El Dorado County Biographies


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WILLIAM H. GRAY
 
            Was born in Edwardsville, Madison county, Illinois, Dec. 25, 1820.  
His parents were natives of Virginia and removed to Illinois in 1818, and reared 
a family of nine sons and three daughters, and Wm. is the youngest of them all.  
When he was but 5 years old, his parents removed to Montgomery county. Here he 
lived till 1849, working on a farm, that year he followed an ox team to 
California.  In 1851 he returned to the States, and in 1853 again crossed the 
desert waste to California with a band of cattle.  For a time he was located at 
Logtown, from 1860 to 1865 was at Gold Hill and Silver City, Nevada.  He was 
married April 30, 1868, to Julia Moses, to them have been born three children, 
Mary C., William P., and Eliza.  He had 80 acres of land located on Blue Tent 
creek, so called from fact of a tent by that color having been there in early 
days.
 
Historical Souvenir of El Dorado County, California with Illustrations & 
Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men & Pioneers - Oakland, Cal. - Paolo 
Sioli, Publisher, 1883. p � 245-246
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler