Elizabeth Talbot was born in 1770 to Lieutenant Isham Talbot Sr and Elizabeth Davis. She married widowed General James Buntin Ray in 1785, when she was fifteen years old, in Mercer County, Kentucky. She became step-mother to his sons, William and Jesse Ray. Her husband, like her father, was a Kentucky pioneer and an officer in the American Revolution. James and Elizabeth's children were James, John, Harvey, Hugh, Jefferson, Mary, Catherine, Jane, Lucinda, and Martha Ray. Elizabeth Talbot Ray died in 1810 or 1815, aged 40 or 45, in Mercer County and was buried at the cemetery on the hill above Shawnee Springs.
Elizabeth Talbot was born in 1770 to Lieutenant Isham Talbot Sr and Elizabeth Davis. She married widowed General James Buntin Ray in 1785, when she was fifteen years old, in Mercer County, Kentucky. She became step-mother to his sons, William and Jesse Ray. Her husband, like her father, was a Kentucky pioneer and an officer in the American Revolution. James and Elizabeth's children were James, John, Harvey, Hugh, Jefferson, Mary, Catherine, Jane, Lucinda, and Martha Ray. Elizabeth Talbot Ray died in 1810 or 1815, aged 40 or 45, in Mercer County and was buried at the cemetery on the hill above Shawnee Springs.
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