Brief Life History of George William
When George William Lay was born about 1853, in Centerville, Hickman, Tennessee, United States, his father, Elisha Lay, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Emaline Adams, was 33. He married Mary Edith Swift on 23 July 1920, in Maury, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Wayne, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Beaver Township, Searcy, Arkansas, United States in 1900.
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- George W Lay in household of Elisha Lay, "United States Census, 1870"
- Geo William Lay, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- George William Lay, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
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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