Nelson Gay (abt. 1812 - abt. 1899)

Born about Apr 1812 in Gays Creek, Clay County, Kentucky, USA [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Polly (Huff) Gay — married [date unknown] in Kentucky

Husband of Hannah (Barger) Gay — married about 20 Nov 1835 in Clay County, Kentucky [uncertain]

Husband of Charity (Bowling) Gay — married 27 May 1864 in Perry County, Kentucky

Descendants

Died about Aug 1899 at about age 87 in Turkey Branch, Leslie County, Kentucky, USA [uncertain]

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Biography

Nelson Gay was born in April 1812 in Kentucky, USA. He is the son of William Henry Gay and Margaret Russell. He married three times : Polly Huff, Hannah Barger, and Charity Bowling [1].

He was buried in August 1899 in Abraham Barger Cemetery in Saul, Perry County, Kentucky, USA.

Residence 1: 1870, Bolius, Perry, Kentucky.664, 664, 664 Residence 2: 1850, District 1, Perry, Kentucky.665 Residence 3: 1860, District 1, Perry, Kentucky.666

Additional Bio (may be of interest for comparison, etc.

According to Descendants of Thomas Gay, Submitted by Bonnie Gay Christensen:^[1]

NELSON GAY, who was W. HENRY'S twenty-first son and youngest of his and MARGARET'S sons, was married three times, first to HANNAH BARGER, daughter of ABRAHAM BARGER. Their children, all sons too, were: THOMAS GAY, father of LIGE (ELIJAH), Born 1895, and CALE GAY, born 1910,: BILL GAY, father of ALLEN GAY, born 1892,: JOHN GAY; ABRAHAM GAY; LIGE GAY; HENRY GAY; and JESS GAY.

NELSON'S second wife was CHARITY BOWLING. They had three children. His third wife was Polly Huff, no children.

46. Nelson5 Gay (Henry (William Henry) "Red"4, William3, Thomas2, Unknown1) was born April 01, 1811 in Gays Creek, Shoal, Perry County, Kentucky, and died August 1900 in Hazard, Leslie County, Kentucky. He married (1) Hannah Barger November 30, 1835 in Saul, Perry County, Kentucky, daughter of Abraham Barger and Mary Bowling. She was born 1819 in Saul, Perry County, Kentucky, and died 1861 in Leslie County, Kentucky. He married (2) Charity Hoskins Bowling May 27, 1864 in Bullskin Creek, Clay County, Kentucky, daughter of Pallas Bowling and Mary Cornett. She was born 1845 in Clay County, Kentucky, and died August 16, 1873 in Leslie County, Kentucky. He married (3) Polly Huff Aft. 1872 in Perry County, Kentucky, daughter of John Huff and Mahala Begley. She was born June 03, 1835 in Leslie County, Kentucky, and died 1921.

Notes for Nelson Gay:

Nelson was born near Rush Creek in what was then Clay County, Kentucky...he built a home near the Turkey Branch and lived there for 60 to 70 years and never moved but his address changed from Clay County to Perry County to Leslie County.

In the "Perry County, Kentucky, A History" By Hazard Kentucky Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, copyright 1953 it states: " Among the families prominent in the early days of the settling of the Buckhorn area may be listed the following names: Johnson, Amis, Anderson, Baker, Barger, Bowling, Burton, Callahan, Deaton, Fox, Gay, Gross, Hacker, Lewis, McDaniel, McIntosh, Riley, Sebastion, Smith, Turner, White and York. In 1927, Asbury Johnson, while a graduate student at Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee. started work on a paper entitled, "A Brief History of various Families around Buckhorn, Kentucky" the work was ceased because of his ill health and subsequent death. Before the death of Luther, his brother, in 1951 obtained some of his material for study......An interesting story is told of the pleasant relationship between Jerry Smith, of Buckhorn, and Nelson Gay of Gay's Creek, which is six miles above Buckhorn on the road which now leads to Hazard, via Chavies and Grapevine Creek. It seems that Nelson Gay had a drum at his home on Turkey Branch, just above Gay's Creek and Jerry Smith had a Bugle at Buckhorn. The two men used to signal to each other these six miles until "Marshall's Rebels" took Nelsons drum during the Civil War.

Sources

1. ↑ Descendants of Thomas Gay, Submitted by Bonnie Gay Christensen. https://www.tfkrha.org/Genealogy/Genealogy_Gay_Thomas.php

• "Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWV3-53D : accessed 7 March 2016), Nelson Gay in entry for John Gay, 19 Oct 1854; citing , , PERRY, KENTUCKY, reference ; FHL microfilm 216,838.
• "Kentucky Births and Christenings, 1839-1960," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWV3-TLS : accessed 7 March 2016), Nelson Gay in entry for William Gay, 18 Aug 1859; citing , , PERRY, KENTUCKY, reference ; FHL microfilm 216,838.
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZBJ-DTY : accessed 7 March 2016), Nelson Gay, 1860.
• "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWYT-JQH : accessed 7 March 2016), Nelson Gay and Charity Hoskins, 29 May 1864; citing Clay, Kentucky, reference it1, p90; FHL microfilm 1,904,623.
• "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX4M-9SZ : accessed 7 March 2016), Nelson Gay, Kentucky, United States; citing p. 7, family 44, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,993.
• "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1961", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N9N4-4SS : accessed 7 March 2016), Nelson Gay in entry for Thomas Gay, 1928.