Newsletter 2 1978.pdf - The Grayson Family

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The only child to survive infancy of Travers and Efiary (~oniphah)
Cooke was Colonel John Cooke (1755-1 819) who married on November
18, 1784, Mary Thomson I%son, daughter of the Ronorable bbrge
Pason (1725-1792) of Gunston HaJ$. Colonel Cooke was possessed
of a very handsome estate including Ylarlborough which acqubcd
from the Bbrcera. Colonel and Mrs. Cooke had a lorge family of children
but I will mention only their daughter Smah Ikson Cooke (1791-
1861 ) who, as the widow of Wilson Cary Selden (1772-1822) of
Salvington, mied secondly on llrrrch 15, 1825 her cousin Doctor
Robert &borne Grays on (1789-1 841 ), grandson of Colonel William
Bronough (1730-1800) a& I4zu-y Doniphan, his second wife, mentioned
on page 220. Their son was Doctor John Cooke Grayson (1832-1 E74)
of Salubria, Cd.pepe~ County and he was the father of the late
Ad&& Gary Travers Grayson (1876-193$), personal plqysician of -'..ci2:li
President Woodrow Wilson and president of the American Red Cross.
"Abstract of Wills and Inventories , Fairfax County, Virginia,
17@--1801, by J. Estelle Stewart mng.
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W I Y Book A. Will of French Ekson, proven 18 Xov.,
1748. (Excerpt) "To qy youngest son the remaining Mf of my I.2
land including the plantation rented to Thomas Xonteith and that
.. rented to 1Zr. Ben Grayson on which %he mill now is .,
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Will Book E. \Jill of bnis Ellzey, dated 1 kt., 1786;
proven 19 Dec., 1786. Sons: \iiLTiam (to have land in Loudoun
County), William. Daughters : Elixabe th if e of Willian: &cock),
&my (widmr of William iJes t), Thowin (), Sarah (wife of William
Turner), Patience (wife of Thomas ~grd), Stac (her first husband
was Burgess Berfley - second Benjamin Grayson T . Stacy Grqson
four youngest children: Benjamin, Susan, Sara and Ann. Grandson:
Lewis Ellzey. Sibyl Seck (dau, by second wife), E h . son William.
W U Book G. Will of Peter Wagner. Dated 21 April,
* 1795; proven 1,5 bhy, 1795. Wife: Sinah. Sons : Beverley Robinson
Wagner and Peter Wagner. Daughters: Sinah, fkry Eliza (nm I
suppose wife of a ~ert3in~~IJilliam Grayson"), Ann, Sally, Sarah. k s ,
wife, son Beverly R, ruxl George Ileneale ("my assistant clerk"), 3'
Father-in-law Col. Daniel 14cCarty.
nhmls of Southwest Virgini~,~ by Lewis Preston Summers.
p. 64.0, The report of IJilliam PkXiLlen, James Bane and
Robert &Gee the persons appointed Lo view the way from Ptichael
Prices field to where Greslzams path goes into the Catawba rod
being returned on considerction trhereof it is the opinion of the
Court that the new road be opened es marked by the viewers, and that
Philip Barriger with Robert Grsyson, William EIclELlen, Robert tlcGee ,
Robert Ritche, John Crinor, Jlickl Lake, George Feilder, John Ramy,
h o n Cook, Joseph ikDonald, Jacob Sejler, James Bane, Wm. Preston,
Sfichael Price nnd Jacob Smith, crnci their Tithables or any other who
may settle within his Bounds do open and keep the aame in Rep&
q3 , accmdi% to Fincastle Counw,
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