Born in Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Daughter of Dana Lewis Brooks
and Genera H (Hooper) Brooks
Sister of
Flora (Brooks) Keegan
Wife of
Clinton Irving Gray
— married
18 Jul 1906 in Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Ralph Clinton Gray and Dorothy Virginia (Gray) Bushey
Died
at age 91
in Pocasset, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 5 Apr 2009
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Biography
Clara was born in 1885 at Westborough, Massaachusetts.[1] She was the daughter of Dana Brooks and Geneva (Hooper) Brooks[1]
Clara married Clinton Gray in 1906 in Massachusetts.[2]
Clara died in 1977 In Massachusetts.[3][4]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4PG-5D4 : 10 November 2020), Clara Belle Brooks, 9 Nov 1885; citing Birth, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011235.
- ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N48Z-JMV : 10 March 2021), Clinton I Gray and Clara B Brooks, 18 Jul 1906; citing Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,315,298.
- ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JK6Q-W2Q : 7 January 2021), Clara Dufresne, May 1977; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7310856/clara-b-dufresne : accessed 10 April 2022), memorial page for Clara B Brooks Dufresne (1885–1977), Find a Grave Memorial ID 7310856, citing Mountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Jim Sanders (contributor 506) .
Census
- "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M22L-LSR : accessed 9 November 2020), Clara B Gray in household of Dana L Brooks, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1807, sheet 11B, family 266, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 629; FHL microfilm 1,374,642.
- "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF95-452 : 1 February 2021), Clara G Dufresne in entry for Edmund A Dufresne, 1920.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Clara by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Clara:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Clara by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Clara:
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Categories: Mountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
Clinton and Clara separated and Clara remarried a man whose last name was Dufresme. Virginia called her 'Gramma Dufresme'.