Pray Burials

Peter Pray

Born: June 1889 in New Hampshire¹
Died: 1959
Buried: Lot 24
Married: Winnie Florence Fleck Abt. 1906.² She died in 1943 and is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Polk Co., Iowa⁵
Married: Elsie Lind
Parents: Lyman P. and Anna Bragdon Pray ⁷

1. U.S. Census 1900, Portsmouth ward 1, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire

2. U.S. Census 1930 lived in Des Moines, Iowa with Winnie and father-in-law, George S. Fleck, age 67, born in Iowa with father born in Pennsylvania and mother born in Vermont.

3. On line Social Security Death Index

4. U.S. Census 1920 confirms birth in Missouri with father born in Pennsylvania and mother born in Illinois. U.S. Census 1930 says that she was born in Iowa with father born in Illinois and mother born in Ohio.

5. Charter-Pierce Cemetery Records available through iagenweb.org/polk

6. 1925 Iowa State Census, Stuart, Adair Co., Iowa

7. 1925 Iowa State Census, Lincoln Ave, Des Moines Ward 1, Polk Co., Iowa

Elsie (Bechtel) Lind Pray

Born: May 18, 1896³ in Ravanna, Mercer County, Missouri⁴
Died: June 3, 1972 in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa
Buried: Lot 87 with Linds
Married: John A. Lind October 14, 1914 in Earlham, Iowa
Children: Loren, Helen and Barbara
Married: Peter Pray
Parents: John and Diana Jane Stanley Bechtel⁶

Mrs. Elsie Pray

Services for Mrs. Elsie Pray, 76, of 1440 Ovid Ave. will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Hamilton's Funeral Home, with burial in Sugar Grove Cemetery near Metz.

Mrs. Pray died of a heart attack Saturday at her home.

A Ravanna, Mo. native, Mrs. Pray lived in Stuart before moving to Des Moines 25 years ago. She was a retired department store saleswoman and was a member of Grand View Lutheran Church.

Mrs. Pray is survived by a son, Loren Lind of Des Moines; two daughters, Mrs. Helen Halvorson of Chandler, Ariz. and Mrs. Barbara Lewis of Newton, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. ~ Des Moines Tribune, June 6, 1972