Newton-Walton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Gray, Rev. J. D.  February 22 1887
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The Georgia Enterprise, March 4, 1887
DEATH'S SAD ROLL
  On Tuesday, Feb. 22nd, the spirit of that pure and perfect man, Rev. J. D. 
Gray, winged its flight from earth to the Great Beyond. He died of abcess of the
lungs, at Hawthorne, Florida, whither he had gone with the hope of bettering
his feeble condition and improving his shattered constitution. But the seal of 
death was visable upon his brow even before he left his happy home, near Social
Circle, for the mild climate in the Land of Flowers. Mr. Gray was the Presiding
Elder of Oxford district, of the North Georgia Conference, and was a man 
honored and beloved by all who knew him. His devoted wife was with him when he
died. Besides a wife, kindred and friends, he leaves five children to mourn his
departure. At the time of his death he was only about 34 years of age, but had
made an enviable reputation as an able and eloquent expounder of God's Holy
Word. His remains were brought to Oxford for interment and laid to rest on
Friday morning, 25th ult. We hear that Mr. Gray was a member of the Knights of
Honor of Covington Lodge, and therefore his family will be entitled to $2,000
from that worthy Order. May our dear departed friend sleep sweetly in the 
solitude of his grave-yard home. On account of having gone to press when the 
sad news reached us of this good man's death, last week, it was impossible to
give only a brief and imperfect item of the same. In life we honored and loved 
Mr. Gray, and in death we cherish his untarnished memory. Few if any better men
ever lived or died than was he. Our sympathies are tendered to the family and 
friends of the deceased in their time of sore affliction and heart-rending 
grief.

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