OBIT: Mary Martha (BRANTNER) GRAY, 1917, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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MRS. JOHN N. GRAY.

  Mrs. Mary Martha, wife of John N. Gray, of 1528 Twenty-third avenue, 
died at her home, at 7:45 o'clock yesterday morning, of diabetic coma, 
following an illness of several years.  She was born at Williamsburg, 
August 10, 1865, the daughter of Jane and Sarah Jane Brantner, and was 
married November 20, 1883, to John Gray.  She was a member of the First 
Methodist Episcopal church, the Foreign Missionary society and the 
Washington Burial association.  She is survived by her husband an one 
daughter, Mrs. Pearl Endress, of this city; also by the following 
brothers and sisters: John Brantner, of Mines; William and Porter 
Brantner and Mrs. Edward Bowman, of Williamsburg; Mrs. Emma Edwards, of 
Blair Four; Charles Brantner, of Mt. Etna, and Mrs. Elsie Africa, of 
this city.  Her aged mother, Mrs. Sarah Jane Brantner, of Williamsburg, 
also survives.  The funeral will be held, leaving the home at 2 o'clock 
on Wednesday afternoon, with services at the First Methodist Episcopal 
church at 2:30 o'clock, followed by burial in Rose Hill cemetery.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday Morning, January 15, 1917

1900 Logan Township, Blair County census -
John W. Gray, 42  
Mary M. Gray, 34  
Jessie P. Gray, 13