Melvina
May
Gray
Born in Northampton, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Ancestors 
Daughter of Elisha Gray
and Hephzibah (Shaw) Gray
Sister of
Maria E. (Gray) Snell, Dora F. (Gray) Doucette, Olivia Della (Gray) Robinson, Elwood Blair Gray, Ziba Gray, Gilford Gray, Enoch Ransford Gray, Charles Melville Gray and Bessie Gray
Wife of
George Allen Besaer Cogswell
— married
15 Nov 1888 in Northampton, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada
Descendants 
Mother of
Hattie (Cogswell) Laycraft and Leon Everett Cogswell
Died
at age 76
in Anderson Township, Madison, Indiana, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 1 May 2018
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Biography
Melvina was born in 1866. She is the daughter of Elisha Gray and Hephzibah Shaw.
Sources
- PANB marriage notice
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130539937/melvina-may-cogswell : accessed 29 May 2022), memorial page for Melvina May Gray Cogswell (2 Sep 1866–15 Aug 1943), Find a Grave Memorial ID 130539937, citing Union Cemetery, Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County, Maine, USA ; Maintained by anon (contributor 48083253) .
- 1871 Canadian census
- http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1871/pdf/4396658_00208.pdf
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Melvina 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 Melvina:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Melvina 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 Melvina:
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Steven Foss 
:
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Robert Thomson :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member robertthomson178
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~0.78%
Tina Townsend :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A977558 [compare], Ancestry member tina_barsaleau89
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Jeffrey Ward
Jeffrey Ward
Gray-22143 and Gray-19397 appear to represent the same person because: I suggest that Levina heard by the enumerator in the 1871 census should have been Melvina. Same YOB.
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