James Gray

Bef 1765 - 1809  (44 years)

• Name	James Gray  [1]
  Birth	Bef 1765
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Sep 1809
  Notes	James Gray's Will In the name of God amen, I James Gray, do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following to wit, first I resign my Soul to the hands of the Almighty God who gave it me, hoping in a remission of my sins through Jesus Christ and my body I commit to the earth to be buried at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named. As to my worldly assets I give and bequeath as follows "First I give to my loving wife Suckey Gray the use of and life estate to the Tract of Land whereon I now live, and if the same should not be conveyed to me or my Representatives by Jas. Robertson whose Bond I now hoald for the conveyance of said land my Will is that she have her life Estate in any lands that is or may be conveyed by virtue of said Bond which I now hoald, the two Hundred Acre Tract called for in said Bond excepted, which I have soald, I also give to my wife during her life, the whole of the chattel Estate that I am at this time possessed of consisting of negroes and Stock of every description subjecting any part of it to the payment of my Debts that my Executors hereafter named may think proper, the balance to her during her life. Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter LUCY KEARNY the negroes which I have put in her possession to wit, Joe, Joan, Jack, Charles, Nelly, Judity, Hardy, Anderson and Minty, to her and her heirs forever. Item, I give and bequeath to my son YOUNG A. GRAY all the negroes which I have put in his possession to wit, Starling, Bill, Sarah, Franky and Patsey, to him and his heirs forever. Item, I give and bequeath to my Daughter SUCKEY BOOKER the negroes which I have put in her possession to wit, Jenny, Ephraim, Kissy, Deliah and James to have to her and her heirs forever. Item, I give to my son JAMES M. GRAY, after the Death of my wife the one half of the land on which I now life [sic], to divide the same quantity and quality with his brother HENRY K. GRAY being the same which I have Robertsons bond for, two hundred acres in said Bond (excepted) which is another tract and which I have soald. I also give to him after the Death of my wife the one third part of the negroes and chattel Estate that I leave her in possession of, after the payment of my debts, and in case he shall dye before he arrives at the age of twenty one I will that my son Harry [sic] K. Gray shall have the whole of the land that I now have or am in possession of under or through Robertson's Bond, being the Land where I now Live, after the Death of my wife, and if he dies under age I will that his third or part of the negroes and chattels be divided between my two youngest children or the Survivor of them. Item, I give to my son Henry K. Gray after the death of my wife the one half of the tract of land whereon I now live to divide quality and quantity with his Brother James Gray and in case he died before he arrives to the age of twenty one, my will is that his brother James have the whole of said Tract, as is to be conveyed to me by Robertsons Bond, I also give to my son Henry K. Gray the one third of the chattel and negro estate that I willed to my wife during her life, and in case he dies before he arrived at the age of twenty-one, my will is, that the said part or third which he would be entitled to of the negroes and chattels be equally divided between my son James Gray and my Daughter SARAH S. R. GRAY or the survivor of them. Item, I give and bequeath to my Daughter Sally S. R. Gray after the death of my wife the one third of the negroes and chattels Estate which I have given to my wife during her life, and in case she should die before she arrives to the age of twenty one, my will is that her part or third shall be equally divided between my two youngest sons or the survivor of them. Item, I give and bequeath to my two youngest boys James M. Gray and Henry K. Gray all the right of surplus warrants called for in Robertson's (Courtesy of Carleton Bulkin, bulkincm@yahoo.com)
  Person ID	I22019	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Family	Sukey McLemore,   b. Abt 1765, North Carolina d. Aft 1821, Williamson County, Tennessee (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	Aft 1783	North Carolina   [1]
  	Debbie Blalock emailed, in March 2014, that she was a descendant of "James McLemore Gray, son of James Gray and Sukey McLemore. I descend from James' son Griffin Gray, through his son John Gray. They were residing in Tennessee and Alabama before James and Mrs. Elizabeth Jones (widow) married and came to Kaufman/Van Zandt, Texas prior to 1850. The Grays traveled between Florence, Alabama and Lawrenceburg, Tennessee following work provided in the mills there. James and Mrs. Jones came with her family to Texas. Griffin remained behind and married Rebecca Redding/Redden in Florence, Alabama. Griffin died in the Civil War. My grandfather came with his family from Tennessee from around Johnson City prior to 1893. He told us he walked behind a wagon train while the women road the train to Texas. They ended up in Robertson County, Texas where my grandfather's father died in 1893 and is buried in West Boone Prairie outside Franklin, Texas. My father at one time took my grandfather to Van Zandt County to find his grandparent's graves. That is how I found out the McLemore connection. Would love to here from any McLemore descendant."
  Family ID	F7616	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2014

  
  

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  Marriage - Aft 1783 - North Carolina  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S321] Freeman, Mark (mwfgenealogy@verizon.net) "Mostly Southern" http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=markfreeman ; Ver. 2008-09-19 17:51:13.