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From: Dan & Iva Holder <>
Subject: Re: Hugh Milas Gray
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 19:19:03 -0500

Thanks John! I'll see what I can find. Sincerely, Iva Templeton Holder

wrote:

> In a message dated 1/31/2000 9:02:55 PM, writes:
>
> << I am looking for anyone with information on my Hugh Milas Gray b. 15
> July 1815 d. 17 Aug 1886. He was first married to Levinia S. Graham and
> second Ruth Catherine Steele. All are buried in the cemetery at Prospect
> Presbyterian Church in Mooresville, NC. I am trying to find the parents
> of Hugh Milas Gray. I believe he was called Milas Gray. Hugh Milas Gray
> and Levinia S. Graham were the parents of my G-Grandmother, Caroline
> Josephine Gray. Anyone researching this Gray line??
> >>
>
> Hello Dan and Iva,
>
> This sounds as though you could be a descendant of the Grays of Isle of
> Wight, Virginia. Some of those Grays intermarried with a Wills family there,
> who utilized very frequently the given name of Miles, sometimes spelled Mills
> and Milas, probably by the clerks of court who could murder the spelling of
> many names.
>
> Best regards,
>
> John Fox
> Winston-Salem, NC

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