When James Marion Lay was born on 4 April 1879, in Putnam, Missouri, United States, his father, Lewis F Lay, was 51 and his mother, Margrey Pickett, was 32. He married Margaret Eveline Alexander on 26 June 1906. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Cottonwood, Powell, Montana, United States in 1920 and Election Precinct 10 Middle Creek, Gallatin, Montana, United States in 1940. He died on 22 March 1944, in Gallatin, Montana, United States, at the age of 64.
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The Great Gale of 1880 was a severe snow and wind storm that devastated parts of Oregon and Washington on January 9, 1880. The extratropical cyclone caused tides to rise seven feet, gale force winds, and snow accumulations of up to 18 inches.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
English: variant of Lee .
Scottish: shortened form of McClay .
German: habitational name from any of the places so named, in the Rhineland near Koblenz and in Bavaria, from lay(h), a word meaning ‘stone, rock, slate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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