Mount Hope CemeteryFranklin County, IowaUploaded 5/12/2003 by
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[Email] Alice M Wife of Joseph Bray Died Dec 8 1892 Aged 39 yrs 2 mos A 18 ds (all caps) Base of Stone says BRAY. Library information has Joseph Bray her husband and William H. Bray and wife Mattie Bauge Bray her son and daughter in-law buried at Mount Hope as well though there were no visible stones of them where Alice is.
Obit shows her maiden name to be Beckwith and is found with parents, Horace and Prudence Collins Beckwith and brother Fremont in 1860 and 1870 Black Hawk County, IA census.
Married Joseph Bray (born England 1840/1842, census, obit argue as to year.) Oct 29, 1873, Lincoln Twp., Black Hawk County, at the home of her Father. Joseph died Feb 8, 1906 in Galt, Iowa
Iowa, Wright County, Clarion Twp. in 1885.
There were 11 children born between 1874 and 1892 with the youngest less than 2 months old at the time of Alice's death. Horace W., William H., Clarence, Grant, Charles K, Joseph, Paulina (AKA Lena and Ruby), Bessie (AKA Bess or Betsy), Clara, Cora and Marie.