Death of a prominent Citizen
Our esteemed Sulphur Springs correspondent sent as a note last Monday containing the following starting announcement. He says:
"Capt. W.C. Bray died this morning at 4 o'clock, a.m. with paralysis. He was stricken yesterday (Sunday) afternoon about 6 o'clock on his return from F.L. Strickland's, where had been on a social visit. He fell from his horse and was found by J.H.Smith and brought home. He never uttered a word after he was found.
He would have been 58 years of age next December."
Capt Bray was one of our best known citizens. Prior to the war he was the possessor of ample means and his home was blessed with many comforts and luxuries that marked the genial and hospitable southern planter, and he never seemed so happy as when entertaining his friends around his cheerful fireside. During the war he was captain of a company, the greater part of which was captured early in the contest at Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina.
Polite and affable, and generous to the last, the deceased will long be remembered by many old friends who survive him.
Death of a prominent Citizen
Our esteemed Sulphur Springs correspondent sent as a note last Monday containing the following starting announcement. He says:
"Capt. W.C. Bray died this morning at 4 o'clock, a.m. with paralysis. He was stricken yesterday (Sunday) afternoon about 6 o'clock on his return from F.L. Strickland's, where had been on a social visit. He fell from his horse and was found by J.H.Smith and brought home. He never uttered a word after he was found.
He would have been 58 years of age next December."
Capt Bray was one of our best known citizens. Prior to the war he was the possessor of ample means and his home was blessed with many comforts and luxuries that marked the genial and hospitable southern planter, and he never seemed so happy as when entertaining his friends around his cheerful fireside. During the war he was captain of a company, the greater part of which was captured early in the contest at Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina.
Polite and affable, and generous to the last, the deceased will long be remembered by many old friends who survive him.
Family Members
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Richard Van Bray
1847–1927
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Julia Bray Dunlap
1849–1930
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Nathan Van Bray
1853–1917
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Mary Boddie Bray Heard
1857–1905
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Isabel Bray Yancey
1859–1929
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Charles W. Bray
1863–1913
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Antoinette Walton Bray Allen
1866–1946
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Baxter Brown Bray
1868–1931
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Clarence Victor Hugo "C.V.H." Bray
1873–1942
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Claude Julius Bray
1876–1972
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