Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gray, H. Maurice, 1944 

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HENRY MAURICE* GRAY

   Henry Morris* Gray, 51, lifelong and highly esteemed citizen of Boykins, 
died at Raiford Memorial Hospital, Franklin, Saturday morning, July 1, after 
an illness of three weeks.

   He was the son of the late Henry Lewis and Mrs. Mobray Caroon Gray.  Since 
childhood he had been a faithful and consistent member of Boykins Baptist 
Church, and he was a member of Boykins Baptist Church, and he was a member of 
the Berean Bible Class.  He is survived by three sisters: Mrs. Helen Rock of 
Boykins; Mrs. Waverly W. Nurney of Courtland, and Mrs. Wallace C. Nurney of 
Capron; also by one brother, William Eddie Gray of Norfolk, and several nieces 
and nephews.

   Funeral services were held at the residence Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock 
with his pastor, Dr. R.A. Helton, officiating.  The combined choirs of the 
Boykins Baptist and Methodist churches sang "Abide with Me" and "Sometime 
We’ll Understand."  Burial was in the family plot in Beechwood Cemetery. 
Pallbearers were R.C. Knight, John M. Britt, W. Hugh Powell, Sr., Dr. J.M. 
Bland, L.E. Worrell, S.J. Wilson, and Richard Ricks.  Honorary pallbearers 
were members of his Sunday school class.

   The floral tributes were numerous and beautiful.


Henry Maurice GRAY, of Boykins, 
d. 1 Jul 1944, Franklin, age 51, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 1, Sect. F, Plot 5*), Boykins, 
   2 Jul 1944, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 7, 1944] 

*H. Maurice Gray is on the tombstone - Henry Morris Gray on the obit. 
 Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Beechwood list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt 


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