Gray, Estelle (Craig) 1849 - 1923

GRAY, CRAIG, EASTMAN, FULLERTON

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 7/7/2013 at 23:34:14

Cedar Falls Daily Record, re-printed in the Postville Herald of 31 May 1923, and condensed here.

Estelle Craig, daughter of John and Alma (Eastman) Craig, was born Sept. 11, 1849. She had two brothers: William, two years older than she; and Charles, two years younger than she.

When she was quite young the family moved to Lyme, NH, and later to Bradford, VT, where she spent her childhood. She attended the public schools and later was a student at Thetford Academy. She showed ability at sketching and painting and was sent to Boston to study under competent teachers, returning to Bradford to teach two years of painting.

June 23, 1873, she was married to Joseph Hall Gray of Dover, NH. To them were born 4 children, two sons, John and George Quint, died in infancy.

In Oct. of 1880 the family moved to Postville, Iowa, where they resided until 1900, when they moved to Cedar Falls. Mr. Gray passed away due to pneumonia in 1910.

Mrs. Gray's final illness came without warning and lasted almost six months, the most of the time she was confined to her bed.

Mrs. Gray's older brother, William, of Brookline, Mass., passed away in Dec. of 1917. She leaves a younger brother, Charles Robert Craig, of Bradford, VT; a son, Wayland R. Gray of Dike; a daughter, Mrs. Alma Gray Fullerton of Cedar Falls; and four grandchildren, Helen, Roderick, Margaret and Craig.

The funeral was held from the home of Prof. C. A. Fullerton in Cedar Falls on Sunday afternoon. Interment was made in Fairview cemetery beside her husband.

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Submitter is not related.

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