Oh, another one of those ancestors, huh?
Something I continuously notice on ancestry that irks me to no end is when people put up random information that just does not fit with no explanation or source as to where they got the information. And they don’t answer emails asking about their sources. AND ten other people decide that since that person has far more information than they do then they must be right. And I have seen many, many times that they are wrong.
I am only going to present the information that I know. Which isn’t much, by the way.
(this might be a really short post)
I know that Gray Stringer was born sometime between 1807 and 1809 in Tennessee to Larry Stringer and S. Stringer (those names are listed on the death record). Presumably his parents are Lawrence Stringer, of North Carolina, and Sallie Pitt, also of North Carolina. Larry and Sallie married in Tennessee in 1796, according to the Family Data Collection.
Gray married Elizabeth Pitt, who I believe is his cousin, in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky on December 28, 1837. The marriage was officiated by Reverend John Gray (Muhlenberg marriage Book Two).
The one and only census record that Gray Stringer’s name appears on is the 1850 census enumerated in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He is listed as 41 years old and a farmer. He is living with his wife Elizabeth (age 32 years), daughter America (age 11 years), daughter Lucy (age 9 years), daughter Margaret (my great-great-grandmother, age 7 years) and a boy by the name of Balis Stringer (age 15 years) that I have seen listed on other’s family trees as Gray and Elizabeth’s son, along with a girl named Jennie as their daughter, but I have not seen how they came to this conclusion. Balis is later seen on the 1860 census living in New Madrid, Missouri with William Douglass, a ship carpenter, and his family. Balis is a blacksmith.
Gray Stringer passed on October 6, 1857 in McLean County, Kentucky. The cause of death was apoplexy, which really could have been almost anything.
According to the 1860 census, Elizabeth was widowed, but she and Gray had three more children before he died: daughter Virginia J (age 8 years in 1860), Sally M (age 6 years in 1860) and John S (age 3 years in 1860).
It’s pretty sad that I don’t have any other information to write about him. Maybe someone out there has some stories!
