Family:William Strother and Sarah Gray (1)

Sarah Gray was the widow of George Weedon whose son George was born posthumously in 1734. William Strother married the widow Sarah and was guardian to her son George Weedon.

The will of Sarah's father Nathaniel Gray in March 1744 names her as Sarah Strother. His executor is "my loving friend William Strother."

Strother was ordered by the probate court to keep his stepson, George Weedon, "on the profits" of his late father's estate until he came of age, and to provide him with three years of schooling.

There is a power of attorney from George Weedon recorded in Stafford county, to George Gray, to sell his lands, or, in case of his death, he devises it to his mother, and his sisters Margaret Strother, Sarah Strother and Patty Strother. Recorded in 1756, and witnessed by Nathaniel Gray and others.

George would have grown up with three step- or half-sisters -- Sarah, Margaret and Patty -- and two half-brothers, James and William Strother.