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Sarah 'Sally' Gray
"Sally" Laws was born Aug. 15, 1924, in Donnellson, Ill., the daughter of Joel and Esther Young Laws. She received a bachelor's degree from Millikin University in Decatur, Ill. She was married to Eugene Marsh Gray on July 20, 1945, in San Marcos, Texas. The couple lived in Cambridge from 1947 until moving to Green Valley in 1989. They are members of the Henry County Historical Society and the Mercer County Historical Society. Survivors include her husband, Eugene; two sisters, Marilyn "Jane" Parkinson, Baraboo, Wis., and JoAnn Noland, Decatur; sisters-in-law, Annabelle Burgland, Galesburg, and Opal Roe, Aledo; and several nieces and nephews. 
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Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The Rt. Rev. Harry I. Witherspoon, D.D. Bishop of Illinois, willpreach in Trinity (Episcopal) Church, in this city this evening.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Mississippi River flooded itsbanks at Rock Island, destroying the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber companyand damaging the Lumber Company and arsenal power plant. Total loss isestimated at $100.000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of South Rock Island township are circulating a petitionfavoring the annexation of that area to the city of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Mrs. Thomas Ackles, of Rock Island, has been elected president ofthe Playcrafters for the next season. She succeeds Warren Leonard.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Some 8,000 people filed through the gates of Rock Island Arsenal on Saturday to view a display of a part of the nation's armed strength. The occasion was theannual observance of Armed Forces Day.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Willis Kuschmann, of Moline, who already has won his laurels as oneof the most artistic men in the Quad-Cities area, has a new hobby. He is deeply involvedin miniature railroading. At the age of 88, when many other seniors are dozing in theirchairs or sitting before the television, Mr. Kuschmann is planning and working on hiscollection.
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