Rella (Gay) Parker (1918 - 2011)

Born 24 Mar 1918 in Perry, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Died 27 May 2011 at age 93 in Scottsburg, Scott, Indiana, United States

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Biography

Rella was born in 1898 to Mitchel Gay Laura Gay. She married Felix Parker. Rellie passed away at the age of 94 and is buried in the Spurgeon Cemetery in Austin, Scott County, Indiana^[1]

Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999^[2]

• Name: Rella Gay
• Date of Birth: 24 Mar 1918
• Birth Place: Perry, Kentucky, USA
• Mother's name: Laura Gay
• Volume Number: 28
• Certificate Number: 13679
• Volume Year: 1918

In the 1930 Census Rella was 12 years of age and still at home. ^[3]

I found a Rellie (sic) G. Parker in the 1940 Census, in District one of Perry County, that was married to Felix Parker, I am 100 percent sure this is the same person as Rella Gay, with a name like Rellie or Rella and being listed as Rellie G. Parker, I am relatively sure. ^[4]

Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011^[5]

• Name: Rellie Parker
• Maiden Name: Gay
• Gender: Female
• Race: White
• Age: 93
• Marital Status: Widowed
• Birth Date: 24 Mar 1918
• Birth Place: Perry County, KY
• Death Date: 27 May 2011
• Death Place: Scottsburg, Scott, Indiana, USA
• Father: Mitchell Gay
• Mother: Laura Gay

Sources

1. ↑ U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current[1]
2. ↑ Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999;Original data: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Databases: Births 1911-1999. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMFK-SXY : accessed 13 August 2015), Rella Gay in household of Mitchel Gay, Campbell, Perry, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 0003, sheet 6A, family 104, line 26, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 774; FHL microfilm 2,340,509.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7YV-FXW : accessed 13 August 2015), Rellie G Parker in household of Felix Parker, Magisterial District 1, Perry, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 97-1, sheet 3A, family 34, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 1348
5. ↑ Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011; Indiana State Board of Health. Death Certificates, 1900–2011. Microfilm. Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, Indiana.[2]