RAY, James, M. D., St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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JAMES RAY, M. D., OPELOUSAS.--James Ray, M. D., was born in Opelousas,
January 6, 1825.  He is the son of James and Amelia (Humphreys) Ray. 
The former was a native of Kentucky and the latter of Louisiana.  His
father was a notary public in Opelousas.  He died in 1836, at the age of
forty-six years.  His mother died in 1851, at about fifty-three years of
age.

Dr. Ray prepared for college in the Thinemann school at Opelousas, and
afterwards graduated from Franklin College in 1842.  Upon the completion
of his literary education he entered the medical school of the
University of Louisiana, now Tulane University, New Orleans.  He
graduated in 1850.  He chose as the location for the practice of his
profession Opelousas, where he still resides.

Dr. Ray is the oldest physician of the place, and stands high in the
esteem of those with whom he has spent the best years of his life. 
Though now advanced in age, he does quite a large office practice; he
is, however, retiring as rapidly as possible from the work.  He married,
in 1853, Magaret M. Hill, daughter of Dr. George Hill, a native of
Virginia, but subsequently a resident of Louisiana.  Dr. Ray has three
children:  James O. Ray, M. D., who succeeds his father in his medical
practice, Amelia, wife of John Mornhinveg, Dr. William H. Ray.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
p. 69.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.