From Obituary of William H. Gray, son of Robert Gray:
Judge William H. Gray--
Biographical: This is a portrait of Judge William Hill Gray (18---1887) of ”Locust Hill,” Loudoun County, Va., who was the son of Robert Gray - who came to Winchester, Va., from Donegal, Ireland, in 1789 - and his second wife, Mary Glass, of Frederick County, Va. Judge Gray married, 1st, Frances Westwood Elizey of Loudoun County; and 2nd, Ellen Douglas Powell, daughter of Cuthbert Powell of ”Llangollen, and a granddaughter of Major Charles Simms of the Revolutionary Army, who was an aide to Gen. Washington and who was one of his pall bearers and was also a charter member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Judge Gray amassed a considerable fortune and invested a large part of it in the bonds of the Confederate States Government. The owner of this portrait, his granddaughter, had $40,000 of these in her possession at one time. In politics Judge Gray was an ardent Whig. He was a great grandfather of Mrs. Harry F. Byrd and of J. Gray and William Beverley of Clarke County. He died at the home of his son, the Rev. Arthur Powell Gray, in Amherst, Va.
