Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Gray, J. W. 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   J. W. Gray, farmer, Veedersburg, is son of Joseph and Sarah Gray. The former
was a native of Virginia. In 1830 he settled on the farm now occupied by his
son, J. W. Joseph Gray's father was killed in the revolutionary war, in the
memorable battle of the Brandywine. Joseph Gray first immigrated to Ohio, where
he was married. He raised a family of twelve children, two of whom now live in
Fountain county, J. W. and Mary Plake. He followed farming all through his life.
He died in 1848, aged sixty-three years; his wife in 1860, aged sixty years.
They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he took a very
prominent part. He was a very temperate man in all his habits, and morally just
and upright. J. W. Gray was married in 1858 to Nancy A. Gray, daughter of Hannoc
Gray. She is a native of Indiana. He is a native of Ohio, born in 1825. He has a
well improved farm of 108 acres, upon which be keeps all kinds of farm stock. In
addition to his farm he owns property in the town of Veedersburg. In politics he
is a republican of the first rank. He says he has killed on his farm nineteen
large timber rattlesnakes.

Additional Comments:

Van Buren Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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