Wray
Family
Solomon Wray and Sarah Chapman
Solomon Wray was born in
Virginia sometime between 1797 and 1804; his 1850 census
enumerated gives his year of birth as 1804, while his death
registration in Clinton County, Kentucky, identifies his
birth year as 1797. Solomon married Sarah Chapman probably
around 1825 and probably in Virginia (although we don't yet
know where); Sarah was born in 1806 in Virginia. By 1835,
Solomon and Sarah had moved to Tazewell County, Virginia,
where they remained until the late 1840's. Tazewell is
where they were enumerated in the 1840 census, and their
sons John, Daniel, and William Charles all indicated on
their Clinton County KY marriage certificates that they had
been born in Tazewell.
Solomon and Sarah had a total of nine known children: one
daughter (possibly named Priscilla), Elisha, Eliza,
Dulcena, Samuel, William Charles, John, Daniel, and Floyd.
All their children were born in Virginia.
After their youngest child, Floyd, was born in 1845, the
family moved to Clinton County, Kentucky, where they were
enumerated in the 1850 census. In 1852, Solomon and his son
John both died on 22 December of a fever, according to
Clinton County death records for that year. Solomon's
married daughter Dulcena had also died in 1852 about six
weeks after giving birth to her second child, Sarah
Elizabeth.
Solomon and Sarah's son William Charles married Dora Ann
Wright, granddaughter of George Branham; after Dora Ann's
death in 1877, he married Mary Helen Wallen.
Sarah (Chapman) Wray continued to live in Clinton County
until at least 1880, when she was enumerated in the
household of her son, Samuel Wray. We do not know at this
point where either Solomon or Sarah are buried.
Solomon
Wray (b. between
1797/1804, Virginia - d. 22 December 1852, Clinton, KY)
m. ca 1825,
Virginia (county unknown)
Sarah Chapman
(b. 1806, Virginia - d. after
1880, probably Clinton, KY)
Children:
i. Priscilla (?)
Wray (b. ca 1826, VA -
d after 1840); no further info
ii. Elisha G.
Wray (b. 1829, VA -
d. after 1850); m. Elizabeth
(lnu)
iii. Eliza J. Wray
(b. 1830, VA - d. after
1870); no further info
iv. Dulcena Wray
(b. 1833, VA - d. 18 October
1852, Clinton, KY); m. Jesse P. Lawrence
v. Samuel B. Wray
(b. 1834, VA - d. aft 1870);
m. Polly Ann
(lnu)
vi. William Charles
Wray (b. 29 Jul 1835,
Tazewell, VA - d. 13 Jan 1903, Clinton, KY); m1.
Dora Ann Wright, m2. Mary Helen
Wallen
vii. John H. Wray
(b. 1837, Tazewell, VA - d.
22 December 1852, Clinton, KY)
viii. Daniel Wray
(b. 1839, Tazewell, VA - d.
aft 1862); m. Avaline J.
Pennycuff
ix. Floyd M. Wray
(b. 1845, probably Tazewell,
VA - d. aft 1870); m. Artema (lnu)