Regarding Gays in Lawrence/Dade Co MO... There is also the JAMES M. GAY in Lawrence Co who is in cahoots with my Wm Washington Gay to deal with one Mr. Haegerty's alleged abuse of his family in Jan 1860, and who is beaten with a club and ax by two gentlemen in mid-1859 (if I recall correctly, per Judy's book .."A View from the Courthouse") Wm Washington & Mary Bowen Whaley Gay have a son James, but he is born in 1860, so would have been a little young. Ross, Anyone...How does this James M. Gay appear in the 1860 Lawrence Co census; does he? I am beginning to think that my Wm Washington Gay and the Whaley folks may have gone to the area because they heard good things about it from their Gay cousins. I know that Wm Washington's daughter Tennie Hill kept up with the folks in TN, then KY until she died in the 1900s. Janet