Person:Eliza Moon (7)

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Eliza Moon
b.24 Dec 1834
d.24 Dec 1869 Buchanan, Berrien, Michigan, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. Dec 1832
  1. Eliza Moon1834 - 1869
Spouse and Children
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m. 1 Jan 1848
  1. William Caleb Wray1848 - 1852
  2. Nancy Jane Wray1852 - 1891
  3. Edwin Perry Wray1854 - 1947
  4. Margaret Elizabeth Wray1856 - 1857
  5. James Montgomery Wray1858 - 1942
  6. Mary Elizabeth Wray1860 - 1864
  7. Asenath Moon Wray1862 - 1928
  8. Lorenzo Harvey Wray1864 - 1891
  9. George Peabody Wray1866 - 1898
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Facts and Events
Name Eliza Moon
Gender Female
Birth[2] 24 Dec 1834
Marriage 1 Jan 1848 to Caleb Perry Wray
Residence[3] 1850 Berrien, Michigan, United StatesDivision 10
Residence[1] 1860 Bolinas, Marin, California, United States
Death[2][4] 24 Dec 1869 Buchanan, Berrien, Michigan, United States
Burial[2] 25 Dec 1869

"She came from a wealthy family. Her father was Danish and her mother was German. At 14 she married Caleb Perry Wray. Caleb left his pregnant wife soon after their marriage and sailed around the horn to the gold fields of California. A couple of years later, she followed him, taking a ship to Panama and crossing to the Pacific side carrying her child all the way. She caught a ship to San Francisco and five days before arriving in port her son died. He was buried in San Lorenzo, Alameda County, California. Caleb never saw his first child alive. Family legend has it that many of the weeping willows found in San Lorenzo came from several slips she carried with her from Michigan.

In 1863 she returned to Niles, Michigan with her husband and small children by ship, again crossing over in Panama. On Christmas Eve she died at an age of 34 from consumption (tuberculosis) brought on, according to legend, by the smoke from large forest fires of the previous year."S2

References
  1. ↑ United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
    Series: M653 Roll: 60 Page: 742.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Clayton Wray. Descendants of Moses Wray I
    5.
  3. ↑ United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432)
    Roll M432_346; Page: 158; Image: 307, 1850.
  4. ↑ Michigan. Secretary of State. Death Records, 1867-1897. (Lansing, Michigan).

    Name: Eliza Wray
    Death date: 24 Dec 1869
    Death place: Buchanan, Berrien, Michigan
    Gender: Female
    Age at death: 34 years 9 months 24 days
    Estimated birth year: 1835
    Birthplace: Buchanan Michigan
    Marital status: Married
    Occupation: Laborer
    Film number: 2363448
    Digital GS number: 4207816
    Image number: 935
    Reference number: p 50 rn 30
    Collection: Michigan Deaths 1867-1897

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