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Dr Grafton Bannister Bays
1826 – 1900
| Birth | 1826 |
| Death | 1900 |
| Cemetery | Cumby Cemetery Cumby , Hopkins County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | C. R. on 16 Jun 2011 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71479782 |
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The following was sent in by Pam Joiner (#49288585) Their suggestion: ------------------------- In 1847, Virginia native Dr. Grafton Bannister Bays married Mary Hatchett Rape, a young widow, in Cotton Hill Township, Sangamon County, Illinois. In addition to raising a son from Mary's first marriage, Lorenzo Dow Rape (1844-1898), Grafton and Mary were parents of Martha Ann Bays (1848-1998), James Harrison “Jim” Bays (1850-1909), Mary Elizabeth Bays Junell (1852-1934), John T. Bays (1856-1906), and George Bays (1857-). The Bays family migrated from Illinois to Texas by traveling down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and then taking the Red River to Cypress Bayou in Jefferson, Texas. In 1857, Dr. Bays purchased land in both the Antonio Lazarine and William B. Jordon surveys south of the present-day site of Pickton, Hopkins, Texas, but by 1865 he had purchased land near Black Jack Grove (later known as Cumby), Texas, where he practiced medicine. A Confederate States of American veteran, Dr. Bays' name appears on the muster roll of Captain Joseph A. Moore's company that was mustered into active service on August 17, 1861 in Precinct 6 Hopkins County. Mary Bays died in April 1882 and was buried in the Cumby City Cemetery. Dr. Bays later married a widow, Mrs. Carolyn Knight. He died in the fall of 1900
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