Content (Salisbury) Gray (1815-1887)

SALISBURY, GRAY, STUNTZ

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 10/31/2015 at 22:16:14

From Nevada Representative August 17, 1887

Obituary.

Content Salisbury was born in Conneaut Tp., Erie Co., Pa. Sept. 3, 1815, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. L. Stuntz Aug. 9, 1887. She was married to Albert M. Gray, July 14, 1839. They together went to Wisconsin Aug. 1864, where they remained until May 1876, when they came to Story Co., Iowa. A few weeks previous to the death of her husband, which occurred Sept. 1881, they moved to the home of A. L. Stuntz. For sixteen years she was a paralytic invalid, and at times her sufferings were extreme, especially during the last few weeks of her life. During all these years of suffering she wa a great reader of her Bible and often expressed a desire to go and meet the "dear ones" gone before, having a strong faith in the religion of Christ. She was converted at the age of eighteen and joined the M. E. church. Early in the winter of 1856 she was revived greatly by the conversion of her husband and children. She was the mother of six children, three having preceded her to the better land. One, her oldest son was a member of the 7th Iowa Cavalry and was killed by the Indians in battle Jan. 7, 1865, near the military station of Julesburg, Colorado, the other two dying in infancy. She was supposed to be suffering from a cancer which had recently broken out in the right breast, but a third stroke of paralysis prevented a long siege of suffering with that much dreaded disease.