Newsletter 2 1978.pdf - The Grayson Family

R. D. GRAYSON, M.D.
3 14 WINRCXX VILLAGE
ALBU UERQI!E N. MEX. 8'1 10
%uly 19, 19V8.
Dr. R. R. Grayson,
Grayson Family Association,
Box 167,
St. C.harles, Ill., 60174
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Derir2l3octor Grayson:
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P 'muat apo1o;ize for my delay in answering
your letter, but I sm not a youngster anymore - in
fact I am eighty-eight yearn old end crippled up
with rheumatism, but the infomation that I am
about to furnish you is, I believe to be, faZrly
hutboratative as it csme to me from my father when
he was ninety-two years old soue fifteen or Bixteen
years ago. - , .
He to13 me thgt hie fathep, who was my grandfather,
was born in Kentucky in the year 1e03, in
a little village which is now known as Grayson,
Kentucky, but thst his father, my gr9a.t grandfather,
came from Fingland to the Carolinas somewhere
around the year 1740; then,in later years,
mTr eragdfatber left Kentucky end caw LO Missouri.
At the time my graixlfather caae to f4issouri it
was not 9 State ~f tbe TTnion.
-,l!y grandfather's nane was Ge ~ rge ilasi2lngton
Grayson znd be settled in Platte City, Missouri.
He vaa a slave holdel* but ha did not believe in
slavery, He did believe in State's Zlgbts, and
he free3 his slsves before corning to K-.nsas in
1850 in an endea.vor to nake Kallsas a free state.
.fhlle still !.n BClzt'te 7itv I.fissouri he owned a
tobaoao plantation. IIe ~takad a claim and pur-