prrs. A's:, uf Slntr ni!d Tern- 

'torial Ilrsllh OC.crrs. l!H'. Ilornc: 401 Colonial 

Court. 'Addbss: fix. Roots Ilo;~.. Llltle Iiorb, Ark. 

. GRAYSON, \Yilli;tnt Ea~f, n!mirian: b.'.~ 

#!oulL Arl;!ma3, hlw 1, ItJI7; 6. Atl~!n Drrut 

llnry lauisa (Ilrnd~r~oi,) - C ; rli!:lrnt. U.. of 1 

1815-17: N.U.. 'il!w$ I!. 6~11. Xlrdicine. . 1 

'A.E., rirlilnthi f;!~.tc >-rhp!1i3 7i,G171., 1 W7; 5 

nrd .rl(::rt~ce B. You.n..-,I. O:t 16 IlK.4- ~n!!d:, 

. 8ettr IPSI.DShirlci. A,:n. ~r.lt,;; ~i.P.il.!; li; 

l.ltilc :I:uck, 1F1-22; rlii. ,sumcon 11.1' J:y. 

AltCehcc, ,Ark., bept. lit!:; ers.bgrO In pra 

urrtil June :9.;3. .h"s~or.. r,roI. nr~,dicirjr V. or 

SchOd'.~:Cd., ]].I), 'fil!dll~ u* sch. ~f >frtii(ir~n,. 

k'lor17r;cc E. Tnur~r~nri. Oe!. If, lo"!: rh;i;lrpn lgz!: 

- 

1lelly Jrann~, Ft1111ry .\:!!I. II~~c-I:: >I.l'.I: R. 1r0~,,.. 

1.ilIlr Ihk 1!11-!2. nlw i~!,tr. in ~111jsIol. 

V. rhcn!, 

of .\rk. 'sL,~I. of IIt,ri.: sr. I~I:C,:II Cllarity ~i,>\~: 

Xr!r LIIII~AI~, l!r:.:;; Ir!vr. 111 II~;!~~OIII'~~ 3114 plly51- 

OI~i;! ~~l~llll~l~, V. of. .\rk. %"!I. or >l&iiciI1r. 19~2- 

21. as50. firor. pti>>inl. chrrt;ii~,lw~~, 

I!l-~i; dir. riii:. 21111 ~ialtinl. 1:iIi. Rapt. Slstr IIO;~~.. 

Jai~..J:ils l!~:.;; ap~i~~l. ,l:v. SIITC.,,,II \I.J'. . I:Y*, at 

JI~i~etitt~, .Ilk., Svpt. IT,>: efi:s:r,l irn pct. przcticz 

Unfil Jun l!1.;:1. UulI.,d ;Iriil n[,~.r:!lrrl Crn, i8ln Ilusp., 

. >It~(:~l~'c. l!f2i-$l; sl2tc l~!~allli CO!II!II~ of .\rL., JIIIIC 

I:C:I-S~lv. l!lt:l; t m ~ rr]:.tzI3rtin. Ti]: lric U.. Sept.-Sov. lf~l'i. 

curnmd. 1st It. JIvtI. lltsvn-A, la'rr c311t.; :li::i,on 

kc,, U.S.l'.ll.S. FI~IIuM- .\rn. ('rill. of l'I~)~i~ia:~,; 

nt'ili. .\.JI..l.. ~~ii111~~r1 !JrtI. .4~1i.,.\tk. s12:t ~IJCI 

I'uI~.i~i ru~ll!!!. !:.f.rl. so.*>.. Am. I'lil~lir Ilr.tlti! .%%an 

Inr. I.p:.ion. Si-nlz Chi. .llpl~a K:~p(ks li.rl,p.~. cld: 

Drn141rr;It. R31nri.t. Jl~sur~ (Sl~ri~l~*ri. Cgii~rI~r. ofl 

rnk~I. sili1b~l3. First Ilrv;. .\L111119 r;i.d. :f>es., .An:. !':r'llir Ilrn!:tl .hCb!i.. 

An!. Cl;,ir~n, Sipr7s Cll!. .l::ihb Lap78 I.I):., 

191.;-1;; >!.I>:, 'l'~tI.i~c LI: Srh. of X:~,,liciri~, llf'l;, 

nl. Florence E. Touriscad. Uct. 19. J!rl:' childrrr!-- 

litalty J~.l,iiflr. S!.irlej .41111. l~lrn d.l'.R.I~:. l{i~.%!c~l~ t-itrn~., 

U. or AIL Frlr. of Il,.d.: ,sr. ir~tt.ra ['I-rr;!) Ilunp..l 

Svw ~lrl~.x~is 1(~+'-"3; lrtc!r. 111 ~I~!SIIB!I~ZS a ~ i)!jysi- d 

tales C~IC~:IIled.. llcsrne lalm enpL: r,. 

kc'. 11.S.lS.11.8 I,e!lov An.: .Cull, 01 l'lr~++"~ 

lhtm! ;t.sl.~.. Suthr:i~ hlrd. Assri., Ari. tat;('"; . 

Pcl;di ~uurty ni-d. r;lrs. .I!., Ark. S:!.: 1.~1 

ll:!!:,::lb!, (12 

rncb. subire:r. F i:s: prtli.. .%sso. cf !;tatp and Tt:rito:i&j 

llni!h (.l.,c:rs. . 192. Iidc e: 4111 Cc,: 1;lill 

Cou:L. Adacss: n. C~OL~, lI~::..~+lt!!e, .':I&, . h;k. 

FRAYSON, ' f),x>id (l~,ri.~dr,r.sm); s+ B~..krr, B ~ Y 

' Stanxr~i. 

I 

GcAysot4, Th:in;$ J~CL~L~I; firziy o2::rr; 11. 

: ~ l r .\I:,. \IIV l$ri; COI n:,l~ 11. IrV, V.S. 

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~,c,~,l~~!:;, ;>, S,))~.,:;ii~: Sr:.;icc, JJC~::.>II, \I1~~.* 

GRAySO:r. wllli,-..ri Bar!:]. h!,s!:t~ rti.:lzr.: h. 

P%rj~i,~,l~i, .irk., N7,y I, ],XI; s. AL!.I:I; D.! ,s :!lid, 

1.0!1~:, (II,~I.,,!,~s~:I) (>.; S~II.!.,! U. uf Ark.. . 

l!tr,-1;: 11 I)., ~:I.I, U. .rh. of >Irct:~-*. I!ll; 

m. y,c,79!.l.,l F. ,T,.,S:.SCII,~. n ~t. 16, 1!r!t: c!~,!idr~~.- 

Urlry JP::!IV, Sli;r!o. .I!:n. Irilrrn I.I' I( !i. I~DCP.. 

1,i:tl~ ltock, l!P:l., R!S,O is.,lr. In >!~si~l. c!!:~. 

U. of .\rli. firll. n! 3l.d.: sr. inltrn CI!lrl:Y 1lo;V.. 

sen. Qr:l.nr.$, '0.22.3, irulr. !n li!l::l;nlc:v rrd l,!lrilo!"2j 

~~;t.~;l:j+~y, 11. #;f At!;. SC!I. IJ~ >~~&\.IL,!CI*. 1,123- 

"$, ns.;o. p;nr, p!y,ir,l. c!:~;:;i:ry 3:,6 ~i:r:~!.:;. 

l!)(-i: r]:r, elin. >i,!I, K3;rt. 5't~:c~ l~6.~;~.,' 

O-T. ~D.I',]. d;v. s~l~".on \I I'. Rr., at 

:;Fi-lKF j;,::: jcd:: lV.5; e~.:l~t.,~ I; pit, pnrticci 

rs7i!il Jvlne ll:'.'. OK!:. J 311'1 r!.7-:.:lc,l Cr":; .n 11,!'~., 

)fc(:c]i~e, 1!1:!7-21; s:,ilr hr>!'h c,,-!;~:r. 'if .Irk. 5!r~." 

J!me l!I:j3. bir &~di. !,+>,!:!I zc'!Ir~\i,'s for ,Ark , tir,l:'r 

~ e ~ t ~np:::r,c~ i ~ 1 I{,>II~~ .A:I~,::,I:s:!.I*~,:I $!>re S*IT. 

]ft:n. Prcs, st2tc a!i,l I'rnsi~~~irl lIr1"il I)i!.'.rl Clli:f. 

of Knrth .4nrrica. 1:)RD. >lr.!n. 9..I.T C. Uclt CU. 

Ss, 12 Carnr, >Ii:!:n, 'ltll.~nc U.. Scat.-Sor. l!nj. 

ru:nn:~.' 1st It. bli:d 1:"r~r~ Ib'U c~,':.; Sir: 1" 

Ii.C., U.S.P.H.S. ~illuiv .$mi Coll. f l'hus:k.:\r:r, 

.4..t.d.Y: mem. .4m. Jlrti As61. bsutl:' m bil:d. 

Air".. A;k. Stntc rnrl 11tliulit CO'~I~:T mtd. WW.. 

hem MKI. Am. d hmtrica, Am. Pub. Ifral(h h:k. 

_ 

i

GRAYSON. CHARLES JAWS~N. if.. sdnl, admtnrtr, b. FL 

Nec-sily. It. Ocl. 1. 1923; a. Charles Jackson and Daphne 

(DcGrallcnrcid) 0.; B.H.A.. Tulane U . 1944; M B.A.. U. pa., 1947; 

D.0 A., Iiarvard. 1959; m. Barbara Schmidt. Aug 7; 

children-Chrrrmphcr Jackson. Michael Wllcy. Randall Charles. Insu.. 

thm rart. prol. Sch. Bus. Adminsrm..Tulme U., 1947-55, urn. prof.. 

1959- 63 am. d m Sch. Ru. Adminstrn.. 1961-63, dun, prof. Sch 

Bts. ~dhinsbn, 1963-68; d w prof. Sch. Bus. Adminstm.. Sa 

ME& U, 1968-; chmn. Price Commn.. Washington. 1971-: vh. 

prof. Gmd. kh. Bm., Swnford. aprit~p 1967; prof. IMEDE. MgmL 

Dcvel. Program, S.;rfzcrland. 1963-64. Rcponcr, Ncw Orlcans Item. 

1949-50. ~pl. s g FBI.U'ashingron. ~ 

1950-52, pdrlncr Jnmrr E. O'Ntill 

& Aua. New Orlunr. 1952.53 Scrvrd with USNR. 1943-46. 

CP.A. LL Mcm Operations Rrscwch Suc. Am.. Inat. hipmt. kh.. 

h. Finance hn.. Bcu Gamma Signin. Dclu Tau Delta. Authm 

Drcisions Undcr Uncertainty. Drilltna l~tcisiona by Oil and Gat 

Opcraton. 1960 Cat~thr, aniclu to profl pubb. Home: 4228 

Hallmark Dr Dallas TX 75229 

GRAYSON, JAMES hlCDONALD, cdurator; b. Bland. Va.. Aug. 6. 

1913. s Jamcr Mch'utt and Ida Saundtn OJcukrry) G.; B.S., Vr 

Poly. Inst., 1935. M.S.. 1933; Ph D., la Sralc U.. 1941; m. Malgamt 

Lce Lwrcncc, Aug 4, 1945; child;mNrncy Louis. E1iuh:h Ann. 

Jlnct h$&rgarct. Mary Ellcn. Faculty VL Poly. InsL. Blacksburg. 

193%. prof.. hud rccsarch cntomnlogy. 1954-59. prof.. chmn. dcp~ 

cntomology, 1959.; 1st cntomolo&at \'a. Agrl. Eap~. SLI.. 1943- 46. 

Prcscnttd invitational talks sci. rrwsrch Intcrnat. bngrtss Plant 

Protection. Humburg. Gc~tnany. 1957, Vienna, Ausrria. 1967. 

PASBIWHO Srminu, Panama City. 1958; dcl. 11th Inlcnrar 

Congrc~ Enlornology. Vicnna. 1960, Lr~rrdon. 1964. Fcllow Gcn 

Edn. Bd. 1939-40. Mrm. Enlomol. Sa. Am. (chmn. ~ c II l 1958.59 

Eartern dr. 196061). Va. Acrd. Sei., Sigma Xi. Phi R~ppa Phi, hlph; 

Zcu Homc: 1300 ObL D: Blarksburg VA 24060 

GUYSON, KATHRYN. singer; b. Winston-Qlcrn, N C.; studcnt 

M.-G:M. Studio Schoolhourc. Suge appearsnrcs in musicals ir,cludr 

The Merry Widow, 1961. Naughty Marietta. 1961, Kosalina, 1963. 

helot, 1963-64. also S. Am tour in Show Boat. motiorr picrurc 

apwaranccs includc Rio Rita. As Tnoussnds C7iccr. Anchors A ucigh. 

Till thc Oou& Roll By. Show Uoar.Thc Ucrrrl Song. Sonis Is Lovc. 

Ki Mc Ka~c.Thr \'agnland kine; numcrour spparanccs on conccrl 

mugc. TV and radio. also rtcordiog snisl.' 

CRAYSON, RICHARD CARL, r.r. cxcc.; h. Cuh. Mo.. Drc. 16. 

1920; s. William James and lrnna (Jamrr) (i.; rruder;~ Columbia. 

1955; m. Evclyr~ lloncy. Stpr 24. 1939; children--Su,annc. Shari. 

Richard Carl W'lrh SL Louis-Sm Francisco Ry. Co.. 1941--, v.p. 

opcralionr, Springf~cld, Mo., 1964.68, prcs., 1969~~; chmn. bd., prcs., 

di:. Quaneh, Acmc & Pncifir Ry, To.; prcr., d~r Clarllnnd. Inc.. 

Clckland Royalty. Inc.. Dula Tabulating Corp., Friwo Transp. Co.. 

9% Olivc Q~rp.; chmn M.. dir. N.M. (s Atiz Land Co.: dtr. 111. 

Terminal R K. Mcm., dir. Assn. Am. R.R.'s. Wcstcrn R.K. Arm., 

h n . Southc8s1rrn R.R.'s. Terminal R.R. Asn. SL Louis, Transp. 

Alsn. Am. Homc: 13642 Ptacockhrm Rd St Loutr MO 63131 Oficc: 

906 Olivc $1 St Louis MO 63101 

GRAYSON, ROBERT ALLEN, nnvr cxrr.. mucaror, b N Y.c.. 

Oct. 1, 192.7. s. Jul~ur, and Lilltan (I)a\i.lcc.u) G.: H 9.. U. Ill.. 1943; 

M B A,. N.Y. U.. 1'462, Ph D.. liLb, m. Su~hnnc B homsc. Junc Ib, 

1960; c-hildrcn-Pcter. Jocclp, Andru. Vlcc prcs. Hcnry S. l{arrir 

h.. mgmL cons.. 1952.58; v.p. marketing I. Rokcach fd Sons. 

1958-62; new prcducts mgr. lxvcr Bros , 1962-68; sr. v.p., mrm. trcc. 

cam. Daniel k Charlcr, Ins., N.Y.C.. 19bS+l;chmn. Graysun Asm., 

inc.. Engkvocd. NJ.. 1971-. d~r. Am. Commnnwcalrh Ins. Co.; 

ruo. prof. gcn. bur. adminrrrn N.Y. U.. Grad. Sch.. 1966. Mrm. 

Am Mnrkciig Asm. @rrs. 1969-70). 17%. Mgm~ 

Sei., Am. Assn. U. 

Rofs.. Aud. Mgmt. Author: lnuoduct~on to Markcling. 1971. Editor: 

hiarkcling and rhc Computer. 1967. Hon~c and o6cc: 269,Founuin 

Kd Englcwd NJ 07631 

CRAYSON, WALTON CEOR(;+ Ill. lawycr; b. Shrevcpn Aug. 

18. 1928; 1. Walton Grto:gc. Jr. and Mary Alicc (lowrcy) G.; A.B.. 

Prinrttori. 1949. LL.B.. tlarvard. 1952, m. Bcnnrtta McLwcn Purse. 

May 20. 1955; childrcn-Walton IV, Mrrk Chrislophcr. Bcnncrt Purrc. 

Dwght Philip. Admillcd 10 Tex. bar. 1952, sincc pncticcd in Dallas; 

putncr firm Atwcil. Grsyson & Afwcll, 1961- 69; sr. parrncr Gra \on 

B Simon, 1969-; gcn. counsel, v.p., dir. Soull~lrnd Can,., 196,-; 

ruL counscl Gt. Nat. Lifc Ins. Co.. 1955-69. Mcm. gricrancc cum. 5th 

diiL Tcx., 1951-66. Regional v.p, elm. d 1949. Princeton. 1961-, 

CC~. '~llcitation chmn. cnp~rd funds drivc Dnllu, area. 1960. Scrvcd 

with USNR. 1952-54. Mem. Am.. Tcx.. Dallrt bur rssas. Mtm. 

Diccipln 01 ChrirL M8son (32) Clubs: Dallas Pcuoleum; Pnncelon 

(N.Y.C.). Home: 10525 Strait Lanr Dullas TX 75219 Ofice: 4 

Lcmmoo Park E Ddla TX 75204 

GRAYSON, &mcs UrDon!d, rduulor: b. ~ ~ n d : 

VA. Ay. 6. 1813; a. Jmw McNutL md Id. 

S.uoden tNwbrml C.; B.S., V*. Poluttch. Ilmt.. 

1935. KS., 1037; PCD., In. Sht@ U.. 1941; m. 

bhgmt kc kwrenct. Aw. 4.. 1945; chlldrtn- 

Nmj Iwiu. Wuabelh AM. Jtnel bkrw~ct, M q 

PIrn,, PuuItj Vb. Pobtcch. k t ... 1935-.'pml.. 

bed march cntomolog. 193-59. pmt., am. 

drpt. u110rnolcw. 1959--; ~nrL tntomolwint Va. 

AOi. LpL 81s.. IBW-46. Re%oted Inr~Wllonrl Wks 

rl. mrurh IntrmL. hngeu Pbt Yrnlrrlbn, 

H.mburr. Germany. IS, PAqI1/~110 Semlmr. 

RMmb City, 1858; &I. .lllb inlarut. Cenerw 

tntornoloyy. Viem. Auslru. 1960. Fellow Urnr 

tdn. M.. 1939.40. Slcrn. Enlotnol. Soc Am. (thrnn. 

KC. B 1058.50. Lhms. Eutcrn br. 1Wdl). Vb. 

A d . Sd.. 81cma XI. Phl Kau~a Phl. Alpha ZeU. 

tlomc: I3M Cmk Dr.. Bhct.&uru. V r 

PRAVSON, KaVlrlm, dwrr; h. Wh(n*hlcrn. 

N.C.; aWnl $1.-G.3. Studlo Schwlhca. Blare 

rppuyrrs in m8u1rJla lndualr The Ll~m Wldn*. 

1961. Nuluhty Hulrllb. 1861. b!cdlna. 1083, 

hmrlot 1UK1-64 .In 8. Am. totn In Uaw UMC: 

notion 'p~ctuc .bparmcr~ inr~ur* 81- RIU. A* 

Tho(bUlh M r . Abhnn Aweigh. TIU IIM ClWtb 

Poll !IF. Fjnr llhll, The Dnrrt Rony. So Thlt It 

Lon. Yltr Me K4V. Ihe Vwbmd Khu; nurntmw 

LDDGUIlKl *I tUl, fV llYL d o . hl 

lrsoldl~ mhL* * ,- . ,.. . ": 

1970-7! .. 

WAYSON, h;kr &&a. &.' ud;. &an: L 

Ct. NcndU. h.. art. 8. 105; I. hdcr JuM 

ud 3aphfw (DcCnfl~lnldl 0.; B.B..A.. 'IWu* 

U.. 1944; Y.B.I., U. Pa.. 1947; D.B.A.. Hir-' 

rani. 1358; w_ B& Sclmlrit. .\I%. 7.. 1365; 

dtldra-(hMslher 

J u h . ud Hlrhd Illw. 

Iiidrtctor. thri wuant protcua srhl nu. 

Admln>ln .. 1947-55. ma. prof.. 1959-fix. urn.. 

&in. 1961-63. dew. pml. Seh. Pu. AdmliqLm.. 

1063.68; dao. pd. Sdt. Ihu.. So. Hah. U. 

1968--' rlr prof. cnd. ~ h . nm.. Stadoid. 

mrtw lib;; pml. I~IT;~. 1-1. ~nd. ~m-. 

Svlhrrld. 1963-61, Ruwrlcr. Nw 3rIa~ Ikm. 

1949.50; qrl. a. FIJI, Wul.lofion. 1950.52, 

SmIJ with CSSH. 1943.46. C.P.A.. L.. Hem. Ow, 

eralions Rexarrh Sot. Am.. InrL J:tmt. Stla.. Am. 

Fllunce Aw.. Bet4 Cammi Sigma. Dtiu hq 

Dtlh. AutM Dcrlstom Cnrlrr Unnrlrintj: Drill. 

In# Duls!o~w by Oil yd Dar Ownton. ,l960., 

IIm: kt48 Fillmart Dr.. Dalla, 75118. 

CRAYSOH. bnns YcDmuld, educator; b. ~Lu;d.: 

Y*.. Aug. 6. 1913; r. Junta Ilch'utt ad Irk 

SunJln Ilnbcm) 0.: B.Y.. VI. Polrterh. W. 

1935. l1.S.. 1937: Ph.D.. I&. Sklc U., 1941; m. 

bwrtt Lte krrrnrc. Au. 4. IOI:: thUd~u- 

Srncy Lou&. Ellrrklh Ann. Jbrrel blwret. Lluy 

glen. Fuulty VI. Pouttch. Iwt.. 1933-. pml.. 

Dad rtmh rnlomclorv. 1954-59. pmf.. chmn 

dept. entwdw, 193-; rsst. rntornologisl Yr 

Ad. b t . Sk. 1943-44. Pnsentcd Inritatlwul blh 

at. rtrrrch Intrrr.st. Connnm Plant Pmtectloo. 

Hin.bl;rg. Gcrouny, 1867, PASR/Wl{O Semlnu. 

Muma City, 193; dcl Ill4 lotcriat. CD~UEP. 

Enlornolog. Vlm. 1960. London. 1254. P. Cm. 

Edn, Rd.. 153940. Mcm. Gntomol. Soc. Am. Ictm~. 

rc B 1958 W, chmn. Eastern br. 1W-61). Va. 

dr.d. M. Slm -XI. Plil K w Plrl. .Uplit Zeta. 

lhc: 1300 Orik Dr.. RLuM~urg. Vr. 

mrording utlst.* . . ' .,' . ...' . . 

GRAYSOH. Rlrhud' tul; 17.' err.: b:' Lhln; 

Ha., DK. 10. 11120; a. Wil1l.m hmw ml IMIN 

(JUUs) 0.: ItUdmt CO~UI!>J~. 1935; D. El&- 

IIuncr. Sm. 24. I1JI'J; rhlldrcn--.iu~%m Sluyi. 

Richud C. V~riom positlmm r!tl~ M. Loula-San 

Frurlxo Ry. Co . 1941-. V.P. waa!lora, fiprl~xlaeld. 

Mo.. 1964-fi8, prm.. 1969-. Hmc: 285 

Unlm St., 3t. Loub 09108. Offlta: 909 Oliy St,. 

Yt. Lou$ 63101. . . . 

.-_. .,- 

0'#'///// 

Scrrtd rlth U%Yd 4a~.:-~r. mu. .-. 

Lu brr mu. ~a;tirt. Hos~n (Eel. C!Irfa: Ddlxs 

Fcuc:mn; Exan (1.Y.C.). - Rnmc: 10525 

stnit me, ndlal 75229.. orrtct: FWWMC W. 

Tmcr, D h 73201. - , !% , , 't 

Deltr. Aulhor: lttclrlonr Ucdtr Cmeminl~: Drlllinc 

Decluoar by 011 rrd (lru Opntora. 1860. 

Jlomf: 104 Cllchlusc Dr. N.. h!rla~rrc. Ir. 70001. 

Orlts: 6823 St. Charlo AT.. tir* Orlraru 70118. 

GRAYSON. Jlmts McDonld. educator; b. Blmd. 

VI: Aus. 6. 1913: a. Jlfnrs hlcXu:t md Ida 

S&ndcr, ISr~bw) 0.: B.S.. Vr. I'clj-lccb. Inrt., 

1R35. L1.8.. 1897; Ph.D.. la. Slate U.. 1941; a. 

Ilsrgaret La bmtcnce, Arc. 4. 1P45: chlldrea-- 

Nmry Lwlse. Elizsbctb AM, Janet lilargutl. M w 

men. Flculty \'a. Pobterlt. Inst.. 1035-, pmf.. 

hrad mud cntornolory. IQ>l~SP, gmI.. ctm. 

dept. cntornoloyu. 1059-; -st. mtomologlrl Vb. 

A@l. b t . 6u. 1F.13-48. Prcs~nted lnrilstlonrl lalko 

x~. rcrcah ~hlornat. &ngrc;r l8lrnt larolzttioa, 

Hlmburg. CCI~YW.. IQS. I'ASII/\YIIO Scmlm, 

Pmma City 1958. dd. lllb 1ntcrML Cor~sresa 

EntonoloeF, i3cnn.a ' I960 landon 1964. F. Ctn. 

~da. na 191~4a. b~ern. intomo~. ~oc. Am. lcbmn. 

acc. B y~58.59 rhmn. &ttm hr 1BW)dll Va. 

A&. w.. '.i&;ma XI, P~I Xnpps h~, r\~pha'~et.. 

Home: IROO nr.. Blacksburc, Vb. 

6RAYSON Kalhtya skzr. b. BinstowSalem. 

N c . ~tudeoi M..o.-~i. sturn; ECIXOI~- sum 

&&ra In musicals inel~~dc Ttw hiem.. \\idow, 

1961 Nau&s hlarietta llJG1 Kldina. 1963. 

~bn~i~t. 1965-64, LLW 6. Am. iclw 11 S I ~ W ~ w t ; 

mohon plclurc aIll,earlom include Rlo Rltu. AS 

Thoussnds Cheer A11dtor3 Aweigli, Till the Cloud* 

ROII uy Shna k1'3t he DPSC~~ SOCK, So Thla Is 

Lcre Mc Kale ' The Vagabond Firs; nllmerour 

rppckantu on con& rue. TV and radio. dm 

rt~~rrlinb artid.* . . 

. . 

rid horcme E. Toansend, Uct. 18. 1324; ctiildrcnp 

k t Jranok ~ Shirlg Ann lntcrn A1.Y.II.R. llosp., 

6RAYSUN, Jamn McDmuld. al!~entor: b. Bluxl. 

Wttlr Rock, 1921-22 Chzrliy lluspllbl. New Orlcank 

VL, Auy. 6. 1813; I. James 5lrNutt aod Ids Louisjana, 192-23. 'dirisiuo suigeoli .hl.P. Rs., at 

Swnder* IXnrb~rryI 0.: B.S.. Va. Polrtceb. M.. UcCcltrg drl;, sebt, 1iI35; cnpag+ in FP~. practlca 

1935. U.S.. IG31; Ph.D.. la. Slrte U., 1941: m. until June 1933. Assoe.. prof. rncdlclne. U. of Ark. 

Mug~ct k Ldurcncr, Aug. 4. 1W5; childre- gchool bled.. 1947. Oattrd aod owrated Grrgson 

Nancy Louise. Eli&& Ann. Jintt bfargurct. HRR Bosp lilcUchee 1027-31; state health cnrnmr. O 

Ulcn. Fbculty Va. Pobtd. Inst.. 1935-, Waf.; ~rk..'jgne 1933-kor. 1943; cardiol. Vrtn. Adrnitstm 

brad mearch mtomolow. 19A-50. pmt.. chmn. Fort nwu Hospital. 1QM-. Dircctor publle 

dcpl. entomoloyy. 1959-; axst. tnlumologlsl Ya. bcallh acUrlUes Igr Arlrr~:us, . Fedual Emcrgenq 

Aml. Ipt. Sta.. 1043-48. P~cse~ttcd inrilattonal talks 

ui. nwarcb Inkmrt. Conuecs Plant Protection, 

Hellef Admir~islrrUon November 1033 to h'o,crnber 

Xarnb:~rg. Cummy, 1957. PASU/iVltO Scnl!~. 19.13. l'res. Stale md Proqirlcinl Health O F i Cod. 

hmma Clty, 1058; del. 11th In!ersL. bngr- al h'orth Amerla, 1939. Blcm; S.A.T.C. Ilnlt Ca 

Elblual~. V~CM!~. Auslrla. 190. Fcllov Cn. No. 12. Clm Martla. Tulmc U.. SepL-So. 1918, 

Pdn. Bd ... IW-40. Mm. htornol. Soe. Am (chmn. commd. 1st !l. Med Rrsenc laler tapt.: 6UT6eOn 

w. B 10%-3, rhmn. Emtarn br. 19C4-Oll. Va. 

And. Sd.. Sigma XI. .I'bl Kauea Phl. Alpha Zeta. 

Ilome: 13W W Dr.. Alnckrbu~, Va. 

.. ..,' ' . ..:, 

' 

' ' GRAYSON,' ~illl&a'~~snily;"~hrdclati: b." 

.gould, 'Arkansas. M4 1, lWl7; fi Adam ads and 

p:w Loltirt (Benduson) 0.; str~dent ~ i , o Ark., t 

1815-17; M.D.. Wane U. 8ch, of hledicme, 132g 

,A.II. Arkam State. Tarchcrs Cohege. 1037; mrr- . 

LC. U S I'.H.S. ~;llor A$ ~I!L. ol I'hrslcians; 

mcmbar.'~..ll.~,. Aik.. Pulnskl County med. sees. 

Am I~gloii, Sigmk CIII, Alliha 1;rppr Kappt. e k 

>unouaL Baptist. 3la.roo (Shrlner). Cnntlrr. on 

~rrd. rubk~ts. First pru. Ansn..ol Stdte and Tari- 

.torid ~icl~lb omccn 1942. Ifma: 401 Colonld 

coup. I :_-AdJl,ess;,fi.' do09 'Ilosp., LpUc RG+, &K.

WH05 WHO IN A1 

19 76 - 77 

GRAYSON WiY TRAVERS; JR, publishGk co. rlcc.: b 

~rthin~tod Mar. 21. 1920: r Cary Traven a d Alice Gcrtrudc 

(Gordon) d.; B.A.. Yalc, 1942: postgrad. U. Ha~air. 1948: M.A.. 

Sunlord. 1949; Ph D.. Grad. Inst. In~crnaL Sldics. Gcncva 

Srilzerland 1953. m. Priwilla Aldcn Rtxulc. kpt. 7. 1956 

chi~drm-&lie H.. Carinthia A.. Alicia C.. Thcodos~a H. W~th 

Crrncgic Corp. N.V.. 1953-57. Sute Dcpt . Wahington. 1958-61. 

Pace Corpr. Washington. LF6l.64, pro. Potomac Book% Inc.. 

wuhington 1%. Council chmn. Wdrow Wrlron Hou~c. 

Whhington: 1966-72. Scrvcd with USMCR. IWf-16. DcmocraL 

Awhr Awlria's Irtcmstional Posttion. 1953: Wuhlnjlnn '68. 19b1: 

WUhington 111. 1971: cn-author: Thc 93d Con rcu. 1973: Sbrc 

Information and Federal Rcgion Book. 1973. k c lmpcachmcnt 

Cmbrns 1974; Washington IV. 1975. Homt: Bluc Ridgc Farm 

UPpcrvrllc VA 21176 Oflicc: 4137 Fvlton St NW Washington DC 

m 7 . . . 

CIUYSON, CHARLES JACKSON, ~~,'univ. dcan: b. FL 

N~cssit tr.. OCL 8. 1923: s. Charles Jacklon and Daphnc 

@cG n ltcnrcid) G.; B.B.A.. Tulanc U.. 194a: M.B.A.. U. Pa.. 1947: 

D.0.h. Harvard. 1959; m. Bsrbara Ehmidt. Aug. 7; 

thrldrcn--Christopher Jackson. Michael Wtlcy. Randall Charlcr 

~~..lhen ~ S prof. L Sch. Bus. Adminstrn.. Tulanc 0.. 1947.55, W. 

L. 1959-63. rw. dcan kh. Bus. Adminstrn.. 1961-63. dcart, prof. 

Bw. Admirutrn.. 1963-68; dcan. prof. Sch. Bm Adrn~nstrn.. Sa 

kth. U. 1968-- chmn. Price Commn.. Washin ton. 1971-1% vtx 

&d GI,>. YD. &.. Stanford. sprint 1967: prof. IMEDf. MgmL 

*el. Program. Swilzcrlsnd. 1963-64. Rcporrcr. Ncw Orleans Itcm. 

1949-X):spl. agt FBI. Washingron. 1950-52: panncr J3me E. O'Ncill 

& &.. Ncw Orlcrnr. 1952-53. Scncd with USNR. 194346. 

~P.A.. La. Mcm. Opcr~tionr Rucarch Soe. Am.. Inst. Irlgmt. ks.. 

Am Finanm Arsn.. Bcta Gamma Sigma. Delu Tau Delta. Aulhor: 

kcinions Undcr Unccrlainty: Drilling Derisions by 011 and Gas 

Opntor% 1960; Confessions of a Pricc Controllcr. 1974. Contbr. 

thpL 10 Financial Research and Mana~cmcnt Dccisions. 1967; alro 

amClcs ro pron. publs Home: 8731 Southwcslern Blvd Apt 270 Dallas 

1X '15206 

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1913: B ~an;cr McNutt and Ida Saundcrs (Ncwkrry) G.: B.S.. vr 

Po~Y. Inst.. 1935. M.S.. 1937: Ph.D.. la. State U.. 1941: m. Marparct 

bwrcnce. Ang. 4. 1945; children--Nancy Louiw. Elizabeth 

Ann Janct Margarel. Mary Ellen. Faculty Va. Paly. Inst.. Blacksburg. 

193;-. prof.. herd rc~carch cntomolo~y. 1954-59, prof.. chmn. dcpL 

CntOmology. 1959-:asit cr~tomoln~ist Va. Agrl. Espt. Sra.. 1943-46. 

Prclfrttcd tnvtrarional tnlks xi. rcrnrch Intcrnat. Congrcs* Plant 

Rotcction. Hamburg. Gcrrnany. 1957. Vienna. Austria. 1967. 

PASBIWHO Scminar. Panarna City, 1958: particip~nt Intcrnat. 

Conarcu Entomology. Vicnna. 1960. London. 1964. Canberra. 

Australia. 1972. Fcllow Gen. Edn. Bd.. 1939-40. Mcm. Entomol Soc. 

Am. (chmn. SCCL B 1958-59. Eastcrn br. 1960-61). Va. Acad. Li.. 

Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi. Alphn Zeta. Homc: IlM)&k Dr Blacksburg 

VA 24060 

CRAYSON KAI'HRYX, singer: b, Winston-Salem. N.C.: srudcnt 

M.-0.-M. studio khoolhoux Stagc appearances in musicals insludc 

Merry Widow 1961. Naughty Marietta. 1961. Ruwlina. 1962. 

Qnrelor. 1962-64,'alro S. Aln lour in Show Boat: motlon piclurc 

'PPearanccs include Ground for Marriage. As Thwndr Checr. 

Anehnr~ Awcigh. Till the CIourls Roll By. Show Boa[. Thc Dcwn 

Song, So This Is Love. Kiss Me Kale. The Vagaland King: TV 

appcarancrr Doc Rcdcrm>ur. 1966, numcrous rppcaranccr on conc rrI 

sure. TV and radlo. aIw ICC artnt Addre,, care Impefrsrro 12214 

Vvwcrnt Rd Sludto Gty CA 91604 

GRAYSO. RlCtfARD CARL r.r. cxcc.: b. Cub. Mo.. Dec. 16. 

IPlD. r Wlllurn Jamrs rnd Lenna (Jamcr) G.; rtudcnt Columbia. 

1955; m. Evclp Honey. Scpt. 25. 1939; children-Susannc. Shari. 

Riehard Carl With Sr LouisSan Franciwo Ry. Co.. 1951-. v.p 

~rarions. Springhckl. Mo.. 1964.68. pm.. 196.9-73. thmn. bd.. 

197+,chmn. M . pru.. dir. Qumah. Acmc 9 Panfic Ry. Co., prrr . 

dir. Clarkland. Inc.. Clarlland Royalr . Inc. Friwo Tranrp. Co.. 906 

Olivc Corp: dir. N.M. B Arir. ~and~o.. Tcrminal R.R. Asn. SL 

his Ill. 6rminal R.R, 1st NIL Bank. Sc Lwiq. 1st Uniov Inc.. 

Lskdc Gas Co.. SL Louis Union Inc. Mcm. Civtc Progress. Inc.; 

c4sc. corn. Sc Louis Arm cnuncti Boy Scouts Am. Bd. dm. Unircd 

Fund Grtatcr St. Louis, trustcc Drury Coil.. Springficld. Mo. Mem. 

Ry. Systcms and Mgmr Assn. (governing M.), Am. Soc. Traffic and 

Tnnsp. N ~ L Freight Traffic hun.. Assn. Am. Ra~lroads (djr.). 

Watcrn R.R. Aun. (dir.). Aun. Southcmtcm Rmlroads (dlr.). 

Trbnsp. Asm. Am. (dir.). Mo. t of C. (dir.). Regional Commcrcc and 

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epin~hc!d. Mo.); Union Lcaguc (Chgoi: Media, Joonda& Bogey. 

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Amhrose (;raysoil born 7 

hiary C1"olly.l Grayson born marrj ~ ( James 1 Sar~vcts 

Sarah (S; 1 ly) Gravson born 3-~-17~Q, m:.;rie(i John I'ril1::ran (These 

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Sally, his wife. 

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Smith Tms ilrteresting, but we find a few minor 

discrepancies. Am enclwtng a copy of two liw s 

of descent from them. Perhaps others 17211 con- 

I tribute theirs. Also, we think Joseyh, who 

married Rhoda F'hite, was a grandson, not a son. 

Aryone else care to comment 

Sincerr! ly, 

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Robin Bandy 

49 Sari lliguel Avenue 

Sm hateo, CA 9111~03

Pages216 & 217 contain a list of early Graysons.1 bought 

from the oemputerlzed Accelerated Indexing Sys.tems. campany 

this month, Explanations. of entries are on the foll~wing 3 

pages;, Therefare same listings- I have nett seen before-. One 

puzzler is Abrahm Greyaonr imWerrren co,, Gao and then again. 

the year befor~ (1793) in Wilkes ce,, N,C..I think there must 

be a mistake, but +n tho other does; any ene have a 

listing for Abraham 

Next+ is a delightful,.long letter from Irene Graysen Taitt 

f ellowed by 4 pages of her bineagw,i*. 

defe~ence to late-comers as suggested by Mrg. Talt, re-- 

or past 1ssues.nill be 83.00 each instead mf $5.00. 

A mts to Flla Underwood: Please stay well am you can eentlnuc! 

yourxosmprehensive letters. 

Ute tb Elaine Soden: Maybe you could send cards to the Whm's 

Whm people in this a d the last issue. Als~t I found that I 

oould get, FREE, all the telephone books for an entire state 

fram the phone company; so I aske& for and recelve& 3 cubic feet 

af N.Co.phone books and have already sent xeramd letter~with 

return envelopes to all the Grayson= in the 704 call-area,, which 

1s:half the state of N.C. Whb wants to valunteer bo de thecsame 

for another state such a= Va, , Ten%, or Ky , Be sure tfo sag ylsu 

are looking for those that came out-af the Britksh Isles5 

On pages 230-233 are old records from the Dorothy Wulfeck archtvear 

which I have on file. These are interesting in that we have 

published here the same quandary abeut the genealogyof George 

Washln~ton Grasson! barn 1803 in Ky, 

On the 1as.t page Is infermation sent me as a result af my 

H.C. Grayson mall survey: a tantalizing tradition tends to carrobmrrts 

prcvioualy printed tradition that the father ef Cola 

Jamas William M. Grayson was named Bills Graysbn of N.C..and 

was fmm England, Refer to material in Vel. I, ne, 6 and 12.* 

nfss Taiti I will try te prdnt the maps. as. =ace perm1ts;i: 

Please all of ypu try to send; mom material for the Newsletter; 

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BAKER, ABRAHAM RENSSELAER CO. NY 871 00110-00100-01 1800 

These entries all have a census year in the far right hand column. 

Sometimes the year is prefixed with letters. For example: 51803 

These are codes for the following: 

$=STATE CENSUS 

T-TERRITORIAL CENSUS 

CL-COLON 1 AL CENSUS 

CTcCONTINENTAL CENSUS 

To understand an entr from a census record, match the census year 

with those shorn in rKe TmLE or coanuTs. rum to pago number 

indicated for an explanation of the entry. 

t. Entries from BIOGRAPHICAL and other sources. For example: 

BAKER, GEORGE F. LANCASTER CO. PA 681 BfOCAn 

The far right hand column shows a lqBIO1l or "POW prefixed code. 

This means that we have indexed a Biography or a Portrait on 

this individual. We can not provide copies of tkis information 

at this time.However, we will be publishing in the future an 

index which will help you locate such information. Hatch for 

future adds introducing this volume.

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SAMPLE FORMAT: 

TOWNSHIP or 

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JOHNSON, J(ljEPH Bedford Co. PA 219 00010-00010-00 1800 

BALDWIN, THOIMAS Randolph Co. ILL 74 12010-11010-00 1810 

EWXNG, JAMES EDWARD Washingt~n Co. OH 23 hlzrietta Twp. 1800 

EWING. JAMES E. Washington Co. OH 15 M~ddletown Twp. 1810 

NANLE: This is the name of the head of the family. The last name is listed 

firrt and is followed by the first gtven name or names of the individual. 

:COUNTY & STATE: The names of the county and state where the census was 

laken are given as indicated in the original census records. Place names are 

rpsllcd a$ given by the census enumerators. r 

PAGE: The page number indicates where the name may be located & the 

original .census record. 

s.a:-Number ofmaker under 10 years of age..:. 

b;.-Number d males between 10 to 16 years of age. 

c. Number of males between 16 to 26 years of age. 

- d:.Nurnber of males between 26 to 45 years of age. 

a. Number of malea over 45 years of age. 

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f. Nmnber of females under 10 years of age. 

I. Number of females between 10 to 16 years of age. 

h. Number of females between 16 to 26 years of age. 

t-hber d female8 between 26 to 45 years of age. 

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JONES. DAVID Hartford Co. MD 51 01 03 02 01 00 1790 

KELLEY, ANDREW Chester Co. PA 168 Allenville Twp. 1790 

RILEY, JAMES M. Barnwell Co. SC 62 03 02 04 00 23 1790 

NAME: This is the name of the head d the family. The last name is listed 

firat and is followed by the firat given nPme or names of the individual. 

COUNTY I STATE: The names of the county and state where the census was 

taken are given as indicated in the original census records. Place names are 

spelled as given by the census enumerators. 

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;ha 1790 census records as published by the United States Federal Government 

Ln 1809. Most public libraries have a copy of this series. 

COLUMNS: 4 t h s 

a. Number of free whits males 16 years and upwards, including 

heed. of families. 

B. Number of free white males under 16 years of age. 

.c. Number of free white females, including heads of farniliea. 

d. Number of all other free persons. 

a. Number of elaves in the household. 

TOWNSHIP: This is the Township, Town, City, Ward, Parish, Hundred, Precinct, 

or District h which the family was living at the time of the cenaus enurnetatian. 

YEAR: This indicates the year in which the census was taken. Vermont 1790 

cenrus was actually taken in 1791. In many places the census enumerator required 

many months to complete taking the census. 

NOTE: Sometimes the census enumerators omitted items from the original records. 

Items omitted from the original records ore not included in the index by Accelerated 

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1310 Plagler Avenue 

Key West, Florida 

August 22, 1978 

Dear Dr, Gravson: 

I have been want in^ to get some things to you for 

the newsletter for some time but due to a bloodclot I have 

been unable to sit and tv~e. 

Ella Fiae Underwood has been so lovely to send me 

some very interesting things about our ancestors and I was 

sad that I was unable to share with her a few of the things 

I had, but health has a way of interferring with plans at 

times, 

I have met some wonderful peo~le and found a few of 

my family I did not know I had through your interesting newsletter. 

I also have a few answers to some of the questions 

posed now and then by some of your contributors that I will 

endeavor to send to them when I am able to remain UP longer. 

My family particularly enjoyed the writinps of Lund 

and Peter Grayson Washington and S~ence Monroe Grayson, I 

ho~e that what I have encluded here will help to fill out that 

line. As you can see, this is all about our side of the family 

beginning with the lineage of tb.e brothers Benjamin, Ambrose, 

TQnas, their sisters, ~lizabeth and Mary and oir ancestor John 

Grayson. 

I can't help but agree with my beloved aunt Margaret 

Grayson, Grand Dame of our Grayson Clan, that it is most inter- 

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esting to studv the genealo~v of llyour rootslI because it is as 

thouph those who have gone before you come alive for a moment 

and speak out to your ape through you, %ut what is really important 

is not so much what your ancestors may have been, as 

"what kind of a person you are today, aqd what kind, through 

gour own effor~s and God's guidance, you are be corn in^.^^ 

As we read the pages of this newsletter, we see such 

beautiful exam~les of courage, honor, integrity, good-breeding, 

application of education and talents for the benefit of God; 

country and the fellowman, but most of all, the message that 

comes to me from the pages of our earliest heritage is from 

Matt 6:33 

"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; 

and all these things shall be added unto you," That and the cherished 

words of Grandfather James Gordon Grayson, "Your name . 

came from your father, it was all he had to give, 50 it's yours 

to use and cherish as long as vou may live. If you loose the 

watch he Rave you it can always be replaced, But a black mark on 

your name, dear, can never be erased. It was clean the day you 

took it and a worthy name to bear, When I got it from my father

Parre 2. 

There was no dishonor there. so make sure you guard it wisely- 

After all is said and done. you'll be glad the name is 

s~otless when it's given to Your son." and, "The distance a 

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man goes is not as important as the direction that he takes." 

I wish each and everyone of you had had the omortunity 

of knowing James Gordon Grayson. He was the most dynamic 

werson I have ever known. Imprzssive in size and appearance, a I 

typlical Virginia Gentleman whose very presence commanded attention. 

He was more than 6 foot 7 inches in height, as tall I 

and as wide as the doorway and when he walked into a room, all 

eves were on him. And yet a more kind and gentle man I have 

never known. 

I am glad he shared his love of God and the beauty of 

nature with me and his unending storehouse of knowledge in 

philosophy. literature and poetry. He never spoke without quot- I 

ing$omethinp pretaining to the situation to leave a deep'r impression 

upon one. 

Lund Washinntonls words about the "first of the Gray- I 

sons in America......'He was a man of exceedingly fine address 

notablv of fine blood......of a refined and wealthy family, as 

his acquirement, person and habits bore ample evidence of.. . . 

could well have been written of him. So pure has the line been 

handed down to us.....I was so pleased for his description for 

I could not have said it better, 

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James Gordon Grayson was stron~ of constitution and 

morals and vet tender and mild in disposition and manner. A 

giant of a man. 

Ask other readers to give us a glimpse of at least 

one of their earlier ancestors, I think it would be interesting 

to know what others of our ancestors were like or what the family 1 

life was like, Just a thumbnail sketch or an episode. 

I have found it very helpful to have a map of the locations 

of the different lines so as to understand where they came 1 

from in keepina the different ones sperate and so I have enclosed 

one of each of the states where Graysons have been found in their 

earliest locations. They can be cut to fit and you could enclude 

one each month if you did not want to run them all together. I 

Thank Ella for me and know that we thoroughly enjoy the 

newsletter and P U ~ it to good use. There is so much about mv 

family in it. My only objection is to the $5. reruns. That isn't I 

fair to the late-comers. We would have been in on the beginning 

if you had let us know. Keep the news coming. 

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Wab 6.i.tb.t Ve6;ttLytna)~ o 6 St. Geongc '6 Paail h, Sp0.t~ ylvania 

Cour..ty, Ua. -1726. Took "Ye Oath" a6 arl o$6.iceh Ock. 7, 

729 in Vikginia Cotonial Alilitia ( d8zom Ckozieh, p. 122). 

d. 1734 in SpoXbg€vania CounXy, Va. = SUSANNAH WffTTE in 

Spot6 ylvania County, Va. A Deed /recokded in Spots yZvania 

County Marcch 3, 1729 made .he& Sxecuthix and Guahdictn 06 

IOIiN and AMEROSF GRAYSON, ohphan~ 05 JOHN GRAYSON, IR. 

Otkek chiE-..ken ureae THOA[AS, BENJAMT!J, ELI ZABETfl and HARY. 

Captain GENJA,'-iI!J GRAYSON wxb "06 ageJ1 in 1726 = SUSANNA 

MONROE. They lived in Bet Ain. 

AMBROSE, aon o,j JOHN JR. and SUSANNAH, 4. "about 1700" d. 

Sep.t, 6, 1743. fle pa.teizrted land in Spo.taytvanin County, Va. 

in 1727. tiia wit1 ia aecoaded in thc County U i t t aook, p. 

321 = ALlCE JAAIES. Theik childnen wete JOHN, WZLLIAM (b, 

1732, moved .to Albc&makle Cout~ty 6eiote ~6i-~cvoLu.tiona~q 

a . Ne wa.4 a Captain in .the SRate !b!ilitia, in RovoCutionahy 

Seavice, ALbehmaale County, Va. = ANNE SMlTft and they had 

a laagc damitq), AMBROSE, JR. and THOdfAS. 

8 JOHN GRAYSON, don 04 AMBROsE and ALICE, b. about 1725, d. 1122. 

Moved bkom Spotbylvania Co. to G c Co. in 1734; to 

Cutpeppea Co. in 1748. fie patented Land i n Cutpeppea Co. in 

1751 = BARBARY EIBB. 

JOHN, thcih don, 6. Augubt 9, 1770; d. July 29, 1326; went 6kom 

-Elpeppea Oo, to Eabt fenn., $hen Xo Alabama in 1806 ad a 

dukveyok. He lived at {{aden, Madidon Co., Alabama = SALLY 

CARTER. 

SALLY - CARTER 06 Caa2e/rd1 Guve bamily, C!~aalo.tthviPte, Va., 

moved .to ~andaidge, E. Tennebdee at age 15. At age 16 dhe 

mnhaied JOHN and they camc ~o Alabama. They had bevenieen 

childkcn7-6EORG~, Zhe elded.t, b. 1754 = CYNTHIA HANNAH; 

POLLY, b. I795 * DRYANT C068; JOIiN und W7LLTAI-t, twinb, b, 

1797, d. yourzg; JOHN CULLEN, 6. 1799 = NXJCY GLOVER and moved 

20 Texab; ROSERT, b. 1807, d. young; CHARLES, 6, 1803 a = 

GEATRICE CRAFT and moved to Texa6; JACKSON, 6. 1805 * ANNIE 

CRAFT and moved to Texab; NANCY, b. 1801 = JOflN SARTAZN and 

moved to Texu~; AIIBROSE, b. 1810 = SALLlE LrANN and moved .to .

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Texas; SALLY ANN, 6. 1811 = WASH SARTAIN and moved to Texas; 

NAPOLEON BONEPART, 6. 1815 = ANN ULET and 4tayed i n Madison 

Co.; and JAjIIES GORDON, 6. 1817. Thede childxen wexe boan in 

Madison Co. bedohe Xhe tenaitony 06 Alabama became a ~tate. 

JAMES GORDON, 6. 1817, d. 1864 = PARALEE WRIGHT, 6. 1820, d. 

1876. They staged in Madidon Co., and tli-4~0 had &eventeen 

childken. 

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6. 1841 = JAMES TfiOMPSON VAVIQSON in 1860; 

%%!EiTkRT, 6. 1843 ALUIRA AVA JORDAN in 1867, second 

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d. 1854; IAAiES FRANKLIN, b. 7%46, d. young; AIbfi3ROSE CARTER, 

6. 1848 = MATTIE L0GA.V i i ~ 1876; JERUSHA A!JN, b. 1850 = 

RICHARD AIEPLZN i n 1867; ANVREN JACKSON, 6. 1852 = EUGENIA 

ELlZABETH WADE i n 1874; MARY PARALEE, 6. 1857 lived only 

dive mon$!14; FANNZE ELTZABETH, b. 1860 =WlLLlAM R. KING in 

1892; HENRY, b. 1861, d. 1870; EMMA POLK, 6. 1863 = DAVID E. 

ALLISON in lb79; LULA, b. 1864 a HENRY POLK MC GAHA in lb95; 

SALLY, b. 1866, d. 1878; CHARLES, b. 1868 ETHEL JAMES in 

1905; JOHN WILLIAM, 6. 1870 = KATIE BLYSTONE in 1899; MINNIE, 

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30HN NILLlAb!, etdedt hon 06 JAdUES. GORDON and PARALEE WRIGHT 

G R A V S A R A U SA!ITH ALLISON in 1661, b. 1834, d. 1883. 

a e borre az- Izd childken. FoUowir,a helr. deazlz Iie rnaxaied 

hea niece, CHARITY PENLAND. ~ollotvi~j kea death he maahied 

hib ii&s$ wi6e'a cou~in, AZUBAH PARKER. A-Capiain i n the 

Coniedekalte Anmy whelr.e he ~eaved 6ouk geak4, 30HN [JI LLIAM 

wa4 a teuchetr 6oa .two yeaab, a dame& {oat 06 hi4 tihe 

and a rnernbea 06 the Alabama SZate Legiblatuxe 1870-72 ak~d 

1884-86. lie aha heaved in $he Sta+te Senate 1873-75. In 

1973 he wko.te a bkie6 but inteke4ting autobiogxaphg. A 6ew 

copied 06 Xh.id ate avaieabte. 

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MURPHY LAUGHINGHOUSE. They had tltace daugliteu; SALLY, b. 

1885 * THOMAS WILEY, MARGARET = WHITLOCK; MATTIE, 6. 18931 

SHAW. 

JAMES GORDON, e t d e ~ t 

862, d. 1942 NA/JNIE ELIZA MOSELEY. b. 1874. d. 1913. 

Theik chitdrren aae: EDITH, who died i n - i ~ d a n c ~ ; - b. ~ ~ ~ € ~ , 

1886, d, 1904; WTLLIAM GORDON, 1. 1899, d.. 1975 = LOUISE, 

6. 1895; MERCER OAVID, b.1902, d. 1954 = LOIS CAPDELL, b. 

1907, d. 1972; MARGARET GRAYSON, 6. 1904, nevea rnanxied. 

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6:87r, d. 1547 = NANNETTE RUGOSE then JULIET PATTERSON, 

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INFORMATT ON 

The Viaginia necotd~ ob .the GRAYSON damity ueke compited by 

Mh6. Jennie Gaay~on who "has done geneaLogica4 wosb doh donty 

yeau". Hea home, ChaaLoZtdviCle, Albetrnante Co., Va. She 

authenticazed he& din ding^ copqing coust hecoadd, pahtd 06 

deeds and wi&&~ and othet &egal papchs . She was paindtahing 

and thoaough. Judge Claude Gnay~on and late& Maagaket 

Glray~on weae happy to have securred capabte setvices. 

The Gkay~on tine was aldo twced by Sahah David~on Riley, 

gnanddaughtea 06 James Goadon and Pa4alee (;rkighZ G~aydon. Herr 

chasX 06 Zhe ea&ty Gzaysonh di66eks in no way daom M u . Jennie 

Grrdtydonb. Slte uad abCe to prrovide names 06 many moke nernbeas 

06 the latpn darnilies and Xhei* spoused and numerous oidspaing. 

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Additional in~okmation mas obtained dnom damity Bibles, tornbstoned 

and the aecollection 06 older living Ghay40nb. 

ALL the ukittenauthenticated copied od deeds, wiLls, etc. will 

be. kept with one copy 06 Xhe geneatog y doh aebeaence i 6 ques- 

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AMBROSE TILQEN, thikd bon 06 S.W. and SARAH GRAYSON, 6. 

1876, d. 1972 = TELETTE KELLY. They had one &on, SOLON 

KELLYjand one daugkterr, AVALYN, 6. 1914 = WILERED VAN 

VALKENBERG, 3. 1961. 

CLAUVE ALBERT, youngedk son 06 J.W. and SARAN GRAYSON, b. 

7882 = SARA!{ BOWEN, b. 1886, d. 1971. Theia childken ate: 

Daugktea, FRANCES BOWEN, 1. 1907, d. 1957 FLOYD MASOM 

FLETCHER. Etdea hon, CLAUPE ALDERT, b. 1912, d. 1929, 

Youngea don, JOHN UILLIAM, b. 1914 = ELVYN. 

NOTE: CAPT. GRAYSON'S dauglzxea, NANNIE, waA a gaaduaie o( 

the Femate Seminaky 06 Hun.tsville, Ala. All (auk ~ons 

ghadua$es 06 the Univcnbi-ty 06 Alabama. JAMES GORDON becams 

a,tibe induaance agenz; DAVIP, u lawyet, AMBROSE, a 

phy~ician, and CLAUDE, a tawye&, was doa many yearb p4ebiding 

Judge 04 the Cikcuit Couat 06 Mobile, Alabama. 

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...baa m a letten @om Rk. A.T. 

Ghaybon to hid baothen, Claude. 

"Ghcen Bottom Inn betonged to you4 gkeat ghand{athck, John Urn. 

Connatly. Hi4 daug hteh, Jeku~ha Ann, rnahnied Ro bext Whig kt, 

$4. Theih hoi~, WilLiam, had a dauglttetr, Pahatee. She WUA 

y~uk g4andrnothca. 'I 

...dkom Atabama aecoad~ in the PAR tibnany in Wa~hington, P.C. 

NPahaLee WaighX, 6. 1820, wiie 06 Jarned Goadon G. who NUA bohn 

i n 1817, waA gnanddaughiea 06 Robcnt Whight who wab bonn in 

1762 in Amhundk Co., Va. fle en.teked the Vinginia Sltalte Alititia 

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dub4equcntly irrducted into the patkiot Akmy 06 Jlfie Wah a 6 1776 

the watr 06 the Arnehican Revolution. He Wad at the Siege 06 

Yohk and ad~idted in the captuhc 06 Cohnwallib. In 1808 he 

pukcha~ed 160 acke~ 06 Land neah Flint Riven in N, A&abama 

* whehe he Lived untie hi4 death at 85 in 1847." 

... dkom a lettek inviting Judge C.A. Gnay~on to become a membek 

06 the S0nb 06 the Amenican Revolution whitten by CoL. Wm. T. 

Calrpentca, hibtokian, Octobeh 1, 1956. "Knowing that ale 

Glraydond ane eligible doh Membehbhip i n thc S0nb 06 the 

Arnehican Revolu.tion, the ALabama Socie.ty extend4 to you a 

coadiat invita-tion to become a membek. ...Thehe weae dive 

Vhginia Gaaybon4 in .that watr; Robeat, Spence, Thomad and ;t~oo 

Wiltiamd, one c6 whom wa4 the darnoud COL. Wm. Ghaybon. We 

have heae in Tubcaloo~a DL, ChakLeh G.rraq40n Surnmelrde.tt ad a 

nembea 06 .the S.A.R. and alao ob ihe Son4 06 Coniedehate 

Vexeaanb. " 

8 Thomab Gkaqdon, eldebt AOn 06 John 34. and Su4annah Ghaydon 

wa4 a mencha~zt 06 Peal CounXy, Kent, England. (Recahded in a 

deed.) 

Fan rnembeuhip in Son4 on Daughtehb 06 the Amehican Revo.tution, 

i d w i hed: ~ 

Robcht Wkight [name on PAR plaque in Hunk~ville, Ata. 

hononing vetekand 06 the RevoLuXionahy Waa = Keziah Bibob. 

Theik &on, Wittiam Whight Jchuhiia Connetty, whoa e daughtet 

Pabalee Waight = Jarneb Gokdon'Gkagbon, whode &on, John Wm. 

Gkayhon =' Sanah Smith Attidon, pahenth 06 Nannie Pahatee, 

Jameh Gokdon, David Allibon, Ambao~e Titden, and Claude 

ALb eat. 

Fok membek~hip in ColoniaL Darned i 6 wihked: 

John Ghaydon, Jn. "took ye oath a4 an odbicek OcX. 7, 1729 

in Vikginia Cotoniat Militian (Chozieh, p. 122). He died 

in 7784 in Spott~yLvania Ca., Va. 

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( Dear Dr. Grayson, 

August 15, 1978 

I have been sick so therefore do not have anything to contribute. 

( This doesn't mean that I am not interested. I was especially glad 

to see the Who's Who in the last issue. The data on Dr. James 

I McDonald Grayson, professor of Entomology at VPI, enabled me finish 

a chart I had started on his family line. I had corresponded with 

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1 I her husbsndts family. Dr. James McDonald Grayson is the son of 

James McNutt Grayson son of James Floyd Grayson son of James William 

Grayson son of Ambrose Grayson son of William Grayson son of 

John Grayson (d. 1802 Montgomery Co,, Va. ) etc. The last John 

I Grayson was my g~at-great-great grandfather. 

Keep up the good work. 

Sincerely, 

Fear 7r. Grayson: 

August 2, 1978 

1 23 not have any further rims t write for the Grayson 

Geneal~~y YTexsletter, but was deliphted to read ths let5er 

mitten by my cousion, I~T. Roy n. Grayson froldlbua_u~rc_ue, 

Yew '"exico. 'In the very nezr future, I: will drop hi-. E, nate 

and identify npiself to hirl. Vis parents and the one sister were 

the only ones in his family that I Lme~;. 

You rrust be extre~ely hanpy t~ Zlave the "ren Grayson, br. 

iwrsphical Scetch broupht UT%Q date, nnd this !ewslettar as 

well as all of the ones s~nt out %re real tressuxes. (he sf q- 

nieces is d3ing some research nov: and may have sonething t~ add 

at a later date. 

Cn the sad note, rrry brother illism ism bv,-ell Grayson died this 

Spring, April 38, 1978. 

1 aa send in^ a c\sc4 for this issue and the r~ext issue cming; 

'Q. 10 and TCo. 11. 

Sincerely, 

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Mr. Clifford Grayson 

1601 Holloway Street 

Rollo, Mo. 65401 

My dear Mr. 

Grayson: 

STATE OF 'ALABAMA 

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY 

MILO 8. HOWARD. JR., DIRECTOR 

MONTGOMERY. ALABAMA 361 30 

June 21, 1978 

With reference to your letter of June 7, I regret that we are not 

able to find in our files any information concerning the naming of the 

town of Grayson, Alabama. We find no information in our Houston county 

file and none in The History of Houston County by Watson. I regret that I 

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we are not able to be of any assistance to you in this matter. 

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Director 

Eoms named Grayscrn from the U.S.. Zip Code Directerg 

(1972') 

Stata Name aP 

Georgia 

Gray ma 

Kentucky 

Cirraysmx 

21":;: 

Leui e iana Way man- 71435 

Maryland Wasonlville 

21638 

North Carolina Grayson, 28632 

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St. Louis, MO 63119 

28 August, 1978 

Dr. Richard R, Grayson 

103 West Main Street 

St. Charles, It 60174 

Cear Dr. Grayson, 

I: am writing to inquire about any inforktion that you might have concerning 

the parentage of Judith Grayson who married Pleasant Ernrn, ~rson 

in Albemarle County, Virginia, 3 October, 1808. Shortly thereafter they 

moved to Barren County, Kentucky. 

I am also interested in an Elizabeth Grayson who married Joseph Sutherland, 

Jr. in Albemarle County in the 1790's. 

Any information that you might be able to give me would be very much 

appreciated. 

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Linda II, 

Sylvia 

GR.41 WJX. ELLIOTT S.t>ICEL. rustaurnnr chain c~cu. b \Isrl1'". 

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Cllfferb Grayson of Mo 

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Corresponding Secretary 

Kentucky State Histmica1 Society 

Frankfort , Ky . 

Dear Siri' 

August 2, 1947 

Can you give me any information of George ~iashington Grayson, born 18031 

(my information says in 1FC3 in Grayson Co. but I find Grayson Co. was not formed 

until 110). He was married three times, the last time to Kary owe) Stevens 

and had bairid !owe Grayson. 

Me Is said to have keen the son of Thomas Grayson of North Carolina. He no 

doubt telonged to a line of the Graysons of Va. I find a George id. Srayson who 

had a son George A, in Tglerts aarterly (~a) and in Historical Collections 

of Va. Vol. IX. p 210 I find George Lc'. as a son of Col. 'vJm. Grayson, who left 

a son PJeorge w'. but no further data on the names. Cemee, the son of Col. #villiarn 

Grayson was ITcf Fauquder Co, and died tefore 1F32, leaving issue.It 

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I also find in "Old Kentucb Xntries and Deeds by H.R. Jillson, pafe 494 

under ''Court of Appeals- Grantors - Geor~e w, Grayson res.- Kason, a large 

grant dated 2,18,1803 Eook N, 435. Also a Deed dated 8,2,lPO5 to 'Ih~rge 

b~'. Gra;fson and idife both on Uttle Sandy hiver and two others, one on same river 

and the other "6 m of Salt iJorksn. These are in Book "Kit pages 259, 271, and 274. 

Tho nme of his wife is not given, nor do I. understand whpy the record is under 

'' OCourt of appeal^^^. Could it be that he George d. Crayaon uaa one of the "Hairs 

of dm. Grays~n" who laid claim to lands in Kentucky 

I have no record of when Gecrge Aashington Grayson died but be is said to have 

removed about 1660 to Jafferson Co. Kans. 

Carl you help or advise me in any way 

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llrs. Lovett Frescoln 

500 Farvard Ave. 

Swabthmore , Pennsylvania 

Genealogist.

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C~omealth of Kentucky 

Ce~t. of State 

Frankfort, 

Charles K.GfConne1 

State Lecretary of State 

Krs. Lovett Frescoln, 

5OC Harvard Ave. 

Swarthmore, Pa. 

The deed recorded in Book R, page 259, sho'ds that George Grayson was frm 

Fauquler County, Virginia and that his wife's nane was Octada. 

Ey deed recorded in Geed Eook N. paFe 435, George h'ashinrbon Grayson of Pason 

County, Kentucky, on Karch 12th. 1e03, conveyed to Alfred i. Grayson a certain 

interest in '/0,000 acres of land on Little Sandy River, as an heil* of biilliarn 

Gray sen. 

Grayson Cocnty was created i n 1810. 

Yours very truley, 

Charles K. Of Connell, R. 

Secretary of State. 

John M, iJillis 

Clerk, Greenup County Court 

Greenup, Kentucky 

Gct. 20, 1947. 

Yar. Lovett Frescoln, 

500 i-larvard Ave. 

iwart bore, Pa. 

Dear Madam: 

1 am unabls to fiad any record of a Nil1 of George W. Grayson in.thls office. 

the thing f can find along this line is the Eivizion'of 70,m acres of land belonging 

to dilllam Grayson in the year 1F38. This cwers apyroximately six pages 

written in long +and and parts of it are almost illegikle. If we can furnish 

you any further infofmation we shall be ~ h to d do so. 

Youra very trl~ly 

John M. l.rilUs, Clerk 

ty Retecca C. Thomas - Ceputg.

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Kr. Layless 3, Rardin 

Secretary-T easurer Eentucky Hist. Soc. 

Old State house 

Frankfort, Kentucky 

Ceal Fir, Hardin: 

Mrs. Lovett Frescoln 

500 Karvard Ava. 

Suarthmore, Penn. 

Ckt* 23, 1947. 

A letter from you dated Aug. 6. 1.V47, states that it would be neceesary to 

know the name of the county in which the Grayson family lived before you could 

furnish any possible inf ormati on. 

1 wish to learn something of the family of zemge dashingLon Grayson who was 

born in Greenup County, Kentucky, on 20, Cct, 1€Q3 and was there reared and 

educsted. He is said to have removed in 1837 to Eissouri, becoming one of the 

piorleers of the Platte purchase there. He died 1888 , Jefferson Co. Kans, 

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His father was said to be also George Washington Grayson, who had a wife 

tlOctaviatl in 1903, in Kentucky, 

'kere is a story told tic the effect that this man was kllled by I~ldians while 

crossi.ng the river in r; can* going from Virginia into Ky, date or place 

unkntwn. 

I enclose a copy of a letter received today which seems to hear out the statement 

that George ri. C.ray.cn was the son of George W. Grayson who was the son of ililliam I 

Grayson, tut I need proof, what I particularg wish is data on George H. Grayson 

Sr., He is said to have been from Fauquier County, Virglnia to Yentucky. 

I am enclosin. a!so a letter from the Secretary of State. Frankfort, Kg. Can 

you tell me If the recard t,e sent is the same as I wo~ld receive fran the Land 

Office 

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I wrote Mrs. N. E. Each, Lexington, ky., who never done work on the Grayson 

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Une. I cegret I cannot afford her services. 

Your Very truly 

Mrs. Lovett Rresccln 

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GRAfSON FAEXIS 

(for Krs . Miami, Okla. ) 

Col. hiilllam Grayton, for whom Gayson Co., iiy., was named was the son of 

Lenjaruin Grayson, wealthy rtiaerchant of Colchester~gian and Susan &;onroe 

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Grayson, of ivestmoreland, dngland. tie was born in Frince N'illiam Co, Va, 

in 17b0, (one record says 1736). 

He attended the University of Pennsylvania Bb Philadelphia; pursued classical 

atudies in Enp;L%nd snd was graduated fron! the T!niversity of Oxford; studied law 

at the Temrle in Landon; ret~irned to Virginia end practiced law in rhunfries. 

bl ring the Revolutionary k!ar he was appointed aide-de-carp to General 

tias'.-in~ton, Aug. 24., 1776. Cmanblng Colonel of a Virginia Regimnt, June 1, 

1777; distine~iiskeci hiaself at the Eettlo cf Xcnmouth in 177C; :ember of the Eoard 

of riar j.n 1702 and 17P1; P:erlt,er of t'ne Continental Congress 17Y4-17$7; Delegate 

to the Vireinia Conver.tion in l7e8 for the adcption of the Tederal Constitution, 

which he ooposed; elected to the U.S. Senate snd served from Karch 4, 17P9 until 

his de~th in Du~ifrles, Va. Karch 12, 1770; in',ernnt in the old family estate at 

Lelle Air, near Wries. 

(This was taken from a letter written by Hr, Bayless Hardin. Zec. of the Ky. 

Hist. Soc., to kin. Ti. iagiy, of Grayson, Ky, Host of the information was gotten 

fra~ an old i-Iistory aP Prince NilUam Co,, Va., which is at the Historical Society, 

Frankfort, Ky.) 

Grayscn, Gal. b,. - Frm the will of Kajor General Charles Lea, (found in Qlerts 

duart,crly. p 46 v. 3) 1'1 give and bequeath to my zorthy friend, Ccl, limo Grsyson 

of Gumfries, the second choice of ny two colts---" 1762. 

Letter from Gen. Geo. dashington to h. bayson- 5T 199-206, 252, 263. 

lie is frequently rrentioned in Gen. ~ashlngton~s diary as a visitor at lit. Vernon. 

He married Eleanor, sister of General jmallwooci of the Pkryland line. tie left 

Frederick, George, Robert bnd Alfred and cne daughter, Hebe. Alfred Grayson, 

his son, married Vdss Bredkinridge, of Kentucky, an sunt of Gen. John breckinridge. 

(The latter, according to Lrock in Grisgsby Convention 1788, p 210). 

George 3;. , son of >.h., of Fauquier Co. died before 1832, leaving issue; 1st Frances, 

who nid, Richard H. Foote. Heirs of ;Jm. Grayson; Certifies J, uv'orden Pope, 10th 

June. lP30, 39th year of the Cmonwealth, of Kentuce. 

(George X.ls 

other two children were George i'f, and tiilliam). 

"George ti. Grayson, of Rappahannock C-, Va, ap~ointed Henry itorthing as his ally 

to obtain warrant due him in rieht of the service of Ca~t; Eeband Snzllwood, 

brother of my late grsndmother Gray son, the .wife of' Col, >iilliam Grayson". 

June 1P38, Jefferson Co. Ky. - (8T 121, 124, 125.)

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Below Is the lineage of 3,R.. Grayson sr.. of Rt.2. Box 62, 

Brevard. N.C. as written Aug, 30, 19%. He states that this 

information came from his cousin. an amateur genealogist. I 

have mitten to herb She isr Mrs. Marylea (Graysen) KaleL 

4731 90.. 261 West Ave . Tulsa, Ohla. 741 07. 

1 af great Interest 1s that thi. genealogy ties in. 

with the familles previously discussed here in Vol.Lrno.. 6&l2 

James. Yilliam Grays~n was the Ca1. whc caught Tom Dula ( re.: 

the song ef Tom Daoley.) 1 am mosf Interested te learn whether I 

the father. William Grayscn ef N.C. rag ln Wllkr-untg;whers 

my Wren Gray-aon came frem. And. further, was the father ef Col.: 

James. Graysan the same William Grayssn who appears in 

1800 in Wilkes county Prnbably not; since the latter had u 

large family already in 1800. 

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DIA.. Grayson of Nebo, N.Ce . sends a dipping. (p.. 236, ) about 

J..Wesley Grayson for general interest. Thank you. 

Lewis F. Grayson of Okla,.reports some history3 "There is the posslb 

hity that some Graysons are of Scottish descent in that by reasom 

of the King of Englanrk! proscribing the name MacGregor, . many 

changed their names, such aa Gregor, Gregsen, Gregg, Greyson,, 

Grayson," et~,'~Thereafter they migrated to Northern Ireland 

and there were driven outrby King William of Orango--most came to 

the U,S.A.!' See pages 237.8 for material en Lewis Graysongs line. 

Ws.. Walton Grasson I11 of 10525 Strait Lane, Dallas, Tex*', 75229 

writes that her husbandrl's, great grandfather was Thomas Wo. Graysm 

born July 18, 1825 Waynesboro, Wayne corn, Hiss, who narried,Ann 

Kvde of Augusta, Perry oo. ,, Misso Does anyone have further i h K n 

this line to put in the Newsletter and to forward to Mrs. 0.7 

On page 239 is a nice letter from Howard E. gra son with 2 mare 

Grayson place names, Also a Grayson obit, Pp. 2 1,2,3,4,$ are pri nte 

here to document that Cel, Wm. Grayson was not just an Aide to Gene 

Washington, but actually led troops in battle. Sent by Howard Grayson 

A o3ipplng frsm Robin Bandy re, C*.Merwin Graysan for general interes 

an pd. 236, and on p.. 246 the will of William Grayson who md, RacheL 

Cooleg, Thank you, 

Mrsi Calvin Grasson of 1919 Hillview Dr. Mesquite, Tex., .75149 

needs.genea1ogy info re. Calvin Grayson who mdo Tempe Pierce, came to 

Tex*. from Miss.. in- late l80O1s, had 7 children 4 boys, 3 girls: 

Lee, James, Wesley,, Quill, Minnie, Mattie & Ada, ah1 now dead, llved 

near Kossie in McGlendon co., Tex. & other mas in East Texo Tradition 

ie that Calvin Grayson was Scottish. The eldest son of Quill 

Grayson is, the husband of the coorespondent, Calvin Gra~~on. 

Pp. 2.47 8; correspondence from and t o a 3rd cousin of mine; 

On p. 249,. 250 another copy of the paper by Lurd Washinnton and 

Peter George Washington (Written when) in good oondition and therefore 

re-printed here8 a Grayson genealogy, 

A biography of Judge Spence Grayson, p.' 236, sent by Howard G,;+. A biography 

of Andrew Jackson Grayson, the painter, also from Howard, 2512 

Pa 2528 a: query from new member Bob GTay~on who is with the Prudentia 

lna. co, in F1. Glad to have all you new members. On pp, 253,4,5 

are family group sheets on Bob's line forwarded by Bob's relative, 

Gene Goodman for the Newsletter. They want further clues to the 

origin^ and ancestors of the 1st Thomas Grayson* Can anyone help 

Note they think Thomas Grayson was b. in Ireland-. 

mmentaxy continued on p.275 (last page), 

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. Graysons 

Visit 

. Mars Hill 

Mr. and Mrs. D.A. Grayjon 

ul Ncbu, visitcd on the campus 

ul' Mars Hill College last 

Monday. mccting with the 

Hcv. M.H. Kcndall in the 

MsCornlick Buildin~. Kendall 

is ~hc prufcssor or Bible at 

Mars Hill and a former pastor 

ul' Clinchfield Baptist Church. 

Hc was pastor during the time 

the prcscnt ncw building was 

gctting on blueprints. 

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with Bill Walkcr, football couch 

at thc collcge and head of 

~hc a~l~lctir dcpartrnent. They 

wcrc Bill's luncheon guests at 

tllc faculty dining area; then 

tourcd thc campus, noting the 

many iniprovcmcnts including 

t~cw pavcd streets, ne'w buildings 

and thc fricndly students. 

Bill. forn~crly of Marion, is 

the sun of Mr. and Mrs. J. 

Arthur (Itcd) Walker of Pleasant 

Vallcy Dcvcloprnent. Old 

Furt. 

An uncxpcctcd highlight of 

the tiraysons annual visit happncd 

during a visit with the 

Mars Hill prcsidcnt, Dr. Fred 

I Bcntlcy. in his office, when J. 

Wcslcy Grayson of Laguna 

Hills, Calikrnia, who donated 

a million-dollar gift to the 

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rvllcyc vppcarcd for a visit. 

latcr in the day, Mr. and 

Mrs. tirayson wcre invited to 

thc hunic of Mrs. Clara Wall 

and alw visiacd with her 

: daughter. Mrs. Wesley Graymtn, 

thc bcncfactor's wife, the 

Ct,rn~cr Sarah Pauline Wall of 

Marr Hill, an alumna of Mars 

Hill Collcpe in the Class of 

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been named president of the Covington 

Trust and Banking Co. Grayson, who in 

1970 was named outstanding young 

man of Kenton County by the Junior 

Chamber of Commerce, moved up 

from executive vice president, a 

position to which he has appointed after 

resigning as vice president of Peoples 

Liberty Bank and Trust Co., Covington. 

Grayson's participation in community 

activities and organizations is 

widespread. Among them are St. 

Elizabeth Hospital, treasurer, member 

of the board of trustees and executive 

committee; Transit Authority of Northern 

Kentucky (TANK), secretarytreasurer; 

UK Fellow; UK Alumni 

Association-Northern Kentucky Alumni 

Club, vice president, treasurer and 

president; Northern Kentucky 

Leadership Council, chairman; Northern 

Kentucky Unit of the American 

Cancer Society, director and former 

president; Center Civic Opera, Inc., 

chairman; Boys Club of 

Northern 

Kentucky, board member, and Junior 

Achievement, advisory board. 

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CRAYSON. Spencc hlonroc (.\fagistrate. United 

States Disrrict Coun .for Georgia Southern District) Ap 

pointed to tcnn bginnifig Dcc 1. 1Q70. Term expires Dec 

1, 1978. Born Savannah Georgia Dec 7, 1900 to William 

L. and Lillian Turner Grayson. Wife Margaret (Deceased), 

married Ds 1, 1925. Son William L. 11 Sept 2, 

1926. Episcogalian. Educated at U.S. Military Academy 

at West Point 1917-18, Georgia Institute of Technology 

1919-20 and University of Georgia LL.B. 1924. Admitted 

to practice Georgia 1924. 

Member Georgia House of Rcprescntatives and State 

Senate 1926-62 President Pro Tern Gcorgia Senate 1945. 

1946, 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1952). Savannah City Attorney 

1937-46. Member Savar~nah Bar Association and 

State Bar of Georgia. Received Lucas Trophy from City 

of Savannah 1949. Democrat. hlsmbef Society of Colonial 

Wan and American Legion. Enjoys athletin. 

Ofice: P.O. Box 9180, Satannah 31402. 

Telephone: (912) 232-0163. 

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September 14, 1978 

Mr. Clifford Grrryson 

1601 Hoiloway Street 

Fblla, MO 65401 

Re: Gruyson Clan 

Dear Sirr 

I hove been advised by Rlchcrd R. Grayson, M.D, that you might 

furnish me wlth some inforrnatlon concomlng the Gmyson family 

genealogy, and tho particular branch I belong to. The following 

Is tho only available lnfomation I have concemlng our fami lyr 

Great Grandfather: Frank (or Franklin) 

Married: Martha Jane Smifh 

Llved in Newberg, MO, Phelp County 

Following Children born of Marriaget 

1, Wllllam 

2. Jerono (Jerry) 

3. George 

4, Jamas (Jim) 

5. Lowfs (Louis) Franklin 

6. Elizabeth (Betty) 

7, Sarah , 

8, hrtha Ann 

The above the the only names I can recall. 

2. Gmndfarhar: Lewis (Louis) Franklin 

Born: Newberg, Phslps County, Married 

Them (3) Harris, also af Newbrg, 

Following children born of Marriage 

1 , Lewis Elmer 

2. Jane 

3. George 

4. Everett 

5. Gladys 

6. William 

7. Vernon 

8, Earl 

9. Opcll 

10. Alico 

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3. Father: Lewis Elmer, Born Newberg, MO. 

Marriod: Mary Loruins Brooks, Cartage, MO 

Children Born of Marrlage 

1 . June Rose 

2. Richard Lee 

3. Lewis Franklin 

4, Jack Edward 

5. Robert Elmer 

6. Clifford Eugene 

7. Charles Fred 

There is some Information that wuld indicate my Great Great Grandfather's 

name was Benjamin Franklin Grayson and he SJ buried in the ''01' Kentuck" 

Cemetery in Newberg. 

Any Information you could supply me wwld be greatly appreciated. I have 

enclosed a self addressed and stamped emvelope for ywr convenience. 

Very truly pun, 

Lewls F. Gmym 

Executive Assistant 

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'fie co:iz:: of thp text przviously mentioned havc f inc.ll!r becn r.lade. Cur Col. 

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nu!:lbered iil red in -tile uy:r lezt corner for use if the pazes iiecoue separated. 

How nuch use, if arl.y, th2.L; you ~ake of these is up tc you. I won 't bc of fer~cicd if 

you der~ all or any :>art un\~orthv of r)ublication. I IJas irlpress .ci with tile suI>ject 

because i,t is the enly detatled accoun-t of Col. 1.h. Grz:.s-tl's trar efzcrts that I 

have erlcouiltered i.~d it indicates t1ic.t he corlducted himself r,~i.th valor ;lnd honor 

at a tiiue !.~iln~l some arcluiid !~im did not. I take pride i.n his pzrfol::.~e;lce. 

&I obit for a E,!rs. Nmira L. Grnysdn is enclosed. I know nothirq of this 

Ea:.aily. 

riy check or Llle next: ttro issues of the news letter is also enclosed. 

Durin; rap t~ur ill the Ricli:~..~nd, h., area, r,zy sc:ilecll_.:lc aid that 02 ti:e llis- 

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another Graysnn l&cc a!,!e for US. A coded Inap of Fet:ersl)urg, Va., is enclosed 

which reflects a Grayson Street. I walkcd along it z(i visiiled tl-:e City Libi:ary 

tcj stlei..lt tcx learn :;aw it rccei-ved its na le but to no avn'.l. .vhile ai: tile li!jrary 

T looked -thru a t.rorld atlas and s:~otLed a large l.a!:c nar~ecl Graysn!;,. Tt is just 

Plotth oE Lake Su;-.erior in On.l;ario Province. 'There are !~l.r:ldreds oC lake in t:ie area. 

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lhis wile a;lpeared i:o 'le sixty or $0 -!'.les lon; ...ld h.~r~-t;l or sc .liles ~.:icle. 3 

es:l>ecil tc be i13~1, ;n the Ric>:r!cnd area witIlin e few c.1onc11s azld \:ill 1 il;elj7 get 

to the SocieLy luildin~ at th~ time. 

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ci~y:rcci;~tcd. 1':; c~;nvitlr_cc: tilc,t :I:: rc~ots are il: t:lc sn..:e Pz!z!-l:r jn ;:. C. ai:d 'Tenil. 

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Iil t t : ~ .AIO 'r; ,;.lo cl ui~l ie;.cd ic; c.:n on t' e actl-ess, I:athr:.c 

Grsy~i;il. ih i.1~ :~nv: ~.;:ythin., iil .t.;~. ..;7a.ily Archives rc%l,tistc tc-1 i;cr fz~i.1:~ tree 

.Kt:) her. i:, C. Zjirti:, I[ rroulcl .pal-ticu! arly be intcrcs Lei' ir; Ic~rt~li~yi Ilcr C4--:i.1y 

his tory. I1 :,~e h.:::c:, nothin,;, a ilail i:-iz addr'lss is :)rcviilr:c! in thc .P.o 's ;AIQ cl ip;jity;. 

I'I~I i~illirl.; tc; try iE o ccntact i-r, rcqiiired. 

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GRAYSON, ALMIRA L. On Mondov. 

July 34 1978, at Farfar Nurs~ng 

C@~!~~.'ALMIRA L. GUAYSON 01 

Ed~i church, VI. wlie oi Harry 

Grayrcn mother of Jame, Isaac 

Warner.'~rancls Sheppard. Sh~rley 

El~lawth HIII, slrter 01 FlorencP' 

Bess~e Herlxrt. Clara Grayson, Ed 

\yard A L~xOln. she aiw IS SUI le 

Vlved by huentvane grandchildren 

and three great grandchb drer 

Frlends may call at EVERLY S 

FAIRFAX FUNERAL HOME. IP er 

Mdln st, Fa~rfal. Va , on Wtan* S 

day JUI~ 26. trom 7 to V Q ni hrv 

Icn'wlt~ tx Thursday. JUI~ I at 2 

p m at MI Pledsant Church Inter 

men'! MI. Pleasant Church 

Qmetc~.Ald~e, Vb. 

Wasbindon Star 

wcdnddoy, JUI, 24 1978 

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THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH, 1778. 

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HE Battle of Monmouth was fought during the afternoon of 

June twenty-ninth, 1775, at Wenrock Creck in Monmouth 

County, New Jersey; General Washington and General Sir Henry 

Clinton in person respectively commanding the American and British 

armies. The original purpose of the American Commander-in-chief 

has been already stated. The division of General Lee advanced too 

late in the morning to realize that purpose, and'the mismana, aernent 

of the troops after they marched, as certainly imperiled the whole 

army. 

The criticisms of the battle of Mcnmouth do not appreciate that 

relation of the two cdurnns which gave to five thousand American 

troops an immense advantage, by striking just where General Washington 

expected the bIoy to fall, vrk., upon the flank, or rear of a 

marching column, covering at least four miles of heavy road. 

- The preIiminat-y &vements already adverted to in the evidence 

cited, will be again noticed for a more definite appreciation of the 

battle itself. 

Thejrst skirmirlr, was that of Dickinson's reconnoitering party, 

on the hill iust east of the west ravine, between seven and eight 

o'ctock in the morning. Colonel Grayson had advanced with his 

select detachment, beyond :he Freehold Mmting House, half a mile. 

General Dickinson sent a messenger to Washington and Lee with 

nbtice of the British retreat, as early as five o'clock in the morning. 

When Colonel Grayson approached the first ravine, he " saw Firing, 

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and a party of militia retreating from the enemy." 

l~eneral Dickinson was then engaged with a small flanking party 

which had been detached from the British left wing, and which he 

erroneously supposed to be the advance guard of their returning army. 

He sent for aid. Colonel Grayson crossed the bridge with one reg;- 

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ton that the enemy had commenced their march. Washington immediately 

sent orders to General Lee to " move forward and attack the 

enemy, unless very powerful reasons prevented," and advised Gcncral 

Lee that " the entire army had thrown aside their packs and was 

advancing to his support." 

The following remarkable statement taken from Lee's defense, is 

cited in this connection without comment. '' I had no idea that his 

excellency was to move from Englishtown, where I was informed he 

was posted ; and that situation appeared to me the best calculated to 

suppor't my corps, of any I knew of in that country." In another connection, 

he says, that on the march he noticed the hill where the final 

stand was madc to be an excellent position. The movement of the 

troops was very loosely madc ; was simply putting them on the march, 

and General Lee did not in person superintend that mo;rctnent. 

Coforrrt Grayson '- received orders about three o'clock, to put Scott's and Varnum's 

brigades in readiness $3 march and to pve notlce when they were ready," 

upon reporting to General Lee at Englishto\\ln;--was ordered to advance and 

halt three miles from the enemy, gnd send repeated intelligence of their mocemcnts. 

At the same time a written paper from Gcneral Washington to General Lee was 

laced in his hands directing General Lee to send out six or eight hundred men as 

a corps of observation, to give frequent information of the enemy's ~novements and 

IJ affaik fAtm in case thy began ftirir march." 

"At a distance of two and a half miles from Englishtown, was ordered to march 

slow ; shortly after, to advance." This brought Grayson to the bridge over tlie west 

ravine; where theJrsf skir~nisA, hereafter mentioned, took place. 

Grnerat Scoff " had orders about five o'clock to follow hiaxwell's brigade :- 

passed Englishtown ; was ordered to halt ; received an order from one of General 

Lee's aids to march in the rear of General Wayne's detachment. About this time 

there was a halt of an hour ; marched to the Meeting-house, where there was a 

second halt : advanced a mile and then halted, when several pieces of cannon were 

fired, and some small arms, in front of the column. 

This brought Scott to the west ravine : He continues,--'* Soon after I was ordered 

on, and soon took a road to the left and then an old road to the rightwhich brought 

us into a field to the left of some of our troops that were formed where there was a 

pretty briskfiring of cannon on both sides." This was the location of the third 

shirmrsh hereafter mentioned. 

Gcntral Afarwcll; "received orders after five o'clock, to put my brigade ir! 

readiness to march immediately. Ordered the brigade to be ready to march ; went 

and waited on General Lee. He seemed surprised 1 was not marched, and that I 

must stay until the last, and fall in the rear. I ordered my brigade to the ground I 

understood I was to march by, and found myself to be before General Wayne and 

General Scott, and halted my b~igadc to fall in the rear." 

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Queen's rangers were driven through the village, General Wayne 

hastened Colonel Butler across the east ravine, and placed his detachment. 

with two guns, upon a small eminencein t h plain, ~ while the 

other brigades were following the general lead of those in advance, 

until they formed an irregular line as far as Briar Hill. 

Thc thirdskirr~~islr took place just after Butler reached the position 

last referred to, and while the troops were moving from the woods 

near the Amboy road, to the plain beyond the east ravine; under the 

general direction of General Wayne. The British light dragoons 

made a charge uporl Colonel Butler which was successfully repulsed. 

Colonel Grayson was in advance with an orchard to his left; Jackson 

about a hundred yards in his rear; then Scott somewhat detached, 

and Maxwell on the edge of the morass. Grayson was informed by a 

messenger from General Wayne, that he milst hold his ground, as the 

enemy was retiring. He "hallooed to Jackson to come and form 

upon the hill, (Briar Hill) upon his left." This movement was one 

which threatened Knyphausen's column, just when it was buried in a 

long defile, and Clinton was at once aroused to activity to save the 

baggage train which hc supposed the Americans were attempting to 

attack. Colonel Jackson disreprded the request of Colonel Grayson, 

because he llad no artillcry. Scott was then a little to the rear and 

right of Jackson. Maxwell expected Scott to move to the right, to 

join on Wayne, close the gap, and let him into the line. Wayne 

meantvhilc held the regiments of Wesson, Stewart, and Livingston to 

the left of Varnum, to cover Butler with whom ht advanced still further 

into the plain, and also to cover Oswald's artillery, which had 

drawn two additional guns from Varnum's brigade, and was exchanging 

shots with the artiliery of the enemy. Major bIercer of General 

Lce's staff told Grayson that his place was in the rear of Wayne, who 

had no right to order him to the position he held on the left. General 

Lee states that " he sent Major Mercer, and then a second officer, 

( with express orders to General Scott to hold his position." As a 

matter of fact, Scott was under Grayson's commandA and both were 

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i- House, as si~bsequently ordered, they followed, his movements, and 

received no intimation that they rhould have done othiriviie until the 

movement LVJS actually made, and the *whole army was retreating, by 

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tained his guns in position until his am:nunition was exhausted, and 

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House. The British troops appeared in the edge ol the - woods A_.- hardly 

a mile distant:-and were v;iriously 

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to twenty-five hundred men. The force of Lee then - disposable for - 

attack or resistance, if properly in hand, was not less than three thous 

v s o n ' s detac5ent. vayne, during the hour 

and R half while he was in the plain, sent three times to urge General 

Lee to advance with the troops, and as he states, refrained from 

pressing the attack too strongly under instructions, and /constantly 

expecting that General Lee would carry the left wing around the 

right of the British line to cut it off from the main body. 

General Lee's purposc, as undcrstood by General Wayne, and as 

stated by Lee himself suns to so swing his left about the British right 

as tp tofie them, and he also states that ivhen he notified General 

Washington, who sent to learn the progress of the army. that he was 

confident of succcss, he supposed the British rear-guard not to exceed 

fifteen hundred mcn. His estirnat~ way correct, at the time, as his 

whole division was then pressing to the front, eager to engage the 

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enemy; but at noon the British army had realized the weakness of 

the pursuit, and gained time to turn it into a failure. General Lee, 

in his defense, ridicules the application of General \Vayne for support ; 

but riot in connection with his statement that he placed liim at the 

post of honor, nearest the enemy, and \irith the largest control which 

any subordinate officer had over the movements of the picked troops 

then ill front. General Lec admits that he sent no messenger to 

Washington to advise him of the retreat, and in his appeal to the 

Court Martial, states that he could appreciate the feelings of Washington 

when the column rolled back upon him without previous notice 

of disaster ; but that when he met \i'ashington and exchanged words 

with him, he did not know that the men had thus disorderly fallen 

back upon the mair body. 

The rttrtnt. The Rritish army emerged from the woods, and 

pressed toward the Court House. General La Fayette first reported 

to General Lee that the right was threatened, having previously been 

checked in his advance of the American extreme right, by General 

Lee's personal direction. General La Fayette the11 consulted General 

Wayne, and placed the regiments of Livingston and Stewart in 

position to resist the British advance, which was steady, solid, and in 

good order. 

The details of the retreat of different brigades and regiments are 

not to be conz.idered. An entirely erroneous opinion prevails as to

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Copied frnnl !tVirginia Soldiers of 1776" 1:y 

Louis i;urpss 

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I&, 7. I:. Sterrart, Fichond, VA., co~tributed tile fol1a:ing copier: of ',I-e 

irilLls of I;iI.l..i an Crayson s n.i Rachel Cooley, from original. 

the n9r1r: 0.: Go-1, Amen,--This is my first and L ::t r.ill. Jonathan ICls~,rick 

nr,rl c::.rt; s 2lli*-'tt, 7:: trust,y fr;iznric t,o ac4; an;l do ,'or me zft .:F T~ 6ecease. 

"Unto ry poc:l ailrl la~~rful wife, I gj.ve the usc of the nlant,atj.on on r-hich r.:e now 

Li.ve, during her life, and the working tools to support the farm. Likewise ten 

COIJS; :>it r 13illy and i'euben cone of age, the above nentj.oned r:lantotion to be 

equ;.lly diviLied betxcen Billy and Re1:ben; ad after the boys arrive to age, that 

they glvc to t h girl.., ~ two hundred nnd forty ocnrir, in good property. 

'! likc~~rise f$ve on6 b.queath to ry yon Arqbrose, the plsnta'tion, Cole Partick's 

lace, on !'clker 's Creek. 

~~i..l that xy t~ro sons, Ambrc~se 2nd John do pay 6': ir eo~~nl part of the two 

hunfbe~i and forty pounds Lo thc s~itl girls, thzt is, to r'ets~~ ant1 5- 11y anri P~W. 

"1 @v" t,o rT,r dau@tcr l;et,sy, a gr2:- Rare nnii colt, to ic for lar, but to remain 

on the plantation, i'or the use of ry lirife, vntil she (l3eC:;y) shall co~.le of age or 

marry, or 6.e, but if she die rrithout an heir of hsr own ':ody; her legacy to be 

equally dividccl :man;; the other lr:ga.tscs; anc! sc 1 ,i sh it to be done, sl.iould any 

of tEd resticlje uitho~lt heirs." 

i3e leaves further legacies to M s I-rj fe on terms as above, Thrl will was si wed 

bf June 1801p '.Jitnesses, Richard IZdtt, Israel Lorton, and Sarah Grr-,ysono ccorded 

liloritgor~ ry County court 1001, Teste, Charles Taylor, Clerlc IIontgonc ry 

Countv Court. 

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r.ri.11 of R:~chel Cooley Grayson: "To ry daughter IIary Sayers ry servant 

Lydir To rg d3ughtcr Sarah Yribian (wife of John Prilman); yr set of s; lver 

spoons, also q r b~d 2nd b~:dclotllcs. Tc) rg son I-lz%rose, ry -il~_ Dible; to n;:. son 

::illia~ 311 rv coas, slwcp and II~T short clock; to 110' grands~n John Qayson (son 

of ::il!:iam), my long clock; to n y :;dsu&ti-r Sarah TriLnan , q r sad 'le ~nc! clothes 

press; to rrj grnncicleldrcn, the heirs of ;T Ceceased daughter, LlinaSeth :'filman, 

on5 dol-Tar eachel! 

Slm a!>polnt,ec! her son TiJ.l.inrn Tirayson as her sole Ibtr. Simd and sealed in the 

presence ofrCrecd Tr3jlor and 15317 T~ylor, 23 Apl. 1112. 

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J. Q,. Grays.on 

421 U,ittorio Aveb. 

Coral Gables, Fla, 33346 9/9/78 

Thank you for your letter and cncilosures of Se.ptt 4.. 

Ittseems that you and I are related. 

First there was Wren Grayson, sr., 178291865, His flmt som 

was John Wren Grayson,. 1805-1882. 

John Wren Grayson's children were Bebecca,.Sarah,,Mary, 

Salathlel,. Andrew, Jackson, an& Jok. Wren:. jre9. 

SalathieX; 1837-1916 was your ancestors 

His brother Andrew Jackson Grayson, 1838+1913 was my.; 

great grandfather; 

Salathiel's children were: Charles.:Mer~iam Grayson, Helen, 

WIIl$nm, Mary Frances, Gertrud.e, RertEe,.and Maude, 

Maude married Peccival Moore 2nd. Maude : 1881-1968. 

Her] brother Charles: Merriam (Merwih ) Grayson 1857-1 931 

marsiod,Josephine Dreiss4 was your grandfather. 

Our relationship is3 

John Wren Grayeon 

Salathiel brothers Andrew 

Charles. 1st cousinsr Howard 

RaymsndcL 2nd cousins~ RolantZ 

J.G& 3rd .cousins. Tilohard 

Charlea 

3CIam doing research an the ancestors of Wren Grayson and 

a3.sa I have barrels of $nformation on all of our relatives..X 

have reams of material on the BenJamin and Cole William Grayson 

and the other Virginia Graysons:mentione& inthe manograph you 

sent but so far, we are not related t o them.' 

Perhaps Me could. trade family charts. My main interest is;, 

researching the immigrant ancestor, however. 

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Please write ;- 

Dick Graymn

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Cor~i Gables, Fla. 

Septa 4, 1978 

R. R, Grayson, K.D. 

Grayson Faciily Associrztion, 

BOX 167, 

St. Charles, Illinois. 60174 

In renFonse to your recent inquiry proyosing an 

exchanee of an;. cenealogicnl deta relzted to the Grsyson 

lineage, I have enclosed a co1;y of a paper whicli r.~' father 

(~aymond G.) now decenscd, obtained fron his cousin 

I,.rs, IIoore Price, 1rho::e last known residence was in Louisville, 

Kentucky, 

For your further infornation I have a brotlicr Charles 

1,:anrili G~;~ycan who resides in Ft. I.:itchell, I:cntucly, Our 

father Rzynond Goold Grayson was born in Bc~aport, I.',ontucQ. 

His father Charles 1.le.rwin Graxson was a brotilcr of Tlrs. 

Porcival Koore, who was also entiiied in the enclosure, 

I tl~.~st the abcive will contribute t~ the researck of 

the Grayson family line. If the infomation offered fits 

in with aht:t you have previously developed I would be 

interested in a response &om you. 

Very tr-uiy yours. 

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Coral Gable, F19 

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QkiyyYx V T" 'j tvr7 

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Ihe hietory of ths Orayeon0 of rhich thws is any rebord il that of Bcnjnmiu. iis ares 

@ frm *laad or Lcotbnl to rest dorolalhl, Va. 20 Wta. a man of line eldr(lb4. lie 11~rrl.d 

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8 wa3LtQ HidoPC,, bee LuSana ,.iocrOs, sister of :2,r,encs::ontoe, rho m a tiis fat.r~1 of :'reelz 

dent ;lonroe, dams, 8 Lc~tsrpau. Zub8r.u Birst married :dr. I'yler, tao:@r. Linson. 

EenJenia% Grejaon'8 Elieter :mrrtetJ illiam tiarrlaon, an snaesror of Colonol Burs 2arrlsou 

of tR8 i:aroA&tiow~ry &rag, rind -!atthskt's @rrison, lu~ter and reLritlvts of :!aajollirt dey- 

I ristia, OtiO of t.119 sA&mlr% of the irucloration of Ands)anuilnce, onct Great i3~endP: thsr of >n~,- 

joan t&rirrtma, iri itii3Gc 2113 11.~323 of L~CSLCO -3s i~itir~d~cab iat~ tne ,iouroe ja ailg b~ %hn 

rd3=~/~&3 0.f o vo=n u3zd Lpunce, Aftax busaaa B irebth bcnjcrairr Gray nurrid fatu LRB A:q +ii 

/ fe.lily. tbr mno Yadlg ns that ci ~Aout~snt tiuner~1 Xell of taa Coui'ndnrets Amy. Urn- < 

jamln Circsg atxi La 1757 in k'rlra~a t ilii~u 

Coaslty, VirgXFlls. Yhe Odaildrari 61 b~njtain a94 J 

Sucona tSwa ma& f enJz~aSs&, bpeaos, llism end Lusam :.~OBZ.OB. Upon aarring~ 'ifrilh i;l @.-I 

I *:rill hs ilaP no ord larrgr. 

The f~;aSly of Ps-isidont %yler ware of the Suorw ,:sn~os~a fir€$ hncbsnd, ss ras i-krtetdrnt; 

of 'th% aaa9 ~Cuociz Y, zi.til;srried 3 ~n Urag {ts~st 09 %id& & ts em9 frost CoIot3ctl k'~t$f QF.T~SBO~ 

;lasni~ton Qnd #r~darick'& 

AL1Psa JXP~BC);~), Aft02 ZhB dmtb OR hbanJsn3n Orsg i~ 1757 kia 

oatat0 V.38 InPt; $0 iris c;caa, the jtossrsud Llrl&OO C ~ P M Y ~ of : ~ ~ tilt) Chrcil at ~~Lsnb, cnc2 ths 

~ldaab BQM of L*3n,'a:&a av.d hawm Gray* Ba mrfl QJ :

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C;eere;o t oohir@on. Chsrr George Taaah.iu.@on'r nophm, ajor Oeorgs Qa~hiwton, %%a married 

there wartn.3 elermon preeent axhi f3sorg.j :la~h,u@oa ohoms kovarend GL)anoe Qregrson to psrfom 

the citrmny and sava hi,n a fod OP vIOO In gold Pot. p~rfomni~ tho oersaoq. Tha~s I 

rtas tro foully oag clopor in co,mnlan, or sore fimly ruprdei, by Caners1 i.=miwton tse 

the cirayson Pikldly (tiiir 1s copid frw the ppor of Uwls LuaI ;ts&nkl;to@. J.I ~oscent a9 

mo3t;ion,ns wo ~IIQI': tho iirrsysone are fond uf 8 coo4 table, that it fa esld tns Lsarer~nii I 

bpeaorr (frsywh i ~ s d siswiaai yau3uf for the tsble, for in 8 lmea of bnd datoahd4 troa 

the :,a110 idre ~r38tat@~ t&t@ bwti rd~ervo(l G pir$ OZ WIlW88 duaku, t0 be bellvex@& b@- 

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Tna d.3 oaarah, Uark& C~UF&I, i ~ ALi3~ander. 1 

VL~~LULEL~ 

still ~tande v.hsre hs oPtm praadke 

*.+ ti-., 6riw ehnrcb ~f r-ilia denorel, ' aWn@oa Baa s vostrg:ws. 2110 6~fi\~r22&s par 683 , i~rc~x%tl 

i3jJd*BLUZlL@e rwmln~ ticas azaneo PL'ha f~~ritep GP thj6 ~ZPST VieStetr bha gltsa~ La X77& i'ua Levcrtmd 

Lyeur.,~ Grayeon Ueii ot his &ello Art8 seaidstzcsa in 1790, at; 64 yaoPer of ~p";.lr. iiis 1 

wirbx dkod 8% the rosi&paas O &and i.@ahl,w&an, Itcia mw\-li.~-Law, in Vsst.,ic,glioa in PBTU. 

Lcipouao 9rn$t:ora a.drrB Ki 2dn;k.g ,;li aablath :-'&~~ourzr~ T;tobr dlsu$$rt ar %am= l ad s:zx,rmc&kss~~-1X4&9~ 

6rar Lbss"r& ';'b;,~rlvqy"J~a, tr0t;her of Gorrrga i: a ~.iqfi oao he iaa;ae of SiaVoron(1 Spanae Grsgbo~ nl-lci I 

:L;;cQbsth 7 sl:ansr 9 PLl ba glv811 bn ti%@ alsa%W cf %Ma recrord. Fllllhn Brayaozr 1LI, aun of 

&33$ &Irk Gr,d.;~on ~ilil CI.ZQ~~~~ZIB ljortjroo I~~T~,Yco-~;~ PE; bona in f 786. Li \:.3 W s bg~tihor, I;pcwa, 

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clrx4n, iisrin;~ A iscxi g~cacslzon ho ,%or%&. aif la$@ influenas erzsjl owor for tics i~ip~o~e-:ent 

of b i coueLn,, ~ 3p3zb@ :,,XQ~~OO~ 

iLB 118 cnJa$o.% %he orL0t3-a of G~neral L4uor~a "aslriag%on, t%&r 

Jcwbu, Gho (tcawal WE; aui~5, i&Xlxuwo;ld try L41Ugtrn C;S.~~;~OES in &:*%&3&5g ejcmes Xowaa, ha@ 

oour$,m, f'b;%:~~d in t!:s ~;&P&~~~~,*Ac~%o~I~xL~ 

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in tfiln j\'a3t:frat;'80n ~llfGa~lp f&ai1&~, in 1776 he!, 17aa np~;raiad6~~u f;~l&nd. OP D Vfr&;iaI~ bvet;:f,:ki;a3. 

in 8h:~ 3ki%*Ultl;i Lrexrdc~burg, b.sr:&ntotr:';Q an0 ,~~iuwaS;ib %ha xe%.$rnez% v.ae d~:otrrr;rd. Colonol I 

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ANDREW J. GRAYSON 

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Was born in the State of Louisiana; he, with his 

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wife and child, arrived in California with the overland 

emigration of 1846. Full-length portraits of himself, 

wile and child, appear in the celebrated painting of 

emigrants crossing thc plains, called " Westward Ho," 

I now in the wpitol at Washington. 

On his arrival he at once joined Fremont's battalion 

as lieutenant and induced many of his fellow-emigrants 

also to join, but he did not himself accompany 

the battalion south, but acted with those of the bat- 

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talion who remained about San Fra~cisco. When 

hostilities ceased, he opened the first stationery sto. e 

in San Francisco in the City Hotel, corner of Clay 

and Kearny Streets. 

He founded the town of Graysonville, on the south 

of the San Joaquin River. 

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THE EARLY DAYS 

About 1850 he removed to San Jose and soon 

himself wholly to the srir~~ce of ornithology, 

which had been his favorite study in his school-boy 

r!ays. In 18 j7 he removed to Mexico, as presenting 

a wider field for his researches. He discovered and 

nanled rnany theretofore unknown specimens belonging 

to the several branches of that science, his artistic 

drawings and descriptiuns of which soon gave hirn a 

world-wide fame, and he was dubbed by many the 

AuduLon of America. Hc died in Mexico in 1869. 

His widow is the present wife of Dr. G. R. Crane, 

now residing at St, I-Ielena, Napa Valley. She is a 

most estimable lady, and one of the very few of the 

real pioneer women of California that still survive. 

Mr. Grayson, in physique, was a splendid specimen 

of manhoo:J. He was a man 01' education, and 

of very absten~ious habits. He was a gentleman - in 

every sense, socially above reproach, and worthy to 

rank with the best elements of the society of those 

early pioneer days. 

THE EARLY D:IYS 

MEN OF CALIFORNIA I 

PACIFIC PRESS PUELLSI-IING CUM \'ANY 

OAKLAND, CAL.. 

SAN FRANCISCO. NEiv I'ORK AKLi LONLION.

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Robert Ge. Grayson 

712 6Oth-st. N~wI. 

Bradentan, Fl.,. 33505 

Thank you for your enthustastic letter about the Gray 

generrlo~y ,: 

I. will publish yourquery ih the next Bulletin of the- 

Grayson Pbmily Association to see if any one knows who your 

ancestors were

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1.re Grayson, born 3-1.2-1-91'7 

1,I~~rried Sarbara Jean Jones 

cir children: 

Fllfforc Lee Grayson, (Tr, born DecelTi7er 19, 1958 

- 2ren Deriise Gravsor: 2rd SElaron Dizn2. G~e:~sor: (tvrir) 

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PHONE 595-9020 

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C. H. GRAYSON 

Real Estate - - - - Investments 

700 NORTH 39TH STREET. ROOM 222 

BIRMINGHAM. ALABAMA 35222 

August 18, 1978 

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Richard R. Grayson M. D. 

103 West Main Street 

St. Charles, Illinois 6037b 

Dear Mr. Grayson: 

Refering to your recent letter I am enclosing $3.00 for your expenses 

and I feel, quitc sure I have told you all about the Grayson family I know 

and also my niece Mrs. Kitty Jean, Magnolia, Arkansas has been working on 

the Grayson genealogy for several years and should be able to give you 

more information than I can but at any rate Ill1 tell you the following. 

My great grandfatherls name was Johnny Grayson and he moved his family 

to Quachita County, Arkansas and lived there until he died and is buried nuw 

in Nevada County, Arkansas. He moved from Hamilton County, Tennessee to 

Quachih County, Arkansas and during part of the time he lived in Hamilton 

County, Tennessee he was a deputy sheriff. I'm pretty sure he moved fron 

Hamilton County, Tennessee before the Civil. War. 

My grandfather Zackery Taylor Grayson was one of his children and he 

lived in Arkansas until his death on a large farm and he raised 10 children. 

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My father being Thomas Samuel Grayson and all the children are dead now 

except Mrs. Pearl Caldwell and she lives at Stephens, Arkansas and is rather 

to old to write a letter. 

There are a group of Graysons, one was named David that lived at Huntsville, 

Alabama but I never was able to make any blood relationship with them and one 

of the sons of this family was a judge, Claude Grayson at Mobile, Alabama, 

one of the sons of the family ran an ice cream parlor in Birmhgham, Alabama but 

he passed away several years ago. 

I feel condifent we are related to the Grayson family that was reared 

in Huntsville, but I never could. make connections. 

C. Ha Grayson

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I G~~aysom Family History 

) MS reek's history of the 

Grapson family of Ratherford 

County, was written by Xir. 

les- PNI~~C~, 

Jr,, A-1, Bos- 

K.C. We appreciate his shhis 

recards vith tile 

readers of this col~lms Any other 

descendants whomight have 

additional data on this family 

I is in~ited to correspond with 

hlr. Philbeck. The skdch ofthe 

I Grays~n family will appear in 

two parts and \\.ill be concluded 

in next u.rek's columIL 

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In alrn ,st all family lineages 

there are lines uhich present 

I themselves virt~~ally impossible 

lo un!anfle escept kr scanty 

bits of information derived 

from 'he puhlic records. Such 

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is certainly th. case with the 

GRAISOS family of Rutherford 

County. 

Jnqh Grayson established 

hirn~~ll in this area by 1779 

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when he rereived a tract of 

lanil frcm the state. Re made 

furthct purt.hnes from the state 

in 1562, 1785, 17E, 1796, 

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1737, mulri 1801. Hc alw purchascrl 

lad from .Tames n'hitesitlcs 

(l;e3), hioses hloore 

(17F), Tllrvmas IVhitesides 

.Im!:n IicKitt Alexan- 

!IT), Feter \Vat1 (1802), 

rurj. Lopn (18E). The 

tala1 (*r.n!rn! of fh6r;e trncts 

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by Mrs. Ernest Neurtcm 

Ruute 2, Ellenbra, N.C. 

Patsy Queen, the dower allotment 

to Benjamin Crayson; (3) 

his daughter f lizabeth Grayson, 

Ule dower allotment to Joseph 

Grayson, Jr.; and (4) his 

daughter Sally Deviney, the dower 

all~tm.nt to Isaac Gragson 

and his om dower allotment. 

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The above WILLLAM GRAY- 

SOX, son of Joseph Grayson, 

Sr., married Oct. 17, 1807, Susanna 

Logan. Their son Benjamin 

G. Grayson married Sarah 

Houser, dauchter of Peter 

and Sarah (Heiner) Houser of 

Lincoln County, N.C. Benjamin 

C. Grayson later moved to St. 

Francois Co~nty, Missouri. Cf 

the daurhters of William and 

Susannah (Logm)Crayson, Patsy 

married Jam% A. Queen, 

Elizabeth (Betsy), b. ca. 1810, 

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(7) Joseph W. Grayson, b. ca. 

1842; 

(8) Louisa rayson son, b. ca. 

1844; 

(9) Alfred F. Grayson, b. c& 

1846; 

and (10) Albert L. Grayson, b. 

ca. 1848. 

John M. . Grayson, so3 of 

Benjamin and Hannah Crayson, 

was born about 1808, died about 

1855, and married Mary hlelton. 

Their children included; 

(I) Benjamin Grayson, b. ca. 

1830; 

(2) Elizabeth L. Grayson, b. 

ca. 1834, m. A. W. Hunt; 

(3) Samtlel Grayson, b. ca. 

1838; 

(4) Narcissa Emaline Gray- 

son, b. ca. 

Melton; 

1812, m. Calvin 

. (5) J. Columbus Grayson, b. 

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'ISAAC GRAYSON, son of J+ 

seph Grayson, Sr., marrted August 

20, 1807,Mlry (Pol1y)Melton, 

who was born about 1786, 

and died in November, 1859. 

A comprehensfve list of their 

children is also not known by 

the writer. However, two of U1- 

eir daughters were the thirdand 

fourth wives of Henry H. Hooser, 

son of Peter an3 Sarah 

(Hefner) Ho~Ser of Idncoln Co- 

unty, N.C. Lucy M. Grayson, 

b. 3 December 1827, d. 20 

July 1856, m. 4 August 1854, 

Henry Houser. Lucydiedduring 

childbirth of their only child, a 

stillborn infant. Mary Cmohe 

Grayson, b. about 1822, d. In 

March, 1880 of pleurisy, rn. 71 

April 1858, Henry H. Hmser. 

They were parents of two sons, 

John Franklin Houser, b. 1859, 

and Jefferson Davis Houser, b. 

1861. Circumstantially and tradi- 

tionally, it is apparent that Isaac 

an1 Polly Grayson weretbe 

parents of a son Joh~ M. Gray 

son, who was born 9 June 1813, 

died 7 July 1891, and married 

25 June 1836 Rebecca Bunt, 

who was born 10 April 1816, 

and died 21 September 1910. 

John and Rebecca Grayson were 

parents of at least twelve children: 

(1) h!ary L. (Polly) Grayson, 

b. 13 April 1838, d. 13 Jme 

1924, m. Hampton Weaver; 

(2) William G. Grayson, b, 

20 Auyst 1840, d. 9 January 1920 

m. Julia hlelton; 

(3) J. H. Grayson, b. 19 March 

1842, d. 8 February 1843; 

(4) hl~rtha Grayson, b. ca. 

1815, unmarried; 

(5) Sarah L. Crayson, b. l7 

May 1847, d. 21 June 1322, m. 

Elijah D. 1:xrney; 

(6) John hi. Grayson, b. !9 

April 1850, d. 28 February lr37 

m. Louisa f. Elliott; 

(7) Rebecca Elizabeth Gray- - 

son, b. 6 Sept. 1852, d. 8 0- 

tober 1940, m. gohn C. Weeks; 

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ab~eb \r IOJI, rvtuaas lrruul rr 

(1789), Thomas Whitesides 

(1793), John JlcFi:t Alexander 

(1739), Peter watt (l802), 

and Drury LOW (1806). The 

total conten! of these tracts 

is well over one thousmd acres 

primarily situated on Tir;: 

Broad River in northcastern 

Rutherford County. 

From Virginia, it is not known 

where Joseph Gravson first I 

married, nor to whom he was 

first marrid. However liis first 

marriage(s) produced at 

least five children: Joseph, Jr., 

,q Benjamin, Willi~m, Isaac, and 

Susannah. Khen Joseph's sons 

became of age he sold them 

various parts oi nis estate: Joseph, 

Jr., 153 acres; Benjamin, 

178 acres; William, $2 acres; 

and Isaac, 153 acres. Those 

tracts were primarily from Joseph 

Sr.'s purchases of 1796, 

1799 and 1802. 

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On Dec. 17, M; Joseph Grayson, 

Sr., m.rried ar ain, th!s 

time to Rachel Van Znn~lt, daughter 

of Garrett Van lanrlt. No 

children are knjrvn to have boen 

born to this marriage. After 

Joseph, Sr.'s death, da..:.er was 

assigned to hi5 v:idoc- Racl~el, 

whose will was filer1 for probate 

In 1828. Rachel's lesatees 

were Green Crow and wife Jane 

(Street) Crow, and their children 

Rachel, Elizabeth, Lsttis, 

Isaac, James G., and Abraham 

Crow. Lewis Van Zandt and Joseph 

Grayson, Jr. were her executors 

and witnesses to thewill 

were Hu:h !Vatson anrl William 

Grayson. After Rachel's death 

her dower assiynrnent was divided, 

at least in part, among 

he: husbanrl's sons: Isaac Gr: 

ayson, lot !3; Benjamin Grayson, 

lot b4; Joseph brayson, 

Jr., lot 513; a~id IVilliarn Grayson, 

lot g5. W~lliam Grayson' 

subsequn!ly squired each of 

these Ilrts, 3.; inrlicated in his 

wlll, r1atc.l 16 February 1811 

and recorr!etl in Ruthcrf~riI Will 

Book El pp. 77-78. The legatees 

of William Grayson were 

(I) hi5 snn ncnjnmin Grayson, 

t h hfnn~plac:~; 

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(2) hls (laughter 

u. lrrayson later moved to St. 

Francois Co,mty, hlissouri. Of 

the daughters of William and 

Susa~ah (Logan) Grayson, Patsy 

married Jam$ A. Queen, 

EUzabeth (Betsy), b. ca. 1810, 

married William W. Jones, and 

Sally, b. ca 1808, married Jen- 

'Us Devine'j. The hIt. Zion Bap- 

tist 

Church M Lnutes indicate 

that Sally Deviney died 30 Novem'ler 

1880 and Jenkins Deviney 

died 17 February i881. 

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JOSEPH CRIYSOY, JR. married 

hlarch 19, 1807, to Letty 

h2elton and subsequently moved 

to Kentucky. 

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BENJAMCN GRAYSGN, son of 

Joseph Grayson. Sr., married 

by 1890 Hannah 1blc.l 911. i c I n- 

prehensive list of their children 

is not In the writer's possession. 

However, RC Dd. Elk. 29- 

el, p, 328; RC Dd. Bk. 48, p. 

465: and RC Dd. Bk. 48, p. 

469 indicate clearly that their 

children included three sons: 

J ~ m h CC, Grayson, John M. 

Grayson, and William G. Grayson. 

These deeds concerned a 

tract which Benjamin Grayson 

received from his father - inlaw's 

estate, 

-1 Joseph $, Crayson, son of 

Benjamin and Hannah Crayson, 

was born 13 January 1804, 

died 23 April 1884, anq married 

Jan. 23, 1827 Eliza R. Wilson, 

who was born 4 November 1404 

and died 31 Decemher 1856. 

Joseph C. Grayson was a hptist 

clergyman, and he and his 

wife, are burie-l in the Harmony 

Grove Baptist cemetery 

in McDowell County, N.C. Joseph 

C. and Eliza R. Crayson 

were the parents ol: 

(1) Jorghan Baty Grayson, b. i 

ca. 1830; 

(2) Elizabeth A. Grayson, b. 

ca. 1832; 

(3) Elizabeth A. Crayson, b. 

ca. 1834; 

(4) Mary J. '~ra~son, b. ca. 

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ca; i838; - 

(6) Fatirna E. Grayson, b. ca. 

1840; 

(3) Samirel Grayson, b. ca. 

1838; 

(4) Narcissa Emallne Grayson. 

b. ca. 1812. m. Calvin 

%I elton; 

(5) J. Columbus Crayson, b. 

ca. 1846; 

and (6) Amanda A. Ctavson. h. -.., 

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b.-ca. 'ISSO, m, ~Lisha iiul~tl 

~illik-~. Grayson, son of 

Benjamin and Hannah Gray - 

son *xaE born abut 1814 and 

married 28 April 1835 Christiny 

McCurry, who was born about 

1816, died Septem5er 1879 of 

chest dropsy, daughter of K. 

jon;s; {Z)'~lfred-M. Grayson, 

b. ca. 1837, d. 8 August 1862 

in Civil War; and (3) K. J. 

MC, Grayson, b. 16 Dec. 1838, 

d. 10 September 1903, m. 11 

NOV. 1860 Mary Letitia Melton, 

b. 12 Jan. 1841, d. 30 APril 

1911, daughter of Daniel and 

Narcissy (Fortune) Melton. 

Marion 8. Grayson. 

K. J. Mc. and Mary Melton 

Grayscn were the parents of seven 

children (1) Eliza A. Grayson, 

b, 27 October 1861, d. 8 

October 1949, m. Johnny Yelton; 

(2) John Marion Crayson, 

b. 12 January 1864, d. 23 

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dpri11850, d. 28 February 19'7 

m. buisa J. Elliott; 

(7) Rebecca Elizabeth Grayson, 

b. 6 Sept. 1852, d. 8 &- 

bber 1940, m. John C. Weeks; 

(8) Williamson Fortune Gray- 

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son. b. ca. 1854, m. Sarah hIel- 

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(9) Lucy M. Crayson, 

December 1857, d. 20 October 

B48, m. J. Thomas Ross; 

00) Elita Lnre~za Grayson 

b. 22 hlarch 1859, d. 19 Feberz---z 

ru*~ 1919, m. John Decator Fr 3 

ceman (also the writer's -- &at-- 

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grandparents); 

(11) Nica Caroline Grayson 

b. 21 July 1861, d. 9 Septembe 

1948, m. Sam 1e1 

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W- Harrison: 

(12) Isaac (L~bnard) nay: 

mn, b. ca. 1863, m, AUce () 

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SUSAYNAH GRAYSON, dauflter 

of Joseph Grayson, Sr., 

married Robert Black Deviney, 

of Aaron and Sarah (BI~~L)( 

mvine~. Proof of Susannah's 

relationship to Joseph Gray- 

ia 

John S. and Minerva Jones 4 mn is found in RC Dd 

Grayson were parents of: Sa- a, p. 397. Robert 8. 

ra Fins Grayson, m. Duffie D. , =ah Deviney were the pa- 

Freeman; Alfred B. Grayson; mts of at least seven chil- 

William J. S. Crayson; and *n. 

(1) sVly Devlney, m. John( 

&wet; 

(2) Jane Deviney, b. ca. 1801, 

In. John Brackett; 

(3) Joseph G, Deviney; 

(4) Jenkins Deviney; 

6) ulilliam Deviney; 

(6) Benjamin Deviney; 

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April 1940, m. Mary Jane Gur- 3) Aaron J. Deviney. 

ley, b. 12 Janliary 1864, d. 23 

ley, (3) Mary Emily Grayson, There remain several Grayb. 

4. August 1866, d. 7 April son's who were perhaps grand- 

1917, m. Cpecannough (Canie) dtildren of Joseph Grayson,~r., 

Melton, b. 31 August 1861, d- tut who have not at present 

20 December 1931 (the writer's been proven by the writer to 

great - grandparents); (4) Wil- hsve been children of Isaac, 

liam Jackson Grayson, b= 10 hiamin, William, or Joseph, 

May 1870, d. 29 December 1967, Ju- These include: (1) Elizabeth 

m. Hattie GurleY; (5) Joseph Guayson, b. 1810. m. Williarnstjn 

Wilson Grayson, b. 2 May 1072, Fmtune, son of William Ford. 

6 April 1954, m. Martha Ida tme, Jr., and his flrst wife 

yelton. (6) George Washington Sdy hlelton; (2) Letty Gray- 

Grayson, b. 13 (kt. 1875, d. I sm, who married Elijah Pu- 

21 Jan. 1917, rn. Alice E. Gw- h; (3) Rachel Grayson, IV~O 

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ley; and (7) Alberta Narcissus mried Thomas Daves, or m- 

Christina Grayson, b. 18 I'k3-r- vip; and (4)sahy M. Gray 

1877, d. 1 Nov. 1966, m. Jas- 1 w'b married John ~utc 

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Gra:son His',ory- copied by me in 1937 in the library at Salt Lake City i 

Utah, - I never copied the souree, and have tried several times since 

then to locate the sane material without luck, 

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Suean Zonroe , 

$ather- A~drew I.".onroe - ha immigrated to bad. About 1640 

moved to Va. son of Ca~t. ~~ndrew ::onroe. 

brotker of Susan was ~ndrsw .!cnore who was the father of Spence who is father 

of P~ses. James iblonroe, 

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1 Benjamin 

2, LaugFt er married. Nr. Lronaugh. 

Eenjmin Grayson- eon cf ben3. and Susan 

1. Lr, ttn. ha~son 

2. h, Robert bayson 

3. Lr. John grayson 

4. Kra. Stephenson 

5, Mrs. EUza~eth Carter 

6. Louis Grayson 

b Susan Xarried 3enjamin Grayson 

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died Lec. 1738. 

2, Col, i~illism Grapson 

6 ft;. high, floric' complection, black eyes and hair. 

mar~ied SXeanar Smallwood 

1, Frederick 

2. George 

5. Robert 

k. Alfred md, Eiss Ereckenridge of Kent 

5. Iiebe ad. John Carter 

6 S1,san - in 1761 mar. John Orr. 

Spence and EU.zai- eth kapener 

1. Catherine b. April 5, 1760, md. John fied,.man 

2. kenjai jn torn 6, Fw. 1'761, md. Cx-oline Taylor - I-ient to Kentuclq 

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Lescendants of bird John, d. 1739, who is believed to have marric; 

(1)::ary or SUznLeth, dau, of John isUaferro, 6nd kad a son, John kth, 

of age at father18 death 1739, who is minticns in the will, "John znd mg 

rrlnor children", and names nis son John and brother Thcmas ss Executors. 

He married (11) 2G, c~t, 1726, blary Grayson of Gpotsylvania io, Va, fie 

,Iitnessed a deed in 1724 and signs John Catlett, Jr, and in 173C he nede a 

deed to his son, John Catlett, JP. and Signs hin;selfaJohn Catlett, Gent" 

He was the V2stry of St.. George, 1738. 

1. iy first ~arriage ha had JO~P~, born Circa 1705, d. Tee. 13, 17U+, to whom he 

r.abe a deed in 173C; mr. 5o~t. 25, 1727, ~ilict! Gibson, d, :arm 15, 1761, daughter 

of Jonathan Gibson, Justine and burgsss for Carolir,e, 1736-39-40. t!s ms of 

3range Co, and of C'eetyy of St. tlarkls, Hi8 d11, ikr. 2P, 174h. prob. 1745. 

recorded in 3irhmond Co. Va. 

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2. Issue by second aarriare, 

I!ary qarl Jomtkan OiLson, who had land3 in King %age Co., 174P 

and bad iss e, aEong others, Catlett, who Ear, >!artha =.all, wkose pother was 

a dau. of Chas. and 1:ildred (Thornson) $das+ington. Jonathan f3ibson was sheriff I 

of King George Co., 1736; Totacco inspector at a warehouse on Sapp. River, 

0pp08i te Roy s in CaroUne. 

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&atie 52 the 'lIjillfl Caroline Co. Va. and had dau., Catherine, mar, Col. Jas. 

rznclelton arid had ri.ne children, among then, Catlett, died uw~rried, and 

Cather3 ne nsr, nrchibald Tutt, ( See laughters ~t. lark' s). 

4. i~liaaieth,~ s k EM of a~onsors for President ladison 

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5. ~enjiurin~ sold in 1762 l&nes to James &=nett, in Caroline, and a spit in sdma 

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1. ..illiilm nsr. 1765, SUaabeth, dau. of Cr. .an. ond ::srtha (Thlinferro) 

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William C~ayson, was born in Prince kiilliam Co. Va. in 1736, son of 

Benjaininf and Asannah (Konroe) Gray soil. tiiv father 5ud enidrat sd from Scotland 

to Ddries, Prince ;rilllam Co. VB. and his mother ms an Aunt of President 

James honrcs. fie graduated from the college of Philadelphia, and studied 

law at tk:e Temple Lcndon, and began pra.ctice in Va, 

Cn Nov. 11, 1774, a company formed in Prince killim Co. called the Independent 

Campany of Cadets, chose dilllam Grayson for Captain, and adopted zs their 

motto; - Aut iiber -- kut Rulas. - 

rjn August 24, 1776, he das zppolnted Aide-de-camp 

to General itarshington; and Jacuary 1, 1777 became Colonel of Grayson's 

additional Contanental Regiment, organized by him. His brot, her Rev, Spence 

Graysor., uas Chaplair.. Colonel Grayson distin;iisY,ed kir,self t the b~ttle of 

t!~mouth, wt~cn he coraanded his Iiegiment in the advance corps, displaying great 

valor, Ctiring 1760 -PI, he was Cdssioner on the Gwrd of iiar; and 8t 

Valley Forge he was appoir~ted a Commissioner to trebt with Zir Xilliam Hode 

res:-ectirq prisicners. kt the close of the 'vkr he was elected a n~emter of the 

Continor,tal Cc~~ress in 1784, servicg three years with distirig~l~hcd skility. 

In UFt be was eent to the Virginia Convention, called to consider t;Le Constitution 

of tine I!ni.ted States: and with Patrick lienr7 p0serft~1l.y opposad the instrumsnt, 

and in a letter sl~ortly after, declared that the ~011th was distitled to become the 

Itmllch ccu cf tb,e union". kie was chosen a $enator to the firat Congress, which 

met 3arcy 4, 1709, tool: his Seat May 21st and AII~~. 7th. was pranted leave of 

absence in order to recurerate his health, hilt died at Dmfries, VA, 1:arcy 12, 1790 

He as regarded as a man of the first order of talent, and wtis one of the leaders 

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page 99. - Grayaon, of 2~otsylvania Co. Va, 

John kayson, of Christ Church Parish Lancaster Co,, bought 500 acres i n 

dpotsylvania Co. in 174, cf iI'31liarn Smith, of Cloucester Co., and r4ith his dfe 

J::sonn&li sold 206 acres of this tract to bmbrose Grayson in 1329. IIe died 1736, 

leaving sons Thomas, John Jr., and perhaps others. Executrix, his widow; and her 

bondsmen ware Ambrose Grayson and Thomas Eill. ( This Thomas Hill had rarried 

in 1731 Zlizat.eth srayson, and died 1741, leaving daurhters Sarah and Susannah 

. tiis trother, Huabbrey Kill his sdministrstor), 

Octoi er, 1725, John Gra:yson, Jr. witnessed, with John Catlett, nilliam Taliaferro 

and Francis Slaui~hter, a deed of Augustine Smith to Jonathan Gltson, Jr. Gent ., 

of laxex Co, 40C acres in SpotCs, for 400. In 1729 he was lieutanat in 

Capt. (iiUiam Hansfordls compny. 

In 1727 Ambrose Grayson, prcbably brother of John, patented lCjO acre3 in Spotts. 

He and wife nlice sold this tract in 1729, and in tkat year hbrose Grayson, Gent., 

was church ,barden in bt. George Parish, and also witnessed a deed of Henry Killis, 

Gent, of King and dueen Co., to Coodrich Ughtfoot. In 1733 he and dfe Alice. 

sold to 

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Matthow Gayle, of Clouccster Co,, 3CO acres in St. George Parish and in 

1736 he was boridsman for Xru Susannah b-ijscn, above. His w i l l ( 2t. George Paris 

5ept. 6. 1762, bob, Earch 6, 1743) mentions legatees: iiifs ULce, sons John 

snd Ambrose, and "other Children" aecutors ; uif e, brothw Ben jamin Grays an, I 

and 5on John, In 1754 the ndn-cupative will of Anbrose Grayson bepeathed "my 

part of rtly father's estace to be divided '=tween my unmarried brothers and 

siaters", proved 1755. 

Gctoker 20, 1726; 14ary Grayson married the Third John Catlett, 

prokatk,. sister of bkrose and benjmin Crayson. _ 

ienjaain Grayson 63s of age 1726, and living 1732. 

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Grayson nctes and correspondence found in the Ky, Historical Society at 

Frankfort . 

1. HeLe Grayson md. Robert Carter 

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Grayson, Sophronia E., born Albemarle Co. V*. 4, Har. 17e4. d. Henderson Co, 

ky. NOV. 26, ie57. 

viilliam R. Bagcy 

idi t or La ndy Valley Enquirer 

Gray son, Kentucky 

Dear Mr. Eagby : 

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Prince rlil.liam Ca. Va., in -' 1740. he attended the cniversity -.f Penn. at Fhiladelphia; 

p11rsr:ed classicz' studies in Snpland, and was greducte$ fro.^ the University of 

Wcrd; studled law at tke Ten-le in Iondon! returned to Va. and practiced law 

in r e D ring the Revolutionary fiar he was appointed Aide-28-camp to 

General ,iashinf;ton Hug. 24. 1776; commissioned Colonel of a Virginia Regiment 

Jan. 1, 1777; distinguished himself at the 15attle of Yarmouth in 1778; member 

of the Eozird of aar in l7PO and 1711; memter of the C~r~tinental Congress 17F4-17P7; 

dele~ate to the Virginia convention of 1788: for the adoption of t1.e Federal 

Constitutjon, whicb be ay-osed; elected to the United Ztates Senate, and served 

froril Larch k, 1789, until his death in Iiumfries, Virginia, ].'arch l2, 1790; interment 

on the old faxkly estate at Eelle ~ir, near D~nafries. 

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to Louisville and 1g30, when he c-an.; to Texas, he is said to have keen a member I 

of tbe legislature. In July, 1P38, about the eighteenth day of the month, Grayson 

comrr;itt,~d suicide in Bean's Station, Tennessee, and I think that his death was 

noticed in the I\:entucky newsFapers. I should U.ke to verify these facts and to I 

obtain citations bo such sources as do verify them. 

I'hankire you, 

Very Sincerely yours. 

Andrew Forest Xuir. 

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Yo1;r letter to the State Library has been referred to us fcr reply. 

Re~arding yo::r query, our records seem to show little about Peter iriagner &a-~son, 

we do find that he was a member of the "wse of RepresentatZves from Jefferson 

County in 1828. 

The kenzorial History of Louisville, by Johnston, does not refer t.o him, but does 

rsfer tc Fredarick ri. Grayson, who dug up a mound on ti-,c corner 'iialnxt and 

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6th streets in Lduisville to ill Grayson's Fond, on 6th St. near dalnut. 

Frelerick W.3. Grayson was Attorney General of Ksntucky from Jub 1e25 to Dec. 21 I 

1e25. 

Marriage Records of Jefferson county sho~ that a Benjaxin Grz.yson married Carolin ! 

Ealinda Taylor July 27, 1785; also F.4, Grayscn rcarried Sally Nard, June 13, 

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Do not find Craysons in Eelson county. 

Jefi'ersc)n count.y. 

The Filson Club, ll€! iSi. Ereckinridpa, buisville, Ky., 

fur.her information 

Sincerely yours. 

Reg must h~ve been connected mostly 'with 

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1790 tax kist by. of Helneasnn Ky, and Brunbaugh 

%ay son 

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George Maacn lPCO 

Reukin Logan lPC4) 

or ert Logan lPOO 

.fiobed haon 1eCC 

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dilllam ~t 1~00 

South CaroUcnians in the Rev. 

by Lmrin 

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John Grayson U. 

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i;U,zabet'rl Grayson and John 14, 'Jerdier 

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- 15,2ec.1785- beeufort 3,C. 

Thc Dou~las Yo$ ster - by Rev. vm. Douglas 2750-1797 

p $6, Sarah Crtly~on ~ntl f'cnj.z~La Ain~ley, bath cf this Paris%. 

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p 2C3 James braysen 8, allzat,eth b,llliams a son born 17~6 named Thorns 

s uru:,~dh and Llizi*ieth itilliams a son John, 2l+,Jzn.1759. 

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1770 Fairfax Zen tals: 

rer1ja;rin Graysen ;-eirs 

S- encer C rays on. 

I 176b Culce~or Rentals 

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John Qrayson 

Prince ba, Co. l'iTO Frince h. Co. 1760. Irince Co. 1761 

Col, Lenj. Grayson John Grayeon Clk. $pence brag son 

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Urnonson Co. Ky, deaths 1€52-1P60 

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Lt, Gov, Ce fieville married, first Feb, 23, 1G26, Eatkor Hutson, daughter 

of Alexander Frazier Gregorie and Ssther l:utsoxi, both of Prince Iriilliamls 

Parish 3.C. Jhe died Nov, 21, lt"26. i-la zarried, second, at elfisonvi~e, 

S.C. &+, Aug, 1829, Cornolia katilaa, dsughter of Capt. hiUm Joyner,* 

of the Continental iirtillerj, h%o carried the widobi of Capt. h'ilUm 

Grayson, of the Sevolution, her maidne name being Susan Greene; born Beaufort, 

S.C. about 1777; died in Charleston, Mhrch 30, 1854. K3s issue - 

* she was also a niece of Capt, John Jojm~r, of the Contir.sntal h'avy during the 

Revol~.:tion, and half -sister of Hon riiUiam John Gray son, the poet, biographer, 

and member of Congrsss, .Susan Green clahea to be cloaaly related to &n. hathaniel 

Greene, and was prob~bly a dau. of Daniel John Green, one of i!i~ lfajestpls 

Justices cf t lit. Peace, Hon . h'ilUosn John %eon married liiirah Fat*ilda Somarsall 

a grand-daughter d Daniel Stevens (mrriage settlrnrcnt in office of Secretary of 

Stata 1F14). and among their issue were tne late !a. T.L. cgler, of 

Charloston, S.C. and Senry Grayson who married hia cousin Cornelia, 

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by Torrence 

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Fairf~x, benj, - 176E inv. 

Frederick 8. - 1790 k. 

'&I.- 1793 inv. 

Orange Jchn - 1755 - inv. 

prince dilliam - Spence 1799- inv. 

Spot+.+sylvturia - John, - 1735 - 6- A 

- kmbrose 1743- h', 

- kmbrose 1756 - W. 

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Va. 'Tax pyers 1782-874 %her than those p~blished br the U.S. census. 

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benjdn Grayson - budon 

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Col. \in. uraysor.- Prince dm. 

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The Register of the Kentuckg Hiatcrical Society 

Article on H.F. Peers of bhysville 

5-24 pages 

The far;ily of Henry I;eerst mother Eleanor hayson Orr, was Ukeivise identified with 

the history of Virginia. His grandfather, John Crr, a Scott who cam to Arnerlca 

as a youth, was a nerchant oi Leestown, (21) .dth& a plantation, riatersid3, on 

the ~%ap~aha~ncck, lie ,as one of tbs 115 sign2rs of the Lecdsbown 3zsolutions of 

1766, one of the first public expressions of resistance to Enpl&ih tyranny. (22) 

Henry hers' granbother , Aussnna Monroe h-ayson ( wife of John Crr) was the 

sister cf Colonel dlliaq Grayson (I..-179~), tiis Virginia soldier statesman 

who was a member of the Continental Congress and one of the first two United States 

senators from Virginia, (23) 

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Several n,embers of this family circle of old Frince ,-Jilli&rn County cane to Kentucky 

after the Iievolutionary Nar, Alexander D. Grr (1761-105), the uncle of Eonry 

Peers, was ert3~s the first cf these, moving to Bourbon County about 17P2, and to 

Mason Courlty soon after. He w a ~ a 1Centucky representative in the Virginia liouse 

of Celepstes in 179C, wss electsd to the Xegtucky Legislature in 1792, and served 

in United States Coni*rsss froin i792 to 1797 (24) he sans aI Colonel Gr~yson, 

Frederick, George, Rolert and ~lfrsd, who had land and salt inter~sts in ;(entucky, 

were early resiients of the state. Their sister, HeYe ( dleanor Srqson) Carter, 

widow cf Yokert Carter, joined the Valentine Peers household in Faris in 1213.(25) 

21).- Lyon S. Tyler ed., "The Family of Grr," 

Genealovical Kagazine v. f+, p 47 ff, 

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l6m0 Jne 30 Anne d Henry Grayson 

1614 May 10 John S. 'Ilenry Grayson 

1616 A ~ R 9 John a Hnerie Greson 

1616 AUE 25 Robt Greson osed s Rabt, Tumbllnson 

1647 May 2 Anne fa. Tho$:PGrayson de Ley 

Burlale 

1614 May 16 John s Henery Grayson 

1631 D ~ c 17 Grace w. of Hcnrie Grayson 

1631/2 Jan 19 Anne d Henrie Grvon of Bartell 

1635 Oct 1 Alison Groson sp. servant unto Wm, Chrlchlaw I 

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166 Jne 24 Hennery Greasonn of Stayhall bapt . 

1639 Jly 6 Julian Grcason of Staynall bapt, 

1635 Dec 20 a child of Robert Greaaon of Staynall bur. 

I639 Oct 30 Uzar Francis Grcason of Staynall bur. 

1635 AFr 19 Francls areason & Jane D ~ R of o Staynall ~ mrr. 

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1690/1 Jan-- Edward Gray~on L: TabSithrt Moody of Stid 

1694 Sep 14 Robert Zead & Alliaon GraycGn both of Stld 

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1677 Jne 3 Margret Beeoley relict of Henerye Bee~ley late of 

Inglehaad deceased & supposed wife of George 

GrayBonn, burled. 

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~I:iii~l~tvr of Iloti. .lo1111 llr~~vkt*~~ri~l~(~. 

of Fn>ctt(~ 

('o~t~lt,~, ICr*~iti~c.ky. .\ttorllr~,v ( ~PIII~~LII ill tllp a(Ir~ii~ii~tr~iti~)tr of I'r~si- 

(!(+lit,111ff1.rhon. lliw Ilrc*c-k~wridvv \\.JIS niiiit of (:c.nt.rnl .1nl111('nl~.ll 

Ilr(~~*k(lilritl~t~, Vi(-tl-I'r~~~itlr.lit ~rf tllt, I-~hit(btl Stzrtcbs ill ~~tl~~~i~iirtrntioll 

of l'rc.si(l~v~t ~~II(~IIIIIIII~~ 1111d io~~~tlti~~~c~ 

Sc~crrtnry of W11r ill atllnirriastratio11 

of Jrffersoli IIavis. 

,Ilfrctl W. (;rays011 rrnlo\.ctl to \k7asllingtot~ County, .\rkaasas, 

\vlrere he dircl in lS16 or 1Sli. 1Ii.s witlow, Letitia, ni. at Princetoll, 

N. Jersey, Octoht~r 16, 1,91Y, Major General I'etcr 13. I'orter, 

,IT. S. .\rrtly, of Nc\v York. 

(:l~iltlrc*~i of .\lfrc.tl W. (;ra.vsoll l~iitl Lctitia 1'. Urcckcllridgc: 

1s. dol~ti ('. Ilrc~c.k~*l~ritlg(+ (irt~yholl. I~II tvas PUI)~:I~II, 11111jor a11(1 

lit~ilttl~inlit (.ol011(1) ill 1'. S. .\rnlv it1 tho 3lcxic.an War; was a hrigiclicr-gc~llr.ral 

it1 tlrr ('oiifc.rlcrate .\~III~ ill the Civil Wur; tlud d. Octnbt~ 

21, 1901. 

LUND WASHINGTON, 

b. in King George's Co,, Va., 25th September, 1767; d. 

at Washington, D. C., 4th April, 1853; was Postmaster at Washington, D. C.; 

m. I tth February, 1793, Susan Monroe GRAYSON, I. 29th May, 1768; d. 22d 

April, 1823; dau. of Rev. Spence and A;lary Elizabeth (WACENER) GRAYSON 

of Belle Air; he was b. I 734; d. 1792 ; graduate of Oxford University, England; 

ordained by the Lord Bishop of London, 29th May, 1771 ; Rector of Dettingen 

Parish, Prince William Co., Va. ; Justice of Prince William Co., 1769. 

ISSUE 

I. Susan Jane, m. 3d Deccmbcr, 1815, Edward S. LEWIS of 

District of Columbia. 

11. Lund, b. 1793-4; d. 24th August, 1849; m. BIGGS. 

It!. IVilliam, d. unm.; educated at West Point: Professor of Mathematics 

He is said to have been engaged to marry a daughter of the Marquis 

de Lafayette, with whom hc stayed when on his way to assist the 

Greeks in their struggle for indepcndencc. 

W. PETER GRAYSON, the subject of this memoir. 

v. Sally Hay, m. Socrates MAUPIN, Prof. of Chemistry, Univ. of Virginia. 

VI. Smith, d. unm. ; Cadet in the U. S. Navy; lost at sea on thc Hornet. 

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Arms-Argent two ban gules, in chief three mullcts of the second. 

Crert-Out of a ducal coronet or, an eagle issuant, wings endorsed sable. 

Motto-Virtus sola nobilitas.

Commentary, cont inuedft 

Hsward Avars Grayson, Jrb , N.D., of 15501 N.E. 6th #308 

N1 Miami Beach, Fla,, 33162, wants genealogy info on his line. His 

grandfather Howard Roy Grayson was born in either Forest City orv 

Shelby,, N.C.., md, Callie Harmon from King's Hountain. NeC. Their 

only child was Boward's father, Howard ~iary Grayson, sr. The grandsfad 

er was b. in 1900. 

J. Wendell Grayson writes a note forrJ,B, C&ayson an& Mra. Grayson 

Hale (see poi 234, Volo 2 nool.ll.): General Index to deeds, Garrard 

Cornu, Ky,--Grantors, 1923 r Grayson, Ida Boyi.(Wendell note r I cannot 

double check your cheok; please look for canoeled, check & tell ma.) 

Pp. 256.7.88 a genealogy of Joseph Grayson, bother of Wren Grayaon,.sac 

fmm!.Hrsj Cllf ford.. Grayson, 4135 Wilson Lane; Cblotte-, N.C., 2806;. 

On pi*.'. nioe letter from COHO Grayson regarding his family; 

F-y Underwood wants a better way to organize her material, The 

best way is:to find a lot of money and computerize all the Grayson 

genealogies. This could be a Gray~on Association project. Any donors 

around 

New member Altan El Grayson, brother of Clifford Grayson, both of 

Charlotte, NoCe, also a new member, reports that he will visit Kinn'a 

Creek villa~e, N.C..to research the Graysons who were there in 

1778-1800, I hope he finds something; a lot of us are descended from 

those Graysons. Alton; suggest you look at some cametaxies there. 

On. p. 260 is a very interesting clipping from BOA.. Grayson regarding, 

the town of Gra~s.on, DeAo Grayson also sent the 13aterlaL on ppd. 261,2 

whloh hag been printed, here previously but is re-printed for those whm 

are recent members, To make a complete page, 262 is the loner half 

of 261. 

p,.263-272 are miscellaneous interesting papers from the Wulfeck 

collection containing important source material for your~flles., 

The last 2 pages, 273.4, are a re~rint of previous material for 

the newcomers and forithe rest of us who like to re-read Grayson 

genealogy to refresh our memories, 2, sent by H.A.. Ryp~rg) of Toledo, 

Ohio, la& Marchs 

NOTE: This issue I s double sizes 41 pages; The cost is therefore 

Couble. I hope you enjoped it. 1 now neetmore genealogy from all of 

you for the next issue, The next issue will be Volen 30, no.'. 12 

This- ends Vol, 2, in the ourrent issue.

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