Butts County GaArchives Photo tombstone.....Gray, Allen & Peletiah O'Neal
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Source: Gray Family Cemetery
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This broken stone was located in the southwestern corner of the Gray Family 
Cemetery in Butts Co. GA. Allen and Peletiah(O'Neal)Gray married in Butts Co. 
in November 1832. The couple were likely buried in a common grave, as their 
deaths were so close. Allen was the son of James(Sr.)and Elizabeth(Johnson)
Gray. Peletiah was the daughter of Zachariah "O'Nail". Her given name is found 
spelled in various ways, though the biblical spelling was probably intended. In 
the Sardis Baptist Church membership records in Henry Co., she was simply-
"Pelly Gray". The family cemetery is described in the will of Allen Gray. 
Though the landlot is not noted, Allen had purchased this portion of lot 
#133/8D. from his father's estate in February 1833. The new Butts Co. line had 
nearly bisected it in 1825(original deed in Henry Co.). There is only one other 
marked grave, that of a son, Levi Newton Gray. Gray Family Bible records
(Georgia Archives)aided in identifying Levi's grave, as the inscription was 
nearly obscured. Other likely burials include: parents, James Sr.(1830) and 
Elizabeth(Johnson)Gray-1863; bothers, William and James(Jr.)who both died in 
1857. There is evidence of 10 or 12 graves!

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