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- Chauncey D[aniel] GRAY was born at Verona, Oneida
Co., N.Y., June 23rd, 1848,
- and died at his home in Milton Junction, Wis., April 1, 1920.
He was the second of a family of four sons born to Henry and
Sarah PECKHAM GRAY. Two brothers, Charles H. and
Marion D. preceded him in death. He came to Wisconsin with his
parents when about seven years of age and spent his boyhood and
young manhood chiefly in the Rock River neighborhood and vicinity
of Milton Junction. On May 4th, 1876, he was married to Miss
Elmina MONROE and to this union five children were born,
three sons, Carl B., Fred M., and Winfred H., and two daughters
Mrs. H. L. BAKER and Mrs. J. E. McWILLIAMS. Fifteen
years of their married life were spent in Milton Junction, after
which time they removed to the GRAY homestead at Rock
River where Mr. GRAY again took up the occupation of farming.
The following summer during a series of meetings conducted by
Rev. George W. HILLS and E. B. SAUNDERS he was
converted and united with the Rock River S.D.B. church to which
he was deeply attached and of which he always remained a member.
- He lived an honest and upright life, was strong in his convictions
of right and wrong
- and generous to a fault in his dealings. Being of a genial
nature he made many friends among both old and young. He was
a kind and self-sacrificing husband and father, a tender nurse
in the sick room; many times helping some member of the family
through very serious illness by his untiring watchfulness and
care and was always devoted to his home and family. In December
1917 he suffered a severe paralytic stroke which affected the
right side of his body, and his mind to some extent, and from
which he never fully recovered. Always having [been] an active
man his great regret during the past two years has been that
he was unable to work.
- On Monday, March 22nd, he was taken with severe pain in the
left side and suffered
- very much for several days after which the pain lessened
but he sank gradually until death came peacefully on Thursday
morning, April 1st. During the months of his affliction and in
his last illness he has been tenderly cared for by his devoted
wife and the children for whom he gave all the labor and love
of his life, and who sorrow now because of the first link severed
from the family circle but who look up through the mist of tears
with the hope of a blessed reunion in the better land where "God
shall wipe away all tears." He is survived by his wife,
five children and one brother, Frank B. GRAY of Koshkonong.
- The body was prepared for burial by the loving hands of Mr.
and Mrs. William
- CRANDALL, undertakers from Walworth, who are near
relatives of the family. The funeral services were held on Sunday
April 4th, at the S.D.B. church at two-thirty p.m. conducted
by Rev. E. D. Van Horn assisted by a mixed quartette.
- Interment was in Milton Junction Cemetery. [Thursday edition,
p. 1]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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