Benjamin Edwards Grey
Benjamin Edwards Grey was born on July 31, 1809, in Salem, Kentucky. He worked as a lawyer in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He supported the Whig Party, and he served in the Kentucky state legislature from 1838 until 1839. He then served in the Kentucky senate from 1847 until 1851, and he served in Congress from March 1851 until March 1855. He moved to Bellevue, Alabama, in the mid-1850s. According to one writer, “his chief characteristics were his wonderful energy and his peculiar ability to comprehend the extent and magnitude of the business of the country, and the foresight with which he predicted its growth and development.”
He supported the Confederacy, and he offered two horses to a local artillery company. He also clung to the slave system, placing newspaper ads to recover runaway slaves. He fell ill in the mid-1870s, and he was baptized “in extremis” in February 1875. He died in Bellevue on March 1, 1875.
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| (3582) | Grey, Benjamin Edwards | 1809-07-31 | 1875-03-01 |
- Conflict Side: Confederacy
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (9980) [writer] ~ Benjamin E. Grey to John I. Kendall, 31 August 1864
People - Records: 1
- (3582) Grey, Benjamin Edwards is the [cousin of] (3559) Kendall, John Irwin
Places - Records: 2
Groups - Records: 1
- (2) [politician] ~ Whig Party
SOURCES
1850 United States Federal Census, available from Ancestry.com; Alabama Episcopal Diocese of Alabama Church Records, 1837-1970, available from Ancestry.com; “Benjamin E. Grey” Wikipedia profile, available from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_E._Grey; The Charleston (SC) Mercury, 13 July 1861; The Daily Selma (AL) Reporter, 23 June 1864; The Marion (AL) Commonwealth, 11 March 1875; Columbus (KY) Messenger, 4 March 1875
