Conan Gray

02/10/2019 – Conan Gray – Universal Music Group’s 2019 After Party to Celebrate the GRAMMYs – Arrivals – ROW DTLA, 777 Alameda Street – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Photo Credit: / PRPhotos.com

Birth Name: Conan Lee Gray

Place of Birth: San Diego, California, U.S.

Date of Birth: December 5, 1998

Ethnicity:
*father – Irish, English, Scottish, German, Welsh, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, French/French-Canadian, distant Dutch and Native American [Powhatan, Delaware]
*mother – Japanese

Conan Gray is an American recording artist and social media personality.

He spent part of his childhood in Hiroshima, Japan, where his grandfather was receiving medical care. He also grew up in Georgetown, Texas. He once spoke Japanese fluently.

Conan’s paternal grandfather was Donald Lee Gray (the son of Roy William Gray and Edith Inez Weaver). Donald was born in Roanoke, Virginia. Roy was born in Montvale, Virginia, the son of William Chapman Gray and Sallie Rice Decker. Edith was born in Roanoke, the daughter of Joseph Garthwright Weaver and Nannie Cleora Crouch.

Conan’s paternal grandmother is Melonie Joy Huddleston (the daughter of Charles Elmer Huddleston and Alice Miriam Russ). Melonie was born in North Carolina. Charles was born in Roanoke, Virginia, the son of Emmett Channing Huddleston and Bertha Beatrice Lanham. Alice was born in Abbottsburg, North Carolina, the daughter of Thomas Clyde Russ and Ethel Jane Hobbs. One of Charles’s father’s ancestors was a son of French poet Agrippa d’Aubigné, and married a woman of half Powhatan Native American descent. One of Charles’s mother’s ancestors was of Delaware descent.

Sources: Obituary of Conan’s paternal grandfather, Donald Lee “Don” Gray – https://memorial.oakeys.com

Genealogies of Conan’s paternal great-grandparents, Roy William Gray and Edith Inez Weaver – https://www.familysearch.org

Genealogies of Conan’s paternal great-grandparents, Charles Elmer Huddleston and Alice Miriam Russ – https://www.familysearch.org