NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11390 MASON CO DAVID GRAY Gray 11390 The History of Methodism in Kentucky, by the Rev. H. H. Redford, D. D., Volume III, From the Conference of 1820 to the Conference of 1832. Southern Methodist Publishing House, Nashville, Tennessee, 1870, pp. 32-34. David Gray was appointed this year (1820s) to the Franklin Circuit, and the two years following to the Guyandotte; and died previous to the Conference of 1823. We find a brief memoir of this excellent young man in the General Minutes. Davie Gray was a native of New Jersey, born in 1791. He became, in early life, a professor of Christianity, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Some time after this, he emigrated to the western country, and united himself to the Methodist Society in Maysville. His life and conversation rendered him an acceptable member, and he was esteemed as a pattern of piety. Here he received license to exhort, and employed himself usefully, until 1819, when he entered the ministry as a local preacher. In 1820, he commenced traveling, and in the autumn of the same year he was received as a traveling preacher, and appointed to the Franklin Circuit. In 1821, he was reappointed to the Guyandotte, and in 1822, admitted to deacons orders, and reappointed to Guyandodtte Circuit, where he ended his days. His labors were acceptable and useful. He earnestly sought the glory of God and the salvation of souls. He sustained losses, bore crosses, and endured hardships, with great firmness and resignation. He studied much to know how he might be useful to the people, and to know nothing among them but Christ, and him crucified. He was fervent, energetic, and animating; and his piety and zeal often silenced his opposers, and commended him to their consciences in the sight of God. He as sometimes in perils, both on the land and in the water, and his exposures and labors served to hasten his dissolution. His disease was of an inflammatory kind, against which he bore up for awhile, unwilling to give up his labors. But such was the nature of his illness, that in December, 1822, he was confined to bed, where he lingered out his life in great bodily affliction. During his confinement he experiences the most severe pain, which attended him and increased upon him for several moths. This he endured with great patience, and found the grace of God in all things sufficient. His mind was filled with peace, and he often experienced such a flow of divine grace, that he praised God aloud. He closed his sufferings and life together, on the 21st day of May, 1823, and has gone to his reward. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx