Ralph Emerson Gray

  Noted events in his life were:

• Birth: Multiple sources, Dec 1860, Oswego, New York. Obituary says 1861. Rural Cemetery Records say 1860. 1900 Census says December 1860. His half brother, Charles' obituary states that Charles was his father's only son when he died in 1862, indicating Ralph may have been born in 1862.

• Occupation: Farmer, 1880, Oswego, New York. From 1880 Census

• Occupation: Farmer, 1892, Oswego Town, Oswego, New York. Livng with his mother.

From 1892 New York State Census

• Occupation: Farmer, 1900, Oswego, New York. From 1900 Census

• Obituary: THE OSWEGO DAILY PALLADIUM: FRIDAY EVENING, PAGE 5, 11 Apr 1902, Oswego Town, Oswego, New York. OBITUARY.
Ralph F. Gray

Mr. Ralph F. Gray died at his home in Oswego Town on the morning of April 10th, of neuralgia of the heart. His illness was brief, having been stricken Tuesday, April 8th. Mr. Gray was born in 1861 on the place where ha has always resided, and was of the family from which the street was named, “The Gray road.”

In April 1894 (?), he married Miss Mabel Parkinson (?), who survives him. This happy union had been blessed with three little daughters, May Marie, (deceased) Dorothy and Marjorie. Mr. Gray leaves also two sisters, Mrs. W. H. Boyle, of this city, and Mrs. George W. Collins, of New York. He was a most devoted husband and father, and enjoyed the respect and esteem of the entire community in which he lived. To his stricken family is extended the deepest sympathy.

• Will: The Oswego Daily Times, Monday Evening, 1 Dec 1902, Oswego Town, Oswego, New York. In Surrogate Court
Estate of Ralph Gray, William Parkinson was appointed special guardian of infants.

• Cemetery: Rural Cemetery, 1902, Oswego Town, Oswego, New York. Inscription

Ralph Gray
1860 - 1902

Ralph married Mabel Parkinson, daughter of Parkinson and Anna Coulling, on 5 Apr 1894 in Oswego, Oswego, New York. (Mabel Parkinson was born in Mar 1871 in New York.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Banns: OSWEGO DAILY TIMES, Thursday, Page 4, 5 Apr 1894, Oswego, Oswego, New York. MARRIED.
GRAY-PARKINSON-At the residence of William Parkinson, the bride's father. Oswego, April 4. 1894, by Rev. H. J . Smith, Ralph E. Gray and Mable Parkinson.