Hi Howard, Are you related to the Gray family? My grandfather was Edward Gray; his brother was Robert Gray, and both lived outside Tuscumbia, in Colbert County. My grandfather, Ed Gray, died in the early 1960s and was in his early to mid 70s. That would place him being born somewhere around 1890. Ed Gray married Cora Sockwell. Robert "Bob" Gray married my mother's sister, Alice Hall; so he was my uncle and my great-uncle. I believe that my grandfather, Ed Gray, and possibly Bob Gray, worked on the building of the TVA dam between Sheffield and Florence. Do any of these names ring a bell with you? Thank you and God bless, Bill Gray ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Howard Brooks wrote: > Steve Cooper, > > My name is Howard Brooks, and your e-mail has been sitting here for some > time and I've i ntended to respond. > > My family lived just to the south of the Tennessee River in the area east of > Wheeler Dam. > > I've found many family graves between Wheeler Dam and Town Creek. > > But we are still missing some people. > > I'm looking for people named Gray who lived along the river. And I am > particularly looking for an Emiline Cooper, who was a wife of James Madison > Gray (1818-80). I know the gravesite of J.M. Gray, and also am acquainted > with the gravesites of several other wives, but the Emiline Cooper gravesite > has never been found. I think it's possible she was buried in an area later > covered by the lake. > > So I understand you have access to cemetery records for people buried in > cemeteries that were later moved to Lauderdale County. Do you have any > Grays or any Emiline Cooper? > > Any info you can provide would be helpful. > > Thanks, Howard Brooks > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "SteveCooper" <stevecooper75@comcast.net> > To: <alcolber@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 12:51 PM > Subject: Re: [ALCOLBER] Grave removals by TVA > > >I have a list of those removed from Cemeteries and reburied in West > > Lauderdale County, Alabama if anyone needs any help. > > > > Sorry, I don't have the ones from Colbert County, Alabama. > > > > SteveCooper > > Cloverdale, Alabama > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <bmarlar9@tsixroads.com> > > To: <ALCOLBER-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 12:19 AM > > Subject: Re: [ALCOLBER] Grave removals by TVA > > > > > >> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > >> > >> Classification: Query > >> > >> Message Board URL: > >> > >> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QS.2ADI/500.3 > >> > >> Message Board Post: > >> > >> I believe the Tishomingo County Historical Society research library has a > >> book that has a list of the cemeteries that were moved when the valley > >> was > >> flooded and may have a list of the people. You can call them at > >> 662-423-3500. > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> ALCOLBER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > >> > >> -- > >> No virus found in this incoming message. > >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. > >> Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006 > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ALCOLBER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALCOLBER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

No, none of those names ring a bell. Sorry. If you go back to the l850-l860 period, there are several Gray groups in the Lawrence County area. Jonathan Gray had a number of sons, but most of that family (my family) moved out of the area due to the violence following the Civil War. James Madison Gray did stay in the area, and he died in l880. His won, William Gray, moved to Decatur and worked for the railway. He died in l920. Another son, John Milton Gray, moved to an area north of Memphis, Tennessee. Anyhow, if you go back to that time period of l850-60s, there are some other Grays in the Lawrence County area. Good hearing from you, Howard Brooks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Gray" <billdory@pacbell.net> To: <alcolber@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 11:57 PM Subject: Re: [ALCOLBER] Grave removals by TVA > Hi Howard, > > Are you related to the Gray family? My grandfather was Edward Gray; his > brother was Robert Gray, and both lived outside Tuscumbia, in Colbert > County. My grandfather, Ed Gray, > died in the early 1960s and was in his early to mid 70s. That would place > him being born somewhere around 1890. Ed Gray married Cora Sockwell. > Robert "Bob" Gray married my > mother's sister, Alice Hall; so he was my uncle and my great-uncle. I > believe that my grandfather, Ed Gray, and possibly Bob Gray, worked on the > building of the TVA dam between > Sheffield and Florence. Do any of these names ring a bell with you? > > Thank you and God bless, > > Bill Gray > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Howard Brooks wrote: > >> Steve Cooper, >> >> My name is Howard Brooks, and your e-mail has been sitting here for some >> time and I've i ntended to respond. >> >> My family lived just to the south of the Tennessee River in the area east >> of >> Wheeler Dam. >> >> I've found many family graves between Wheeler Dam and Town Creek. >> >> But we are still missing some people. >> >> I'm looking for people named Gray who lived along the river. And I am >> particularly looking for an Emiline Cooper, who was a wife of James >> Madison >> Gray (1818-80). I know the gravesite of J.M. Gray, and also am >> acquainted >> with the gravesites of several other wives, but the Emiline Cooper >> gravesite >> has never been found. I think it's possible she was buried in an area >> later >> covered by the lake. >> >> So I understand you have access to cemetery records for people buried in >> cemeteries that were later moved to Lauderdale County. Do you have any >> Grays or any Emiline Cooper? >> >> Any info you can provide would be helpful. >> >> Thanks, Howard Brooks >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "SteveCooper" <stevecooper75@comcast.net> >> To: <alcolber@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 12:51 PM >> Subject: Re: [ALCOLBER] Grave removals by TVA >> >> >I have a list of those removed from Cemeteries and reburied in West >> > Lauderdale County, Alabama if anyone needs any help. >> > >> > Sorry, I don't have the ones from Colbert County, Alabama. >> > >> > SteveCooper >> > Cloverdale, Alabama >> > >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: <bmarlar9@tsixroads.com> >> > To: <ALCOLBER-L@rootsweb.com> >> > Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 12:19 AM >> > Subject: Re: [ALCOLBER] Grave removals by TVA >> > >> > >> >> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. >> >> >> >> Classification: Query >> >> >> >> Message Board URL: >> >> >> >> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QS.2ADI/500.3 >> >> >> >> Message Board Post: >> >> >> >> I believe the Tishomingo County Historical Society research library >> >> has a >> >> book that has a list of the cemeteries that were moved when the valley >> >> was >> >> flooded and may have a list of the people. You can call them at >> >> 662-423-3500. >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> >> ALCOLBER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> >> Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: >> >> 9/22/2006 >> >> >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > ALCOLBER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ALCOLBER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALCOLBER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >