GRAY, SAMUEL (1850 LIVING 1918)

GRAY, SAMUEL, Baptist minister, Newcastle field, 1916-18; b. Chatham, Kent, England, 1850; m. Margaret Ann - ; living in 1918.

Samuel Gray was ordained a Baptist minister in 1881. Before coming to New Brunswick in 1915, he had been pastor of a church in Brighton, England, for many years and had also preached in London. He was at Gagetown for a year following his arrival and came to Newcastle in September 1916. He delivered his final sermon in Newcastle in May 1918 but spent the summer preaching on the Little Southwest before leaving, at age sixty-eight, to take a church in Toronto. He and his wife had at least eight children. Three of their sons served in the armed forces in World War I, including Ernest Gray, who was also a Baptist minister.