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Re: Ray Info
Posted by: robert ray (ID *****6837) Date: January 25, 2009 at 21:41:13
In Reply to: Ray Info by Raymond Ray of 12551

THIS IS ROBERT RAY,I WAS WONDERING DO ANY OF YOUR RAY FAMILIES FROM THESE AREAS IN VIRGINIA,TIE INTO MY RAY LINE,ALSO OF BOTETOURT CO. VIRGINIA,MY 3RD G GRANDPARENTS BACK ON MY FATHERS SIDE WAS LEWIS RAY BORN 1788 AND HIS SWISS-GERMAN WIFE ELIZABETH ZIGLER,WERE MARRIED IN BOTETOURT COUNTY IN 1812, SETTLED IN PIKE TWP,CLARK CO.OHIO,BY 1813.

LEWIS HAD A BROTHER NAMED BARTON RAY,WHO MARRIED POLLY KESSLER,ITS REPORTED THAT LEWISES FATHER WAS A SAMUEL RAY,DONT KNOW IF THATS TRUE OR WHEN HE WAS BORN,SEVERAL SIBLINGS OF MY LEWIS MARRIED PEOPLE IN THIS AREA IN VIRGINIA OF GERMAN DESCENT,MAKING THINK THAT MY RAYS WERE GERMAN,BUT MY DECEASED COUSIN CLAIMS THAT LIZZIE ZIGLER,WHICH WAS ELIZABETH WHO MARRIED MY LEWIS RAY,HER FAMILY CLAMS SHE MARRIED AN IRISHMAN NAMED RAY AND WENT OUT WEST TO OHIO,
OTHER RAYS OF MINE IN THE BOTETOURT AREA WAS MARTHA RAY WHO MARRIED PETER BAKER IN BOTETOURT CO. VIR IN 1839,RUTHA RAY MARRIED ARCHIBALD MATHENY IN BOTETOURT IN 1836, SOMEONE ELSE OF THE RAYS MARRIED A MICHAEL ROCK.

I WAS WONDERING IF YOU HAVE SEEN MY FAMILY IN RECORDS BEFORE FOR AND AROUND BOTETOURT CO.VIRGINIA,IF SO DO YOU THINK THEY DESCEND FROM YOUR RAY FAMILY, MY EMAIL YOU CAN REACH ME AT is fray45503@yahoo.com. ,thank you for any help you can be to me on this.

sincerly,bob ray


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