Minerva (Davis) Gay
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Minerva T. (Davis) Gay (1843 - 1888)

Minerva T. Gay formerly Davis
Born in Cave Springs, Jackson County, KY, USAmap
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Wife of — married 16 Nov 1864 in Madison County, Kentuckymap
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Died at age 45 in Madison County, KY, USAmap
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Profile last modified | Created 26 Feb 2014
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Biography

Minerva T. Davis, daughter of Lewis and Margaret (Coyle) Davis, was born in Madison County, Kentucky, near Cave Springs, in 1843. She married Benjamin Franklin Gay, son of John and Nancy Catherine (Whorten) Gay in Madison County in 1864. They had eleven children (John Lewis 1865, Alice 1867, Anna 1869, Lou L. 1871, Talitha 1873, Ida Wheeler 1874, Marietta 1878, Frank Leslie 1880, Myrtle 1883, Jennie Lettie 1885, Pearl 1888).

Minerva and Ben began housekeeping in a log cabin in back of the Davis homestead. They later moved to cave Springs to a place called "the Sinks," where the waters of the South Fork of the Station Camp Creek sinks from the creek bed and appears again a few miles downstream at a place called "the Rises." Ben ran a general store, while Minerva raised her own family and helped care for her younger siblings after her mother's death.

In 1880, the family moved to Mallory Springs in Madison County, then the next year to Berea, Kentucky, where Ben resumed his merchandising business.

Minerva died in 1888 when the youngest child was a baby. Ben married again and moved to Garrard County, on a farm near Loyal, Kentucky, and became a farmer. After his wife's death he returned to Berea. He died in 1924. Minerva and Ben are both buried in the Berea Cemetery.

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Davis-23827 and Davis-21211 appear to represent the same person because: I am proposing a Merge of these two Minerva Davis profiles. I believe her correct name should be Minerva Davis Gay (as she married Ben Gay in 1864). But the profile you manage calls her Minerva Davis Sharp -- Sharp is actually her daughter's married name. Thanks for considering the Merge. Martha

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