Posted on: Gray Co. Tx Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Gray/148 Surname: Carey ------------------------- The Texas Birth General Records database lists an A. Carey, born in Gray County 8-5-1929, infant of A. Carey and Minnie Ramsey Carrey. No other children listed as born to Arch and Minnie. The database lists 3 children born to Marion Byron Carey and Lelah Catherine Smith Carey; and 1 child born to Arvel W. Carey and Fern Odinbe Armor Carey. So. Who was this A. Carey, child of Arch and Minnie? Arvel W. is a son of Arch--who was Marion Byron Carey? No other child of Arch and Minnie is listed as having been born after 1926. They must all have been born but this one in some other place than Gray County. The Texas Birth Summary Records database lists 8 Carey births in Gray County from 1955, and I have no idea how they tie in with Arch. Now, as to the Pampa city directories, the first one in which I find Arch is that for 1939. He is an employee of the Sunray Oil Company, living in Lefors. This is in the center of the county about 15 miles southeast of Pampa. There is the same listing for 1940. In the 1942 directory I do not find Arch. I do find Arvel W., whio is a toolpusher for Stanolind Oil and Gas, address Box 2061, Pampa. That seems to be the last one for him that I find in the Pampa directories. In the 1947 directory I do find a Mrs. Ruby Carey, and I have no idea who this could be. I will have to wait until the courthouse is open to find a date of death for Minnie, and then maybe I can find an obit in the newspaper for her.