William Ray (son of John Wesley Ray and Sarah Hamrick) was born Abt. 1863, and died March 28, 1910 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia101.
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REFN: 21 William Randolph Ray stayed on his father's (John Wesley Ray) farm in Gwinnett County until early manhood. He had a good education, having attended George Harrison Hopkins' school at Goshen, and he taught school before and after he married Nancy Hopkins. He wore a mustache. He was nicknamed "Dock." He had a genial disposition and was liked by everyone. He moved to Atlanta by 1889 and went into the tobacco business with a man named Stevens. Later, he opened a business of his own at 250 Marietta Street in Atlanta called the Ray Fish Company. He sold fish, oysters and game in season. He became very fat in his forties and was about five feet ten inches tall. He had a large stomach and weighed about 250 pounds. This was too much for him, and he died suddenly with 'fatty degeneration of the heart' in March 1910 at the age of 48. The 1889 Atlanta City Directory: William R. Ray, flagman, W and A Railroad, Residence 23 Bush The 1897 Atlanta City Directory: Wm. R. Ray, mgr, Ray Fish Co., 14 Todd Nancy married a second time. On a visit to a "chum" of her childhood, a Mrs. Lou Cochran, at Bunnell, Florida, she met Oscar Dahlgren, a Swede, who owned a farm there. They were married and lived at the farm in Bunnell.She lived there with him until a year or so before her death. She became a victim of cancer and could not do her housework, so for a while she lived withher daughter Hortense Owens in Jacksonville, Florida, then with her daughterRuby in Miami, and then with her son Orville in Jacksonville where she died February 24, 1927, age 63. 1920 Census listed Nancy Dahlgren as head of house,living with her mother, Margaret Hopkins at 14 Adair Ave., South Bend District, Fulton County, Georgia. Also living in that household were Herman Burnett, Ralcy Ray, Ruby Carmean, Margie Rowlett and her daughters Dorothy and Lorraine.
More About William Ray: Date born 2: March 22, 1862, Norcross, Gwinnett County, Georgia.101 Burial: 1910, Fellowship Cemetery, Tucker, Dekalb County, Georgia.101 Census: 1900, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.101 Occupation: 1900, Fish Market.101 Residence: 1900, 39 Chamberlain Street, Atlanta, Georgia.101 Unknown-Begin 1: 1889, Atlanta, Wm. R. Ray, flagman, W&ARR, r 23 Bush.101 Unknown-Begin 2: 1897, Atlanta, Wm. R. Ray, mgr. Ray Fish Co., r 14 Todd.101
More About William Ray and <Unnamed>: Marriage: April 26, 1885, Tucker, Dekalb County, Georgia.101
Children of William Ray are:
+Paul Vinson Ray, b. February 11, 1886, Norcross, Gwinnett County, Georgia101, d. June 1946, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia101.
Ruby Lorena Ray, b. July 16, 1891, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia101, d. 1985, Miami, Dade County, Florida101.
Ralcy Julian Ray, b. May 02, 1900, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia101, d. date unknown.
William Ray (b. Abt. 1863, d. March 28, 1910)
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