Jesse W. Gray 1899-1919

GRAY, JACOBY, MILLER

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Date: 8/23/2019 at 10:46:58

Manchester Press---March 27, 1919

Funeral services for Jesse Gray, who was killed in an accidental shooting affray, were held in the Methodist Church last Thursday morning. Conducted by Rev. W. G. Rowley and burial made in the Hopkinton Cemetery. " Jesse Winson Gray was born near Stone City, Iowa July 10, 1899, and died at Hopkinton Iowa. March 16, 1919, being 19 years 7 months, 6 days old. He attended the public schools of Hopkinton and when a boy went to Sunday school in the M. E, Church. The inner kindness of his life was especially manifested in his tenderness toward children, of whom he was always very fond. He was engaged to Gertrude Ellen Jacoby, they were to be married. He leaves to mourn his passing his father, and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Mary Miller) Gray of Mapleton, Iowa and four brothers, Robert and John M. of Mapletown, James H. of Castana and William of Oelwein