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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Frank Mitchell Gray |
| Alt Name[1] |
Mitch Gray |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
1 Aug 1831 |
Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois |
| Residence? |
1859 |
Dallas, Dallas County, TexasMoved from Illinois to Dallas. |
| Military[1] |
Jun 1861 |
TexasEnlisted in Douglas's Company, Texas Artillery. Rose to rank of sergeant. Wounded five times, included at Elkhorn Tavern, Richmond (Kentucky), and in the Atlanta campaign. |
| Marriage |
11 May 1870 |
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas(his 1st wife; no issue?)
to Aurelia Effie Cockrell |
| Census[2] |
1880 |
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas |
| Marriage |
26 May 1880 |
Dallas County, Texas(his 2nd wife, her 2nd husband)
to Mary M. Hawkins |
| Census[3] |
1900 |
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas |
| Death[1] |
5 Jan 1904 |
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas |
| Burial[1] |
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Greenwood Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas |
Dallas County, Texas, 1880 census:[2]
- Gray, Mitch 43 yrs Stock Dealer b. Illinois (parents, b. Illinois)
- Mary 26 yrs Wife Housekeeping b. Texas (parents, b. Virginia)
- Birtha 8 yrs Dau b. Texas (parents, b. Virginia)
- Cocran, Jake [BLACK] 22 yrs Laborer Laborer b. Texas (parents, b. Virginia)
- Reed, Chas. [BLACK] 21 yrs Laborer Laborer b. Texas (parents, b. Arkansas)
Dallas County, Texas, 1900 census:[3]
- Gray, Mitch Head 68 yrs (b. Aug 1831) (marr. 20 yrs) b. Illinois (parents, b. Tennessee) "None"
- Mary M. Wife 46 yrs (b. Feb 1854) (4 children, 4 living) b. Texas (parents, b. Indiana/Virginia)
- Alice Dau 13 yrs (b. Jul 1886) b. Texas (parents, b. Texas/Illinois [sic]) At school
- Grace Dau 11 yrs (b. Apr 1889) b. Texas (parents, b. Texas/Illinois [sic]) At school
- Frank M. Son 18 yrs (b. Jul 1881) b. Texas (parents, b. Texas/Illinois [sic]) At school
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Find A Grave.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dallas, Texas, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule
ED 54, p. 9B, dwelling/family ---/219 (106 Commerce St).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dallas, Texas, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T623)
ED 123, p. 1B, dwelling/family 16/19 (447 Gaston Ave).
- Polk's Dallas (Texas) City Directory
p. 157, 1886.
Gray, Mitch (S. H. Cockrell & Co.) r ns Gaston Ave bet St. Joseph & Ann, E. Dallas
- Dallas Morning News. (Dallas, Texas)
p. 12, 25 Jan 1904.
CAMP STERLING PRICE [U.C.V.].
Resolution Adopted in Honor of Dead Comrades and Other Routine Business is Disposed Of.
Dallas, Tex., Jan. 20---Our comrade, Mitch Gray, who expired Jan. 5, was born in Springfield, Ill., Aug. 2, 1831, was reared and educated in Palestine, Tex., and moved to Dallas in 1859. He was married to Miss Aurelia Cockrell (sister of Alex Cockrell) in Dallas, May 11, 1870, his wife passing away Feb. 28, 1872. He was again united in marriage to Mrs. M. M. Dale, nee Hawkins, on May 26, 1880, with whom he lived most happily during the more than twenty-three years of their married life; leaving at his death his wife and three children, Frank, Alice and Grace.
Comrade Gray enlisted at Dallas, Tex., in the Confederate service in the First Texas Battery in June, 1861. this battery was organized and commanded by Capt. John J. Good and later by Capt. J. P. Douglas. He was wounded at Elkhorn, Richmond, Ky., and in the Georgia campaigns, five times in all, and participated with his campaign in twenty-five battles, and although he received five wounds he never missed an engagement in which his battery took part. He did not seek rank and renown as did many; he was inspired by the loftier motives of patriotism and duty. As a private soldier, with fidelity to every obligation to the service, without the hope of glory or even mention, he was entitled to as much credit as if he had been a General. As a quiet, unobstructive man in our midst living up to the obligations of the Golden Rule, he occupied a position as honorable as if he had been the Governor of this Commonwealth.
The war over, he turned his attentioin to home and the peaceful pursuits of good citizenship. By nature prudent and circumspect, exemplary in habits, industrious in practice, he soon acquired a comfortable competency. A citizen without reproach, a good neighbor, a kind parent and an affectionate husband.
We quote from a letter from one of his old comrades which says: "What reason have we to grieve, is he not in a better land? Has he not gone to the great reunion above, where he will not only meet the old comrades of his long campaigns, but those whom he loved, and who were dear to him from the time when his lips first learned to lisp the name of mother, which name never fades from memory?"
This last tribute we pay to our friend and comrade, Mitch Gray.
John H. Traylor
G. A. Knight
L. Hall
T. A. Hord
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