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
Sylvanus Green Murdered While Plowing Corn
IRVING, KS - We learn that Sylvanus Green, Esq., a late resident of this place, was shot through the lungs, one day last week, at his home on the Republican. The assassin is not known and is yet at large. The only particulars we could learn were, that the would-be...
Call To Kansas Woman – 1870
They tell of a woman in Iowa who bought 160 acres of wild land one year ago, has enclosed and put it under cultivation, built a house upon it, planted a fine orchard and fruit garden, with hedges all complete, and set out a large number of shade trees, besides...
The New Press Style
The New Press Style Some of the newspapers of our day have adopted a new way of relating horrible accidents and pathetic events, which is quite effective as well as concise. Here are some examples: “That was a bitter joke of the man in New Jersey who put a quantity of...
Iowans Moving To Kansas
The Iowa editors are coming to see us. We suppose they are coming after their citizens Ever since we have been in Kansas that crowded but lonesome-looking prairie schooner has been arriving, and the driver of its horses or oxen answers: ‘We’re from Eye-o-way –...
The Ladies of Kansas – 1870
The Ladies of Kansas – fair as the blossom upon our prairies, only not half so numerous. What a dreary void would even Kansas be without them. -- E. L. Durham, Hog Creek, Kansas. The Leavenworth Weekly Times, Leavenworth KS. July 14, 1870. Page 5. (c) Transcribed by...
Poncher Family Struck By Lightning
GUILFORD. Serious Accident. About two weeks since the family of Mr. Poncher, son-in-law of Mr. Root, of Guilford, set out to move to Caney, with two teams, one of horse and the other of oxen. They had reached a point on their journey about fifteen miles south of Elk...
Exploding Firecracker
LEAVENWORTH. Accident. Nellie Hungerford, daughter of Mr. Seth Hungerford, picked up what she supposed to be an extinguished firecracker, on the morning of the Fourth, and as she was holding it to her face it exploded, filling one of her eyes with the material of...
Repudiated
LEAVENWORTH. Repudiated - Paul Dexter left Daniel Stone to close up his saloon Saturday night, and went away. Soon after, Cerf came in with his jail guard and wanted a drink. Dan said, “you have repudiated my color down at your place, and I shall set nothing out for...
Murderer Hung By Citizens
LYNCH LAW IN ALLEN COUNTY A Murderer Hung by Citizens HUMBOLDT. A gentleman who came from Iola yesterday morning, gave us the particulars of a most atrocious murder that was committed by a farmer living near Humboldt, and the summary hanging of the murderer by...
1870 Self-Abortion
LEAVENWORTH. Horrible – We learn that a young woman in the vicinity of Seventeenth and Dacotah streets was taken with the pains of childbirth a few days ago, and before she could be prevented ran into an outhouse. Persons suspecting her motive in doing so, attempted...