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Susan Young Gray was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, to Norman Belmont Young and Elizabeth Arlene Bolton. She was married first to the late Glasco Smith and now to Larry Zieglar Gray, Sr. She has one son, Matthew Thaddeus Smith. Matthew graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA, with a double major in Mathematics and Education. He graduated from Stanford University with an MA in Education.

Mrs. Gray received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Maryland. She retired from the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission after a 35-year career.  She started as an intern after college and retired as a Senior Program Analyst. She worked in the Office of the Executive Director for Operations, Office of the Controller, and the Office of the Chief Information Officer.  The last ten years of her responsibilities included the formulation and execution of a $45M budget for the agency’s computer, network and telecommunications infrastructure in the Information and Computer Operations Division, Office of the Chief Information Officer. Sue received the NRC’s Meritorious Service Award for Equal Employment Opportunity Excellence, recognizing outstanding efforts in serving as a collateral-duty EEO Counselor for 22 years, working with individuals seeking redress through the agency’s complaint process, as well as with managers and supervisors at all levels.  

Memberships

  • National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland (Reorganizing Treasurer General; Financial Reviewer)

  • Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Treasurer General)

  • Legion of Vikings and Valkyries (Founding Treasurer General)

  • Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Founding member; Treasurer General)

  • National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants (Founding Inspector General)

  • Order of Alba (Charter member, Historian)

  • National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (National Chairman Preservation and Restoration of Records; Former National Councillor; National Supplies Chairman; Maryland Chapter President; Treasurer; Recording Secretary)

  • Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company (Financial Reviewer)

  • Plymouth Hereditary Society (Financial Reviewer)

  • National Society of New England Women (Maryland Colony Reorganizing Treasurer; Former National Chairman Supplies; Yearbook Chairman; State Recording Secretary)

  • National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (Former National Headquarters Supervisor; National Chairman Technology Systems Services; Vice Chairman Tickets; District of Columbia State Treasurer; State Historian)

  • National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (Former National Finance Committee; Air Force Academy Chairman; Protocol Chairman; Maryland State Recording Secretary; Historian)

  • Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy (Former Secretary General; Historian General; Councillor)

  • Associated Daughters of Early American Witches (Former Treasurer General; Chaplain General; Auditor)

  • Order of the First Families of Maine (Founding Secretary General; Former Financial Reviewer)

  • Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680 (Founding Treasurer General; Former Corresponding Secretary General; Auditor; Councillor)

  • Hereditary Society of Teachers (Founding Treasurer General; Former Financial Reviewer)

  • Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (Charter member; Former Treasurer General; Financial Reviewer)

  • National Society of Saints and Sinners (Charter member; Former Auditor)

  • Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America (Charter member; Former Auditor)

  • National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Former State Treasurer 2012-2015; National Vice Chairman Seating; National Vice Chairman Corridor Hostess; Eastern Division Vice Chairman Genealogical Records; National Vice Chairman Buildings and Grounds; National Vice Chairman Independence Day Parade; Chapter Regent)

  • National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (Former State Treasurer)

  • National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Former District of Columbia State Chaplain; State Librarian)

  • Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Founding member)

  • Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva (Founding member)

  • Descendants of Brian Boru (Founding member)

  • Hereditary Order of the Red Dragon (Charter member)

  • Order of the Sovereigns of Ancient Scandinavia (Charter member)

  • Baronial Order of Magna Charta

  • Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

  • Descendants of Fossors

  • Dutch Colonial Society

  • Flagon and Trencher

  • General Society of Mayflower Descendants (District of Columbia life member)

  • Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

  • National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century

  • National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars

  • National Huguenot Society

  • National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co.

  • Military Order of the Crusades

  • Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791

  • Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

  • Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662

  • Order of the House of Wessex

  • Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands

  • Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

  • Order of the Norman Conquest

  • Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192

  • Order of the Vietnam War

  • Piscataqua Pioneers

  • Colonial Dames of America (Chapter XXXI)

  • Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies of America

  • Winthrop Society

  • The IX (Co-Founder; Founding Treasurer General)

  • The Order of El Cid (Charter member, Treasurer)

  • Scions of Freedom Signers (Founding Treasurer)

  • Order of the First Scottish War of Independence, 1296-1320 (Founding Treasurer)

  • Descendants of American Prisoners of War (Founding Director)

  • Founders of Places of Worship in America (Charter member; Financial Reviewer)

  • Descendants of Early American Governors 1607-1861 (Founding Financial Reviewer)

  • Order of Ancestors of Armorial Ancestry (Member Finance Committee)

  • Crown and Sceptre

  • Founders Fellowship 

  • Non-Compos Mentis 

  • Order of American Cousins of Present & Future Sovereigns of Great Britain

  • Order of New England 

Other Memberships

  • New England Historic Genealogical Society

  • Maine Genealogical Society

  • Essex (MA) Society of Genealogists

  • Hancock (ME) Historical Society

  • Montgomery County (MD) Genealogical Society

  • Hancock County (ME) Genealogical Society

Interests 

Mrs. Gray is the recipient of the Sons of the American Revolution Martha Washington Medal.

Sue’s favorite pastime is researching her ancestors.  She first became interested when in 1979, her paternal grandmother gave her a copy of an old handwritten document listing the children of her fourth great-grandfather Stephen Young, written in 1875.  As the first in her family to do any significant research, she has been successful in documenting her lineage to six gateway ancestors:  Joseph Bolles, Percival Lowell, Anne (Derehaugh) Stratton, John Stratton, Elizabeth (Stratton) Thorndike, Richard More, and has 12 Mayflower passengers. She also enjoys researching for others and working with DNA results.  She manages over 25 DNA kits for family and friends. Using mitochondrial DNA testing, she documented her matrilineal line to Catherine Lejeune, the Ancestral Matriarch of the Acadian Savoie family, born in France and marrying c 1651 in Acadia. This line also includes ancestors of Mi’kmaq descent.

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