James Gray's biography, Sunfield Township, Eaton County, Michigan

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SUBJECT: James GRAY
SUBMITTER: Jan Sedore
EMAIL: am0773@a1access.net
DATE: Feb 28, 1999
SURNAMES: GRAY, ROGERS, MC GUIRE

PAST AND PRESENT OF EATON COUNTY, MI
Page 330
JAMES GRAY
James Gray, a venerable and honored pioneer of Sunfield township, is a
brother of Mark Gray, of whom mention is made in this publication, together
with a brief outline of the family history, so that such data need not
be repeated in the present connection. James Gray was born in Norfolk County,
England, June 21, 1825, and was there reared and educated. There also was
solemnized his marriage to Miss Rachel Rogers, who was born September 13,
1824. They came to America in 1851, remaining in the state of New York
until 1857, when they came to Michigan, passing the first two years in
Marshall, Calhoun County and then removing to Eaton County, where Mr. Gray
bought forty acres of wild land, in section 6, Sunfield township, reclaiming
the greater portion and then disposing of the property and buying his present
homestead farm of eighty acres, in section 5, same township, developing
the same into one of the valuable farms of this part of the county and
having resided on the place the greater portion of the time since. He resided
for varying intervals in Vermontville, Lake Odessa and in the village of
Sunfield, but after the death of his wife, he returned to the farm, where
he now makes his home with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
McGuire, the latter having been born prior to the removal of the family
from England. Mr. Gray is a stanch adherent of the Democratic Party and
is a citizen of sterling character, represented by all who knew him. His
health is now impaired, owing to the infirmities due to his advanced age.