Sherman Grant Ray

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Sherman Grant Ray

Birth
Soldier, Jackson County, Kansas, USA
Death
14 Mar 1947 (aged 72)
Lemon Grove, San Diego County, California, USA
Burial
San Diego, San Diego County, California, USA Add to Map
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Masonic Section J Lot 45 Grave 4-A
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Sherman Grant Ray (1874-1947) was the youngest child of a second marriage between Civil War widow, Martha Ann Jones Plummer, to widower, Jonathan Ray, Jr. Thru this blended family Grant acquired 20 half-siblings. He was 11 when his father died.

His father felt Grant should get an education because his slight build was not suitable for the physical demands of farming. Grant wanted to study law and apprenticed himself as a law clerk in Colorado. His mother became ill and sent for him to return to Kansas; however, when he returned he found her health no worse than when he left. She wanted him to teach in the one-room schoolhouse adjacent to her farm. The Rays had donated land for the school.

In 1901 Grant wed Mary Emma McLin, who lived in the neighboring farm run by her widowed mother, and was also the youngest child of a large family with siblings born before the Civil War. Grant taught school one year before following older Ray and McLin kin to explore opportunities in the Oklahoma Territory. Oklahoma brought sadness when their first son, Percy, died of spinal meningitis. The family moved around Kansas--El Dorado and Wichita--for several years before settling in Kansas City, Missouri. Grant worked for the Republic Insurance Company as a bookkeeper. In 1922 doctors recommended he move to a milder climate for his health and the family drove to California in a 1921 Hupmobile. Grant worked as a bookkeeper until the depression when he started a poultry business on their one-acre Lemon Grove property. He also had a Jewel Tea Company route.

He loved to listen to The Lone Ranger on radio, avocado spread on toast, and honey on his cottage cheese and cereal.
Sherman Grant Ray (1874-1947) was the youngest child of a second marriage between Civil War widow, Martha Ann Jones Plummer, to widower, Jonathan Ray, Jr. Thru this blended family Grant acquired 20 half-siblings. He was 11 when his father died.

His father felt Grant should get an education because his slight build was not suitable for the physical demands of farming. Grant wanted to study law and apprenticed himself as a law clerk in Colorado. His mother became ill and sent for him to return to Kansas; however, when he returned he found her health no worse than when he left. She wanted him to teach in the one-room schoolhouse adjacent to her farm. The Rays had donated land for the school.

In 1901 Grant wed Mary Emma McLin, who lived in the neighboring farm run by her widowed mother, and was also the youngest child of a large family with siblings born before the Civil War. Grant taught school one year before following older Ray and McLin kin to explore opportunities in the Oklahoma Territory. Oklahoma brought sadness when their first son, Percy, died of spinal meningitis. The family moved around Kansas--El Dorado and Wichita--for several years before settling in Kansas City, Missouri. Grant worked for the Republic Insurance Company as a bookkeeper. In 1922 doctors recommended he move to a milder climate for his health and the family drove to California in a 1921 Hupmobile. Grant worked as a bookkeeper until the depression when he started a poultry business on their one-acre Lemon Grove property. He also had a Jewel Tea Company route.

He loved to listen to The Lone Ranger on radio, avocado spread on toast, and honey on his cottage cheese and cereal.

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