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John Edward R. Ray (Tennessee Sec. State)

b. 1825? d. 1879-07-12

Memphis, Tennessee, attorney and Secretary of State of Tennessee. South Carolina native. Married Mollie S. Ray. Father of Eddie Ray and Willie Ray. Attorney in Dresden, Tennessee, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Weakely County, Tennessee, in 1850. Attorney and farmer in Memphis in 1860. Appointed Secretary of State of the State of Tennessee by Isham G. Harris from 1859 to 1862.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Weakley County, Town of Dresden, p. 483; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Weakley County, District No. 7, p. 37; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Shelby County, 14th District, p. 145; William Robertson Garrett and Albert Virgil Goodpasture, History of Tennessee: Its People and its Institutions, from the Earliest Times to the Year 1903 (Nashville: Brandon Company, 1903), 345; Find A Grave, "Judge John E R Ray (1824 - 1879)," Memorial #33054289, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33054289, (accessed September 18, 2017).

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Ray, John Edward R.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209690 (November 12, 2026).

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