Seven children blessed their union, four daughters and one son now living. The eldest son, William, was offered upon the altar of his adopted country and fills a soldier’s honored brave in old Virginia’s soil. Who dares to say such a life was lived in vain? In bonnie Scotland Mr. Gray and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church and upon settling in Walworth United with the Congregational church; they reared their family to honor and worship the Almighty Father and attend His house. For the long period of fifty-one years he and his death wife have toiled, sorrowed and rejoiced together. And now, he had departed this life to (we Hope) only enter upon one, fuller and everlasting, we leave him in the hands of our father, rejoicing that his memory is without stain of dishonor in the hearts of all here, that his unfailing kindness of heart, genial wood will and generous deeds shall keep his memory green, so shall his children’s children bless and revere the many excellences of a noble and useful life.
Chilton Times – March 21, 1896
Seven children blessed their union, four daughters and one son now living. The eldest son, William, was offered upon the altar of his adopted country and fills a soldier’s honored brave in old Virginia’s soil. Who dares to say such a life was lived in vain? In bonnie Scotland Mr. Gray and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church and upon settling in Walworth United with the Congregational church; they reared their family to honor and worship the Almighty Father and attend His house. For the long period of fifty-one years he and his death wife have toiled, sorrowed and rejoiced together. And now, he had departed this life to (we Hope) only enter upon one, fuller and everlasting, we leave him in the hands of our father, rejoicing that his memory is without stain of dishonor in the hearts of all here, that his unfailing kindness of heart, genial wood will and generous deeds shall keep his memory green, so shall his children’s children bless and revere the many excellences of a noble and useful life.
Chilton Times – March 21, 1896
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