Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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William Gray and Elizabeth Chalfant




Husband William Gray 1 2 3

           Born: 23 Jun 1817 - Turtle Creek, Allegheny Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: George Gray (1790/1791-1876) 2 3 4 5 6
         Mother: Jane "Jennie" Hope (1791-1878) 2 3 4 5 6


       Marriage: 1839 1



Wife Elizabeth Chalfant 1

            AKA: Elizabeth [Unk] 3
           Born:  - Patton Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: Ananias Chalfant (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Hughey (      -      ) 1




Children
1 M George Gray 1

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2 M Charles C. Gray 1

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3 F Annie Gray 1

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         Spouse: Thomas Dobson (      -      ) 1


4 F Jane Mary Gray 1

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         Spouse: George Larimer (      -      ) 1


5 F Isabel Gray 1

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         Spouse: David Weddell (      -      ) 1


6 M William Wells Gray 1

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7 M James O. Gray 1

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8 F Rachel Gray 1

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         Spouse: John Bebout (      -      ) 1


9 F Laura Gray 1

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           Died: Bef 1889
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         Spouse: Cassius Larimer (      -      ) 1


10 M Ananias Gray 1

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry


11 M Thomas Addison Gray 1

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry



General Notes: Husband - William Gray


He learned the trade of blacksmith with his father and elder brother. For ten years he kept shop at Turtle Creek, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and then bought the parental home from his brother. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church in Braddock, and was a republican from the time of the administration of James Buchanan.

He was a blacksmith all his life on the old family homestead, and died on the Greensburg Pike.

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Sources


1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 678.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1210.

3 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 106.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 463.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 457.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 472.


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