Person

William J. Lay (Union County, Tennessee, farmer)

b. 1829-08-25 d. 1906-08-01

Union County, Tennessee, farmer. Tennessee native. Son of William Lay and Sarah Lay. Married to Hester Ann Lay. Father of Elbert Lay and Marion Lay. Farmer with his father, William Lay, and brother, Samson S. Lay, in Grainger County, Tennessee, in 1850. Farmer in Union County in 1860. Employed William Kitts in Union County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Union County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Grainger County, District 13, p. 117A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Union County, District 1, p. 425.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Union County, District, p. 2.

"William J. Lay (1829-1906)," Find A Grave, Memorial #43291285, accessed January 31, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43291285.

Citation

Lay, William J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197069 (November 12, 2026).

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