Elijah Milton GrayAge: 83 years1850–1934
- Name
- Elijah Milton Gray
- Given names
- Elijah Milton
- Surname
- Gray
 Birth | July 6, 1850 |
 Historical Event | Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859 (Age 6 years)Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884 |
| Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 10 years)Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 16 years)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 16 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 18 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 27 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Marriage | Samantha Alice Overley — View this family October 30, 1881 (Age 31 years) Note: Marriage info from findagrave site |
 Birth of a son#1 | Martin Dewey Gray April 2, 1898 (Age 47 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 47 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
 Census | June 1, 1900 (Age 49 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 65 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Marriage of a child | Martin Dewey Gray — Ines Fisher — View this family June 20, 1917 (Age 66 years) Note: Marriage info from findagrave site |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | Verne Milton Gray February 3, 1918 (Age 67 years) |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 66 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 67 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 79 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
 Death | February 18, 1934 (Age 83 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Mount Vernon Cemetery South |
| Family with Samantha Alice Overley |
| himself |
Elijah Milton Gray Birth: July 6, 1850 — Piqua, Miami, Ohio, United States Death: February 18, 1934 — Oxford, Sumner, Kansas, United States |
| wife |
Samantha Alice Overley Birth: March 3, 1860 — Allen, Indiana, United States Death: April 4, 1943 — Oxford, Sumner, Kansas, United States |
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Marriage: October 30, 1881 — Winfield, Cowley, Kansas, United States |
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16 years son |
Martin Dewey Gray Birth: April 2, 1898 47 38 — Cowley, Kansas, United States Death: February 7, 1970 — Belle Plaine, Sumner, Kansas, United States |
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| Census | 1900 United States - Census transcript - Elijah Milton Gray - Household
Udall, Cowley, Kansas, United States
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