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- Joseph and Eliza (Howard) Gray made their home at the old Joseph Gray. Sr., plantation near Bolingbroke, Monroe Co., where in 1860 there were fourteen blacks living on the place. Children: (1) Dr. Samuel Shi Howard Gray (10 Jan. 1846-31 Aug. 1885), served in the Confederate Army in Va. at age 16 and 1868 graduate of the Georgia Medical College, Augusta m. 1872 Lula Hollis (30 Oct. 1857-4 May 1942). He died in Barnesville, Ga.A grandson is family historian Shi Gray Holmes of Zebulon, Ga. (2) The Rev. John Davis Gray (11 May 1852-21 Feb. 1887), known as Davis Gray, m. Newton Co., Ga. 16 Dec. 1875 Sarah Cornelia Burge (11 Dec. 1855-8 Jun. 1892) dau. of Thomas Burge of Burge Plantation near Mansfield, Newton Co., and his second wife Dolly Sumner (Lunt) Lewis. (See James I. Robertson, ed., The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge, Athens, U. of Ga. Press, 1962. See also Medora Field Perkerson, White Columns in Georgia, NewYork, Rinehart & Co., Incorporated, 1952, chapters 3 and 4.) The Rev. DavisGray was a Methodist minister in the South Georgiaand Florida Conferences and was the youngest Presiding Elder in his conference.Both he and Sarah (Burge) Gray died in Hawthorne, Fla., but are buried in Oxford, Newton Co., Ga. Descendants (members of the Usher, Bolton and Morehouse families) now live in Covington, Ga., and at Burge Plantation. (3) Dr. James Gray. (4) Florence Emma Gray, m. c. 1888 Joseph James Singleton III (1Dec. 1857-10 Oct 1927), a native of Dahlonega, Ga., graduated 1878 from EmoryCollege, Oxford, Ga., and lived in Arcadia and Fort Mead, Fla. (5) Sarah Frances Gray (24 Jul. 1859-20 Feb. 1918) m. Monroe Co. 15 Dec. 1880 Dr. Thomas Baldwin Hollis (15 Dec. 1855-11 Mar. 1901). They were married at the Gray plantation near Bolingbroke, the ceremony performed by her bro. The Rev. Davis Gray, and made their home in Forsyth, Ga. Present descendants include the Hollises of Newnan, Coweta Co., Ga. (Mention of the historic Newnan house ownedby the Edgar Baldwin Hollises is found in Perkerson, White
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