Alice Gray LAST NAME: Gray FIRST NAME: Alice MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME: Babcock AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE: Mrs. GENDER: F MILITARY:  BORN: 2 Dec 1847 DIED: 29 Oct 1897 BURIED: 31 Oct 1897 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife BIRTH PLACE:  West Burke, Caledonia Co., Vermont DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  OBITUARY:  GARNERED BY DEATH MRS. ALICE B. GRAY EXPITED AT HER HOME YESTERDAY Succumbes to the Rabages of Consumption - Brief Sketch of Her LIfe In Salem - Funeral After a long season of seffering, born with invariable patience and Dhristian fortitude, death has at last released the spirit of Mrs. Alice Babcock Gray, beloved wife of John Gray. For three years she had suffered from the rabages of consumption of the bowels, for which all was done that loving care and human ingenuity could suggest, without avail, Mrs. Gray steadily sinking under the strain for the past eighteen months.  The dread summons came yesterday afternoon at 12:54 o'clock, at the family home, No. 443 Commercial street. For months past Mrs. Gray has expressed an entire consciousness of the inevitable and had provided temporally and spiritually for the end; and when it came met it with a genuine resignation comporting fully with the beautiful faith she had so devoutly cherished during her life. She was a native of Westburke, Vemont the date of her birth being Dec. 2, 1847, which made her age 48 years, 10 months and 27 days. For twenty-nine of these years she had been the faithful and cherished helpmeet of her now stricken husband.  She was a tender and devoted mother, a firm and steadfast friend, a helful and kindly neighbor, and a constant and cheerful member of, and worker in, the Congregational church. As a happy, young wife, she came to Oregon in June, 1870, from St. Johnsbury, Bermont, and for the twenty-seben ears following was a constant residen of this city, where there are hundreds of loving friends to deplore her death and whose warmest sympathies go out to the bereaved husband and only son, Walter. Two other children - daughters, Ethel and Jessie - have preceded their mother on the mysterious journey into the great unknown.  Mrs. Gray was a sister of the late lamented F. J. Babcock, of this city. For two years, in the early seventies, Mrs. Gray rendered faithful and efficient service as matron of the Oregon state school for mutes, under one of the prior administrations of Rev. P. S. Knight.  In this, as in al relations in life, she enjoyed the fullest respect and confidence of all with whom she was brought in contact. Funeral services will be held at the family home tomorrow (Sunday) at 2 o'clock p.m., Rev. W. C. Kantner, D. D., pastor of the Congretional church of this city, officiating, and interment will be had in the Odd Fellows' cemetery south of the city.  Daily Oregon Statesman 30 Oct 1897 INSCRIPTION:  Mother Alice B.  Wife of John Gray  Died  Oct. 29, 1897  Aged 48 y's 10 m's 7 d's SOURCES:  LR  LD Saucy Survey & Photographs DOS 30 Oct 1897 CONTACTS:  LOT: 664 SPACE: NE LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.175' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.917' IMAGES: