Asenath Marilla (Duncan) Bray (1913)

BRAY, CRAVEN, DUNCAN, MEHARRY

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 2/23/2013 at 17:55:55

Newspaper Unknown
Union County, Iowa
February 1913

Mrs. John A. Bray, known to nearly everyone in the east part of the county as Grandma Bray, died last Sunday from the effects of a broken thigh which she sustained in a fall a week previous. At the time of her death she was 88 years, 7 months and 26 days old.

She was born in North Carolina, June 8, 1824. At the age of 12 years she moved with her parents to Indiana. At the age of 21 years she was united in marriage to John A. Bray who preceded her in death 46 years.

To them were born seven children: Sarah E., Cindy A., Albert A., Henrietta, Minerva A., John C. and Allie E. Mrs. Brady was raised as a Quaker but at an early age united with the Baptist church to which she was a faithful member until her death.

The funeral services were held Monday at Dodge Center church, conducted by Rev. Carlson of the Methodist church of this place.

Interment was made in the cemetery at Macksburg Tuesday. Grandma Bray was one of the counties oldest residents.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 26, 1913
Page 8

Departed this life at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. S. Meharry, near Afton, Iowa, Sunday, Feb. 2, 1913, Mrs. John Bray in her 89th year.
Asenath Morilla Duncan was born in North Carolina, June 6, 1824. At the age of twelve, she removed with her people to Indiana, where at the age of twenty one, she was united in marriage to John H. Bray, who died in February 1866. In 1851, they were among the pioneer settlers of Madison county, Iowa, where they settled on and improved the fine farm near Macksburg, now owned by Frank Doty.

She was raised a Quaker, but at an early age she united with the Baptists, she and her husband being charter members of the old Bathesda Baptist church, now located in Macksburg.

She was the mother of seven children, four having preceded her to the spirit world: Sarah E., Cynthia A., Henrietta and Allie E. Those living are: Albert A. of Jessup, Georgia; Minerva A. Meharry of near Afton and John C. living on the old home place near Dodge Center church in Union county, Iowa.

Grandma Bray was stout and hearty for one of her age; having no particular ailments until one week before her death, when she fractured her hip, while near her bedside. The nervous shock causing her death at the age of 88 years, 7 months and 26 days.

She leaves to mourn her loss, three children, five grandchildren and four great grandchildren, a well loved cousin, Mrs. E. M. Craven of Macksburg, besides her many friends and neighbors, who were all good to grandma and truly the roses were scattered along her pathway by every one who knew her. She was an every day Christian in every sense of the word. She is gone, but her memory lives.

Funeral services on Tuesday at the Dodge Center church conducted by ---------- and burial was in Macksburg cemetery.

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