From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, pages 699-700.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


LINDSEY T. GRAY

Lindsey T. Gray, a leading business man of Moundsville, at present 
extensively engaged in the manufacture of lumber, is a son of F. W. 
and Sarah (Roseberry) Gray, both of whom were natives of Greene 
county, Penn. The father was a farmer and a merchant, a major-general 
in the militia organization of the counties of Washington and Greene, 
and a prominent man.  He died in February, 1844, and his wife, a 
devoted member of the Presbyterian church for thiry-five years, died 
in 1882, aged seventy-eight years.  Six of the nine children born to 
them are living.  Lindsey Gray was born in Greene county, Penn., 
November 6, 1825.  When of age he engaged in farming and followed 
that, five years of the time also being in the mercantile business, 
until 1870, when he was elected sheriff of Marshall county.  He held 
the office one term, and discharged its duties efficently and 
credibly.  In 1873 he embarked in milling at Moundsville, but three 
years later returned to the farm and remained there until the spring 
of 1886.  This farm of 162 acres he still owns, and has a grist-mill 
on the same, but both are rented.  In December, 1886, he embarked in 
the lumber business in Moundsville, and in the mercantile business in 
the following spring, and in all his enterprises he is meeting with 
good success.  He ranks among the substantial and enterprising 
citizens of Moundsville.  Mr. Gray was married in the spring of 1847 
to Letitia Glenn, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Glenn, of 
Washington county, Penn., and they had four children:  Sarah E., wife 
of W. P. McNair, died October, 1882; Alice R., wife of E. H. McClain; 
David L., died in Iowa, August, 1883; James R., drowned in the Ohio, 
June, 1867.  The mother of these died in 1856, at the age of thirty, 
and in October, 1860, Mr. Gray was married to Susan J. McClean, of 
this county, by whom he has five children: Anna B., wife of Thomas 
Gatts; Joseph M., George F., Mary E. and William P.  George F. Gray 
is at present engaged in lumbering and merchandise with Thomas Gatts 
under the firm name of Gatts & Gray, and with this firm William P. 
Gray holds a position.         


(Linda Fluharty)