{"id":2797,"date":"2020-10-26T15:37:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/?page_id=2797"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:14:15","slug":"gray-c-selby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/gray-c-selby\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray C. Selby"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/selby.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3081\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/selby-213x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/selby-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/selby.png 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Gray C. Selby (Marshall County)<\/h2>\n<p><strong>State House:\u00a0<\/strong>1880-1881<\/p>\n<p><strong>Born:\u00a0<\/strong>September 22, 1852 in Holly Springs, MS<\/p>\n<p>Farmer and teacher. Appears on the 1870 and 1880 census in Holly Springs. In 1880, he was working for a 70-year-old white woman named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/11592341\/adaline-m-selby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adaline Selby<\/a>, who is probably from the family that enslaved him.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m drawing his birth date from a date written next to his age on his Freedman&#8217;s Bank record.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5960\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5960\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5960\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/selbysig.png\" alt=\"Signature of Gray C. Selby from a Freedman's Bank record, 1872\" width=\"500\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/selbysig.png 633w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/selbysig-300x90.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signature of Gray C. Selby from a Freedman&#8217;s Bank record, 1872<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5959\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/gray-c-selby\/selbybank\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5959\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5959\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/selbybank-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Freedman's Bank record, April 16, 1872\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/selbybank-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/selbybank-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freedman&#8217;s Bank record, April 16, 1872<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5954\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/gray-c-selby\/selbypoll\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5954\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5954\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/selbypoll-150x150.png\" alt=\"American Citizen, November 22, 1879\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/selbypoll-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/selbypoll-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Citizen, November 22, 1879<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5956\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5956\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/gray-c-selby\/the_comet_1880_02_14_4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5956\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5956\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Comet_1880_02_14_4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Comet, February 14, 1880\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Comet_1880_02_14_4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The_Comet_1880_02_14_4-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Comet, February 14, 1880<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2801\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2801\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/gray-c-selby\/lien\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2801 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/lien-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/lien-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/lien-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clarion Ledger, February 25, 1880<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gray C. Selby (Marshall County) State House:\u00a01880-1881 Born:\u00a0September 22, 1852 in Holly Springs, MS Farmer and teacher. Appears on the 1870 and 1880 census in Holly Springs. In 1880, he was working for a 70-year-old white woman named Adaline Selby, who is probably from the family that enslaved him. I&#8217;m drawing his birth date from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/gray-c-selby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gray C. Selby&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2797","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5964,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2797\/revisions\/5964"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}