{"id":3455,"date":"2012-05-10T12:51:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T17:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/?page_id=3455"},"modified":"2021-02-20T16:36:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T21:36:07","slug":"vitals-william-sylvester-gray-elisabeth-leslie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/?page_id=3455","title":{"rendered":"Vitals: William Sylvester Gray & Elisabeth Leslie"},"content":{"rendered":"

William<\/strong> Sylvester (1816-1879) b & r West Deer Twp., PA (son of James & Mary Patterson Gray<\/a>; Farmer & butcher)<\/p>\n

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William Sylvester Gray
1816-1879<\/p><\/div>\n

-military: GAR, Civil War (1861-63) Division Teamster, 63rd Infantry Reg., Co. E \u00a0(discharged after Gettysburg Battle on Surgeon’s Certificate at age 47; family tradition suggests that his duty was to put the dead on horse-drawn wagons for burial) served in the war with sons Robert & Samuel\"\"<\/a>
\n-buried: Bull Creek Cemetery, WDT<\/a>\u00a0(See cemetery for GPS)\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Elizabeth<\/strong>\u00a0Davidson(?) Leslie (1818-1895) b & r WDT (daughter of George & Jane Guilliford Leslie<\/a>; Homemaker)
\n-buried: Bull Creek cemetery, WDT<\/a>\u00a0(See cemetery for GPS)<\/p>\n

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William S. & Elizabeth Leslie Gray stones, Bull Creek Cemetery<\/p><\/div>\n

Married: Bull Creek Presbyterian (1837) Rev. Abraham Boyd<\/p>\n

Children: 7 children; order uncertain<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Sarah Jane\u00a0“Jennie”<\/strong> (1838-1930) unmarried; cared for aged mother until her death then moved to Olympia, WA, with sister Mattie, where she died.
\n-buried: Bull Creek Cemetery, WDT?
\n2.\u00a0George<\/strong>\u00a0Leslie (1840-1842) died in infancy
\n-buried: Bull Creek Cemetery
\n3. Samuel<\/strong> Alexander (1842-1919) b. WDT & r. Missouri (m. Margaret Montgomery; Farmer) Was his middle name from grandparents?
\n-military: GAR, 63rd PA Infantry Reg., Co. E; Civil War POW at Chancellorsville, 1863
\n-buried: Chillicothe, MO
\n4.\u00a0Robert<\/a><\/strong> Patterson (1844-1928) b & r WDT (m. Annie Sims Norris; Farmer; my great-grandfather) went to MO with brother Samuel, but sold him his 50-acre Homestead Act farm and returned to run his father’s WDT farm. Middle name probably from mother.
\n-military: GAR 6th PA Infantry Reg., Co. A (Heavy Artillery 1864-5)
\n-buried: Bull Creek Cemetery, WDT
\n5.\u00a0Nancy\u00a0“Nanny”<\/strong>\u00a0Elizabeth (1849-1879) b. WDT; r. Beaver Falls, PA (m. Rev. Robert M. McKinney)
\n6. Martha Ann \u201cMattie\u201d<\/strong> (1853- ) b. WDT & r. Portland, OR & Washington (m. Rev. Robert Edmonds)
\n7. William<\/strong> Charles Sumner, Jr. (1856\/58-1859) died in childhood
\n-buried: Bull Creek Cemetery, WDT<\/p>\n

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George & William, Jr. Gray
(died in childhood)
Bull Creek Cemetery<\/p><\/div>\n

Documentation:<\/p>\n

Bull Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery records<\/p>\n

Family tradition & Robert P. Gray family Bible<\/p>\n

Notes from Edna Gray to Sally Walters. 18 January 1991<\/p>\n

Various U.S. Census records<\/p>\n

Various Public Member Family Trees.\u00a0Ancestry.com<\/em><\/p>\n

See “Introduction: Gray<\/a>”<\/p>\n

RETURN TO OUR GRAY FAMILY TREE<\/a><\/p>\n

RETURN TO OUR LESLIE FAMILY TREE<\/a><\/p>\n

Last revised: 2\/20\/21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William Sylvester (1816-1879) b & r West Deer Twp., PA (son of James & Mary Patterson Gray; Farmer & butcher) -military: GAR, Civil War (1861-63) Division Teamster, 63rd Infantry Reg., Co. E \u00a0(discharged after Gettysburg Battle on Surgeon’s Certificate at … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3653,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3455","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10670,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3455\/revisions\/10670"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-gen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}