Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Emma Rowley GRAY

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Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> June 2005

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PIONEER RESIDENT CLAIMED BY DEATH

Mrs. Emma Gray Dies Monday at Home Here Following Illness of Several Months

Mrs. Emma Jean Gray, 78, a life-long resident of this vicinity, died in her
home here at 127 West Church Street at 6 a.m. Monday following an illness
of several months. Funeral services were held in the home at 2 p.m.
yesterday, the Rev. Robert H. Pratt of the Baptist church officiating.
Interment was made in Maple Hill cemetery.

Mrs. Gray, formerly Emma Jean Rowley, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. D.
M. Rowley, was born Nov. 29, 1850, on a farm four miles east of here and
grew to young womanhood on a farm three miles west of the city, to which
her parents moved when she was a child.

She was married to Alonzo B. Gray, Evansville, May 18, 1878, and the couple
settled here where four children were born. The deceased, who was loved and
respected by all who knew her, was an active member of the Baptist church
of the Woman's union of that church, and of the W. C. T. U.

Besides a host of friends, she is survived by two sons, Orin Carlyle, Fort
Bidwell, Calif., and Paul Rowley, Whittier, Calif.; one daughter, Mrs. J.
F. Waddell of this city; and six grandchildren. To them the heartfelt
sympathy of the entire community is extended.

March 7, 1929, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin