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Story Musgrave

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William Gray

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Story Musgrave — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 28 
  • Father:
  • William Rufus Gray 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Clay   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Dec 1810 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Feb 1892 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  • 14 Feb 1892 
  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Frances Loring
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Oct 1834 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  William Gray

  Frances Loring Gray

  Edward Gray (Ahnentafel No:14 )

• Sources for William Gray

  • ¹ Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, Massachusetts), 12 FEB 1892, p. 5, Obituary for William Gray.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A047760.
  • ³ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 15603, Membership application for Katharine Cunningham (Gray) Bingham.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Undertaker's return and physician's death certificate for William Gray.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915, Death record for William Gray.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915, Death certificate for son Edward Gray.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Marriage record for William Gray and Sarah Frances Loring.
  • ⁸ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 1, p. 304, Birth record for William Gray (taken from his gravestone).
  • ⁹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Boston, Vol. 429, p. 65, Death record for William Gray, gives birth location as Boston.
  • ¹⁰ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Boston, Vol. 273, p. 125, Marriage record for son Edward Gray and Elizabeth G. Story.
  • ¹¹ Mount Auburn Cemetery: Burial Search, Burial record for William Gray.
  • ¹² Cumming, Montgomery, Table of the descendants of Joseph Clay of Savannah, Ga., 1741 to 1804, Washington, D.C.: n. p. (1897), Film #007958261, Item 5.
  • ¹³ Greeley, George Hiram, Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family, Boston, Massachusetts: Frank Wood, Printer (1905), 450.
  • ¹⁴ Pope, Charles Henry and Katharine Peabody Loring, Loring Genealogy: The Chronicles or Ancestral Records of James Speare Loring . . ., Cambridge, Massachusetts: Murray and Emery Company (1917), 97.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 109.