Mary Elizabeth (Wagoner) Grayson (abt. 1741 - abt. 1810)

Born about 1741 in Colchester, Fairfax, VA

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Died about 1810 at about age 69 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Biography

Mary Elizabeth Wagoner was born about 1740 in Piscataqua, Essex, Colony of Virginia, British Colonial America. Her parents were Peter Wagener Jr. and Catherine Robinson who had recently married on the 5th of July, 1739.

She married Spence Monroe Grayson about 1757 in Colchester, Virginia. Together they had many children and she passed away about 1810 in Washington D.C.^[1]

"All the other daughters had married, some going to other parts of the South. Later, when the two youngest daughters had married and gone to Mississippi, Mrs. Grayson removed from "Belle Air" to Washington, (There she died in 1810 at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. Lund Washington."^[2]

Buried at Belle-Air, Prince William County, Virginia.

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Thank you to Jenna Glasscock and Kitty Smith for contributions to this profile.

Sources

1. ↑ "Mary Elizabeth Waggoner." Family Search. Accessed Jan. 5th, 2019. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZPN-RNT.
2. ↑ "Mary Elizabeth Wagoner." Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties. Accessed May 11, 2017. http://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I032949&tree=tree1.

See also:

• "Mary Elizabeth Waggoner." Family Search. Accessed Jan. 5th, 2019. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZPN-RNT.

• "Mary Elizabeth Grayson." Geni. Accessed Feb. 6th, 2021. https://www.geni.com/people/Mary-Grayson/6000000029947318824.

• "Mary Elizabeth Wagoner." Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties. Accessed May 11, 2017. http://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I032949&tree=tree1.

• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/3M97-MSS : accessed 2014-11-24), entry for Spence Monroe /Grayson/.

• "Mary Elizabeth Wagener Grayson." Find A Grave. Accessed July 20, 2017. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=grayson&GSfn=Mary+&GSmn=Elizabeth&GSby=1741&GSbyrel=in&GSdy=1810&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=178890608&df=all&.

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