There are a lot of people who are interested in their family’s past and I’ve become one of them. In my younger years I didn’t think about it at all. Unfortunately that would have been the best time because their were still so many people I could have asked questions about our family since they were still living. Now almost all of my family that came before me are gone, and the knowledge they had is likely lost forever. Luckily there are a lot of old books, both historical and genealogical in nature that have been written, whereby some of the mystery has been removed. I’m hoping that the genealogical booklets that my wife, Terrie Wise, and I have written and shared with others, will help remove some of the mystery that our other extended family members may have had. We have given dozens of booklets on various aspects of the Reed – Wise Family Tree to numerous family members and Historical / Genealogical Societies. We also have our tree’s database on the Ancestry.com website (the best version is the one called Reed – Wise Family Tree 2020) for others to see and learn from. It was in 2017 after we retired that Terrie and I began creating our genealogy booklets. Of course over time we got better and better at it. Our best ones have been created beginning in 2025. Each booklet has a table of contents in the front material, and in the back is always a bibliography listing, as well as a listing of places mentioned in the booklet, and a listing of the names of everyone mentioned in the booklet and on what pages they appeared. That makes it easier to find someone that you may be researching that could also be in your family tree. The booklets range usually from 100 to 150 pages long; although a couple have been over 200 pages. Some of the places where we have donated and you can find our booklets include:
To read one of our booklets (pictured below) to see what they contain, click here. Be sure to checkout the table of contents in the front and the two indexes, one for places and another for names in the back, that show the locations in the booklet where they appear.
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In May of 2026, Terrie and I finally published a genealogy book we created for sale in the retail marketplace. It was called “John Gray, The last surviving soldier of George Washington’s Revolutionary Army.” It’s an expanded description of one of the branches of Terrie’s family tree. Although we usually donate our genealogy books, in this case we decided to publish it in a retail manner since 2026 is the country’s 250th anniversary year, and I thought more people may be interested in reading it (rather than just donating it to the Noble County, Ohio, historical society where a limited number of people would see it.) It aims to both preserve ‘this branch’ of Gray family history and highlight their contributions to American independence, as well as to our country’s development and defense, from colonial times to the present day. The key words ‘this branch’ are important since we came across a number of books on Gray family lineage, but most didn’t have a single link in them to this Gray family; so hopefully this book will be of interest to other Gray family genealogists. We dedicated the book to Eudora Pearl (Gray) Holzworth, a descendant of John Gray, and who was my wife Terrie’s grandmother.
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This book can be purchased on the www.amazon.com website
in print as either a hardcover book or in paperback.
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