Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885, Butler Co.

FELIX GRAY, Butler County, was born December 23, 1818, in the brick house where he now resides, in the southeast part of Butler County. His father was Charles Gray, a native of Appomattox County, Va., born in 1776, and removed to Boyle County, Ky., when a young man, and to Butler County in
1809, where he died in 1830. He was the son of Charles Gray, Sr., a native of Ireland. The mother was Susanna Bilbo, a daughter of William and Sally (Bugg) Bilbo, of Boyle County, who was born in a fort in that county in 1786. She died in 1861. She was the mother of seven children, viz.: Bradford, Jane, John, Curran, subject, Hickman and Tabitha. Felix Gray's education was limited, but he has been a reader and a student, and is well posted upon the current topics of the time. He originated and is
a director in the Morgantown Deposit Bank, which commenced business in September, 1880, and has met with encouraging success. He has never been married, but with his sisters is living on the old homestead. Mr. Gray is a farmer and owns 200 acres of fine land well improved. Politically
he is a stalwart Republican.