They would have children: Patrick Henry, Eliza, Mary, Augusta, Jane, Fred, Ira, and Ida.
[3] In 1850, he was elected to the Assembly as a Free Soiler for the 1851 session, succeeding Whig Alexander O. Babcock.
In 1851 Ray was a member of the executive committee of the newly organized Wisconsin State Agricultural Society.
He served as a judge in two categories of the first Wisconsin State Fair: Merinoes, and flour and corn meal; and took several prizes in farm implements: best hay fork, manure fork, grass scythe, grain scythe, and hay knife.
[6] Ray served as a member and Chairman of the Walworth County board of supervisors in 1856 and 1857.