Obituary:
Summoned by Death
Former Business Man Answers Call After Illness Extending Over period of Five Years
Saturday morning, January 30th, Edward P. Gray passed away at the State Sanitorium following a hemorrhage of the lungs. Deceased had been afflicted with the disease for several years and about four years ago was forced to place his business affairs in the hands of others. Previous to that time for a number of years Mr. Gray was far from a well man, being afflicted with a compilation of bodily ailments which would have forced most men to retirement. These afflictions grew in intensity and caused him untold suffering but it was tuberculosis that finally caused death.
Edward Porter Gray was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin, January 29, 1866. Then years later he came with his parents to Todd County where they located a homestead. It was there on a farm that Mr. Gray spent his early life and where later on the farm homesteaded by his grandfather, that he followed farming until his marriage to Roxey Inman on January 3, 1897. They continued on the farm until1906 when Mr. Gray purchased a meat market in Hewitt. Two years later this shop was sold and another purchased at Bertha, which was conducted two years. Another sale was made and the family went to Wadena where Mr. Gray worked in a shop until in 1911 when he purchased a shop in Walker then conducted by Bowman & Christian.
In Walker Mr. Gray was very successful while his health was good. About five years ago he expanded his business by purchasing the bakery shop, which he personally managed until fire wiped it out eighteen months later. During that time his health began to fail and after the fire he found it necessary to retire from active work but conducted the butcher shop with hired help until early last spring when the business was sold to the present owner.
Deceased was a man or untiring energy and extremely active. He was of a nervous temperament caused, no doubt, by the complications of disease with which he was afflicted. He had a wonderful constitution and the determination to fight to the bitter end, which enabled him to keep at his business when other men would have given up in despair. Mr. Gray was not a man who cared for society or close companionship. He preferred close application to his business and was successful as above stated while his health continued. Mr. Gray prided himself in his common honesty which made his word binding and established a credit that was as good as a bond.
Mr. Gray was the father of four children who with the wife survive, namely, Lyle of Park Falls, WI; Mrs. Lessie Ryggs of Duluth; Evelyn and Allison at home. An adopted son, Ellsworth, aged four, also survives.
The funeral was held from the Community Church Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Jewell, an old friend of the family, officiating. The body was taken to Wadena Wednesday and interred in Mount Nebo Cemetery, six miles south of that city, where other members of the Gray family are buried.
The Walker (Minnesota) Pilot
February 4, 1926
Summoned by Death
Former Business Man Answers Call After Illness Extending Over period of Five Years
Saturday morning, January 30th, Edward P. Gray passed away at the State Sanitorium following a hemorrhage of the lungs. Deceased had been afflicted with the disease for several years and about four years ago was forced to place his business affairs in the hands of others. Previous to that time for a number of years Mr. Gray was far from a well man, being afflicted with a compilation of bodily ailments which would have forced most men to retirement. These afflictions grew in intensity and caused him untold suffering but it was tuberculosis that finally caused death.
Edward Porter Gray was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin, January 29, 1866. Then years later he came with his parents to Todd County where they located a homestead. It was there on a farm that Mr. Gray spent his early life and where later on the farm homesteaded by his grandfather, that he followed farming until his marriage to Roxey Inman on January 3, 1897. They continued on the farm until1906 when Mr. Gray purchased a meat market in Hewitt. Two years later this shop was sold and another purchased at Bertha, which was conducted two years. Another sale was made and the family went to Wadena where Mr. Gray worked in a shop until in 1911 when he purchased a shop in Walker then conducted by Bowman & Christian.
In Walker Mr. Gray was very successful while his health was good. About five years ago he expanded his business by purchasing the bakery shop, which he personally managed until fire wiped it out eighteen months later. During that time his health began to fail and after the fire he found it necessary to retire from active work but conducted the butcher shop with hired help until early last spring when the business was sold to the present owner.
Deceased was a man or untiring energy and extremely active. He was of a nervous temperament caused, no doubt, by the complications of disease with which he was afflicted. He had a wonderful constitution and the determination to fight to the bitter end, which enabled him to keep at his business when other men would have given up in despair. Mr. Gray was not a man who cared for society or close companionship. He preferred close application to his business and was successful as above stated while his health continued. Mr. Gray prided himself in his common honesty which made his word binding and established a credit that was as good as a bond.
Mr. Gray was the father of four children who with the wife survive, namely, Lyle of Park Falls, WI; Mrs. Lessie Ryggs of Duluth; Evelyn and Allison at home. An adopted son, Ellsworth, aged four, also survives.
The funeral was held from the Community Church Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Jewell, an old friend of the family, officiating. The body was taken to Wadena Wednesday and interred in Mount Nebo Cemetery, six miles south of that city, where other members of the Gray family are buried.
The Walker (Minnesota) Pilot
February 4, 1926
Obituary:
Summoned by Death
Former Business Man Answers Call After Illness Extending Over period of Five Years
Saturday morning, January 30th, Edward P. Gray passed away at the State Sanitorium following a hemorrhage of the lungs. Deceased had been afflicted with the disease for several years and about four years ago was forced to place his business affairs in the hands of others. Previous to that time for a number of years Mr. Gray was far from a well man, being afflicted with a compilation of bodily ailments which would have forced most men to retirement. These afflictions grew in intensity and caused him untold suffering but it was tuberculosis that finally caused death.
Edward Porter Gray was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin, January 29, 1866. Then years later he came with his parents to Todd County where they located a homestead. It was there on a farm that Mr. Gray spent his early life and where later on the farm homesteaded by his grandfather, that he followed farming until his marriage to Roxey Inman on January 3, 1897. They continued on the farm until1906 when Mr. Gray purchased a meat market in Hewitt. Two years later this shop was sold and another purchased at Bertha, which was conducted two years. Another sale was made and the family went to Wadena where Mr. Gray worked in a shop until in 1911 when he purchased a shop in Walker then conducted by Bowman & Christian.
In Walker Mr. Gray was very successful while his health was good. About five years ago he expanded his business by purchasing the bakery shop, which he personally managed until fire wiped it out eighteen months later. During that time his health began to fail and after the fire he found it necessary to retire from active work but conducted the butcher shop with hired help until early last spring when the business was sold to the present owner.
Deceased was a man or untiring energy and extremely active. He was of a nervous temperament caused, no doubt, by the complications of disease with which he was afflicted. He had a wonderful constitution and the determination to fight to the bitter end, which enabled him to keep at his business when other men would have given up in despair. Mr. Gray was not a man who cared for society or close companionship. He preferred close application to his business and was successful as above stated while his health continued. Mr. Gray prided himself in his common honesty which made his word binding and established a credit that was as good as a bond.
Mr. Gray was the father of four children who with the wife survive, namely, Lyle of Park Falls, WI; Mrs. Lessie Ryggs of Duluth; Evelyn and Allison at home. An adopted son, Ellsworth, aged four, also survives.
The funeral was held from the Community Church Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Jewell, an old friend of the family, officiating. The body was taken to Wadena Wednesday and interred in Mount Nebo Cemetery, six miles south of that city, where other members of the Gray family are buried.
The Walker (Minnesota) Pilot
February 4, 1926
Summoned by Death
Former Business Man Answers Call After Illness Extending Over period of Five Years
Saturday morning, January 30th, Edward P. Gray passed away at the State Sanitorium following a hemorrhage of the lungs. Deceased had been afflicted with the disease for several years and about four years ago was forced to place his business affairs in the hands of others. Previous to that time for a number of years Mr. Gray was far from a well man, being afflicted with a compilation of bodily ailments which would have forced most men to retirement. These afflictions grew in intensity and caused him untold suffering but it was tuberculosis that finally caused death.
Edward Porter Gray was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin, January 29, 1866. Then years later he came with his parents to Todd County where they located a homestead. It was there on a farm that Mr. Gray spent his early life and where later on the farm homesteaded by his grandfather, that he followed farming until his marriage to Roxey Inman on January 3, 1897. They continued on the farm until1906 when Mr. Gray purchased a meat market in Hewitt. Two years later this shop was sold and another purchased at Bertha, which was conducted two years. Another sale was made and the family went to Wadena where Mr. Gray worked in a shop until in 1911 when he purchased a shop in Walker then conducted by Bowman & Christian.
In Walker Mr. Gray was very successful while his health was good. About five years ago he expanded his business by purchasing the bakery shop, which he personally managed until fire wiped it out eighteen months later. During that time his health began to fail and after the fire he found it necessary to retire from active work but conducted the butcher shop with hired help until early last spring when the business was sold to the present owner.
Deceased was a man or untiring energy and extremely active. He was of a nervous temperament caused, no doubt, by the complications of disease with which he was afflicted. He had a wonderful constitution and the determination to fight to the bitter end, which enabled him to keep at his business when other men would have given up in despair. Mr. Gray was not a man who cared for society or close companionship. He preferred close application to his business and was successful as above stated while his health continued. Mr. Gray prided himself in his common honesty which made his word binding and established a credit that was as good as a bond.
Mr. Gray was the father of four children who with the wife survive, namely, Lyle of Park Falls, WI; Mrs. Lessie Ryggs of Duluth; Evelyn and Allison at home. An adopted son, Ellsworth, aged four, also survives.
The funeral was held from the Community Church Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Jewell, an old friend of the family, officiating. The body was taken to Wadena Wednesday and interred in Mount Nebo Cemetery, six miles south of that city, where other members of the Gray family are buried.
The Walker (Minnesota) Pilot
February 4, 1926
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