Nathaniel Deaver
Born: October 11, 1760 in Anne Arundel County, MD
Died: December 1812, in the Illinois territory
   
Arabella Gray
Born: 1768 in Rowan Co., NC
Died: April 12, 1860 in Washington County, Texas
Buried: Family plot near Brenham, Texas
Farmer, Texas League landowner, midwife
  
Click here to view a webpage about Arabella Deaver from the Handbook of Texas Online site.  This page has one fact wrong, however.  After her first husband Nathaniel died, she did not return to North Carolina before moving to Texas.  Only her daughters did, returning with Nathaniel's brother William.
 
Married 1791 in Buncombe County, NC
 
Children (5): William Harvey, Elijah, Frances, Margaret, and Mary (Polly)
 
Second Marriage of Arabella Gray:
John Harrington
Died: enroute to Texas in a sawmill accident
  
Children (2): John Walton, and Lydia
 
 
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