Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 1887,
Grant Co.

THOMAS E. GRAY, physician and surgeon, was born in Grant County, Ky.,
January 28, 1855, and is the son of Thomas Gray, a native of Bourbon
County, Ky., was born in 1829; he was a farmer by occupation, which he
followed until 1876, when he was elected sheriff of Owen County, and
served until 1880, when he resumed farming; he has a family of seven
children, but his wife died in 1886.  William Gray, the grandfather of
Thomas E. Gray, was a native of Virginia, who came to Kentucky when a
young man; he was a cooper by trade, but after settling in Kentucky he
engaged in farming; he married Polly Andrews, who is still living in Grant
County, at the age of ninety-two years.  Abijah Degarnette, maternal
grandfather of our subject, was a native of Virginia, but located in
Henry County, Ky., early in life, where he died in 1862; his father came
from France.  Thomas E. Gray was educated in Owen County.  He read
medicine with Dr. J. W. McGinniss, in 1879, and attended the Ohio Medical
College at Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1880.  In October, 1885,
he married Miss Susan Threlkeld, daughter of Lycurgus Threlkeld, of Owen
County, and one child--Walter F.--has blessed their union.  Mr. Gray is
a Democrat and an Odd Fellow.

Gray Degarnette Andrews Threlkeld McGinniss
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Bourbon-KY Owen-KY Henry-KY VA OH France

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