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JAMES S. GRAY, farmer, P. O. Aberdeen, was born in Kentucky in the year 1807, and is a son of John and Polly (Stewart) Gray. John Gray was a son of Matthew and Nancy Gray, natives of Pennsylvania, who settled in Mason County, Ky., in 1790. In 1821, the family located in Brown County and purchased 160 acres of land just south of California. Matthew Gray died in Kentucky. On the above land John Gray lived and died; he was a soldier in the war of 1812. To him was born fourteen children, of whom the following are living — Joseph, James, Rebecca, Susan and Abba. Mr. Gray was born in 1777, died in 1860; his wife who was born in 1775 and died in 1866. Our subject was married in 1829 to Mary Beverly, since when he has lived in this township; to him and his first wife were born seven children — John, Thomas, Arthur, Mary J., Nancy, Rebecca and Amanda. Mrs. Gray died in 1857, aged fifty years. He was again married to Mary J. Paul, in 1862, who died in 1866, aged fifty-seven years; his third and last marriage was celebrated in 1875, with Mary J. Prouty. His son Thomas was a member of a Missouri regiment; was taken prisoner and paroled.