A Tragic Family Story

 

Fall River Daily Evening News - 12 December 1913

Stricken by a cerebral hemorrhage as she was turning out the gas light in her bedroom at Worcester, Tuesday night, preparatory to retiring, Mrs. Susan Wray, aged 34 years, struck the jet, as she fell, in such a way that she reopened it, and her dead body and that of her infant daughter, Winifred, 17 months old, were found in the bedroom, next morning by Joseph Wray, the husband and father, when he returned from his night's work.

Isn't this sad? Susan was my great-grandfather's sister. They were both born in Ireland, but then immigrated to the United States. Susan married Joseph Wray and they had three children, Harold, Ethel and Winifred. After her death, Joseph married Jane Freeborn.  Many years later, my mom visited Worcester, Massachusetts, and took some pictures of Susan's home and grave.

!BURIAL: Hope Cemetery, 119 Webster St., Worcester, Massachusetts 01603 visited by Judith Anne Beckstrand 22 April 1995.  Joseph Wray 1880-1964; Susan Wilson, his wife 1878-1913; Winefred E. their daughter 1912-1913; Jane Freeborn, his wife 1888-1975; Lucy Freeborn 1889-1932

Have fun scrolling Susn's FamilySearch page here, which includes a family picture taken in Ireland (before her marriage).