"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA.  HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
MONROE TOWNSHIP

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EDWARD WILLIAM BRAY, pioneer of Orange County, Ind., was born June 5, 1820,
and is a son of John H. and Hannah (Shelton) Bray, natives respectively of
North Carolina and Virginia, who moved to Kentucky and were there reared;
they had four sons and eight daughters, and came to this State in 1815, into
this county in 1823, and finished their lives in this township--he in 1875,
aged ninety-six, and she in 1873, aged eighty-four years.  Edward W. Bray is
well educated, and was a teacher, from his twenty-third to his twenty-eighth
year, in the public schools.  November 5, 1840, he married at Belleville,
Ind., Lucy Jane Gilmer, to which union were born ten children--Mary E.,
Hannah A., Eunice A., Sarah E., Mildred (deceased), John W., Thomas W.,
Henry, Alexander Gilmer and Shelton.  In 1876, Mr. Bray was elected Justice
of the Peace of this township, and was re-elected four years afterward.  He
is an active Republican and an original thinker, having taken out a patent
for an improved shuttle;  he is also active in Sabbath-school labor.

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