For many years, there were no known photographs of Gray in that period to compare with the one known high-quality photograph of Place. Willis believed that the similarities were striking, but in the absence of a photograph of Gray, there was no way of verifying or refuting his observation. More recently, amateur genealogist Donna Donnell found Eunice Gray on a 1911 passenger list from Panama. It was reported in 2007 that she had tracked down Eunice Gray's niece, who had two photographs of her: one wearing her high-school graduation dress circa 1896 and another taken in the 1920s. Comparing the photos with one of Place, both agreed that Eunice Gray was definitely not Etta Place. In January 1962, Eunice Gray died in the fire which destroyed the Waco Hotel, which she still owned and operated at 110 1/2 East 15th street in Fort Worth, Texas. Documents saved from the fire indicated that she had been born in 1884. The documents found after the fire further showed that Gray's estate was valued at more than $90,000. There were no letters or communications to verify her family, her origin, or where she had lived between 1901 and 1909. Donna Donnell's research many years later found that Eunice Gray's real name had been Ermine McEntire. She had actually been born in 1880. She is buried in Platte City Cemetery in Platte City, Missouri.