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WILLIAM GRAY, blacksmith, post office Turtle Creek, was born June 23, 1817, on the place where he now resides. He learned his trade with his father and elder brother, and has since followed it. For ten years he kept shop at Turtle Creek, and then bought the parental home from his brother. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church in Braddock, and has been a republican since the administration of James Buchanan. In 1839 he married Elizabeth Chalfant, who was born in what is now Patton township, a daughter of Ananias and Elizabeth (Hughey) Chalfant. Their children were George, in Cleveland, O.; Charles C., in LeRoy, Kan.; Annie, Mrs. Thomas Dobson, in Wilkinsburg; Jane Mary, wife of George Larimer, in Turtle Creek; Isabel, wife of David Weddell, in McKeesport; William Wells, in McKeesport; James O., in Dakota; Rachel, wife of John Bebout, in Wilkinsburg, and Laura, deceased wife of Cassius Larimer. Ananias and Thomas Addison died when small. George served three years in the 62d P. V., and received a wound at the battle of Gaines’ Mills, for which he draws a pension. Charles was in the 105th regiment for fifteen months.