William Edmond Gray

Birth Date

1826-08-10

Death Date

1905-02-22

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bracken County, Kentucky, farmer and sailor. Kentucky native. Married to Mary America Richardson Gray on April 10, 1846 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Father of Jesse Gray, Mary Gray, Thomas G. Gray, Sarah M. Gray, and Mariah E. Gray. Farmer in Bracken County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Bracken County in 1860. Served in the U.S. Navy as a seaman from November 26, 1863 to June 4, 1864. Served aboard the U.S.S. Tyler. Discharged due to medical disability on June 4, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, p. 430B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, District No. 1, p. 239.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Foster, p. 348B.
Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Civil War and Later Navy Veterans ("Navy Survivor's Certificates"), 1861-1910, M1469, Roll 27340.
Hospital Tickets and Case Papers, compiled 1825-1889,. Department of the Navy, Records of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, NARA RG 52, p. 26.
Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #8340.
United States, Naval Enlistment Rendezvous, 1855-1891, NARA RG 23,
Microfilm Series M1953, p. 690.
"William Edmond Gray (1826-1905)," Find A Grave, Memorial #46717863, accessed August 22, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46717863.

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