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Title: Welcome To My World


1
Welcome To My World
2
Some characteristics that are prominent in my
family
  • Almost everyone on my mothers side of the family
    was born in Kentucky.
  • Everybody in my family strongly encouraged
    education.

3
Maternal great-great grandparents
  • Thomas Jackson Price and Sally Rainey Price
  • They lived in Danville, Kentucky.

4
Maternal Great-Grandparents
  • Thomas Jackson Price Jr. and Evelyn Hammond Price
    (Lynn)
  • They had one child Thomas Jackson Price III which
    was my grandfather.
  • They lived in Lexington, Kentucky.
  • My great-grandfather went to UK and owned an
    insurance agency here in Lexington.
  • He served in WWI and suffered through the Great
    Depression.
  • My great-grandmother was very thrifty and knew
    how to stretch a dime.
  • They were very loving and caring parents to my
    grandfather.

5
Maternal Grandparents
  • Thomas Jackson Price III and Betty Vanderpool
    Morford Price were married for over 40 years.
  • They had three children Thomas Morford Price,
    Lynn Hammond Price, and Mary Vanderpool Price
  • All the children grew up in Lexington.
  • They were great parents that only wanted the best
    for their children.
  • My grandparents stressed education and encouraged
    dreams.

6
My granddaddy
  • My grandfather was born in Danville, Ky. and grew
    up in Lexington.
  • My grandfather served in WWII where he lost his
    hearing in his left ear from an explosion.
  • He went to UK on the GI bill and graduated with a
    masters degree in mathematics. He was a member
    of the UK baseball team.
  • He taught high school and coached basketball,
    football, and baseball at Harrodsburg and Jenkins
    early in his career.
  • He worked at Cowden Manufacturing Co. for 26
    years as the Vice President of transportation.
  • He also taught at Lexington Community College for
    several years.
  • He was owner of Air Freight Inc., Dollar
    Rent-A-Car, Transportation Unlimited and Red
    Arrow Delivery Inc.
  • He served several terms as president of the
    Central Kentucky Traffic Club.
  • He retired in 1983 for health reasons.
  • He passed away when he was 65 from a stroke.

7
Granddaddy Price cont
  • In this picture he was 18 serving in WWII
  • In this picture he was about 7

8
Granddaddys Obituary
9
Nana
  • The prissiest woman that ever lived was my
    grandmother, Betty Vanderpool Morford Price
    (Nana).
  • She was born in Owensboro, Ky. but grew up in
    Glasgow, Ky.
  • She was adopted into a prominent family where
    they had a cook and a maid.
  • Her new family offered her endless possibilities
    and provided her a wonderful life.
  • She went to UK College of Nursing where she met
    my grandfather.
  • Nana never went a day without her make-up on and
    her fingernails painted. If we saw Nana and
    didnt have our make-up on she would ask us, did
    you oversleepare you sick?
  • She was very lady-like and proper.
  • Her home was beautiful and professionally
    decorated.
  • She always stressed education to her children and
    she always said, If you dont expect it, youll
    never achieve it.
  • My grandfather put her on a pedestal.
  • She died 2 and ½ years ago from a long illness at
    the age of 71.

10
Great-great aunt and great grandmother
  • Great-great aunt- Viola Vanderpool Harris
  • She came to Kentucky on a covered wagon from
    Oklahoma.
  • Her father owned a grocery store on a street
    which later became known as Vanderpool Alley (off
    Euclid).
  • She went to Transylvania University at a time
    when women were not encouraged to go to college.
  • She was very prissy and she never wore pants a
    day in her life because she believed it was
    unladylike.
  • She was active in the community and loved to play
    bridge.
  • She was very active in the Republican Party.
  • She helped set up the Mary Todd Lincoln Museum
    and Parker Place.
  • She died at 95 of old age.
  • Great grandmother- Pearl Vanderpool Morford was
    my grandmothers adopted mother.
  • She lived in Glasgow, Ky.
  • She also went to Transylvania and played on the
    golf team there.
  • She believed women should all know proper
    etiquette, know how to entertain, play bridge,
    and golf.
  • She died from a fire in her house.

11
My Parents
  • William A. McCray (dad) and Mary Vanderpool Price
    McCray (mom)
  • Married on January 18, 1980.
  • My parents met through mutual roommates and
    eloped.
  • My father grew up in Lexington and graduated from
    Bryan Station High school. He then went to
    Eastern Kentucky University.
  • He has owned and operated an electronics
    business, McCray Electronics, for 22 years.
  • My father can do or fix anything and I like to
    refer to him as Macqyver.
  • My mother grew up in Lexington and graduated from
    Tates Creek High School. She graduated from
    Eastern Kentucky University with a degree in
    child development.
  • Currently, my mother is a real estate agent which
    serves her well because my parents buy and sell
    real estate.
  • My mother has a talent for decorating and is very
    good at it.
  • I believe she could show Martha Stewart a thing
    or two.
  • My parents are wonderful people who raised two
    wonderful girls.

12
Sisterly Love
  • My sisters name is Elizabeth Ashley McCray
    Willis but goes by Ashley.
  • She is 25 years old and is married to Dave Willis
    and they have a adorable son named Cooper who is
    almost 2 years old.
  • My sister was a big entertainer who loved to sing
    and dance and was in two Broadway shows in New
    York City at the young age of nine.
  • She graduated from Lafayette High School where
    she was valedictorian, senior class president,
    drum major, and even homecoming queen. So, I
    dont have to say I had big shoes to follow
    growing up.
  • She went to Georgetown College on a full academic
    scholarship and graduated with a degree in
    communications and a minor in political science.
  • She was going to go to law school but decided to
    get her masters in education and teach so she
    could impact children.
  • She was a teacher for a year until she became a
    mother.
  • Currently, my sister and Dave moved to Augusta,
    Georgia where Dave will be a minister and they
    are expecting their second son.

13
ME
  • My name is Morgan Kelly McCray and I was born on
    December 20, 1984.
  • As a child, I loved to cheer, dance, wear
    spandex, ride my jeep, and jump on the
    trampoline.
  • Currently, I am a student at UK and majoring in
    Elementary Education.
  • On the weekends, you can find me serving at
    El-Chico (a Mexican restaurant).
  • I absolutely love anything girly, especially the
    color pink!!

14
Family Portrait
  • My family is extremely important to me and we are
    all very close.
  • The beautiful dog in the picture was Honeybear
    who was my sidekick growing up as a young girl.
  • As well as Honeybear, my sister was and will
    forever be a very special person in my life. I
    look up to her in everything she does and we are
    sisters who share a very special bond.

15
My Family
16
My moms side of the family
  • My aunt Lynn teaches Nursing at LCC and is
    working on her Doctorate at the University of
    Kentucky.

17
Ashley, precious Cooper, and Me
18
Ashley, Cooper, and Me
19
The End
20
Sources
  • I would like to thank my mother and my aunt for
    their wonderful memories and stories they shared
    for me.
  • http//www.infoplease.com/atlas/state/kentucky.htm
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