Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1920 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

John Rodd Gray son of David and Elizabeth Redd Gray. was born in Miami county, Indianh, July 21, 1846, and died at his home in Rensselaer April & 1928, aged 73 years, 8 months ana 15 days. He was of a family of eight children, three of whom are deceased. Those surviving are Mrs. D. C. Gordon, Bloomington; Mrs. Bruce Banta, Mrs. Charles Lowe and Wm. M. I Gray, of Monon. The greater part of his life was. spent in Jasper county. April 4, 1871, he was united in marriage with Mary E. Coppess _in । Gillam township. To this union were born six children. He is survived by his wife and four children, Cora M. and Florence having pre- ■ ceded their father in death. ThoSe surviving are Mrs. D. V. McGlynn of Remington; Clyde Gray, Walla Walla, Wash.; Ira C. Gray, Dayton, Wash., and Mrs. Zern Wright, Rensselaer. He is also survived by I nine grandchildren, one of which, Dewey, was killed in action during the late war. Bro. Gray was baptized by Bro. D. T. Halstead in 1890, and had

been a faithful member of the church ever since, having been a firm believer in the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ. Funeral services were from the church .in Rensselaer, where the house was filled to capacity to pay their last tribute of respect to one whom they had learned to love and respect. We drew our lesson from 1 Cor. 15, as Bro. Gray had previously made request. We laid him to rest in the cemetery at the edge of the city to await the Lord’s coming—S. J. Lindsay.