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/xU.2ADE/505 Message Board Post: I too, was born in Ray AZ. Kennicott Copper bought the town and moved the residents. Kearny AZ was started instead in 1958. The old Ray Cemetary was moved there. Our family chose to move to Phoenix. I still have family in Kearny. You could always check the local paper, the Copper Basin News.