Mary Gale Graham

Mary Gale Graham

Mary Gale Graham Wilson

• Father: Joseph Mitchell Graham b. circa 1854, d. circa 1925
• Mother: Elizabeth Richardson b. circa 1855

• Mary Gale Graham was born circa 1890 in Lockerbie, Dryfesdale, Dumfries, Scotland.
• Joseph Mitchell Graham and Elizabeth Richardson appeared in the British census of 5 April 1891 in Dryfesdale, Dumfries, Scotland, at 43 Sydney Place. Other members of the household included Mary Gale Graham, John Graham, Walter Graham, Jane B. Graham, Joseph Henry Graham and Richard Graham.
• Joseph Mitchell Graham and Elizabeth Richardson appeared in the British census of 31 March 1901 in Lockerbie, Dryfesdale, Dumfries, Scotland, at 61 Sydney Place. Other members of the household included Mary Gale Graham, Walter Graham, Jane B. Graham, Joseph Henry Graham, Richard Graham, Harold Graham, Bessie Graham and William M. Graham.
• A photographic portrait was made, about 1906, of Joseph and Elizabeth Richardson Graham and their family.
• Elizabeth Richardson arrived in the Port of New York on 23 May 1909, accompanied by Mary Gale Graham, Jane B. Graham, Richard Graham, Bessie Graham, William M. Graham, Walter Graham and Mary Graham aboard the Anchor Line SS Caledonia, having departed Glasgow on the 15th. Elizabeth's husband and son Harold preceding the rest of the family, having arrived in New York about four months earlier aboard the same ship.
• Joseph Mitchell Graham and Elizabeth Richardson appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Manhattan, New York, at 309 West 116th Street. Other members of the household included Mary Gale Graham, Jane B. Graham, Richard Graham, Harold Graham, Bessie Graham and William M. Graham.
• She married William Edward Wilson, son of William Simpson Wilson and Kate DeYoung, on 14 July 1916.
• William Edward Wilson registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Erie County, New York, while living with his wife Mary at 48 Prospect in Kenmore, and employed in Buffalo as a tool foreman at Ericsson Manufacturing Company, 1100 Military
  Road.
• William Edward Wilson and Mary Gale Graham appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Kenmore, Erie County, New York, at 48 Prospect Avenue. Other members of the household included Jean Wilson.
• William Edward Wilson and Mary Gale Graham appeared in the New York state census of 1 June 1925 in Kenmore, Erie County, New York, at 48 North End Avenue. Other members of the household included Jean Wilson.
• William Edward Wilson and Mary Gale Graham appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Kenmore, New York, at 48 North End Avenue. Other members of the household included Jean Wilson.
• William E. Wilson was photographed in the family garden in their Kenmore back yard, July 1935.
• William Edward Wilson and Mary Gale Graham appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Kenmore, New York, at 48 North End Avenue.
• Mary Gale Graham became a widow at the 19 April 1957 death of her husband William Edward Wilson.
• Mary Gale Graham died circa 1983.
• She was interred at Hackensack Cemetery, Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey.
• A single grave marker identifies the graves of William Edward Wilson and Mary Gale Graham.

• Last Edited: 16 Jul 2013

• Charts: Descendants of WILSON Peter & Margaret Simpson