This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gay Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1428 Message Board Post: Gay, William (deceased), one of the early settlers of Wauponsee Township, was born in Connecticut, April 20, 1820, a son of Robert and Julia Ann (Crowell) Gay. William Gay came to Grundy County in 1854, and bought a fine farm in Wauponsee Township, operating it until 1894, when he retired. He also bought considerable realty at Morris. In 1856, Mr. Gay married Mary Matilda Gulick and they had one child – Willis Russell. Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois, 1914, page 815