Robert B. Gray

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c1808

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White

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"Robert B. Gray" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00004713, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Kentucky farmer and hotel keeper. Married to Elizabeth Barclay Gray. Father of Ben B. Gray, Mary S. Gray, Ella V. Gray, Richard L. Gray, Sarah A. Gray, Robert J. Gray, Martha E. Gray, and Lucinda B. Gray. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Trimble County, Kentucky, from 1844 to 1846. Judge in Trimble County from 1850 to 1854. Sheriff of Trimble County. Farmer in Henry County in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Henry County in 1860.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 317.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Town of New Castle, p. 5.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Town of New Castle, p. 2.

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