Person:William Gray (149)

Obituary

William H. GRAY died on Saturday February 8th, 1890, at the rectory, the residence of his son, Rev. Arthur P. GRAY, at Amerst C. H. Va, in his 85th year, having been born in Loudoun Co. in 1805. He was the brother of Messrs. John and Joseph GRAY, of Loudoun and Rockingham Co. He married first, Miss Francis ELLZEY, daughter of Col. Wm. ELLZEY, and second, Miss Ellen D. POWELL, daughter of Hom. Cuthbert POWELL, of Liangollen, Loudoun. J. Bradshaw BEVERLEY and Proberet BEVERLEY Jr., Rev. Arthur P. GRAY, of Amherst Co., and Mrs. Catherine MCDONALD, wife of Prof. MCDONALD of Berryville, Clarke Co, are among his surviving descendants. Funeral from St. James Episcopal Church here.

[Source: "The Mirror", dated Thursday 13 February 1890, as found in Genealogical Abstracts from The Mirror, 1880-1890, Loudoun County, Virginia, P. B. DUNCAN, pp. 277-78]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/12181313/person/-120584031

2.   Clarke County Historical Association (Virginia). Proceedings of the Clarke County Historical Association. (Berryville, Virginia: Clarke County Historical Association, 1939?]-).

   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.
   
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