Born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Ancestors 
Daughter of Otis Eugene Gray
and Eleanor C. (Bly) Gray
Sister of
Harry Robert Gray and Bessie Bell (Gray) Hoffman
Wife of
Jesse Maurice Gibson
— married
16 Oct 1906 in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States
Mother of
Maurice James Gibson, Eleanor Martha (Gibson) Eck, Donald Edwin Gibson and Theodore Bruce Gibson
Died
at age 77
in Des Moines, Iowa
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Jul 2017
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Biography
Mary B. Gray was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1888, married Jesse M. Gibson in 1906 and lived in Des Moines, Iowa, until 1937, when they retired to Los Angeles, California. They returned to Des Moines when the war broke out, but after Jesse died in 1944, Mary returned to California and lived with her son Maurice.
Sources
- United States Census, 1900, Iowa, Polk County, Des Moines, Ward 3, family #47, p. 3B.
- Iowa State Census, 1905, Polk County, Des Moines.
- Unites States Census, 1910, Iowa, Polk County, Des Moines, Ward 1, p. 6A, family #118.
- United States Census, 1920, Iowa, Polk County, Des Moines, Ward 2, p. 6A, family #141.
- United States Census, 1930, Iowa, Polk County, Des Moines Ward 1, p. 21A, family #366.
- Iowa States Census, 1925 in Iowa State Census Collection 1836-1925. Digital image at Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1084/images/IA1925_1889-0492?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Oph725&_phstart=successSource&pId=2551891
- Des Moines Register, October 18, 1937, p. 13.
- Grave marker, Highland Memorial Gardens, Des Moines, IA Find A Grave: Memorial #202285917.
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