Notes:

. 1920 Dec 14 - York Co. Pioneer Called By Death, Mrs. Catherine Gray of UEL Stock Dies at Lansing
One of the oldest of the pioneer residents of York to passed away at Lansing on Friday Dec 10, in the person of Mrs. Catherine Gray, relict of the late Robert Gray of York Mills.
Of U.E. Loyalist stock, a daughter of the late John C Van Notsrand, whose grandfather left Long Island, NY, in 1800 & settled at York Mills & of his wife Mary, whose father, Joseph Shepard, was reputed to be one of the first white men to attempt to carve out a home in the wilderness a few miles north of what was destined to become Little York, the deceased spent the whole of her lifetime of nearly 89 years in that neighborhood.
In addition to recollections of the traditions of the early settlers, of the days when her mother's father, as a winter recreation, would don his snow shoes & purse a deer until the animal, exhausted by its flight through the deep snow, became an easy victim of his hunting knife, she was well informed on all the topics of the day & took a deep interest in the details of the great world war & its sequel.
Surviving her are 2 sisters, 2 sons & 3 daughters.
Ref: The Globe Newspaper, Toronto. - - -

Birth:
ALT NAME: Mary E; ALT DOB 1854 and 1852 / Census 1891.