Harry William Grayson^[1]

1889 - 1923  (34 years)

• Name	Harry William Grayson
  Birth	5 Jun 1889	Vallejo, Solano, CA
  Gender	Male
  Census	12 Jun 1900	Vallejo, Solano, CA
  	age 10, born Jun 1889 in CA, at school, living with parents
  Census	28 Apr 1910	Vallejo, Solano, CA
  	age 20, born CA, living with parents
  WW1 Reg Card	19 Jun 1917	Butte, Silver Bow, MT
  	age 28, born Vallejo CA, Ore Concentrator at Butte & Superior Mining Co, supporting wife and mother
  Census	2 Jan 1920	Oakland, Alameda, CA
  	age 30, born CA, divorced, mining engineer for mine, living with stepfather and mother
  Death	23 Jul 1923	Cloverdale, Sonoma, CA
  Person ID	I3813	Family Tree
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Charles Henry Grayson,   b. Nov 1857, Canada d. 7 Aug 1914, Vallejo, Solano, CA (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Dorothy A “Dora” Watson,   b. Apr 1860, Whiskey Diggings, Sierra, CA d. 17 Jan 1922, Alameda Co, CA (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	17 Jul 1888	Vallejo, Solano, CA
  Family ID	F191	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Zelda Burke,   b. 3 Nov 1895, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA d. 9 Dec 1957 (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	11 Sep 1915	Vallejo, Solano, CA
  Divorce	1920
  Notes	from "The Goldfiedld News and Weekly Tribune", 4 Sep 1915 (newspapers.com) Word has been received by local friends announcing the marriage of Miss Zelda Burke of Goldfield, who with her mother and father, is visiting in Los Angeles, to Harry Grayson, formerly of this camp, at Vallejo, Calif., Sept. 11. Grayson will be remembered as the center fielder of Goldfield's crack baseball team of 1912. He is a graduate of the University of Nevada and has a wide circle of acquaintances here. He is connected with a large plant in Vallejo in an important capacity. Miss Burke is one of the most popular young ladies of the camp.
  Family ID	F10543	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2023

  
  

• Notes

  from "The [Grass Valley] Morning Union", 25 Jul 1923 (newpapers.com) SANTA ROSA (Sonoma Co.), July 24 (By the Associated Press) Harry Grayson, said to be a wealthy resident of Reno, Nevada, and Earl O'Connor, aged 11, of San Francisco, were killed and Mrs. John O'Connor, mother of the child and her niece, Miss Ruth Armstrong were severely injured when an automobile in which they were riding skidded and plunged over thirty feet embankment near McCray's Station, north of here. According to officials, Grayson, at the wheel of the car, attempted to make a sharp turn at too great a speed. from "The Reno Evening Gazette", 24 Jul 1923 (newspapers.com) The Nevada man who was killed in an automobile accident at Santa Rosa yesterday was identified as Harry Grayson, a mill foreman of the United Comstock Mines Company of American Flat. Mr. Grayson was on his vacation at he time of the fatal accident. The victim studied mining at the University of Nevada several years ago and later went to Butte, Mont., where he entered the employ of the Anaconda Copper Company. He was about thirty-four years old.

  
  

• Sources

  [S23] California Death Records 1940-1997, (http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi), Reg 33560 for Harry Grayson.