George Grant Gray (1840 - 1928)

Born 1840 in Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah Sylvina (Jasper) Gray — married 22 Feb 1874 in Union, Oregon, United States

Descendants

Died 1928 at about age 88 in Cove, Union, Oregon, United States

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Biography

George Gray was born in Tennessee.

George Grant Gray's father was Rev. Robert Doke Gray, one of the ministers on the 1853 Oregon Trail Wagon Train. (known as the "Lost Wagontrain" which can be referenced online or in various published works, from having taken a new southern route that was not yet totally completed. George Grant was 14 years of age at the time his entire immediate family crossed the plains to settle in Oregon. Initially they settled in or near Benton and/or Lane counties, George explored Eastern Oregon and settled there in Union County, with his wife, Sarah Sylvina Jasper (1855-1940) commencing to farm and to further his income providing supplies, by running a string of mules to Fort Boise, north into Montana, and up to the mines of British Colombia, Canada. It is known that he carried in the first printing press to Helena, MT. He and Sylvina had 10 children, all born and raised on the farm in Lower Cove, Oregon. He and Sarah and several of their children are buried in the Summerville Cemetary (Union Co) Oregon.^[1]

United States Census, 1900 Alicel and Cove Precincts, Union, Oregon, United States

George G Gray Head M 60 Tennessee

Sarah S Gray Wife F 46 Oregon

George M Gray Son M 19 Oregon

Anna E Gray Daughter F 15 Oregon

Bessie M Gray Daughter F 13 Oregon

Joseph T Gray Son M 11 Oregon

Nathan T Gray Son M 19 Oregon

Delia M Gray Daughter F 2 Oregon

J L Taylor Servant M 46 Oregon

Sources

1. ↑ Bio written by Judith Gray.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M678-4KP : 20 December 2020), George Gray in household of Robert Gray, Prairie Township, Madison, Arkansas, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDQV-XZD : 18 February 2021), George Gray in entry for Robert Gray, 1860.
• Marriage: "Oregon, County Marriages, 1851-1975", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8WL-XTT : 3 November 2017), George G. Gray and Sarah Sylvina Jasper, 1874.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNC5-SLF : 14 January 2022), George Gray, Cove, Union, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
• "United States Census, 1900", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSDP-B8T : Thu Apr 11 21:14:26 UTC 2024), Entry for George G Gray and Sarah S Gray, 1900.
• Also consulted: the records of Nathan Taylor Gray (1892-1957)

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Judith Gray for starting this profile and for writing the biography. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Judith and others.