History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p.
702.

JAMES RAY was born in Garrett [sic] County, Ky., Dec. 24, 1823.  His parents
were Hezekiah and Malinda (Barker) Ray, both natives of Garrett County. 
James was the second of ten children.  He remained on the farm with his
father until seventeen, when he hired out as a drover to go from Garrett
County across the mountains to Columbus, Ga.  He followed this business
until his marriage to America Barker, Nov. 14, 1854.  She was born on a
farm adjoining that of her husband's father, in Garrett County, and was
a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Stone) Barker.  After Mr. and Mrs.
Ray were married they settled on a farm in Garrett County, until
October, 1858, when they bought a farm in Masonville Precinct, Daviess
Co., Ky.  In 1865 they bought their present farm in Masonville
Precinct.  Mr. and Mrs. Ray have had nine children, six living--Enoch,
born Feb. 6, 1869; Darthula, born Oct. 6, 1864, married Millard Owen, of
Ohio County, Ky.; Robert L., born Oct. 2, 1867; James, born May 13,
1870; Rutha, born March 5, 1873; William, born Sept. 3, 1879.  Mrs. Ray
is a member of the Baptist church.  Mr. Ray owns a farm of 138 3/4
acres, sixty acres under cultivation.  Politically he is a Democrat.

Ray Barker Stone Owen
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Garrard-KY GA Ohio-KY

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