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Reverend Alfred Daniel GREY[1]

Male 1890 - 1972  (81 years)


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  • Name Alfred Daniel GREY 
    Prefix Reverend 
    Born 23 May 1890  New Hamburg, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Died May 1972  Toledo, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Buried Sebringville, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID I357  John Cowan Family Tree
    Last Modified 6 Jul 2020 

    Family Jane McLeod JEFFREY
              b. 21 May 1891 
    Married 4 Aug 1914  Stratford, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Children 
     1. Anna Frances GREY
    Last Modified 8 Aug 2020 
    Family ID F117  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • From Tom Loghrin's Wikitree entry, taken May 26, 2020:
      "Alfred grew up in New Hamburg. He graduated from the evangelical Wheaton College in Illinois in 1911 and three years later from the modernist Chicago Theological Seminary. Alfred said, "Ozora Stearns Davis, President of Chicago Seminary exercised a profound influence over me. I learned more from him than from all the rest of the faculty together."

      Of his marriage to Jane Jeffrey in 1914 he said, "The marriage will take place very quietly in August."

      On September 1, 1914 he "returned home" to Tacoma, Washington where he was ordained in his first job as an Associate Pastor. The sermon was by his brother, Rev. Ira Milton Grey.

      His daughters were born in 1915 and 1917 and Alfred said, "My great purpose in life is to live for them and rear them to noble womanhood."

      Other points of reference in his life were:

      In 1920 he had a parsonage in Waukesha, Kansas.
      From 1941 to 1947 he owned a 70 acre farm in the Sebringville, Ontario area which was farmed and later purchased by Wm. Monteith Jeffrey.
      From 1942 to 1952 he had a parish in Toledo, Ohio.
      From June, 1952 to October, 1953 he lived in Stratford and had a parish in Harmony and Tavistock, Ontario.[1]

      Milly Swartzbaugh, had this to say about her grandfather, Alfred: He and his brother Milton loved to fish together. He was a wonderful preacher, blessed with a keen wit and sense of humour. He served many churches, but perhaps his longest pastorates were in Lawrence, Kansas and Toledo, Ohio. One man told me after his death, "To be with Alfred Grey WAS to be happy." That was how I felt about him as well."

  • Sources 
    1. [S61] Tom Loghrin, Tom Loghrin, Library/William Jeffrey (II)/2-Tom Loghrin file., Page 2 Person 5.2, 8 Nov 2018.

    2. [S30] WikiTree, Alfred Grey, 26 May 2020.
      https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kreh-26
      From Tom Loghrin