Current Affairs: George Ray Farm

After a Planning Commission public hearing on April 4, 2018, Prince William County gave the green light to Ray's Regard, a proposed 350 housing development on the old George Ray Farm.  

Before the property disappears forever, David Cuff and Don Wilson of Historic Prince William have written an informative article about the property's history and the Ray family, that can be found HERE.

Military Monday: PW Board Calls Married Men to Fill Draft Quota (1943)

Evening Star (Washington, DC)

01 March 1943

PRINCE WILLIAM BOARD CALLS MARRIED MEN TO FILL DRAFT QUOTA

Supply of Single Men Exhausted as 100 Face Induction This Month

 Manassas, Va., March 1 —The Prince William County Selective Service Board has exhausted its supply of single men and dipped into the list of married men without children to fill a March call for 100 selectees, the largest yet made in the county.

Seventy-two white men have been called for induction March 8. Twenty-eight are scheduled to go March 27.

C. C. Clove, chairman of the local board, said there are still enough single colored men to fill a March 23 call for 13.

The following white men have been notified to appear for induction March 8:

Malone, Harry R.	Di Filippo, Luneo C.
Halary, Vivian G.	Sowers, Glen L.
Wine, Charles H. Jr.	Street, Tolly R.
Thomas, Carroll B.	Clemen, Ray T.
Lewis, Rosier B.	Sloper, Daniel R.
Kline, James D.	Hoffman, Berkeley O.
Lettner, Clyde L.	Wells, John T.
Conner, Alvin E.	Ellis, James L.
Posey, Wayne E.	Bourne, Wallace S.
Lion, Paul E.	Phillips, Roy R.
Brown, William M.	Gladley, Charles V.
Blakemore, Frank L.	Cusick, Vincent M.
Berryman, Alfred	Sieger, G. E. Jr.
McLean, John T.	Hornbaker, Frank W.
Mills, Leon C.	Liming, Clinton W.
Weaver, Willard C.	Kincheloe, Jack E.
Crouch, Maurice	Rison, Russell C.
Harris, Ivan L.	Canham, Donald R.
Payne, Howard C.	Sowers, Lewis M.
Samsky, Andrew F.	Stanley, Amos
Cornwell, Charles R.	Bailey, Randolph H.
Papa, Frank	Upton, Thomas W.
Broaddus, J. T. Jr.	Dawson, Hugh L.
Crabill, Charles W.	Murphy, Jerry L.
Breeden, Jesse R.	Leonard, Nelson H.
Davis, Douglas C.	Breeden, James A.
Robinson, James H.	Worley, Lawrence D.
Woodyard, Aylette M.	Claybourne, D. W.
Dodson, Douglas O.	Funkhouser, L. H.
Mooney, Eugene L.	Florence, Paul W.
Jewell, Harvey L.	Randall, Frank W.
Lynn, William N.	Pitts, Carroll L.
Yancey, Cecil R.	Abel, David L.
Landes, Ernest C.	Dolan, Percy E.
Deihl, Saylor F.	Harper, Raymond L.
Coleman, L. C.	Abel, Osie N. Jr.

Colored men ordered to report to Richmond March 23 are:

Johnson, Louis E.	Tyler, Elmo R.
Jordan, Odie	Johnson, E. R.
Peters, J. M. Jr.	Hughes, Ernest L.
White, Earl L.	Johnson, James R.
Byrd, Weldon L.	Ray, George R.
[illegible]	Grigsby, William
Street, Carson