Roger married HOWLAND, Carol Anne on 16 Oct 1965 in Watertown, Jefferson County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Watertown NY Daily Times - 10/16/1965

Miss Carol Anne Howland.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James E. Howland, Spring
Valley drive, was married to,
Roger Lyle Bray, son of Mrs.
Wesley Backus, 165 Mechanic
street, and Melvin Bray, 804
Bradley street, this afternoon
at 2 in Asbury Methodist
church, with Rev. W. Russell
Clark, pastor, officiating.
Given in marriage by her
father, the bride wore a floor
length gown of bouquet taf-
feta and Chantilly lace, styled
with a fitted bodice accented
with a midriff of lace,
trimmed with sequins, and
seed pearls, with a round
neckine, long sleeves and
a modified bell-shaped skirt.
A crown of seed pearls and
crystals held her veil of im-
ported illusion.
Mrs. Melvin L.. Bray,, sister
of the bride, was matron of
honor and Melvin L Bray
brother of the bridegroom,
was best man. Raymond How-
land, brother of the bride
was usher.
A reception is being held
at the New Parrot restaurant.
For traveling the bride will
wear a blue mohair suit with
black accessories.
Mrs. Bray attended Water-
town schools. Mr. Bray attend-
ed Watertown schools and is
employed at the New York
Air Brake company.

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Watertown NY Daily Times - 11/23/1965

Melvin J. Bray, 52, of 804
Bradley street, an employe
of the St. Regis Paper com-
pany, died this morning at
2:35 in Mercy hospital where
he had been a patient since
Nov. 16.
Mr. Bray had been in ill
heallth since suffering a cor-
onary thrombosis four years
ago but had been able to
work most of the time until
entering the hospital.
Funeral will be Friday
morning at 11 at the Simpson
funeral home with Rev. W.
Russell Clark, pastor of As-
bury Methodist church, offici-
ating. Committal services
will be at 1:30 p.m. at the
South Edwards cemetery,,
South Edwards. Friends may
call at the funeral home this
eveningn from 7 to 10 and
Wednesday and Thursday
from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m.
Surviving Mr. Bray are
three sons, Roger L.,
165 Mechanic street; Melvin
L., Watertown, R. D. 3,, and
Lawrence G.,, serving aboard
the U.S.S. Brinkley Bass off
South Viet Nam' two
daughters, Mrs. Donald (Ha-
zel) Hewitt, Rutland Center,
and Mrs. Glenn (Clarice)
Beirman,, Herrings; two
brothers, Henry, Copenhag-
en, and Warden,, Depeyster;
a sister, Mrs. Russell (Har-
riet) McWilliams, Ogdens-
burg; a half-brother, Basil
Bray, address unknown; a
half-sister,, Mrs. Oscar Mur-
dock, Natural Bridge, and
seven grandchildren.
Mr. Bray was born April
7, 1913, at Rossie, a son of
Melvin and Hattie Coloney
Bray. He attended schools
in the Rossie vicinity. He
married Miss Dorothy Ellis.
The marriage ended in di-
vorce years ago.
Mr. Bray served in World
War II with the U.S. army.
He had been employed for a
number of years as a boiler
room operator at the Car-
thage mill of the St. Regis

NOTE: Article ended

Melvin married ELLIS, DorothyNew York. Dorothy was born about 1921 in New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Watertown NY Daily Times - 5/27/1925

Natural Bridge, May 27.-Just
how Melvin Bray, ??-year-old oiler
came to be caught between the
pinion and the 50-toot gear under-
neath the rotary kiln and cooler at
the plant of the Basic Refractories
corporation, which resulted in his
death here yesterday morning, will
never be known.
This was revealed at an inquest
held at the company's office by Dis-
trict Attorney E.. R.. Wilcox late
yesterday afternoon. There was
no eye witnesses to the fatal acci-
dent. Six employes of the company
testified at the inquest and each
said that he did not see his fellow
workman become entangled in the
year and meet death.
The inquest showed that Bray
was not oiling the machinery at the
time. His oil can was about three
feet from the pinion and gear. The
pinion and gear work upwards, an
investigattion showed, and the bot-
tom of the pinion ger which con-
nects with the big 50-tooth year is
only eleven inches from the ground.
It was in this small space that
Bray's right arm was caught.
His arm was worn from its socket,
his head was dragged between the
teeth of the pinion and the big
gear and mangled badly. The acci-
dent resulted in the power being
shut out instantly. Basti Cooper,,
brother-in-law of Bray, was the first
attracted to the scene. He was his
relative lying on the ground under-
neath the pinion and then spread
the alarm to other workmen in the
place, saying "Mel is caught in the
machinery and is dying." When
the workmen arrived Bray was
dead. It is believed that he was
killed almost instantly.
Eward Van Tassel, foreman; Ar-
thur J.. Sechrist,, superintentent;
Ora Pack,, burner; Glen Williams,
machinist, and Paul andrus and
Everett Peck, laborers, were worn
at the hearing. All testified that
Bray wa a temperate man and of a
pleasant disposition.
District Attorney Wilcox is of the
brlief that Bray slipped as he was
walking by the pinion and gear and
fell underneath. The district at-
torney declared that it was not a
suicide. The wife of the ded man
said that he left the house at 7 yes-
terday morning in the best of spirits
and that they never had any
serious quarrels.
The deceaed was the main sup-
port of a family of 13 children. Six
were his children by his first wife
while his second wife had five chil-
dren when he married her. It also
was her second marriage. Two
children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Bray since their marriage five
years ago. Bray earned $21 a week
at the plant where he had been em-
ployed for four years.

Melvin + COLONEY, Hattie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]