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General Marion "G. M." Ray

23 Sep 1824 – 8 Nov 1898

Birth	23 Sep 1824
Death	8 Nov 1898
Cemetery	Wallis-Estill-Hayden-March Cemetery Winchester , Franklin County , Tennessee , USA
Added by	Bruce Bomar on 17 Dec 2013
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121559573

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GPS Coordinates of this cemetery are: 35.18335,-86.10056 in Winchester, Tennessee. Maps show the street as Truman Street but the street sign says Wilson Street. GENERAL MARION RAY G. M. Ray was born in Bedford County, Tennessee on September 23, 1824 and died on November 8, 1898. He married Jennie Wright Estill on November 20, 1873 and is buried in the Estill family cemetery in Winchester. During the War Between the States, G. M. Ray was a Commissary Agent for the Confederacy. A letter from his commanding officer is quoted: "Shelbyville Oct. 28, 1862 to Mr. G. M. Ray, Agent, Commissary Dep. CSA. Dear Sir: I am Instructed by the Commanding General of this department (Major General Samuel Times) to remove with the least possible delay all articles at subsistence from Middle Tennessee including beans, hogs, bacon, wheat and flour. It is hoped and expected that all true friends of the South will not hesitate to sell to you anything they have to spare. But you are expected, instructed, and ordered in all cases to impress where the parties refuse to sell in all cases giving receipts specifying amounts and prices at which receipts will be paid by me on presentation. I hope and expect to be able to keep you supplied with money to pay for everything you buy. But money or no money you must not pass anything in the way at subsistence. The prices to be paid 8 cent gross for hog, 3 ½ cent gross for beef, 20 cent per pound for bacon, $11 per bbl for flour and $1.40 per bushel for wheat. The wheat & flour to be delivered on the line of the N. C. R. Road. The prices to be paid by all agents are the same and you are expected to cooperate with all my agents in order to facilitate the carrying out of these orders with the least possible delay. You are authorized and instructed to carry out these orders promptly and without delay. The stock and subsistence bought by you is entrusted to your care and charge until placed beyond the possible reach of the enemy. Having full confidence in your zeal, integrity, industry and loyalty, I leave details with you merely remarking that the urgency of the case requires that there shall be no delay in the execution of these orders. Remember that the existence of our army, the sustenance (SIC) of our friends and the very existence of our beloved country is in a great measure committed to the charge of those of us who are charged with the procuring of supplies. In order to facilitate you in carrying out these orders you are instructed to call upon any military forces of the Confederate States who are directed to assist you in executing the foregoing. (By Order Maj. Genl. Saml. Jones & Brig. Genl. Forrest.) Respectively, l. F. Cummings, Major, C.S.A." From that date on, G. M. Ray rode the Southern countryside buying provisions for the Confederate Army. The day he heard the war was over he was deep in Florida trying to get supplies for the army. He looked at his tired, bony horse and hoped they would make it back to Tennessee. He was gearing up to ride home when a woman yelled at him to wait; she had heard the night before that a man from Tennessee was there. Her husband had died of tuberculosis during the war and she and her little boy wanted to go back to her people in Tennessee. She had a wagon, he had a horse, so, he said he walked nearly all the way to Tennessee from Florida to save the horse so he could bring her home.

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