Idaho County ID Archives Obituaries.....Fray, William Oscar June 18, 1933
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Idaho County Free Press, Grangeville, ID, June 22, 1933
CIVIL WAR VETERAN
COMMITS SUICIDE
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W.O. Fray Takes Own Life
By Hanging; Served in Two
Armies; 92 Years Old

  W.O. Fray, 92, pioneer of Idaho county and civil war veteran and Indian 
fighter, committed suicide at this home here Sunday morning by hanging himself 
from a tree.  No reason is known for the act other than he was being troubled 
with failing eyesight and suffering infirmities of old age.
  William Oscar Fray was born in Randolph county, Missouri March 21, 1842.  He 
spent his early life on his father’s farm, and at the beginning of the Civil 
War enlisted for services with the Confederate army.  At the close of the war 
he enlisted with Co. D, 16th regiment of Kansas Cavalry to fight the Cherokee 
Indians, and during an engagement while serving in this enlistment was wounded 
in the right shoulder with a rifle bullet.  This wound caused him quite a 
little trouble in later years.  He served one year, being discharged in 
December 1865.
  In 1869, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Rice and with his family came west 
to Waitsburg, Wash., in 1896.
  A few years later he moved to Camas Prairie and lived on the John Coram 
ranch near Grangeville.  Later he purchased a 160 acres about a mile west and 
south of Grangeville where Dewey Cowgill now lives.  Here he lived with his 
family until 1917 when he sold his ranch and moved to Grangeville, where he 
has since resided.
  Mrs. Elizabeth Fray died Mary 31, 1927 and on May 9, 1928. Mr. Fray was 
married to Mrs. Rose Kernan of Asotin, Wash.
  He is survived by his wife; four daughters; Mrs. Alice Borstad and Mrs. 
Lucile Eberts, both of Dell Rapids, S. Dak.; Mrs. Goldie Brownelle of Cal. And 
Mrs. Frankie Bonstrom of Cheney, Wash.; six sons, Walter, Sioux City, Iowa; 
Albert and Claud, Spokane, Wash.; Jim of Rosalia, Wash.; Lonnie in Dell 
Rapids, S. Dak., and William of Alberta, Canada.
  Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the Hancock Funeral Home at 
1:30 p.m., Rev. Sydney A. Walker officiating.  The service will be conducted 
under the supervision of the Grangeville post of the American Legion.  Burial 
will be in Prairie View Cemetery.

Idaho County Free Press
Thursday, June 29, 1933

Card of Thanks

We wish to thank our friends for their kind expression of sympathy shown us 
during our recent bereavement, for the beautiful floral offerings and 
especially the American Legion for their services.

The Family of W. O. Fray  


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