This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gray, Kettering Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1552 Message Board Post: Barry Adage Newspaper, Fri. Aug 22, 1890, p5, col 4, "The telegraph had another sad surprise for our citizens, and especially for the relatives, in conveying the news of Floyd B. Gray's death at Ashland, Wis., Monday. His demise was caused by heart disease and was very sudden and unexpected. He was at a hotel at Ashland with his wife and child and was entertaining the little one when the attack came, and rising to his feet he walked to the bed and fell upon it a corpse. For several months he had been in ill health, yet his family and friends had no idea his end was so near nor that death would come in the manner it did. The remains, accompanied by the widow and child, arrived here on the cannon ball train Tuesday night, the funeral taking place from the residence of Mrs. S. Gray, mother of the deceased on Wed. at 2pm. Rev. T.G. McLean, assisted by Eld. H. C. Littleton, conducted the service. Thus closed the career of one of the brightest young men this city ever produc! ed. Thrown upon his own resources in his early youth, he developed a business faculty far in advance of his years, and his advancement from clerk in one of our grocery stores to that of one of the leading traveling salemen of the country was rapid and permanent. His last days were spent in the employ of Franklin, McVeigh & Co., a large Chicago grocery house, and at a salary such as comparatively few men receive. Floyd B. Gray was the son of Schuyler and Amanda Gray and was born in Barry nearly 31 years ago. He was married to Miss Gretta Kettering, daughter of Geo. Kettering, at Hannibal in 1887. He leaves a widow, a son two years old, mother, brothers and sisters in bereavement."