Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
When Mary Elizabeth Lay was born on 2 March 1847, in Aberdeen, Monroe, Mississippi, United States, her father, William Harvey Lay, was 29 and her mother, Sytha Solena Crosby, was 29. She married Benjamin Franklin Terry on 3 May 1869, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1848 and lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870 and United States in 1900. She died on 21 February 1902, in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Mary Terry, "United States Census, 1870"
- Mary Elizabeth Lay Terry, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary Lay in entry for Willard B. Terry, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1861
Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union at the start of the Civil War in 1861.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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