WILLIAM B. GRAY (deceased) was born in Pennsylvania June 18, 1807, and was the son of George K, and Elizabeth Beers Gray, the former of Irish and the latter of German descent. They migrated from Westmoreland County, Penn., to Ohio in 1814. They were the parents of ten children, of whom only two survive, Mrs, Williams and Mrs, Fowler, Our subject came with his parents to New Philadelphia, remaining with them until he went to learn the carpenter's trade, He then went to Wheeling, W. Va., where he worked at his trade for a time; then returned to New Philadelphia and opened a shop of his own. He was twice married, first on June 12, 1832, to Hannah Baltzly born October 31, 1810, died April 2, 1844 ; five children were born to this union. Mr, Gray then married. December 10, 1846, Sarah Catherine Shaffer, born November 9, 1824, who bore him twelve children. and died August 29, 1875. Our subject was the father of following children, with dates of births and deaths : George James, March 20, 1833, died May 3, 1855; Elizabeth, April 29, 1836, died August 16. 1837; John William, February 3, 1839, died June 4. 1862 ; Lucinda, September 2, 1840; Oliver A., August 17, 1847 ; Estelia Susan, July 9, 1849. died September 4, 1850; Sarah Jane, June 28. 1851, died August 28, 1851 ; Delia Ann, September 13, 1852, died June 28. 1854 ; James Beers, March 12. 1856 ; Mary Louisa, February 27, 1858 ; Martha Ellen, December 30, 1859, died February 5, 1862 ; Elmer Franklin, August 25, 1861 ; Edward Aughe. March 15, 1863, died September 2, 1863; Maggie Virginia, July 24, 1864: Emma Alice, August 17, 1869. Oliver A. was married to Martha Keller, and James B. to Anna M. Demuth. Our subject followed farming after leaving; New Philadelphia till his death, He died August 6, 1883, aged seventy-six, leaving 320 acres of land and an interest in the Gras, property in New Philadelphia. Mr, Gray was a Republican, and a member of the Lutheran Church for nearly fifty years.
William Gray came to Tuscarawas County in 1814; his father was for many years proprietor of the Gray House.