Gray, M.

Family/Spouse: Wells, K.K.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Gray, W.

M. married Cook, S.A. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: GRAY.P002
• _FGRAVE: 86820055

Notes:

Extracted from obituary in the Wayne County Press, 3/8/1973:
Wayne County Native Died in Florida
Paul Gray, son of Benjamin and Mary Carver Gray, died. He was born 4/1/1910. He leaves one son, Mike, of Clay City. Also leaves one brother, Louis, of Sun City, Arizona, 4 sisters, Eva Holmes and Myrtle Roundtree, both of Fairfield, and Mrs. Lona Ginther of CA and Mae McClellan of Los Angeles. Burial Maple Hill Cemetery.

Notes: Paul married Bertha Levitt in 1931. Both living in Flora, Clay County, Illinois in 1940 and 1950. One son in 1950 census.

Paul married Levitt, Bertha L. in 1931. Bertha (daughter of Levitt, Francis Marion 'Frank' and Rinnert, Caddie Clara) was born on 20 Dec 1912 in Sailor Springs, Clay County, Illinois; died on 5 Feb 2005 in Clay County Hospital, Flora, Clay County, Illinois; was buried in Clay City Cemetery, Clay City, Clay County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Factory Woorker
• Reference Number: LEVI.B001
• _FGRAVE: 18083773

Notes:

Bertha L. Gray, 92, of Flora, IL died February 5, 2005, at Clay County Hospital in Flora.

Mrs. Gray was born December 20, 1912, in Sailor Springs, the daughter of Francis Marion and Caddie Clara Rinnert Levitt. She married Paul Gray in 1931 and he preceded her in death in 1973.

She was employed at Flora International Shoe Company, and was a lifetime member of Flora Church of the Nazarene.

Survivors include a son, Mike Gray; a brother, Ronald Levitt; three sisters, Genelle Green, Florence Harper, and Virginia Jahkne; five grandchildren; seveen great-grandchildren; and three step-grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her parents, husband, five brothers, and three sisters.

Funeral services were held at Frank and Bright Funeral Home with burial in Clay City Cemetery.

(Published Hometown Journal)

Birth:
1930 Census says she was born "about 1914"

Buried:
Plot: Lot 1 - 2 Add - Row 6

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• Reference Number: GRAY.B013
• _FGRAVE: 147938291

Benjamin + Carver, Mary E.. Mary was born on 17 May 1874 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky; died on 7 Nov 1956; was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: CARV.M001
• _FGRAVE: 86760494

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Extracted from obituary in the Wayne County Press, 11/8/1956:

Mrs. Ben [Mary] Gray, 82, died. They moved to Flora 1916. Mary Carver Gray born Muhlenburg Co., Ky. May 17, 1874. Married Ben Gray 1894. 10 children. 4, Corrine, Zula , Glenn and John have died. Mr. Gray died 9 years ago. Leaves 6 children. Mrs. Roy Roundtree of Fairfield, Mrs. Lonnie Ginther of Aurora, Mrs. Mary Cullum of Pasadena, CA. Louis of Lebanon. Mrs. Eva Holmes of Urbana and Paul of Flora. Also grandson, Clifford Golden of Lawrenceville who she raised. One brother Buddy Carver and a sister Rena both of Ky.

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• Occupation: Feed Merchant
• Reference Number: LEVI.F001
• _FGRAVE: 23089785

Francis + Rinnert, Caddie Clara. Caddie was born in 1881 in Indiana; died in 1940; was buried in Smith Cemetery, Sailor Springs, Clay County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: RINN.C002
• _FGRAVE: 23089787

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• Reference Number: LEVI.W002

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William attended the common schools, and since grown has paid his attention to farming and dealing in stock. He owns 500 acres of land. For two years he engaged in the mercantile business at Gatewood.

In religion, he is a Baptist. He was married, October 27, 1875, to Drucilla, only child of Joel Wammack (deceased), an early settler of Clay County. They have had two children -Francis Marion and William R.

Excerpt from "History of Wayne and Clay Counties, Illinois 1884

William married Wammack, Druscilla on 27 Oct 1875. Druscilla was born in 1859; died in 1944; was buried in Levitt Cemetery, Sailor Springs, Clay County. Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: WAMM.D001