NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11216 MARION CO – NICHOLAS S. RAY – Ray, Wade, Estes, Smith, Payne, Mitchell, Gano, Morgan, Leadveter, Clay 11216 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 4th ed. Marion Co. NICHOLAS S. RAY deceased) was a native Kentuckian. After being well advanced in common English branches, he received a collegiate education in Centre College, Danville, after which he practiced law for a few years, and was also engaged in banking business up to the beginning of the late war. After the war he went to New York City where he engaged in the banking business for three years, then returned to Lebanon, Ky., where he was cashier of Marion National Bank, and was also engaged in farming and stock trading till his death, March 5, 1885, at the age of sixty-three years. He was married to Catherine Wade, as his first wife, by whom three sons were born. His second wife was Mrs. Sallie E. Estes, whom he married October 10, 1877. N. S. Ray was a son of N. and Mary (Smith) Ray. Mrs. Sallie E. Ray is a daughter of Dr. W. K. and Ann M. (Payne) Mitchell. December 27, 1867, she was united in marriage to A. C. Estes, and by this union four children were born: Taylor M., Warner, Willie and Columbus, the last three now deceased. The first named was educated at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. Mr. A. C. Estes was a captain during the late war in Gano’s regiment from Texas, afterward was transferred to Morgan’s command, and during the last year of the war served in Leadveter’s command in Virginia; after the war he was a merchant at Raywick, Ky., also a farmer. Dr. W. K. Mitchell was born in Clark County, Ind., May 11, 1810. He graduated from a Cincinnati Medical College about 1834, and shortly after located near Raywick, Ky. Here he formed the acquaintance of and married Ann M. Payne in April, 1838; she was born October 11, 1818. The children born to this union were two sons and one daughter, the sons now deceased. One son, William H. Mitchell, was a lieutenant in Morgan’s command and was captured on the Ohio raid, but afterward escaped from Camp Douglas. Dr. W. K. Mitchell had an extensive practice, had accumulated a large fortune, was the possessor of a fine landed estate and slave property, and was one of the leading and most influential citizens of Marion County. In ante bellum days hew as an active Clay Whig, but after the war affiliated with the Democrats. He was a leading member of the Methodist society, and was one of the originators and builders of the Methodist Episcopal and only Protest church in Raywick. He died in January, 1877, leaving an estate worth $75,000. He was a son of Andrew Mitchell, who was one of the early pioneers of Clark County, Ind. Mrs. Sallie Ray is now living on a farm of 1,000 acres two miles east of Raywick, on Rolling Fork, embellished with a fine brick residence. She also owns a farm of 300 acres of her father’s old homestead near Raywick. She is an estimable lady, benevolent and charitable, and is esteemed by all who form her acquaintance. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch