Mary Elizabeth Rood

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DEATH OF MRS. GRAY
Mary E. Rood was born in Scipio, Cayuga county, July 6, 1818, the youngest daughter of James and Betsey Rood. She came with her parents when a small child an settled on a farm in he town of Castile, Two miles from this village, where she grew up to womanhood, and where she was married to Theodore F Gray in 1848. She removed with her husband onto a farm on the reservation where they have since resided, with the exception of ten or twelve years spent in the vicinity of Dalton, Livingston Co., until about four years ago when they moved into the village of Perry. Her husband died May 13, 1895, since which time she has lived with her sons Frank R and Fred. Mrs. Gray died at the home of her son Frank on Watrous St., Dec. 21, 1898, at 3 p.m., of pneumonia. Funeral services were held from the home Sunday at 3 p.m., Rev. Benjamin Copeland officiating, assisted by Rev. J. H. Hollingsworth. Two sons survive her, Frank R., and Fred Gray, and three sisters, Mrs. Susan Aram of Delevan, Wisconsin, Mrs. Angeline Calkins of Illinois and Mrs. Clarisa Calkins of Hampton Virginia.
Mrs. Gray, with her husband, was converted while living at Dalton and joined the M. E. church, and has lived a consistent christian life adorning the doctrine and profession she made. Always in her place in the sanctuary, interested and helpful in every laudable work of the church. A beautiful wife and devoted mother, she "rests from her labors and her works do follow her."(Wyoming County Times, December 29, 1898)

Mary married Theodore F. Gray in 1848 in Castile, Wyoming County, New York. Theodore (son of Richard Gray, Jr. and Mary Coleman) was born in 1826 in Springwater, Livingston County, New York; died on 13 May 1895 in Castile, Wyoming County, New York; was buried in Hope Cemetery, Perry, Wyoming County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]