Gene Ess
Gene Ess is a Japanese- American jazz guitarist.
He was a member of the Rashied Ali Quintet, working with Ravi Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Lonnie Plaxico, and Reggie Workman.
Henry "Son" Sims
Henry" Son" Sims( August 22, 1890 – December 23, 1958) was an American Delta blues fiddler and songwriter.
He is best known as an accompanist for Charley Patton and the young Muddy Waters.
Frances M. Gray
Frances M. Gray (1910 – December 15, 2001) was the first president of Damavand College from 1968-1975.
She retired in the Spring of 1975.
Susan Thornton Glassell
Susan Thornton Glassell (March 2, 1835 – November 16, 1883) was the wife of George Smith Patton and George H. Smith, and the sister of Andrew Glassell.
Wanda Cornelius
Wanda B. Cornelius is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky.
Cornelius, the wife of the physician Lewis Wayne Cornelius, won a seat on the nonpartisan Taylor County Board of Education, based in Campbellsville.
In 1999, Cornelius was the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.
Cornelius and her gubernatorial running mate, Peppy Martin, lost the 1999 general election to incumbent Democratic Governor Paul E. Patton and his running mate, Steve Henry.
Martin and Cornelius polled 128,788 votes( 22.2 percent) to Patton and Henry's 352,099 votes( 60.6 percent).
The remainder of the ballots were cast for the Reform Party gubernatorial nominee Gatewood Galbraith, a perennial candidate in Kentucky elections.
Reggie Gray
Reggie Gray( born April 29, 1984) is an American football wide receiver and kickoff returner who is currently a free agent.
Frances M. Gray
Frances M. Gray (1910 – December 15, 2001) was the first president of Damavand College from 1968-1975.
She retired in the Spring of 1975.
Willie Brown (musician)
Willie Lee Brown( August 6, 1900 – December 30, 1952) was an American blues guitar player and vocalist.
He performed and recorded with other notable blues musicians, including Son House and Charlie Patton, and was an influence on Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.
Brown is considered one of the pioneering musicians of the Delta blues genre.
Brown was best known as a side player, performing mostly with House, Patton, and Johnson.
He recorded six sides for Paramount Records in Grafton, Wisconsin in 1930, which were subsequently released on 78- rpm discs.
He made three recordings for the Library of Congress in 1941, accompanied by House.
In 1952, Brown briefly joined House in Rochester, New York, but soon returned to Tunica, Mississippi, where he died the same year.
Although known mostly as an accompanist rather than a soloist, Brown recorded three highly rated solo performances:" M& O BluesMake Me a Pallet on the Floor" and" Future Blues".
He disappeared from the music scene during the 1940s, together with House, and died before the blues revival of the 1960s.
Reggie Strickland
Reggie Strickland( born September 9, 1968 in Cincinnati, Ohio)( aliases Reggie Buse and Reggie Raglin) is a retired American boxer.
Frances Gray Patton
Mrs. Frances Gray Patton (March 19, 1906 – March 28, 2000) was an American short story writer and novelist.
She is best known for her 1954 novel "Good Morning Miss Dove."
She was born in Raleigh, North Carolina to Mr. Robert Lily, an editor for the "Raleigh Times" and Ms. Mary McRae, a writer and the first woman to enroll at the University of North Carolina.
From childhood, Ms. Frances expressed an interest in writing.
She began to pursue a writing career at the University of North Carolina where she held a playwriting fellowship.
She was active in the theater and published her first play in the college magazine.
Following her marriage to Dr. Lewis Patton, a professor at Duke University, Patton settled into her role as a faculty wife and raised three children, a son and twin daughters.
She began to focus her writing on short stories and in 1945, she published her first story titled "A Piece of Bread.
" The story won a Kenyon Review Prize and was included in 1945 edition of the O. Henry Memorial Prize Stories.
During the next decade, Patton established a relationship with "The New Yorker" magazine and they would publish over two dozen of her stories.
Her stories also appeared in such publications as "Harper'sMcCalls", The Saturday Review of Literature and "Collier's Weekly".
A collection of stories from the New Yorker comprised her first book, "The Finer Things of Life", which was published in 1951.
The book received praise from critics.
Marge Lyon wrote in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune" that the stories were "whimsical in spots, faintly poignant in others, but lit with a glowing, humorous aura made up of bright observations, sparkles of wit, and diamond bright philosophy, shot with incandescent characterizations."
Patton published "Good Morning Miss Dove" in 1954 which became a bestseller.
The book, which tells the story of a beloved geography teacher in a small town, originated from an earlier story Patton wrote titled "The Terrible Miss Dove."
Charles Poore wrote in the "New York Times" that the novel was "ruthlessly sentimental" and "a cheerful mixture of "Goodbye Mr. Chips" and "Mary Poppins", with touches of the rigorous way to salvation from "Life With Father
The book was featured as a Book of the Month Club selection and made into a successful 1955 film starring Jennifer Jones in the title role.
Patton published another short story collection in 1959 titled "A Piece of Luck" and a final collection in 1969 titled "28 Stories."
In addition to writing, she taught creative writing courses at both Duke University and the University of North Carolina.
Patton's stories of Southern life and manners eventually earned her the nickname "The Jane Austen of the South".
She died at the age of 94 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.

Question: Did Frances Gray Patton and Reggie Gray share the same nationality?
Answer: yes