Mary Ann (Picket) Gray (1854 - 1938)

Born 27 Aug 1854 in Co Derry, Ireland

Ancestors

Wife of David Gray — married 26 Jul 1870 in Ballymoney, Co Derry, Ireland

Descendants

Died 8 Mar 1938 at age 83 in New York City, Queens, NY

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Biography

Mary Ann was left in St Louis for 3 weeks after her marriage in Ballymoney Ireland & the trip across the ocean while David went on to MO to prepare the farm for her arrival. She took the train from St Louis & missed the stop for Atlanta MO & ended up at Love Lake MO. The kind people of Love Lake made sure Mary Ann arrived in Atlanta to her new home.

Bur: Mt. Tabor Cemetery, Atlanta, Macon Co, MO

Sources

• Personal info from family members.
• Photo of headstone in file.

• Info from Aunt Irma Gray Morehead.
• See Marr Cert from Ballymoney. It states Mary Ann's name is Pigot. Copy from Andrew Kane 2/2017
• Have Death Cert from NY on file.

• Mary Anne was named Admin for David's estate (folder #2303).

• 1880 Macon Co MO census lists Mary 25 w/David and daus.
• 1900 Macon Co MO census lists Mary A 45 in hshld of James M Vaught and dau Madge. Mary's 2 youngest children are living there also.
• 1910 Adair Co MO census lists Mary 55 and Irma M 19 living 4 doors down from her mother who was boarding with a family.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X426-N9Z : accessed 19 July 2018), Mary Gray in household of Joseph Morehead, Manhattan (Districts 0751-1000), New York, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 870, sheet 11B, line 68, family 215, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1563; FHL microfilm 2,341,298.