Dusty D happened across this little tidbit in the Archives. It is a memorandum written in 1952 by onetime city historian (back when this was a paid position) Louis White. He notes the existence of Aray family graves on the Cady farm near the present-day Meijer's on Carpenter Road. As you can see on this Google map, 4280 Ellsworth is now the site of a subdivision. What happened to these graves? Why did Mr. Cady tell Mr. White to "keep [his] nose out"? Dusty D did a bit of checking on the Aray family and saw that there was an interracial marriage in the family, in an era when that was pretty much unthinkable. Is this why? Was Mr. Cady a relative who didn't want this publicized? Where are the graves now? It's one of those mysteries that starts tugging at your sleeve: "Please, tell our story..."
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The Mystery of the Aray Graves
Dusty D happened across this little tidbit in the Archives. It is a memorandum written in 1952 by onetime city historian (back when this was a paid position) Louis White. He notes the existence of Aray family graves on the Cady farm near the present-day Meijer's on Carpenter Road. As you can see on this Google map, 4280 Ellsworth is now the site of a subdivision. What happened to these graves? Why did Mr. Cady tell Mr. White to "keep [his] nose out"? Dusty D did a bit of checking on the Aray family and saw that there was an interracial marriage in the family, in an era when that was pretty much unthinkable. Is this why? Was Mr. Cady a relative who didn't want this publicized? Where are the graves now? It's one of those mysteries that starts tugging at your sleeve: "Please, tell our story..."
