Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
This obituary appeared in the Ft. Payne Journal on Wed. July 4, 1945.


"Chester Bray Killed By Train"

"Chester Bray, about 35, an employ of the Dyer Lumber Company, Trenton, Georgia, was fatally injured Thursday morning, June 21, at 8 o'clock, when a fast A.G.S. railway freight train struck his automobile at the street crossing near the Church of God, two blocks east of the courthouse.
Bray was enroute to the Dyer Lumber Company planing mill where he was employed, and when he reached the railway crossing he evidently did not see or hear the fast approaching south bound freight train, for he drove his car upon the track immediately in front of the engine, and had no time to stop or escape before he was struck. The auto which Bray was driving was literally torn to scraps, the engine being hurled across the street some forty or 50 feet a way.
Bray suffered a severe injury of the head, both legs appeared to be broken, and he evidently suffered from internal injuries as well.
An ambulance from Chattanooga was called and made a record run to Trenton, and rushed the injured man to Newell's Sanitarium, where he died an hour after his arrival.
Bray came to Trenton from Valley Head, Ala., some months ago, and secured a position with the Dyer Lumber Company as fireman, and has been regularly employed since his arrival here.
He is survived bY his wife and other relatives who reside in Valley Head, -Dade County Times"

CHESTER married GASS LAURA E. CHADWICK. LAURA (daughter of CHADWICK WILLIAM ALEXANDER and KIRKSEY MARGARET) was born in 1906; died in 1985; was buried in Head Springs Cemetery, DeKalb County, Alabama. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
The children listed came from a 1920 DeKalb Co. Al. census with the exception of Mary .
Lawson went by the name Lawson Taylor Bray.

LAWSON married CROW MARY ELIZABETH on 23 Dec 1897 in DeKalb County, Alabama, Marriage Book F, page 7. MARY (daughter of CROW JEFF and MOODY ELIZABETH) was born on 16 Mar 1881 in Atlanta, Georgia; died on 27 Oct 1922 in DeKalb County, Alabama; was buried in New Home Baptist Cemetery, Hwy 40, Hennegar, DeKalb County, Alabama. [Group Sheet]

UNKNOWN married BRAY CLARA ELIZABETH. CLARA (daughter of BRAY SHADRACH and WHITE NORMA) was born in Mar 1846 in Alabama; died after 1920 in DeKalb County, Alabama. [Group Sheet]

JEFF married MOODY ELIZABETH. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:

1 _MILT
2 DATE 1835
2 PLAC Florida War, Company I, Snodgrass Battn. PVT


Filed a claim with the Southern Claims Commission in DeKalb Co. Al. in 1879. Status A, Clai m # 21968
The claim was approved for payment. (Reference: General Reference Branch, National Archives , Washington, D.C. 20408)

SHADRACH married WHITE NORMA on 12 Jul 1838 in DeKalb County, Alabama. Marriage papers 1836, 37, 38, & 39.. NORMA (daughter of WHITE JOHN and KEITH CLARA) was born in Oct 1820 in South Carolina; died on 31 May 1905 in DeKalb County, Alabama; was buried in Whitehall Cemetery, DeKalb County, Alabama. [Group Sheet]