Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
DeathAug 28, 1952, Miami-Dade County, Florida [58836]
BurialSunset Hill Cemetery (Sunset Hills Memorial Estates), 50 Fountain Drive, Glen Carbon, Madison County, Illinois [58836]
FlagsWorld War II
FatherJohn Amos GRAY Sr. (1845-1911)
MotherMary Ann COFFEY (1862-1947)
Spouses
BurialSunset Hill Cemetery (Sunset Hills Memorial Estates), 50 Fountain Drive, Glen Carbon, Madison County, Illinois [58847]
Marriage1927, Granite City, Madison County, Illinois [58836]
No Children
Obituary Online notes for Thomas Ross GRAY
Thomas Ross Gray was born of John Amos Gray Sr. and Mary A. Coffee.
His father served in the Civil War, Co. D, 59th Indiana Infantry; his mother was a direct descendant of Newton Coffee, who donated the land which founded Hillsboro, IL.
It was the second marriage for both his parents.
Ross had a sister and a brother (Hazel and John), and a half-sister and half-brother (Ida and Daniel B. Gray).
He married Louise Gowan in Granite City, IL. He and Louise never had children.
When Louise died in 1951, he sold everything he owned, and moved to Miami, Florida, where he bought and ran a Texaco station.
Less than a year later, he died, and left the station to his sister, Hazel Gray Odum, who sent her son, Olva Raymond, Jr. to run it.
Ross was a very good handyman, and built the wall-to-wall bookcases in Hazel's living room.
He was in WWII and was a Shriner. [58836]
His father served in the Civil War, Co. D, 59th Indiana Infantry; his mother was a direct descendant of Newton Coffee, who donated the land which founded Hillsboro, IL.
It was the second marriage for both his parents.
Ross had a sister and a brother (Hazel and John), and a half-sister and half-brother (Ida and Daniel B. Gray).
He married Louise Gowan in Granite City, IL. He and Louise never had children.
When Louise died in 1951, he sold everything he owned, and moved to Miami, Florida, where he bought and ran a Texaco station.
Less than a year later, he died, and left the station to his sister, Hazel Gray Odum, who sent her son, Olva Raymond, Jr. to run it.
Ross was a very good handyman, and built the wall-to-wall bookcases in Hazel's living room.
He was in WWII and was a Shriner. [58836]