This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gray Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FkB.2ACE/1101 Message Board Post: If anyone is researching S. M. Gray and descendants, please contact me. S. M. Gray was in Kaufman County for several years on either side of 1900. I've not yet seen the 1900 census. S. M. Gray, and J. R. Gray were witnesses on the 1899 Confederate Pension Application of William W. Gray. The pension application states that William W. Gray was 69 in July 1899. This is younger than William W. Gray's age as listed on the 1850, 1860, & 1870 censuses, but does agree with the birth date of the William Gray who is buried in Wilson Chapel Cemetery along with Eliza Gray, S. M. Gray and others. So maybe there is a familial connection between S. M. Gray and William W. Gray. The cemetery listing for S. M. Gray on Rootsweb's Kaufman County site states s/he was born in 1844. S/he was buried next to Sallie H. Gray. I don't recognize S. M. Gray as any of the children who lived with William W. Gray during the 1850, 1860, and 1870 censuses. William W. Gray is missing after the 1870 c! ensus until his pension application in 1899. There was a child name William, age 9, living with William W. Gray during the 1850 Weakley Co., TN census. This child was not living with him on any subsequent census. Perhaps this is the tie between William W. Gray and S. M. Gray. If there was a familial tie. And if I've correctly identified the William W. Gray family in 1850.