Family/Spouse: BRAY, Melvin. Melvin died on 26 May 1925 in Natural Bridge, Jefferson County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: COOPER, Edward. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rome NY Daily Sentinel - 4/18/1940

Coonrod, April 18-Mrs. Ellen
Bray Nichols, 30, wife of Roscoe
W. Nichols, died early this morning
at a Rome hospital after an
illness of three weeks.
She was born at Clyde, March
25, 1910, a daughter of the late
Melvin and Hattie Colney Bray.
At Sodus in 1927 she was married
to Mr. Nichols. They lived at New
London before coming here a year
and a half ago. Mrs. Nichols was
a member of the Methodist
Church.
Surviving besides her husband,
are two daughters, Shirley E. and
Betty G., and a son, Roscoe jr.,
all at home; two sisters, Mrs. Edward
Cooper and Mrs. Russell Mc-
Williams, both of Ogdensburg;
three brothers, Henry Bray, Copenhagen;
Warden Bray, Depeyster;
and Mtelvin Bray, Lewisburg.
Funeral services will be held at
the funeral home of Griffin &
Aldridge, Rome, on Saturday at 3
p. m. Interment will be made in
Rome Cemetery.

Ellen married NCHOLS, Roscoe W in 1927 in Sodus, Wayne County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Watertown NY Daily Times - 11/5/1973

CARTHAGE - Henry W.
Bray, 61^ Copenhagen, was
pronounced dead on arrival
this . morning at Carthage
Area Hospital. He had been
ill one year.
The funeral will be-at 2,
p.m. Wednesday at the Bossuot
Funeral Home, Rev. Donald
C. Allnatt, pastor, United
Church of Copenhagen, officiating.
Burial will be in Riverside
Cemetery, Copenhagen.
, Friends, may call from 3 to
5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at
the funeral home..
Surviving are his widow,
Mrs. Bonita Bary; three sons,
Wesley, Pulaski, David, Copenhagen,
and Gilbert, Oswego;
two daughters, Mrs. Darrell
(Carol) Rader, Rockville,
Md., and Bonnie, at home, 13
grandchildren, and, nieces
and nephews.
Born April 2, 1912, at, Edwards,
a son. of Melvin and
Harriett Colony Bray, he was
educated in schools in the
Natural Bridge vicinity and
married Bonita Carpenter
He had operated farms in
the Copenhagen area most o f
hs married life and had been
a bus driver for the Carthage
Centrar .'School system until
retiring a year ago due to
health.
He was a former .member
of the Copenhagen fire department,
a member and past
noble grand of the Copenhagen
Odd Fellows Lodge.

Henry married CARPENTER, Bonnie on 10 Feb 1937 in Ogdensburg, St Lawrence County, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: MCWILLIAMS, Russell. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Carol married RADER, Darrell on 26 Dec 1964 in Newport, Newport County, RI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: BEIRMAN, Glenn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: HEWITT, Donald. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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