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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Prudence Minerva Gray ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Prudence Minerva Gray
LAST NAME: Gray FIRST NAME: Prudence MIDDLE NAME: Minerva NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Berry AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY: 
BORN: 11 Mar 1831 DIED: 17 Dec 1903 BURIED: 18 Dec 1903
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Anderson, Madison Co., Indiana
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

IOOF - Prudence Gray, age 72, died in Salem of paralysis, "she was the mother of Gray Brothers of Salem".
Funeral ordered by Gray Bros.

Name of father John Clinton Berry

Maiden name of mother Sarah Collins

1900 OR CENSUS  - G. W. Gray, age 79, b. Aug 1820, married 57 y's, b. Pennsylvania, is enumerated with wife P. M. Gray, age 69, b. Mar 1831 in Indiana, along with son, Charles, age 36, b. Iowa, and daughter-in-law Lillian, age 36,b. Oregon, and 3 servants.

NOTE - Prudence Gray was mentioned in her father John C. Berry's probate of 1882.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (Marion Co., 1903) # 557 - Prudence M. Gray, female, age 72, b. 11 Mar 1831, widow, d. 17 Dec 1903, interment 18 Dec 1903, undertaker Rigdon, no informant listed.
OBITUARY: 

Mrs. P. M. Gray, of Salem, died Friday, ages 78. She crossed the plains from Iowa to Oregon in 1853.

Happner Gazette, 24 Dec 1903, pg 4
INSCRIPTION: 

Prudence M. Berry 
Wife of 
George W. Gray 
Born 
Mar. 11, 1831 
Died 
Dec. 17, 1903
SOURCES: 

LR 

LD 

IOOF Register of Burials

OSBH DC (Marion Co., 1903) #557

DAR pg 73

Saucy Survey & Photographs

Marion Co. Probate File #806, John C. Berry 

1900 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem Pct. 3, ED 133, Sheet 1A) 

HG 24 Dec 1903, pg 4

John D. Richert
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