Peter Mildram Pray9
Born: June 11, 1889 in Portsmouth1, New Hampshire1a, 9
Died: 1959
Buried: Lot 24
Married: Winnie Florence Fleck on October 10, 1912 in Polk Co., Iowa2. She died in 1943 and is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Polk Co., Iowa5
Married: Elsie (Bechtel) Lind on Feburary 24, 1945 in Polk Co., Iowa.8
Parents: Lyman P. and Anna Bragdon Pray 7
1. Ancestry Tree of Aquila Ira Doty compiled by sunnydaytx55
1a. U.S. Census 1900, Portsmouth ward 1, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire
2. Polk Co., Iowa Marriages, Book 15 1911-1912, page 216. Transcribed and Copyright by Pioneer Sons and Daughters Genealogical Society. Published by the Iowa Genealogical Society
3. On line Social Security Death Index
4. U.S. Census 1920 confirms birth in Missouri with father born in Pennsylvania and mother born in Illinois. U.S. Census 1930 says that she was born in Iowa with father born in Illinois and mother born in Ohio.
5. Charter-Pierce Cemetery Records available through iagenweb.org/polk
6. 1925 Iowa State Census, Stuart, Adair Co., Iowa.
7. 1925 Iowa State Census, Lincoln Ave, Des Moines Ward 1, Polk Co., Iowa
8. Polk Co. Marriage Book 41 - 1945. Transcribed by Pioneer Sons and Daughters Genealogical Society. Published by Iowa Genealogical Society. Copyright 2000.
9. World War I Draft Registration, signed June 5, 1917, in Kinnebunk, York Co., Maine.
Elsie (Bechtel) Lind Pray
Born: May 18, 18963 in Ravanna, Mercer County, Missouri4
Died: June 3, 1972 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa
Buried: Lot 87 with Linds
Married: John A. Lind October 14, 1914 in Earlham, Iowa
Children: Loren, Helen and Barbara
Married: Peter Pray on Feburary 24, 1945 in Polk Co., Iowa.8
Parents: John and Diana Jane Stanley Bechtel6
Mrs. Elsie Pray
Services for Mrs. Elsie Pray, 76, of 1440 Ovid Ave. will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Hamilton's Funeral Home, with burial in Sugar Grove Cemetery near Metz.
Mrs. Pray died of a heart attack Saturday at her home.
A Ravanna, Mo. native, Mrs. Pray lived in Stuart before moving to Des Moines 25 years ago. She was a retired department store saleswoman and was a member of Grand View Lutheran Church.
Mrs. Pray is survived by a son, Loren Lind of Des Moines; two daughters, Mrs. Helen Halvorson of Chandler, Ariz. and Mrs. Barbara Lewis of Newton, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. ~ Des Moines Tribune, June 6, 1972