The Gray Cemetery consists of a scattering of field stone markers situated in the woods on what was the farm of one of Monmouth's earliese settlers, Thomas Gray. None of the stones discovered to date is inscribed, but the arrangement appears to indicate family groups.
"And we look back through the gloom of a century, and watch them with peculiar interest as they gather on the little plot then sanctified as the home of the dead, but now, alas! desecrated and put to a common use, to place in its narrow tenement the first form the dark fiend has torn from amoing tham -- the child of Thomas Gray. The place where this child was buried was set apart for, and used for many years as, a burying ground. In it rest the remains of Thomas Gray and wife, and many others of the pioneers; in number between twenty and thirty.:
Harry Hayman Cochrane, History of Monmouth and Wales, 1894, P. 37.