Thank you for your reply. It is a mystery, but it's hard to believe that his wife, my Ggrandmother, could commit such an error in her diary. It says he " The old members of Relief Fire Company No3 of Louisville, Ky, as well as many other friends will learn with regret the demise of their former comrade and associate, Patrick Ray, who died in this city on the 11st (Dec. 1873) and whose remains were followed to the grave on the following day by the member so of the R. E. Lee Benevolent Association. ----Mr. Ray fought in the war against Mexico, ( I found his muster roll) Montgomery Guards, and subsequently in the war of the secession, both as an infantry and cavalry solder. He left Mobile in 1861 in the Mobile Independent Scouts, Eight Alabama Regiment. -----His vocation was that of Steamboat engineer which he followed on the rivers of our state for more than 20 years." I have the newspaper OB calling for members of the R. E. Lee Association to meet for his funeral. He married my grandmother, Catherine Ezert, April 9, 1866 in Mobile.
Prior to that he could have lived in New York, where he had relatives, and in Kentucky.
As I stated, the 8th Alabama, listed as Co. G in the Mobile library is NOT the MObile Scouts, but the German Fusiliers. The Mobile Scouts, were company H.
I do not live in Mobile and cannot access the microfilm for the R.E. Lee Association and no one in the court wishes to take on the task, understandably. So, the saga continues.