BRAY,
Thomas Chandler
The Arizona Weekly-Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory
December 25, 1889, image 4
All that was mortal of, Thomas C. Bray was deposited in the Citizens cemetery this afternoon at three o'clock. The funeral was attended by a large concourse of people. The wife and two children of the deceased have the sympathy of our people in their bereavement.
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The Arizona Champion, Mohave County, Arizona Territory
December 28, 1889, image 3
A Good Man Gone
On Monday morning the friends of Gorham A. Bray were grieved to learn that his cousin Thomas C. Bray of Prescott, had suddenly died in the night before of heart disease. G. A. Bray left on Monday afternoons train for Prescott to attend the funeral and make the final arrangements.
All that was mortal of the deceased was laid in a temporary grave in the Citizens cemetery at Prescott on Wednesday last, and the funeral was largely attended by the citizens of the town.
Mr. Thomas C. Bray came to Arizona about 11 years ago and engaged in business at Prescott. Shortly after he was joined by Gorham A. Bray who was his partner until the fall of 1887, when he started a store of his own in Flagstaff. The deceased was a brilliant businessman and generous citizen, and raise scores of friends in this portion of Arizona who ------- at his untimely demise.
He leaves a wife and two children in the East, to whom the heartfelt sympathies of this community are extended.