Fourth Generation

125. John Walter (Walter) Bray^{17,127,150,179,180,181,182,183,184}. Birth: 9 January 1890, Knox County, Tennessee.^150,180 He was known in the family as Uncle Walter. He was a military man.

Census: 1900, Loudon County, Tennessee. J. Walter 10 son, male, single, white, Jan 1890, born TN, father and mother born TN.

Census: 1910, Loudon County, Tennessee. Walter 20 son, male, single, white, laborer/car shop, born TN, father and mother born TN.

Draft registration: 5 June 1918, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio.¹⁸⁰

(the registration card is water damaged and very difficult to read)
1. Name - John Walter Bray
2. Address - 104 ???, Dayton, Ohio
3. Born - 9 Jun 1890
4. Citizenship - native born
5. Born - Knox Co., Tenn.
7. Occupation - Lt. J.G.
8. Address - City R.R. Co. 25
9. Dependents - wife and child
10. Status - married, race - Caucasian
11. Military service - six years, U.s.A.
signed - John Walter Bray
1. Height - med, build - med
2. Color of eyes - brown, color of hair - black
Precinct 6E, Dayton, Ohio, June 5, 1917

Census: 1920, Loudon County, Tennessee. Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, 17 Jan 1920; p.223b, 317 Poplar Street, dwelling number 764, family number 823; Voiles Waver 16 boarder male single white, presser, hosiery mill, born TN, father and mother born TN; Egbert 20 boarder male single white, electrician, car works, born TN, father and mother born TN; Bray Walter 28 boarder male married white, laborer, car works, born TN, father and mother born TN; Golda 24 boarder female married white, born TN, father and mother born TN; Salina 2 6/12 boarder female single white, born TN, father and mother born TN, enumerated in the boarding house of John A. Ridge. Golda was his wife, Waverly and Egbert Voiles were Golda's brothers, and Salina was his daughter.

Census: 1930, Calhoun County, Alabama. Dist. 6, Precinct 3, Calhoun County, Alabama, 2 Apr 1930; Fort McClellen, p.72a, dwelling number 7, family number 8; Bray John W. 40 head male m@25 w soldier, army, born TN, father and mother born TN; Goldie M. 34 wife female m@19 w, born TN, father and mother born TN; Salina 12 daughter, female, single, white, born KY, father and mother born TN; William E. 8 son, male, single, white, born KY, father and mother born TN; Louisa 6 daughter, female, single, white, AL TN TN; Charles A. 4 1/12 son, male, single, white, AL TN TN; Jewell J. 2 1/12 daughter, female, single, white, AL TN TN.

Death: 19 November 1948, age 58, at Anniston Memorial Hospital Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama.^150,184 Alabama Death Index Information: Name: John W Bray; Death Date: 19 Nov 1948; Death County: Calhoun; Volume: 44; Certificate: 21604; Roll: 5.

Obituary: Anniston Star, 19 Nov 1948, page 2.
John Walter Bray Died At Hospital Early Today. John Walter Bray, 58, of 810 Keith Avenue, died early this morning at the Anniston Memorial Hospital, following a brief illness. Funeral services will be announced later by Colonial Chapel. Mr. Bray is survived by his wife, Mrs. Goldie Mae Bray; three daughters, Mrs. Louise Brantley and Mrs. Salina Mooney of Anniston, and Mrs. Virgil Lux of Shelbyville, Ind.; two sons, Charles Bray of Anniston, and William Bryan of the U. S. Army overseas; three brothers, W. W. and Ed Bray of Lenoir City, Tenn., and Henry Bray of Lexington, Ky.; one sister, Miss Dosia Bray, of Lenoir City (sic, Hazel Dosia Bray was his niece); and one grandchild.

Burial: at Highland Cemetery Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama.

John Walter (Walter) Bray and Golda Mae (Goldie) Voiles Marriage: 27 November 1915, Loudon County, Tennessee.^150,179,183

page 144, County Marriage Record. Loudon, Tenn, Nov 27 1915. This day issued to J. W. Bray to marry Goldie Mae Voiles. E. E. W., Clerk. State of Tennessee, Loudon County, I solemnized the rite of matrimony between the within named parties, on the 27 day of Nov 1915. S. H. Oneah M.G.

Golda Mae (Goldie) Voiles^{150,179,181,182,183,185,186}, daughter of William Allen Voiles and Nancy Olive Sewell,. Birth: 24 May 1896, Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee.^183,186 The death certificate of her infant son John Walter Bray says that she was born in Kentucky. The 1910, 1920, and 1930 censuses say that she was born in Tennessee.

Missing from census: 1900,.

Census: 1910, Pulaski County, Kentucky. Goldie 13 daughter, female, single, white, born TN, father and mother born TN.

Census: 1920, Loudon County, Tennessee. Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee, 17 Jan 1920; p.223b, 317 Poplar Street, dwelling number 764, family number 823; Voiles Waver 16 boarder male single white, presser, hosiery mill, born TN, father and mother born TN; Egbert 20 boarder male single white, electrician, car works, born TN, father and mother born TN; Bray Walter 28 boarder male married white, laborer, car works, born TN, father and mother born TN; Golda 24 boarder female married white, born TN, father and mother born TN; Salina 2 6/12 boarder female single white, born TN, father and mother born TN, enumerated in the boarding house of John A. Ridge. Walter Bray was her husband, Waverly and Egbert were her brothers, and Salina was her daughter.

Census: 1930, Calhoun County, Alabama. Goldie M. 34 wife female m@19 w, born TN, father and mother born TN.

Death: 25 May 1991, age 95, Shelbyville, Shelby County, Indiana.^183,186 Social Security Death Index Information: Name: Goldie M. Bray; Born: 24 May 1896; Died: 25 Mar 1991; State (Year) SSN issued: Indiana (1951).

Goldie lived most of her married life in Alabama where her husband Walter served in the Army. After Walter died in 1948, Goldie moved to Indiana to live near her daughters Juanita and Louise.

Obituary: Shelbyville News, Monday, May 25, 1991.
Goldie Mae Bray, 94, died today at Heritage house Convalescent Center, where she had been a resident since 1979. Born may 24, 1896, in Lenoir City, Tennessee, she was a daughter of William and Nancy O. Sewell Voiles. On November 27, 1915, she married John Walter Bray. He preceded her in death in 1948. Mrs. Bray was a homemaker and had lived in Shelbyville since 1950. She was a member of the Church of God. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Virgil (Juanita) Lux, and Mrs. Lewis (Louise) Browning, both of Shelbyville, and Salina Mooney, Alameda, California; one son William E. Bray, Anniston, Alabama; 15 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by three sisters, two brothers and a son. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Carmony-Ewing Broadway Funeral Home. Revs. Robert Milam and Bill Horner will officiate. Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.

Burial: 27 May 1991, Forest Hills Cemetery, Shelbyville, Shelby County, Indiana.¹⁸³

John Walter (Walter) Bray and Golda Mae (Goldie) Voiles had the following children:

+340	i.	Esada Salina (Salina) Bray.
341	ii.	John Walter Bray¹⁸⁷. Birth: 3 May 1920, Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee. Death: 4 May 1920, age 0, Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee. Death Certificate #75 1. Place of death - Dist. 2, Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee 2. Name - Jno Walter Bray 3. Sex - Male 4. Race - White 5. Married, single, divorced - (blank) 6. Date of birth - 3 May 1920 7. Age - 0 years, 0 months, 0 days 8. Occupation - 9 - Birthplace - Lenoir City 10 - Father - Walter Bray 11. Born - Tenn 12. Mother - Goldie Voiles 13. Born - Kentucky 14. Informant - Walter Bray, Lenoir City, Tenn. 15. Filed 5 May 1920, B.B. Carter 16. Died - 4 May 1920 19. Buried - Lenoir City Cemetery, 5 May 1920 20. Undertaker - Walter Bray, Lenoir City Burial: 5 May 1920, at Lenoir City Cemetery Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee.
+342	iii.	William Edward (Bill) Bray.
+343	iv.	Living.
344	v.	Charles Robert Bray^{71,150,181,182}. Birth: 30 July 1925, Alabama.⁷¹ Census: 1930, Calhoun County, Alabama. Charles A. 4 1/12 son, male, single, white, AL TN TN Death: 14 December 1967, age 42,.⁷¹ Social Security Death Index Information: Name: Charles Bray; Born: 30 Jul 1925; Died: Dec 1967; State (Year) SSN issued: Kentucky (Before 1951).
+345	vi.	Jewell Juanita (Juanita) Bray.