Amy Gray

By the 1886-1887 winter season, 39 Marlborough was the home of attorney Russell Gray and his wife, Amy (Heard) Gray. They had married in November of 1886, and 39 Marlborough probably was their first home together. Prior to their marriage, he had lived t 143 Beacon with his mother, Sarah Russell (Gardner) Gray, the widow of Horace Gray. Russell and Amy Gray also maintained a home in Nahant.

Their two sons, Horace Gray and Augustine Heard Gray, lived with them. Horace Gray married in October of 1915 to Katharine Meeker and they moved to 290 Commonwealth. He was a physician.

Russell Gray died in 1929. Amy Gray continued to live at 39 Marlborough. Augustine Gray, a career Naval officer, continued to live with her. He married in about 1933 to Elizabeth DuBois Jordan. They lived at 39 Marlborough with his mother until about 1936, when they moved to Long Beach, California.

39 Marlborough had remained the property of the Dodge family, and on December 26, 1946, it was acquired by Amy Gray from Henry Percival Dodge’s widow, Agnes Page (Brown) Dodge, and his daughter, Alice Lamb Cleaves Dodge.

Amy Gray continued to live at 39 Marlborough until her death in 1949.

https://backbayhouses.org/39-marlborough/ I.S. 12/15/2017