Gray - Jane Wray
JANE WRAY GRAY
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal 7 October 1869 p 8
Died – on the 24th ult, at the residence of her son-in-law, Joseph W. Kelsey, six miles south of Crawfordsville Mrs. Jane Gray, in the 70th year of her age. Mrs. Gray was born in Pennsylvania, removed in early life with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wray to Ohio and settled in Buttler (sic) County. Here shew as married to her first husband Mr. Joseph Scott. Shortly after their marriage they removed to Indiana and settled near Connersville; thence, in 1826 or 1827 to Montgomery County and settled in Crawfordsville. Here she buried her husband. After remaining a widow several years she was married to Reuben Nicholson; with whom she lived a number of years, when she was again left a widow with a family of helpless little children to struggle along life’s dreary path as best she could. 33 years ago she married to her third husband, Mr. John Gray, with whom she lived some six or seven years when the hand of affliction again pressed heavily upon her, and she was left the third time a widow, with 7 children, all daughters to care for. But still this noble mother struggled on, trusting in the widows husband and the orphans never-failing Father; who had been her strength and hiding place in all times of affliction and sorrow. In early youth Mrs. Gray joined the ME Church and was one of the noble little band that constituted the first Class organized in Crawfordsville. She lived to see all her children married and acceptable members of the Church of her own early choice. She rests from her labors, and her works will follow her. - -kbz