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 1897 - 1974 (77 år)
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| Namn |
Mary Beatrice Gray |
| Födelse |
1 Maj 1897 |
Phelps County, Nebraska, USA  [1] |
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Kvinna |
| Bosatt |
1950 |
Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA [2] |
| Post-IDnummer |
I38850 |
| Död |
11 Okt 1974 |
San Luis Obispo County, Californien, USA [1] |
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| Person-ID |
I38850 |
Hans Rosenlund |
| Senast ändrad |
28 Jun 2023 |
| Far |
George Barron Gray, f. 28 Jun 1872, Skottland d. 13 Jul 1956, Kansas, USA (Ålder 84 år) |
| Mor |
Ida Natalia Johnson, f. 16 Jul 1870, Illinois, USA d. 16 Jan 1902, Kansas, USA (Ålder 31 år) |
| Vigsel |
1 Maj 1896 |
Kansas, USA [3] |
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| Familjens ID |
F13198 |
Familjeöversikt | Familjediagram |
| Familj |
Lloyd Maywood Staley, f. 16 Sep 1895, Franklin County, Kansas, USA d. 16 Dec 1983, San Luis Obispo County, Californien, USA (Ålder 88 år) |
| Vigsel |
15 Sep 1920 |
Missouri, USA [3] |
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| | 1. Levande |
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| | 5. David Allen Staley, f. USA |
| | 6. John Douglas Staley, f. 2 Nov 1922, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, USA d. 9 Feb 1997, Fresno, Fresno County, Californien, USA (Ålder 74 år) |
| + | 7. Marjorie Ruth Staley, f. 13 Dec 1924, Franklin County, Kansas, USA d. 10 Nov 2020, San Luis Obispo County, Californien, USA (Ålder 95 år) |
| | 8. Robert Trenary Staley, f. 16 Jun 1926, Franklin County, Kansas, USA d. 28 Nov 2004, Arizona, USA (Ålder 78 år) |
| | 9. Warren Gray Staley, f. USA |
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| Familjens ID |
F11437 |
Familjeöversikt | Familjediagram |
| Senast ändrad |
30 Okt 2011 |
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| Noteringar |
- Källa jamshog.net: Mary Beatrice (Gray) Staley By Lloyd M. Staley (1895-1983) It is with a feeling of inadequacy that I write this biography of my wife, Mary Beatrice Gray. Because I have been asked to write what I know of her life by some of my grandchildren, I will attempt this short history, knowing that if I do not, all record will be lost when I depart from this life and all that will be known will be the birth, marriage, and death records we have of so many of our ancestors. Mary Beatrice Gray was born on her grandfather John Johnson's farm near Holdredge, Phelps County, Nebraska, on May 1, 1897. Her father, George Gray (no middle initial), was born in Rutherglen, Glasgow, Scotland. He came to this country in 1892 going directly to Denver, Colorado, as Denver was recommended by a doctor who thought he probably had tuberculosis (which was not the case). Mary's mother, Ida Natalia Johnson, was born in Galesburg, Illinois, July 16, 1870 and died January 16, 1902, in Garnett, Kansas, at age 31. (Mary would have been almost five at the time.) Some time after Ida's death, Mary's father married Georgia Stewart in Garnett, Kansas. She was always known by my children as Grandma Gray. Of course they never knew their real grandmother. The Johnson family, Mary's grandparents, emigrated from Sweden some time before the Civil War. They lived in the vicinit y of Chicago, Illinois, until moving to Phelps County, Nebraska, to homestead. They homesteaded 160 acres and had 160 more acres known as a timber claim. They could prove up on this timber claim by planting a certain number of trees. George and Ida were married in Perry, Kansas, on May 1, 1896. The varied locations for these important events need some explanation. George Gray was an itinerant preacher for the group known as Plymouth Brethren. He went from Denver to Holdredge, Nebraska, where he met Ida. I do not know how long he was there nor why they were married in Perry, Kansas. Only that he was having meetings in a small assembly there. The couple went back to Nebraska and lived in a sod house on the timber claim of Ida's father. They were living there when Mary was born. She was born at her parent's home, not in the sod house, as was her brother Robert later. The family lived in several places in Nebraska. Mary started school in Nebraska and I have heard her say she could remember walking to school between snow banks as high as her head. Later they moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where her father was employed as a designer of bank furniture. I recall Mary telling of being in a school play depicting the midnight ride of Paul Revere. This school was in the northeast distric t of Kansas City. The family lived in Kansas City several years as Mary started high school at Westport High School. They were living in the south part of the city near 57th and Swope Parkway. She went to and from school by riding the streetcars. No school buses in those times. In 1914, the family moved to Ottawa, Kansas, where her father was manager of a bank furniture factory. This was in Mary' s junior year in high school and where we first met. In 1918, the family moved back to Kansas City and Mary took a job as reporter for a number of trade magazines. The man for whom she worked, a Mr. Brown, called his firm the Kansas City News Service. They had their office in the old Railway Exchange building at 7th and Grand Avenues. She was working there when we were married but, as the custom was in those days, she did not work there anymore after we were married. We were married at her home (5409 Cleveland Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri) on September 15, 1920. We lived in Kansas City in the same house built by her father (but not owned by him at that time). We moved to my parents farm near Wellsville , Kansas, in 1923. From this time on we were a family of our own and all other events of our lives are recorded in the a ccount I have written of my own life. A higher callingMary Beatrice Gray went to be with our Lord on October 11, 1974. We had fifty-four years of married life and I believe that we both would say they were good years. Times were sometimesdifficult but we faced our difficulties together and we re strengthened because of them. After we moved to California in 1962, life was considerably easier for both of us and I believe Mary really enjoyed her more relaxed lifestyle. Now we are waiting the Home call when we shall be together again. "The dead in Christ shall arise first, then we which are alive shall be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. Then we shall forever be together with Him." Hallelujah.
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- [S1016] Ancestry, (ancestry.com) (Tillförlitlighet: 2).
- [S3852] US Census (Tillförlitlighet: 2).
- [S1697] Föreningen för främjande av forskning i Jämshög med omnejd (gm Maj-Britt Sundin), Jämshögs- och Kyrkhultsbor, (CD-ROM samt databas på jamshog.net) (Tillförlitlighet: 2).
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