William
Spencer
Lay
Born about in Tennessee, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Peter Lay
and Rebecca (Croley) Lay
Brother of
Elizabeth (Lay) Stanfill, Lucinda (Lay) Smith, Nancy Lay, Sherman Lay, Mary Ann Lay and Martha (Lay) Baird
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 73
in Mount Vernon, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Feb 2021
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Biography
William was born about 1860. He is the son of Peter Lay and Rebecca Croley. He married Mary Miles and they had seven children.
Children
- Pete Lay m Mary White
- Chester Lay m Jennetta Schock on 16 Jun 1914
- Dewey Lay m 1st Cordie.Brewer, m 2nd Minnie Kiethly
- Fannie Lay m Alex.Durham
- Rebecca Lay m Emmett Keithly
- Marth Lay m 1st Harry Knowl, m 2nd Charles Cla __
- Audie Lay m Sherman Lay
Sources
- "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8T7-TLL : 11 November 2020), William S Lay in entry for Peter Lay, 1860.
- "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD8J-2RL : 3 January 2021), William Lay in entry for Peter Lay, 1870.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Denny Lay
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, FTDNA kit #931081
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~3.12%
Loretta (Leger) Corbin :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A124004 [compare], Ancestry member loretta_corbin
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A124004 [compare], FTDNA kit #B62233
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~3.12%
Del Leger :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T490396 [compare], FTDNA kit #699514
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~2.73%
~6.25%
Holly (Lay) Yancey :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Janet (Bennett) Foster :
23andMe, GEDmatch M201420 [compare]
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch M201420 [compare], FTDNA kit #B2219
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~0.78%
Denny Lay :
23andMe, GEDmatch Jj8946227 [compare]
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AncestryDNA
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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~0.78%
Charles Shull :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Megan Jones :
AncestryDNA
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