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.
Other Gray County Genealogical Resources
Uncle Mose & Aunt Lucy
IOLA - It has been stated to us that "Uncle Mose and Aunt Lucy," the old colored couple living in the southwest part of town, have no means of heating the shanty in which they live except with an old cook stove which is in a very bad state of repair. If this is true...
Dead On The Plains
Terrible List of Persons Frozen to Death in Southwestern Kansas Men Perish Within a Few Yards Help - Mother and Children Dead KANSAS CITY, Jan. 15 - Specials from Kansas say that the list of casualties resulting from the late blizzard grows alarmingly large. Two...
Kansas Blizzard 1886
KANSAS CITY Jan. 8 - A snow storm vastly more severe than the recent blizzard is raging on the plains to the west. No western trains arrived or departed last night. Telegraphic communication with points west has been greatly interrupted, and many railroad wires are...
Jacob Troup Starved To Death
Jacob Troup starved to death at Lima, Ohio and his remains were buried at public expense. He had a son in Kansas worth $50,000, who refused to recognize or aid him. The Goshen Weekly News, Goshen, Indiana. January 15, 1886. (c) Transcribed by Darren McMannis for...
Emma Shepherd Burned By Gasoline
A most distressing, and as now reported, a fatal gasoline accident occurred at No. 611 East Central Avenue, near the Santa Fe railway, at 3 o'clock yesterday, in which Miss Emma Shepherd, 14 years old, was frightfully burned. The particulars obtained by an Eagle...
Fell From Hay Wagon
CHARLES SIMMONS, who was recently killed in Shawnee County, by falling from a load of hay, was an Englishman, twenty three years old, and said to have been the last member of the family, on his father's side, so that the lineage is now extinct. His widowed mother and...
Post Office Changes – 1883
Post Office Changes in Kansas during the week ending August 25th, 1883: Established: Parnell, Atchison County, James C. Hotham, Postmaster Washburn, Bourbon County, Loring B. Washburn, Postmaster Yankton, Harper County, Stephen C. Oliver, Postmaster Discontinued:...
Not Crazy
ABILENE. Not Crazy. Mrs. Maggie Crane, through the complaint of Dr. Curtis, was taken before Probate Judge Culbertson last Saturday to have her sanity or insanity passed upon. The case was adjourned by the Judge until nine o’clock, Monday morning, when it was...
Man vs. Woman in Iowa
The Republicans of Iowa palavered about women’s rights and nominated a man for a superintendent of education. The Democrats said nothing but nominated the man’s wife against him for the same office. The Abilene Reflector, Abilene, Kansas. September 6, 1883. Page 1. ©...
Founder of Montana, Kansas Dies
Josiah Hinman, founder of Montana, Kansas, the first town built in what is now Colorado, died recently at his home in Vergens, Vermont. He was the leader of the first party that left Lawrence, Kan., for Pike’s Peak in May, 1858. In February, 1859, the new town of...