There is currently no functioning Genealogy Society in Gray County.
GY Gray County, Kansas, was established in 1887. It was created out of Finney and Ford Counties, and named for Alfred Gray, who was Kansas Secretary of Agriculture at the time. The county seat of Gray County is Cimarron, Kansas.
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Eliza Merrick Dies In Fire
Mrs. Eliza Merrick, aged 77 years, met with a horrible death at Okawville, Saturday morning. While in the house alone she fell into the fire, and was unable to escape. She endured the tortures for an hour or more but when found she was in the agonies of death. The...
Luther Chaliss Dead
Luther C. Challiss, a well known citizen and early settler in Atchison, died in that city some days ago. He was prominently connected with railroad building in early Kansas history. In 1864 he made a large fortune in Wall Street, New York city, but the tide turned...
Oran Wordon Killed
MOUND CITY - Oran Wordon, son of ex-Sheriff Wordon of Mound City, Kas., was almost instantly killed near that place Saturday afternoon by a runaway team. He was helping his father stack wheat and the team he was driving ran away. The boy was thrown on his head and...
E.T. Patton Murdered
Anderson Gray, charged with murder in the first degree for being accessory in the murder of E.T. Patten near Conway Springs, had a hearing last week before Justice of the Peace W.E. Cox, at Wellington, and was bound over without bail to await the action of the...
A Kansas Mystery
A Family Asphyxiated in a Manner That Aroused Grave Suspicions Independence, Kan., Jan. 2 - At 9 o'clock yesterday morning the home of George W. Read, manager of the Long-Bell Lumber Co., was broken into by Al Brown, Mr. Read's son-in-law, and suspicious neighbors...
J. T. Hays Murdered
A Marion County Murder The murdered man found in the river near Marion, on the 20th ult., proved to be J.T. Hays, who came from Missouri, a short time ago, with a cousin, J.T. Kelly. They had engaged to do some breaking for Mr. Forney, living north of Marion. ...
Suicide of Charles Wade
SCAMMON - Charles Wade, a striking miner, committed suicide today [June 17] by shooting himself. Before committing the deed he remarked to a friend that rather than starve to death he would kill himself. He left a young wife. The Wichita Daily Eagle, Wichita, Kansas....
A. Benson Dead In Jail
A. Benson, in the Leavenworth jail under sentence of death for the murder of Mrs. Mettman, stabbed his guard the other day and then killed himself. The Barton County Democrat, Great Bend, Kansas. December 22, 1892. Page 2. © Transcribed by Darren McMannis for the...
Ed Parks Killed
Lizzie Williams, an eighteen-year-old negro girl whose home is at Kansas City, shot and killed Ed Parks, a negro lad about the same age, at Coffeyville, recently. Parks was her sweetheart and was visiting her at her boarding place with the fatal shot was fired. The...
Joaquin Miller’s Son
San Francisco, Dec. 8 - Joseph McKay, who is in jail at Ukiah, Cal., charged with stage robbery, has been found to be the son of Joaquin Miller, "the poet of the Sierras." The real name of the young man is Harry Miller. He is 22 years of age and is the son of the...