The Families of Henry Nail & Mary Keller and Thomas Ray & Elizabeth Pearce
The Families of Henry Nail & Mary Keller and Thomas Ray & Elizabeth Pearce

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Published: 1997

Total Pages: 1170

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Heinrich Nagel (Henry Nail) (1771-1827), son of Gottlieb Nagel (Caleb Nail) and his wife Margaret of Döffingen, Germany, married 1798 in Rowan Co., North Carolina, Mary Keller (1776-1857), the daughter of Jacob and Barbara Keller. Henry Nail died in Addison Twp., Shelby Co., Indiana. They were parents of thirteen children. Gottlieb Nagel (Caleb Nail) arrived in Pennsylvania in 1754 where he spent the next twenty years. By about 1774 he had left Pennsylvania and moved with at least four of his children to North Carolina. Thomas Ray (1762-1829) was the son of William Ray of Wake Co., N.C. He was born in Granville Co., North Carolina. He married in Wake County Elizabeth Pearce (ca. 1764-1844) in 1783. She was the daughter of Nathan and Nance Weston? Pearce. Family members migrated to Shelby County, Ind. in the early 1820s.