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Joseph Berry Gray

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Joseph Berry Gray

Birth
Lack Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
31 Aug 1927 (aged 84)
Newton Hamilton, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Newton Hamilton, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Son of Joseph GRAY and Mary Elizabeth HARRIS. A native of Juniata county, he attended the public schools there and assisted his father on the farm until the age of twenty, when he enlisted, February 23, 1864, in Company C, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, in command of Colonel Good and Captain Oyster. Mr. Gray took part in one great battle and in several minor fights. He was also in four cruising voyages, traveling fifteen thousand miles along the coast. He was in service until January, 1866. After the war, Gray engaged in farm work. In 1890 he removed from Huntingdon county to Miffiin county where he lived on his farm in Wayne township. H was a Democrat and served as justice of the peace, school director and tax collector. He was a member of the Surg. Charles Bower Post, No.457, G. A. R.

He married Martha A. McCulloch in 1868. She died in 1875 in Shirleysburg. He married Belle Fleming in 1878. They settled in Germany Valley in 1882, later living in Newton Hamilton and Shirleysburg.

Sources:
1.) History of Mt. Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township by Charles Howard Welch, pages 74 & 75.
2.) Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of The Juniata Valley, comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers
Son of Joseph GRAY and Mary Elizabeth HARRIS. A native of Juniata county, he attended the public schools there and assisted his father on the farm until the age of twenty, when he enlisted, February 23, 1864, in Company C, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, in command of Colonel Good and Captain Oyster. Mr. Gray took part in one great battle and in several minor fights. He was also in four cruising voyages, traveling fifteen thousand miles along the coast. He was in service until January, 1866. After the war, Gray engaged in farm work. In 1890 he removed from Huntingdon county to Miffiin county where he lived on his farm in Wayne township. H was a Democrat and served as justice of the peace, school director and tax collector. He was a member of the Surg. Charles Bower Post, No.457, G. A. R.

He married Martha A. McCulloch in 1868. She died in 1875 in Shirleysburg. He married Belle Fleming in 1878. They settled in Germany Valley in 1882, later living in Newton Hamilton and Shirleysburg.

Sources:
1.) History of Mt. Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township by Charles Howard Welch, pages 74 & 75.
2.) Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of The Juniata Valley, comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers

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