Obituary (from newspaper of 29 Feb. 1980): CLAYTON---The funeral for Miss Bertha C. McRae, 84, a retired teacher, formerly of Clayton and Grindstone Island, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Cummings Funeral Home here, with Rev. Robert Nay,
pastor of the Clayton United Methodist Church, officiating. Spring burial will be in Grindstone Island Cemetery.Calling hours will be 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Donations may be made in her name to the Grindstone Island United Methodist Church.
Miss McRae died at 9:45 a.m. Thursday in Madonna Home, Watertown, where she had been admitted Jan. 24.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Earl (Mabel) Cummings, Coutts Adult Home, Cape Vincent; a niece, Mrs. John (Ruth) Kufchuck, Carthage; a nephew, Richard M. Cummings, Liverpool; five grandnieces and grandnephews and five great-grandnieces
and great-grandnephews.Born on Grindstone Island, Aug. 7, 1895, a daughter of Alexander R. and Nettie Rattray McRae, she attended Grindstone Island school and was graduated from Clayton High School and Cortland Normal School.
She taught in 1910 on Grindstone Island and taught in the Westchester County school system from 1920 until retiring in 1957, when she returned to the Clayton section.
She was a member of the Grindstone Island Methodist Church and the New York State Retired Teachers Association.
1 CMNT says her name was spelled Gzchwind
1 CMNT of Consecon, Canada
Removed to Clayton at the age of 25.
Orlando was born in Gananoque, Canada, acquired his education in the schools of that town, and resided there until he attained his majority. He then came to Grindstone Island, purchased a farm of two hundred and fifty acres, and has since
devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits.
1 CMNT of Consecon, Canada
Martin went to California in the early history of gold mining, and after spending three years there returned east and followed carpentering and contracting in connection with running vessels on the Great Lakes, taking grain, etc., to all
points. Later he settled on Grindstone Island, where his death occurred at the age of eighty-four years.
1 CMNT Mary only child