Welcome To My World

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Welcome To My World
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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.

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Maternal great-great grandparents

• Thomas Jackson Price and Sally Rainey Price
• They lived in Danville, Kentucky.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Granddaddy Price cont

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

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Granddaddys Obituary
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!!

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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.

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My Family
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My moms side of the family

• My aunt Lynn teaches Nursing at LCC and is
  working on her Doctorate at the University of
  Kentucky.

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Ashley, precious Cooper, and Me
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Ashley, Cooper, and Me
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The End
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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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