Carroll Co., AR - Biographies - Judge G. W. Ray

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Judge G. W. Ray, an old and prominent attorney of Eureka Springs, and 
senior member of the firm of Ray & Ray, is a native of Washington 
County, Ky., born on May 24, 1819. He is a son of Stephen and Susan M. 
(Hundley) Ray, both of English extraction. Stephen Ray was born in 
Maryland on May 9, 1788. He was a farmer, and at one time possessed 
considerable means. His death occurred in Kentucky, on July 16, 1871. 
His wife was born in June, 1789, in Virginia, and died in 1863. Judge 
G. W. Ray was reared on a farm near Clinton, Ky. After securing a good 
classical education, he entered the law department of the University 
of Louisville, from which institution he graduated in 1851. At 
Clinton, Ky., he taught the first classical school west of the 
Mississippi River in that State. The citizens there claim that this 
was the beginning of the college at that place. He followed the 
profession of teaching for a short time. and then began practicing his 
profession at La Grange, Ky., where he enjoyed a lucrative practice 
until 1860. He then removed to Owensboro, Ky., and became one of the 
most prominent lawyers of the city. He remained there until 1884, when 
he removed to Dallas, Tex. Soon after he came to Eureka Springs for 
his health, which he regained. He is now a citizen of the city, and 
devotes his time exclusively to the practice of his profession and the 
study of the classics. In 1848 his marriage with Margaret J. Harris, 
of Washington County, Ky., was celebrated, and to them has been born 
one daughter, Dee M. (Mrs. Ewing B. Bedford), of Dallas, Texas. The 
family are communicants of the Baptist Church. Politically the Judge 
is a Democrat. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M.