Monty Lee Ray here: Genealogically in order: My name is Monty Lee Ray. My former wife is Cheryl Ann Griffin Ray Cox. My grandson is Matthew Allen Ray; my granddaughter is Swayzie Grace Miller. My son is Christopher Todd Ray & wife is Katie Elizabeth Sweazy Ray. My father is Ward Ray and my mother is Vickie Jeanette Essary Ray. My paternal grandparents are Odis Ray & Lessie Mae Causey Ray. My maternal grandparents are Walter Snider Essary & Alta Aberdeen Tacker Essary. My paternal great grandparents on the Ray side are Lafayette Samuel (Fate/F.S.) Ray & Zena/Zener Pearl Moore Ray. My maternal great grandparents on the Causey side are John William Henry Causey & Eunice Lue Tull Causey. My maternal great grandparents on the Essary side are William Isaiah Essary & Mary Ella Snider Essary. My maternal great grandparents on the Tacker side are Thomas Montgomery Tacker and Tennie Hardin Tacker. My great great grandparents on the Hardin side are Due Dice and Eliza Hardin. My GGGgrandparents on the Tacker side are Thomas M and Caldonia Jeanetta Ethridge Tacker. My GGGGgrandparents (Thomas Montgomery Tackers grandparents) were Tom and Mary Tacker, My GG grandparents on the Snider side are George Washington Snider & Lula D Howie Snider. My GG grandparents on the Essary side are William Wesley & Julia Culbertson Essary. My GG grandparents on the Ray side are Samuel Baker Ray II & Amelia Wilson Ray. My GG grandparents on the Causey side are Sarah Adeline Causey and GG grandfather unknown. My great great great grandparents on the Tull side & Noble Dennis Tull & Martha Ann Wilson Tull. My great great great on the MA Wilson side are David & Louisa Clayton Causey. My great great great grandparents on the AW Ray side are Ingram Leander Wilson & Louisa Eliza Howell. My GGGGgrandparents on the IL Wilson side are William M Wilson Sr & Jane McHenry Wilson. WM Sr & JMH were among the founders of Piney Grove Baptist Church near the Silerton Community in Hardeman County TN. My GGGGrandparents on the GW Snider side are Jacob Snider & Mary Ann Moser (Mosier?) Snider. They are buried at New Hope Methodist Church just north of Scotts Hill TN. MY GGGGGgrandparents JC Sniders parents were Samuel Schneider & Margaret Heil Snider/Schneider. German spelling and assumed migration from Germany. My GGGGGGgrandfather is Simon Schneider & wife Anna Elizabeth Schneider.