Robert
Wray
Sr.
Born in Mercersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Daniel Wray
and Elizabeth Lettice (McKibben) Wray
Husband of
Abigail (Manners) Wray
— married
1812 in Kiskiminetas Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States
Descendants 
Father of
Sarah (Wray) Smith, Daniel Wray, John Manners Wray, Elizabeth (Wray) Ewing, William H Wray, Margaretta Wray, Unnamed Wray, Nancy (Wray) Wilson, Robert Wray, Anna Jane Wray and Abigail Manners Wray
Died
at age 84
in Kiskiminitas, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States
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Biography
Robert Wray was born December 8, 1784 near Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and in 1800 moved with his father to the site of Saltsburg, Indiana county. After a time his father's health became poor and Robert had to assume charge of the farm. So well did he carry out the task that he succeeded in paying for the place and putting it into a fine state of cultivation. Part of the purchase money was raised by salt making, at a well he had bored. A tract of this land is still owned by his daughter Abigail M., so that the title has been in the Wray family for 133 years.... In 1812 Robert Wray married Abigail Manners.... To Robert Wray and his wife were born eleven children; Sarah...Daniel...John M... Elizabeth... WIlliam H...Margaretta... one child died in infancy...Nancy...[1]
Birth
Death
- 15 AUG 1869[2]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Armstrong County, Pennsylvania: her people past and present" (Chicago) 1914; Vol. 2, p. 592
- ↑ Esther Roberta (Brotzman) Kenagy (Personal records)
- Online Publication; Ewing Family Association: http://www.ewingfamilyassociation.org/EGD_Project/James_of_Inch/p20.htm.
- Climbing the Smith Family Tree; Melbourne, AS; 1977
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The Saltsburg tract of Robert Wray’s land stayed in the family. It was still owned by Robert’s daughter Abigail M. in 1914 when Hiram wrote his account. My 2nd cousin Eddie Ellis Jr., also a great grandson of Tillie Wray Lee, had visited the property in the 1970s and commented on the grave markers of our Wray ancestors. According to Eddie, this was a beautiful property that had remained in the family even up to that point in time, but has since passed out of the family’s hands. Hiram’s account makes note of the fact that Robert and Abigail Wray were particularly devout Presbyterians. In the 2 page “Historical Sketch of Elders Ridge Presbyterian Church” by A. Donaldson, Pastor we find that: “Elder’s Ridge Presbyterian Church, in Young Township, Indiana County, near the line of Armstrong County, where prayer meetings and other services had been held by Rev. Joseph Harper, of Saltsburg, was organized by order of the Presbytery at Redstone, by Rev. Thomas Davis, of Blairsville, August 8, 1830. From Ebenezer were received by letter fifty members [including] Robert Wray and Abigail his wife.”