HAMPTON, VA - CEMETERIES –  Wray Grave
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The grave of Captain George Wray:
                  1937 June 3
                  Research made by Mary Bulifant

Cemetery Location:  In Old St. John’s Churchyard
                    Hampton, Virginia


DATE:

1758, date of death.

OWNERS:

St. John’s Church.

DESCRIPTION:

A slab, of slate, bearing the coat of arms of the family.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

Captain George Wray, founder of the American family of Wrays, of Poplar, in 
London, England, came to Virginia before the Revolution and settled in Hampton, 
Virginia.  He seems to have been a man of wealth and position.  His grave in Old 
St. Johns Churchyard is marked by the only slate slab bearing an English coat of 
arms now to be seen in the town.  He was born in Middlesex County, England, in 
1697 and died in Hampton, Virginia, April 17, 1758.

The following is the inscription found on the old slab at the grave:

Under this stone
lieth interred the body of
Captain George Wray
who departed this life
the 17 of April 1758 in
the 61st year of his age.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. Wray Herbert Hoover, Northwest Corner of Richmond Avenue and 
            2nd Street, Buckroe Beach, Hampton, Virginia.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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