John (jack) Lay / Mary Pauline (polly) O'dell


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	Family Sheet HUSBAND Name: John (jack) LayMale Note Born: Abt 18141814-1-1 at Claiborne County, TennesseeClaiborne County, Tennessee ^[2] Married: 6 Aug 18391839-8-6 at Tazewell, Claiborne County, County, Tennessee Died: 22 Jan 18621862-1-22 at Campbell County, TennesseeCampbell County, Tennessee ^[4] Father: John David (big Valley Dave) Lay Mother: Mary Moore WIFE Name: Mary Pauline (polly) O'dell Note Born: Abt 1818 at Speedwell, Claiborne County, Tennessee ^[6] Died: Abt 1895 at Victoria, Marion County, Tennessee ^[7] Father: Bartlett H. O'dell Mother: Elizabeth Quillen CHILDREN Name: Martin Bartlett Lay Born: Abt 1840 at Claiborne County, Tennessee Died: 19 Jan 1862 at Fishing Creek , Pulaski County, Kentucky Name: Lavisa Lay Born: Abt 1842 at Claiborne County, Tennessee Died: at Yavapai County, Arizona Husband: James S. Brown Name: Elizabeth Lay Born: Abt 1843 at Claiborne County, Tennessee Died: at Globe, Gila County, Arizona Husband: James H. Curnutt Name: David L. Lay Born: 4 Apr 1845 at Claiborne County, Tennessee Died: 17 Jul 1927 at Vilas, Baca County, Colorado Wife: Annis Elizabeth (lizzie) Taylor Name: William Quillen Lay Born: 7 May 1847 at Claiborne County, Tennessee Died: 2 Feb 1919 at Marion County, Tennessee Wife: Louisa Jane Brown Name: Elijah (s.o. John (jack)) Lay Born: 9 Jul 1849 at Claiborne County, Tennessee Died: 19 Nov 1933 at Cornville, Yavapai County, Arizona Wife: Mary Ann Petree Name: Elisha (s.o. John (jack)) Lay Born: 9 Jul 1849 at Claiborne County, Tennessee Died: 1934 at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Wife: Eliza (liza) Sweat Name: John D. (johnny) Lay Born: Abt 1852 at Tennessee Died: 25 Dec 1924 at Oak Creek, Yavapai County, Arizona Wife: Jessie Fenstermaker Duncan Name: Mary (d.o. John (jack)abt 1814) Lay Born: Abt 1854 at Campbell County, Tennessee Died: at Lafollette, Campbell County, Tennessee Name: Rhoda C. Lay Born: 13 Dec 1858 at Campbell County, Tennessee Died: 16 Jan 1916 at Fountain City, Knox County, Tennessee Husband: Charles Henderson Wells Name: Nancy (nannie)(d.o. John(jack)) Lay Born: 22 Sep 1860 at Campbell County, Tennessee Died: 23 Sep 1946 at Fincastle, Campbell County, Tennessee Husband: William Burnett SOURCES 2). Elizabeth Ann Gilchrist Jun 1998 O Dell.GED 4). Elizabeth Ann Gilchrist Jun 1998 O Dell.GED 6). Elizabeth Ann Gilchrist Jun 1998 O Dell.GED 7). Elizabeth Ann Gilchrist Jun 1998 O Dell.GED NOTES 1). bobspu.ged REF 1. U.S. Census 1850 TN Claiborne Co. 7th sub division, E. dist. 951 951. MF 432 874. 2. Wm. J. Heinle, desc of Mary Pauline O DELL LAY 219 E. Date Ave., Casa Grande, AZ 85222. 3. Mr. Heinle s sources Lay Genealogy by J. Gilbert Lay Census records Marrriage Records, Campbell Co., TN Eva McCarty, Clinton, TN 4. Eva McCARTY desc. of Jack and Polly O DELL LAY, via Elisha LAY , 616 Miller Road Clinton, TN. Letters to compiler 1996 97. 5. U.S. Census 1860 TN Campbell Co. 8th CD Fincastle P.O.p 77 514 507. MF 653 1240. 6. Index to Marriage Records, Vol 2 1838 1973, notation reads, No page s. Copy the 1st pg of L s in the index. Want John LAY & Catherine ODLE. about half way down the page, LAY, John to Catharine ODEL Year 1840 Book 2 Page 22. Page has no identification, but appears to be a state index, since Nashville appears in very small print in the upper left corner of the page. Copy provided by Steve STAMM, whose signature is at the bottom of the photocopy order. 7. Steve STAMM, 1503 Barbra Estates Dr., Seymour, TN 37865. Desc. of David L. and Annis Elizabeth LAY. BIO Per Mr. Heinle, Jack LAY was originally buried in the Lay Cemetery near his farm in Campbell Co., TN. later, his remains were re interred by the TVA at Baker s Forge Memorial Cemetery, also in Campbell Co. Mrs. McCARTY related the traditional story of the arrival and settling of the LAY families from ENGLAND. According to Mary Alice ERNHART, grand daughter of Wm. Quillin LAY, son of John Jack LAY and Mary Pauline...the LAYs three LAY brothers John, Jessee and David came from ENGLAND arrived in the Land of Charles in Southern Carolinas. There John David LAY, son of Jessee and father of John Jack was born. John, Jessee and David moved into VA near Gate City & farmed the John Lay Homestead. From there Jesse & two sons, Jesse Jr. and John David moved down to Elizabethton, TN. From there they moved down to Claiborne, Co. TN later where they lived became Campbell Co., TN ... The farm was located on both sides of the Powell River in what is now Campbell Co...about 6 miles from LaFollette, TN. ... Jack and Mary PaulinePolly ran the Lay gristmill on the Powell River....the Lays used a ferry to get from one side of the Powell river to the other side of the farm....the Dave Lay Cave that was on the farm. Tradition says Jack hid Civil War Soldiers in it. Also he hid gold in it. Family says Jack s son David found the gold and that is how he bought the heirs out... John Jack is buried beside his mother... ...It is said old Jesse Sr. was an old man when he came to Claiborne Co TN. & died not too many years after coming to Big Valley. Jesse Jr. & John David took over the farm Then John Jack & his son David. In notes on her family group sheets, Mrs. McCARTY wrote, ...During the Civil War John Lay s sympathies were with the Union Cause. Although he had two sons that served in the Union Army, his oldest son, Bartlett, joined the Confederate side... May, 1997 Compiler established contact with Steve STAMM, a descendent of the LAYs via their son, David L. Steve provided a copy of a page from a marriage index which lists John and Catharine ODEL LAY s marriage as 1840no specific date is given and no county is mentioned. The only possible documentation of this marriage compiler has found was in a Claiborne County index which listed this same marriage and the 1840 date. Source Elizabeth Ann Gilchrist Jun 1998 O Dell.GED 2). bobspu.ged BIO Contact via The Genealogical Helper Magazine, between Bill HEINLE and compiler resulted in most of the initial information compiler was able to find about the children of Bartlett H. and Elizabeth QUILLEN O DELL. Later research in Claiborne County, TN brought the three Lawrence EDWARDS books about the Old Speedwell community to light. This is apparently where much of Mr. Heinle s data came from, too. Compiler was unable to find specific documentation for the marriage of John Jack LAY and Polly ODELL in Claiborne Co. For a while compiler was tempted to believe the marriage took place outside of Claiborne County, and it may have however, Mary Pauline s parents were living in Claiborne County from 1840 until they died. Direct descendents of the LAYs, Bill HEINLE and Eva McCARTY, record Mary P. and Jack LAY s marriage in 1839 in Claiborne County, TN. Jack and Mary P. LAY were enumerated in Claiborne County in 1850. By 1860 they were in the Fincastle P.O. area in Campbell County when the enumeration was done. In 1870, Mary P. is enumerated next door to her daughter and son in law, Elizabeth and James CURNUTT , in Campbell County. Jack LAY died in 1862, and Mary P. was shown as the head of her own household in 1870. Her three youngest daughters were still at home. March, 1996 Compiler received a back issue of Reflections , a quarterly newsletter of the Claiborne County Historical Society which contained a feature article on the ODELS, compiled by Marjorie WALSH, a descendent of Marshall L., Mary Pauline s brother. Per the family group sheet for Bartlett and Elizabeth shown in the article, Polly ODEL s name is given as Mary Margaret Polly ODELL . The source of this data is not specified, but may have come from papers Ms. WALSH found at the LDS Library in Salt Lake City. Nov. 1996 Compiler established contact with Eva McCARTY of Clinton, TN, via correspondence with Marjorie WALSH. Mrs. McCARTY, a desc. of Mary P. O DELL LAY, has provided detailed information on the LAY family. Since establishing contact with other descendents of the Bartlett O DELL family, several very specific dates have been found on various members of Bartlett s family. Once specific birth and death dates began to appear from tombstones, death records, etc., other conflicts in previously recorded data resulted. One instance of this was the ca year of birth given to Mary P. O DELL LAY. Her year of birth had been calculated as 1824 until the discovery of Louisa Eliza O DELL NELSON s tombstone. That stone records Louisa Eliza s date of birth as 11 April 1824. Compiler re examined her files to find evidence to support the 1824 date of birth for Mary P.. The three census records available show her as being 26 in 1850, 39 in 1860 and 50 in 1870. This type of variation in age increments from one census to another have been common in the records for the O DELL family and their close kin. In NOV, 1996, compiler received one of several letters from Eva McCARTY. Mrs. McCARTY wrote, ...I found in the records of Marion County, TN, the Sardis Methodist Church Cemetery...Mary Pauline Polly O DELL LAY s tombstone says, Mary A. 1818 1895 Wife of John LAY ... This is the first specific year of birth compiler has found for this ancestor. The only documentation found to date that may be that of the marriage of Jack and Mary Pauline LAY comes from two marriage indexes one in Claiborne County, TN found by compiler and a photocopy provided by Steve Stamm, which is probably from a TN state index. Both sources show, LAY, John to Catharine ODLE 1840 Book 2 page 2. Mrs. McCARTY reports that she found the date of the LAYs marriage in the work of Mary Pauline s great grand daughter, Mary Alice LAY EARNHART, a family historian with many years of work on the LAY family. REF 1. U.S. Census 1850 TN Claiborne Co., 7th sub division, E. dist. 951 951 MF 432 874. 2. William J. HEINLE, 219 E. Date Ave. Casa Grande, AZ 85222, desc. of Mary Pauline O DELL LAY. 3. Claiborne County, TN marriage indexes exact title not recorded located in Claib. Co. Pub. Lib. Tazewell, TN. Marriage record indexed as Book 2 19 LAY, John to Catherine ODLE, 1840. This is the only marriage record compiler was able to locate that MIGHT be that of Polly ODELL and John LAY. 4. Old Speedwell FamiliesRevised p 279 Lawrence EDWARDS & Joy EDWARDS DAVIS Claib. Co. Pub. Lib. Tazewell, TN 5. REFLECTIONS , Summer Ed., 1995 Vol. 13, No. 3 Claiborne Co. Hist. Soc. Newsletter pp. 12 19 O DELL, ODLE, ODEL, ODIL UPDATE , by Marjorie WALSH, 4309 W. Atlantic Blvd. Coconut Creek, FL 33066. 6. Eva McCARTY 616 Miller Rd. Clinton, TN 37716 desc. of Elisha LAY. Letters to Marjorie WALSH, Sept. 1996 and later letters to compiler. 7. U.S. Census 1860 TN Campbell Co. 8th C.D. Fincastle P.O. p 77 514 507. MF 653 1240. 8. U.S. Census 1870 TN Campbell Co. 8th C.D. Fincastle P.O. p 12 86 81. MF 693 1516. 9. Notation of birth and death years from tombstone provided by Eva McCARTY, see REF 6 above. 10. Steve STAMM, 1503 Barbra Estates Dr. Seymour, TN 37865. Desc. of David L. and Annis Elizabeth LAY. 11. Photocopy of 1st page of L marriages from Index to Marriage Records copy order signed by Steve Stamm source of index not cited, but is probably from TN State Archives. 12. Work of Mary Alice LAY EARNHART, grand daughter of William Quillin LAY, via Eva McCARTY. See REF. 6 13. Tombstone of Mary A. LAY Sardis Methodist Cemetery, Union Co., TN. Grave of Mary P. LAY Eva McCARTY see Ref. 6. Born source Tombstone PAGE Mary A. LAY Died source Tombstone PAGE Mary A. LAY Source Elizabeth Ann Gilchrist Jun 1998 O Dell.GED If you want me to let you know when I change the website, please signup here (no more then once a quarter!)

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