MRS. T. A. GRAY
The woman who has the distinction of being the first white woman to make a home in the area now comprised by Swisher County is dead.
Mrs. T. A. Gray (nee Margaret Isabel Lynch) died at her home here Friday night. In 1887 when the West was young and only the most hardy pioneers thought of wresting a living out of the Plains, Mrs. Gray came with her husband to this section. They lived for several years in a dugout about four miles southwest of Tulia on the middle Tule Creek. Mr. Gray, a young cowboy, cared for cattle for some syndicate. They were in Crosby County and when the county was organized there in 1885 he was elected the first tax assessor.
They bought a ranch on the Tule Creek; here her children were born and reared and the family prospered until cattle prices hit the bottom following the World War.
Funeral services were held in the Presbyterian Church by the pastor Rev. J. Hoyt Boles.
