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From: "Dick Stewart" <>
Subject: Re: Joseph Gray, Lincoln County 1870 Census
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:43:35 -0700


probably not much help, but earlier my LCT ancestors, eventually
wound up in Mississippi, where one of the daughters of my GGG
married a William Gray. In fact, her daddy Solomon Stewart
was buried in family-created cemetery called the Gray-Stewart
cemetery, and it apparently was right on the line of Gray and
Stewart land. I think Will Gray's dad was George Gray. If you meander
through some of the Leake County data, court pleas and even census
data prob 1845 and onward through probably 1865 or so or later,
you'll see William Gray sharing Road Crew supervision duties with
Rufus Stewart (a son of Solomon who kinda picked up the slack on the
plantation after his dad died), and a third, ......... White (James, I
think).
William Gray married one of Solomon's daughters, Jerusha ("Aunt Jershie" per
my Aunt Verna Stewart Leonard). I believe they eventually migrated to
Dime Box, Texas after the Civil War.

So, to make a long story short. Solomon and his wife Sarah began their
married life in 1810 in LCT. To suppose that it included Grays as friends
and neighbors might be a bit presumptuous on my part......

There is no indication as to how Jerusha met Will Gray, whether in LCT, or
in Marion Co, Tuscaloosa Co, Perry Co, Alabama, or Kemper (Scooba) Co,
or Leake Co (Solomon's plantation). Who knows.........

And the same mystery exists for one other daughter of Solomon: Czarina.
She married a guy named James L. G. Aiken in or near Tuscaloosa, AL.
They even lived in Kemper County, MS for a while next to Solomon. However,
he dies and she not too long after is known as C. M. Burford. In fact, her
headstone in Scooba says just that. And no one has a clue as to who she
married or how she met him. TN? AL? MS? ....... hmmmmm..

Dick Stewart

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Hereford <>
To: <>
Date: Monday, February 01, 1999 8:14 PM
Subject: Joseph Gray, Lincoln County 1870 Census

>The following family is listed in the 1870 Lincoln County Census in the
21st
>Civil District on page 469, dwelling 21.
>
>Gray, Joseph 31 m w farmer
> Elizabeth 37 f keeping house
> Polly 12 f
> Wm R. 9 m
> Henry N. 4 m
> Billie B. 2 f
>
>This family is only two dwellings away from my
>
>Gray, Jacob 40 m w farmer b. AL
>
>As far as I know these two familes are not related, but it is a coincidence
>that needs to be checked. I failed to transcribe the birth states for the
>Joseph Gray family.
>
>Can anyone out there help me with this family?
>
>Thank you
>
>Ken
>
>
>

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