GRAY-J. W. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

J. W. Gray, farmer, Veedersburg, is son of Joseph and Sarah Gray. The former was a native of Virginia. In 1830 he settled on the farm now occupied by his son, J. W. Joseph Gray's father was killed in the revolutionary war, in the memorable battle of the Brandywine. Joseph Gray first immigrated to Ohio, where he was married. He raised a family of twelve children, two of whom now live in Fountain county, J. W. and Mary Plake. He followed farming all through his life. He died in 1848; aged sixty-three years; his wife in 1860, aged sixty years. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he took a very prominent part. He was a very temperate man in all his habits, and morally just and upright. J. W. Gray was married in 1858 to Nancy A. Gray, daughter of Hannoc Gray. She is a native of Indiana. He is a native of Ohio, born in 1825. Ho has a well-improved farm of 108 acres, upon which he keeps all kinds of farm stock. In addition to his farm he owns property in the town of Veedersburg. In politics he is a republican of the first rank. He says he has killed on his farm nineteen large timber rattlesnakes.