Shelby-Mcnairy County TN Archives News.....Master Charlie Anti ___ Convention Davis, Harold, George, Ferdinand and Rebel Gray's Address September 29, 1867 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bill BOGGESS william-boggess@webtv.net October 29, 2007, 2:31 am (Unpublished Diary) The Diverting History Of Little Tarley Gray September 29, 1867 (transcribed by Robert C Knutson, MD with permission of daughter, keeper of the material, distributed to WSB March 2005) "The Diverting History of Little Tarley Gray", a 1867-1872 diary kept by his mother, Virginia LaFayette (Davis) Gray, entered, 29 September 1867, day following his birth, --- now found at Special Collections, University of Arkansas, MC 1618, donated following transcription and printing of said diary.     "It seems that your Auntie, Miss Fannie [Green Borland], known as "Pangs" and "Panel" has been trying to make some verses for the [little one] (blank). She made but a few lines which are here set down. The paper is headed; "Master Charlie Anti-- Convention Davis Harold George Ferdinand Rebel Gray's Address".       I come with the first red leaves             That brighten the sombre trees --       I come with the golden sheaves             On the xx(?)xx       Of and Autumn breeze             And fold my starry wings       All fragrant from Eden suns--             That's all. N'importe--           -------<>------- Additional Comments: A)- This young man, days later was named Carl Raymond Gray, at age fifteen, went to work at Rogers, Arkansas for the Saint Louis and San Francisco RR (Frisco) for twenty-eight years, then twenty-six years after that, became vice-chairman of Union Pacific RR. He is found on page 479, in Who was Who in America, Volume I. B)- FANNY (Fannie) GREEN BORLAND (1848AR-1879TN): Once a highly celebrated poetess and 'belle-of-the-ball' during reconstruction days. Fanny "Fannie" Green BORLAND was second born, September 1848 in "City of Roses", Little Rock, to Solon and Mary Isabel MELBOURNE (1824LA- 1862AR), while her father served as a United States Senator, orphaned in Princeton, Dallas county, Arkansas on New Years Day 1864 by death of her father near Houston, Texas, married in 1869 at Little Rock home of Colonel & Mrs O C GRAY, birthed one known son, lost husband in the Memphis 1878 yellow fever epidemic, died of yellow fever morning of 23 August 1879 in sister's home, at "Bluff City", Memphis, burial location unknown. Named Fanny Green (spelling in Solon's will), honoring Solon's aunt Fanny (Green) GODWIN born 1785, who along with her husband George GODWIN (1878VA-1866VA) raised Solon, later his first born son Thomas, in Suffolk, Nansemond County, Virginia. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/shelby/newspapers/masterch11nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/tnfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb