↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 18 October 2021), memorial page for Sarah Ann “Sally” Lay Barker (26 Oct 1790–Jul 1835), Find A Grave: Memorial #100832500, citing Lay Cemetery, Waverly, Union County, Kentucky, USA ; Maintained by Karen Thomas (contributor 47522396) .
"Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG16-9QBJ : 9 March 2021), Thomas Barker and Sally Lay, 29 Aug 1805; citing Marriage, Fayette, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 8,998.
1814 Stephen Lay Will. Kentucky, Union County, County Clerk, Wills, Vol. A, p. 18-19, 13 July 1814, digital image 94 of 363, FamilySearch.org ([1]: accessed 20 January 2023)
"...to my daughter Sarah Barker one negro boy named Nate..."
1886 History of Union Co., Kentucky. Author unknown, (1886), History of Union County, Kentucky: a Complete Account of the Settlement, Organization and Government of the County, Together with Facts and Figures Concerning the Society, Professions, Commerce, Industries, Agriculture, Coal, Railroads, Education, Religion, and Other Institutions and Resources of the County, and Biographical Sketches of Its Leading Citizens. Evansville, Indiana:Courier Co., 1886, p. 646. Ancestry.com, ([2]: accessed 20 January 2023).
“Thomas Hardin Barker, Esq. farmer of Waverly Precinct, is the son of Thomas and Sarah (Lay) Barker...His grandfather, Stephen Lay, another Revolutionary hero, married Nancy Kitchen, in Virginia, of which State they were both natives. They came to Union very early and died here respectively in 1822 and 1840.”
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