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1850 United States Federal Census
Name: A W Gray
Age: 45
Birth Year: abt 1805
Birthplace: North Carolina
Home in 1850: District 42, Henry, Georgia
Gender: Male
Family Number: 361
Household Members:
Name Age
A W Gray 45 (Ambrose Williams)
S C Gray 36 (Sarah Caroline)
M A E Gray 15 (Martha Ann Elizabeth) (b. 1835)
S C Gray 11 (Sarah Caroline) (b. 1839)
1860 United States Federal Census
Name: A W Graz (A. W. Gray)
[Ambrose Williams Gray]
Age in 1860: 55
Birth Year: abt 1805
Birthplace: North Carolina
Home in 1860: Fayette, Georgia
Gender: Male
Post Office: Fayetteville
Household Members:
Name Age
A W Graz 55 (Ambrose Williams)
S C Graz 46 (Sarah Colier)
M E Graz 9 (b. 1851) f.
E S Graz 6 (b. 1854) f.
1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia
Name: A W Gray
Residence County: Fayette
Age: 58
Birth Year: abt 1806
Birth Place: North Carolina
Deeds of Meriwether Co Ga.
Gray, Ambrose W. Huff, Daniel 10/28/1833 10/12/1832 10/28/1833 LL-241, 8th District WD 101 1/4 C 57
Gray, Ambrose W. Hodnett, John 2/28/1834 9/20/1833 2/28/1834 LL-149, 3rd District WD C 155
Gray, Ambrose W. Goolsby, Richard 10/20/1834 8/14/1834 10/20/1834 LL-158, 3rd District WD C 391
Gray, Ambrose W. Redden, John 10/31/1836 12/31/1835 10/31/1836 LL-35, 8th District WD 101 1/4 E 93
Gray, Ambrose W. Crain, Spencer C. 12/9/1836 10/31/1836 12/9/1836 LL-35, 8th District WD 101 1/4 E 127
Gray, A. W. Dyson, Eliza C. 3/30/1838 1/22/1838 3/30/1837 LL-230, 9th District WD 101 1/2 F 218
Gray, A. W. Harris, Alston 11/22/1838 11/3/1838 11/22/1838 LL-234, 9th District WD 202 1/2 F 375
Gray, A. W. Harris, Matthew 12/23/1840 11/12/1840 12/23/1840 LL-118, 10th District WD G 225
U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Name: Ambrose Williams Gray
Birth Date: 5 May 1805
Death Date: 18 Sep 1867
Cemetery: Inman Methodist Church Cemetery
Burial Place: Fayetteville, Fayette County, Georgia
Ambrose Williams Gray (5 May 1805-18 Sep. 1867), son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Williams) Gray, was born in Rutherford County, N.C. and moved with his parents to Wilkes Co., Ga. when he was a young boy, and subsequently to Monroe County, Ga. He married 13 Dec. 1832, probably in Meriwether Co., Ga., Sarah Collier Hodnett (11 May 1814-12 Feb. 1907), daughter of John Wyatt and Elizabeth (Tigner) Hodnett of Jasper and Meriwether Counties, and grand-daughter of Benjamin and Betsy (Collier) Hodnett of Virginia and Jasper Co., Ga. (See Mary Glover Thompson, “Benjamin Hodnett,” in Jasper County Historical Foundation, Inc., History of Jasper County, Georgia, 1984, pp. 206-207; and Ruth Hodnett Pendergrast, “Hodnett”, in Alice Copeland Kilgore, Edith Hanes Smith and Frances Partridge Tuck, eds., A History of Clayton County, Georgia, Roswell, Ga., W. H. Wolfe Associates, 1983, pp. 293-295.)
Ambrose and Sarah Gray first settled in Meriwether County, Ga., where they are found in the Census of 1840 and where members of both their families were then living. In 1849 they moved to Henry Co., Ga. where Ambrose Gray assembled a plantation of 400 acres (Henry Co. Deed Book M, p. 145, L. M. Cobb to A. W. Gray, 17 Sep. 1849; Book M. p. 264, William Kelley to A. W. Gray, 16 Nov. 1850; and Book M, p. 274, James B. Woodley and William Pierson to A. W. Gray, 12 Dec. 1850.) This land lay in Land Lots 254, 226 and 227 of the 6th District, and Land Lot 48 of the 3rd District, adjacent to Mt. Pleasant M. E. Church and Academy, the land for which had been deeded by Leroy M. Cobb. (See Henry Co. Deed Book M, p. 182, Leroy M. Cobb to William Ray and the neighbors of his vicinity for the building of an academy for the benefit of the neighborhood, one acre in Land Lot 48, 3rd Dist. of Henry Co, 17 Aug. 1849. This land is on Mt. Pleasant Road opposite the present Atlanta Motor Speedway and is now part of the Clayton County Airport, called Tara Field. Leroy Cobb subsequently moved to Fayette County.)
Mt. Pleasant Church was almost certainly an outgrowth of old Liberty Chapel which in 1849 gave up its original location east of Flint River in present Clayton County and moved several miles west to its site at the Liberty Chapel Cemetery just east of Inman. This Mt. Pleasant M.E. Church, located west of Hampton, Henry County, is not to be confused with the earlier Mt. Pleasant M. E. Church and Academy on present Noah’s Ark Road southeast of Jonesboro, Clayton County. The first Mt. Pleasant changed its named to Noah’s Ark Church in 1852, Mt. Pleasant Church west of Hampton was dismantled about 1970 and its site has been graded away for expansion of the present Clayton County Airport. (Its name notwithstanding, Clayton County Airport is in Henry County.) Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, whose oldest carved stone bears a death date in 1851, lies across the road from the site of the church and academy, adjacent to present lands of the Atlanta Motor Speedway, and is fenced and well preserved.
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1805 - 1867 (62 years)