"According to Sander's Early Families of Alabama, Henry Shelton married first, Elnore Ray, daughter of Fergus Ray. Since the name Ray is repeated so often in the family of Elizabeth Ray Powers, it indicates that Ann, who married William Crosthwait and Jacob Powers could have been a daughter of the first marriage."[1]
Sources
↑ Prather, Genevieve Logan, and Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry. 1960. Descendants of Henry Shelton's daughter, Ann. Chillicothe, Mo: E.P. Ellsbery. p. 7 (Familysearch.org)
See also:
Hudson, Florence Sutherland. 1957. "We cousins" (Virginia to Texas) A genealogy of several of the families comprising the Alabama settlement of Austin's Colony, 1830 and 1831, now Texas, and including the other Virginia lines of the Sutherland family. p. 148 (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89082430406)
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