Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1902 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Mary Ullen was born in Wooster, Ohio, April 7, 1845, and came to Indiana with her parents while in young womanhood and where she met and married George Griffith in 1864. She was not permitted to long enjoy the blessings of this union, for in less than two years her husband was taken away by death, leaving a son Charles, to share with the mother in her loss. In 1867 she was united in marriage to Robert Gray and seven children, five boys and two girls, came to bless the home. Sister Gray was converted and united with the M. E. Church when but a girl of 16 and early learned to perform the work that Jesus loved so well, caring for the needy and helping those who needed her help most. It seemed to be a passion of her life to mother some motherless child and some have said, almost a dozen young men and women can look back upon some period of their lives when the only home they knew was her home. So it is that not only her own children, but many others, can rise up and call her blessed. Her death was sad and untimely and the cord of sympathy and sorrow was set to vibrating at one stroke of the scythe and the whole town bows the head and mingles sympathetic tears with the loved ones left behind. She passed away at 7:30, January 14, 1902, at the age of 56 years, 9 months and 14 days, leaving to mourn their loss, her husband, father, three sisters, two brothers and ten grandchildren, her mother and two children having preceeded her to judgment. Sh,e was associated in many good works with people whose hearts go out in sympathy to the suffering. In early years she became a life member of the W. F. M. S. and earned her certificate of honor which hangs framed in her home yet, by committing the greatest number of chapters of the bible and in later years was the head of the “Aid Society,” that blessed organization which holds the life cord of so many weak churches, until rescue reaches and gives new life. She was an honored member of that ever honored and patriotic organization known as the Women’s Relief Corps No 39, of Rensselaer, and will rest beneath the clods made sacred by the united hands of religion and patriotism, as they laid her to rest in the beautiful cemetery in the northwest corner of Monon. * *