Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gray, Amos L., 1928 

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BOYKINS SHOCKED BY DEATH OF AMOS GRAY THERE WEDNESDAY 

  Amos L. Gray, a resident of Suffolk and formerly of Boykins, took his own 
life Wednesday morning at the home of his mother, Mrs. Helen Gray, in Boykins, 
by shooting himself through the head.  Mr. Gray had been for a number of years 
a traveling salesman through this territory for Morris and Company and 
numbered many friends in Franklin and the county.  No cause can be assigned 
for his act except that of continued ill-health bringing about a moment of 
temporary aberration in a period of despondency.  He had been successful in 
business and was highly esteemed by his employers and all others who knew him. 

  Besides his mother, his wife, Mrs. Bertha Copeland Gray, and a child, Amos 
L. Gray, Jr., of Suffolk, he is survived by two brothers, Maurice Gray of 
Boykins and W.E. Gray of Columbia, S.C., and three sisters, Mrs. Wallace 
Nurney, Mrs. Henry Nurney and Mrs. Ernest Rock of Boykins and the community. 
Funeral services were held in Boykins yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock and 
interment was made in Beechwood Cemetery. 

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          IN MEMORIAM 

  In sad and loving memory of our darling one, Amos L. Gray, who died 
April 11, 1928, eight long months ago today. 

A living one from us is gone, 
A voice we loved is still; 
A place is vacant in our home, 
Which never can be filled. 

We have only your memory, 
To remember our whole life through, 
But the sweetness will linger forever, 
As we treasure the image of you. 

         Mother, brothers and sisters. 


Amos Linwood GRAY, of Suffolk, traveling salesman, 
b. 9 Sep 1898, Southampton Co., suicide 11 Apr 1928, Boykins, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 1, Section F, Plot 4/5*), Boykins, 
   12 Apr 1928, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 23, No. 27, Fri., Apr. 13, 1928, p. 1; 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 24, No. 10, Fri., Dec. 14, 1928, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

His mother, Helen Mobry (CAROON; Mrs. Henry Lewis) GRAY (1868 - 1938), 
   is buried in the same plot.  Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} 
   Cemetery Project, Beechwood list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Judy McKinley - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #65337881. 

D.Cert. 9930 (Boykins #9) 

His widow Bertha Virginia (COPELAND) GRAY 2m. William Louis SCHAFFER in 1930 
   and 3m. Thomas Brantley HENDERSON, Jr., in 1970.  She (1903 - 1986) is 
   buried in Newman Memorial Cemetery, Oakland Christian Church, Chuckatuck. 


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