July 28, 1932 Miller Co Autogram
FORMER MILLER COUNTY WORMAN DIES OF LOCK-JAW
Mrs. W. T. Gray contracts Tetanus from cut inflicted by striking her
knee on jagged edge of broken bottle.  Funeral held at Fairview Church
Near Iberia.
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    Mrs. Margaret Gray, wife of W. T. (Theodore) Gray, of Jefferson
City, died in St. Marys hospital Friday morning from lock-jaw,  Mrs.
Gray, while on her way to the home of a neighbor, fell and struck her
knee against a jagged edge of a broken milk bottle which had been cast
into a patch of weeds. Eleven stitches were taken in the wound.  About a
week later, tetanus  developed and she was taken to the hospital the day
before she passed
away.  Lock-jaw serum was administered but she passed away four hours
later.
    Mr. and Mrs. Gray moved to Jefferson City about three years ago.
She was the daughter  of Mr. and Mrs. Polk Jarrett (both now deceased)
and was 42 years old.  Besides the husband she is survived  by seven
brothers
and two sisters, namely; Charlie Jarrett of Wet Glaize, Fred D. Jarrett
of Granite City, Illinois, Oscar Jarrett of Jefferson City, George F. ,
Abel, Willis and Henry Jarrett, and Mrs. George Barr of Iberia. and Mrs.
Joe
Slone of Hancock.
   The body was conveyed to Miller County Saturday and funeral services
were conducted at the Fairview Church by Rev. C. M. Sooter after which
burial  was held at the Jarrett Cemetery.
     the deceased was born and reared in the Iberia community where she
had many friends who held her in highest regard and are deeply grieved
by her tragic death.