Mary Elizabeth Lay

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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Family Time Line

Benjamin Franklin Terry
1845–1914
Mary Elizabeth Lay
1847–1902
Marriage: 3 May 1869
William Franklin Terry
1870–1872
George Austin Terry
1872–1953
Joseph Terry
1874–1943
James Delbert Terry
1876–1929
John Reynolds Terry
1878–1935
Sytha Elizabeth Terry
1881–1959
Willard Burgess Terry
1883–1963
Silas Terry
1886–1911
Leo Terry
1891–1949

Sources (21)

  • 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"

World Events (8)

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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Ancestors of Velma Howard Who Came to Utah (North America) with the Mormon Pioneers

NOTE MANY INDIVIDUAL STORIES OF THESE INDIVIDUAL ANCESTORS UNDER MEMORIES ON FAMILYSEARCH: Samuel Lorenzo Howard 1840-1906, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England to Riverton, Salt Lake, Utah in 1856 with the …

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