RAY – WARRINGTON FAMILY BIBLE

Submitted by Vida Brooks Hughes on July 7, 2006

Vida Hughes is the granddaughter of Mary Ann Warrington and Sidney Haywood Ray

The information submitted here is from three different bibles kept by Mary Ann (Warrington) Ray over the course of her life.  She lived in the Poolville and Myrtle area of Union County for many years where she was a school teacher.  Mary Ann's grandfather, John S. Warrington and wife Ann Carr Warrington, arrived in the area of Tippah County that would later become Union County before 1845, from Wayne County, Tennessee.   She married Sidney Haywood Ray in New Albany on December 23, 1896.  S.H. Ray was the son of Sidney Owen Ray, Civil War Soldier, and grandson of James B. Ray who also had moved his family to the part of Tippah County that would later become Union County before 1845 from Pickens County, AL.  James B. Ray's father, Frederick Ray, was a Revolutionary War Soldier who lived in Virginia.  In the late 1700's the Ray family left Virginia and moved to North Carolina and Georgia before settling in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama in the 1820's.  They were Methodists and instrumental in starting Methodist Churches at every stop they made from Virginia to Alabama.  Mary Ann and S.H. Ray moved their family to Navarro County Texas in September 1916.  They later moved to Arkansas and then back to Mississippi where they were living when they divorced on April 26, 1936.  Mary Ann lived the rest of her life at the homes of her children in Texas and Arkansas. She is buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery, Blooming Grove, Texas, near her four year old son that died two months after the family arrived in Blooming Grove in 1916.  Daughter Lalia and son James are also buried there.

Family Register

PARENTS' NAMES

Husband, Sidney Haywood Ray

Born, November 4th 1875, in Poolville, Union County, MS

Wife, Mary Ann Warrington Ray

Born, March 8th 1876, in New Albany, Union County, MS

Married, December 23, 1896

Minister, Rev. J. Porter at New Albany, Mississippi

CHILDREN'S NAMES...AND BIRTHS

Tesla Carroll Ray – born February 1, 1899, Poolville, Union County, MS

Lalia Beulah Ann Ray – born September 15, 1900, Poolville, Union Co., MS

Bernie Rose Ella Ray – born June 1, 1903, Poolville, Union County, MS

Willie Mae Ray – born August 7, 1905, Poolville, Union County, MS

Sidney Mayes Ray – born May 26, 1912, Poolville, Union County, MS

James Allison Ray – born May 18, 1916, Poolville, Union County, MS

MARRIAGES

Lalia B. Ray married John Thomas Brooks on December 24, 1920 in Navarro Co., TX

Rose Ella Ray married Charles Dewey Lankford on April 14, 1923 in Henderson County, (Divorced in 1926)

Willie Mae Ray married H. Kemp Higginbotham on January 3, 1924 in Lonoke County, AR (Divorced May 12, 1925)

Rose Ella Ray (Lankford) married James Christopher Kirby on January 14, 1927 in Faulkner County, AR

James A. Ray married Imogene Terry on February 3, 1940 in Hill County, TX

Willie Mae Ray married John Acton Hukill on March 18, 1948 in Garland County, AR

DEATHS

Sidney Mayes Ray died November 2, 1916 in Navarro County, TX

Tesla Carroll Ray died May 5, 1924 in Lonoke County, AR

(Shot in the back by H. Kemp Higginbotham)

Charles D. Lankford died January 19, 1926 in Henderson County, TX

John T. Brooks died January 2, 1962 in Navarro County, TX

Sidney Haywood Ray died January 20, 1962 in Garland County, AR

(Mary Ann Ray's three bibles are now in the possession of her granddaughter, Vida Brooks Hughes, who has added her death date and dates of other children that died after her death.)

Mary Ann Warrington Ray died November 19, 1968 in Garland County, AR (She is buried in Navarro Co., TX)

Lalia B. (Ray) Brooks died November 2, 1972 in Navarro County, TX

James C. Kirby died May 18, 1982 in Garland County, AR

John Acton Hukill died May 31, 1984 in Garland County, AR

James Allison Ray died August 31, 1985 in Limestone County, TX

Bernie Rose Ella (Ray) Kirby died December 13, 1990 in Garland County, AR

Imogene (Terry) Ray died January 16, 2004 in Navarro County, TX

(Other family members' births and deaths that are listed in a second bible that was given to Mary Ann Ray from her Sunday School Class at the Barry, Texas (Navarro County) Texas Methodist Church on May 28, 1944.)

BIRTHS:

The following names are Sidney Haywood Ray's parents and siblings:

Sidney Owen Ray – February 11, 1841 (Pickens County, Alabama)

Mary Jennie (Deaton) Ray – May 24, 1850 (Tippah County, MS ??)

William R. Ray – May 21, 1871 (Poolville, Union County, MS) Died October 18, 1872

Rose Ella Ray – December 29, 1872 (Union County, MS)

Sidney Haywood Ray – November 4, 1875 (Union County, MS)

James Spencer Ray – April 6, 1874 (Union County, MS)

Jennie Ray – August 13, 1884 (Union County, MS) Died August 29, 1884

Bell Zora Ray – April 6, 1883 (Union County, MS)

Mark Roy Ray – December 4, 1889 (Union County, MS)

Dewitt Talmage Ray – December 9, 1890 (Union County, MS)

Mary Ann Warrington Ray's parents and siblings:

John Allison Warrington – May 18, 1849 (Marshall County, MS)

Sarah Elizabeth (White) Warrington – November 9, 1851 (Marshall County, MS)

Willie Warrington – September 1874 (Union County, MS) Died September 1875

James Robert Warrington – December 20, 1875 (Union County, MS)

Mary Ann Warrington – March 8, 1876 (Union Country, MS)

John Carroll Warrington –February 18, 1879 (Union County, MS) Died February 1887

Jerusha Elizabeth Warrington – June 2, 1881 (Union County, MS)

DEATHS    (listed of other relatives Mary Ann recorded in one of her bibles)

Rose (Wiseman) Warrington –December 6, 1931 (Tippah Co., MS)

William Graves Bridges –January 13, 1936 (Union County, MS)

Marietta E. "Mollie" (Pickens) Bridges – November 8, 1939 (Union County, MS)

Dr. Moscow Edward Bridges – August 7, 1950 (Union County, MS)

Henry Clay Collins – April 26, 1950 (Union County, MS)

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