Justice Ray Evens Hill Fued Identified

As a related point of intrest. Most of the Rays Roys example John Guy Ray that came to Virginia Huguenot freet from England with the Maupines Vias famale lines of Zacharia Ray. The english register of French Huguenots listesthe Binges Boulines Lewis Tetars others.

Who was Justice Ray and presided of the bench with Justice Teeter Evans Hill fued. ?

Davidson and Draper excerpts other manuscripts identify him as Daniel Ray. He appears to have been born in Albemarle Va perhas his father Zacharia born there went back to attend to his father Samuel Rays affiars or the Benges Maupines unknown.

per Forrest Calico, FHL 183262, Pawling thru Woods,referred to as "Mountian Moses"married a Cherokee Indian, Raney and moved to Indiana. Moses had two children.

Note: Per KY marriage records, Elizabeth Rainey and Moses Ray married in 1851. Could not be this Moses!

Per Forrest Calico: According to Joe Ray, Bad Moses Ray and James Nave killed Dr Hezekiah Evans in Cedar Ridge, Mt Hebron. Bad Moses, brotherWilliam, reported to have said that Pepper (nickname for Dr Evans) fought to the last. Motive said to have been robbery. Or it might possibly have been the end of the Hill & Evans feud. Bad Moses fled to Indiana & Elijah Evans, son of Dr. Evans went there to bring him back for trial, but a report was spread that Evans was a member of the KKK and they were going to kill Ray. When the sherriff of the county rescued Moses, Evans fled for his life back to Kentucky.
Forrest Calico notes indicate Patsy married Daniel Ray, and had a son Abner G. The 1850 census lists Daniel Rays wife as Martha, age 31, with a son, Abner G. Patsy is common nickname for Martha.

Death date is approximate, per Forrest Calico, FHL 183259

Middle name is "Bell" per son James death record

1870 Garrard County census, Buckeye District #2, p 377:
July 22, 1870
(listed on same page as Jesse Davidson, Cristina Anderson and Martha Ray)
Mariah Ray age 52, keeping house, real estate: $3750, personal: $770, born in Ky, cannot read
Moses, age 19, laborer, real estate: $1500, personal $385, born in Ky
James, age 16, laborer, real estate: $1500, personal $385, born in Ky
Alma D, age 14, no occupation, real estate: $1500, personal $385, born in Ky
Nelly Galliger, age 5, born in Ky
Elizah Galliger, age 3, born in Ky
Sallie Baker, age 29, cook&washer, born in Ky
Jane A. Baker, age 14
Martha Baker, age 7
Ray Zack, age 27,post bailer

1880 Garrard County census, Buckeye District #2, p 477:
June 2&3, 1870
Martha Ray, age 62, keeping house, born in Ky, parents born in Ky
James D. Ray, age 26, son, farmer, born in Ky, married, parents born in Va?(probably mixed up with Marthas)
Moses Ray, age 28, son, stock trader, single, born in Ky, parents born in Ky
Allen Ray, daughter-in-law, born in Ky, married, parents born in Ky
Mattie, age 4, granddaughter, born in Ky, parents born in Ky
Lou Harlan, age 8, B, servant

Patsy married Daniel Ray 1 son of Zachariah Sr Ray and Mary M. Benge on 6 Jan 1837 in Garrard County, Kentucky. Daniel was born 2, 3 in 1790 in Surrey County, North Carolina. He died on 25 Dec 1863 in Garrard County, Kentucky. He was buried in Zacharia Ray Cemetery, Garrard County, Ky.

marriage license: box 9, bond 131, 1837;consent of father Zachariah Ray and consent of mother, Martha Scott

per Forrest Calico, FHL 183262, Pawling thru Woods, death date provided
Daniel Ray sold sold property to Henry Privett
Zacharia is referred to as Jr
FHL 183259, Daniel Ray was Justice of the Peace in 1857. He lived in Parve Ridge.
Noted as making a land purchase in 1814.
He was involved in a transaction of 630 acres of land in 1858, worth $20,730.
Deed of partition was created March 3, 1869, he died in 1863.
Administrator of will was Lewis Leavill

Also states, per marriage of son James D,that Daniel was born in Virginia

1850 Census, The First ?, Garrard County, Kentucky
Aug 13, 1850
Daniel Ray, age 60, $9800 Real Estate, farmer, Va
Martha, age 30, Ky
Abner G., age 12, Ky (attended school within last year)
Elzina, age 10 (attended school within last year)
Zachariah, age 7 (attended school within last year)
Alexander, age 5
William T, age 3
Christina, age 4/12

1860 Census, Garrard County, Kentucky, Lancaster Post Office
July 23, 1860 (next to Elizabeth Adams)
Daniel Ray, age 69, farmer, $15,000 real estate,$14,639 personal, born in Va
Patsy, age 42, born in Ky
Alex, age 15, born in Ky
William, age 12, born in Ky
Christian, age 10
Moses, age 8
James, age 6
Alex D. , age 4
Nancy I., age 1

per Forrest Calico, FHL 183262, Pawling thru Woods, death date provided
Daniel Ray sold sold property to Henry Privett

DRAPER MANUSCRIPT
Lyman Copeland Draper's Interview with William Champ
of Paint Lick, Kentucky 11 September 1863
A legend persists that Polly did return and stay with her people (the whites); that she married a John Pruitt and had a family, that it was said she also had an Indian child, a girl.Madison County records report a marriage bond for a John Pruett and Polly Ford for 10 September 1805.This would be about 19 years after the capture.Her return was not before the death of her father, Peter Ford in 1801.Peter left his daughter 50 acres, should she ever return from captivity. The census records of Madison County lists a John Prewitt/Pruitt/Pruett from 1810 through 1830.By 1840, John is apparently deceased as Polly (Ford) Prewitt is listed as head of household, being between 50 and 60 years of age.Polly would have been but a child of about 8 years of age when captured.So, it would stand to reason that her Indian ways would tend to dominate her life style and would add credence to her return to her Indian husband as reported by Champ.Yet, there is evidence that Polly did return and stay. Some of the facts do contradict the above statements.Her child was actually a son, not a daughter as reported, of the Miami War Chief "Little Turtle", and was called by the whites, "Indian Jack".After Polly married John Pruett/Prewitt, Indian Jack was adopted and renamed John Ford Prewitt.He married Milly Green in Garrard County on 11 March 1823.They had one child, Elizabeth whose marriage to Sidney Warmouth has produced many descendants, some in present Madison County.John Ford "Indian Jack" Prewitt, walked away from home one day and is lost to history to this day. "Polly's Story" is an interesting one, but time and space does not permit its inclusion in this publication.Work will be done to add her story in the next publication of Heritage Highlights. (These notes are as appeared in the Madison County Historical Society's Heritage Highlights publication Vol. 3, No. 2 Winter 1999.)Forrest Calico, History of Garrard County and Its Churches, 1947, pp. 196-197.Bill and Kathy Vockery, Madison County Kentucky Marriage Records Vol. I1786 - 1822, 1993. Anna Joy (Munday) Hubble, Madison County Kentucky Census Records, 1810-1840.Bill and Kathy Vockery, Garrard Co., Kentucky Marriage Records 1797-1853, 1989.Michael A. Leaverton, Prewitt, Pruitt, Pruet, etc. - a Miami name, published in Indian by Blood II by Richard Pangburn, 1996.Jim McNitt, James McNitt & Kentucky's Worst Indian Massacre, excerpts from the original by V. V. McNitt, 1951.
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