Lucy Gay

(23 February 1793 - 18 August 1873)
Pedigree - three generations
Date this page was last edited=7 Feb 2016
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Ancestors of Martha Josselyn (1909 - 2007)
Lucy (Gay) Morse. From Alonzo Josselyn's photo album; notation by Edgar Josselyn: "Grandmother Morse"
Lucy Gay was born on 23 February 1793.1 She was the daughter of Solomon Gay and Chloe Daniels.2

Note: I have been unable to find a birth or baptism record to confirm Lucy Gay's parents. The following facts point to Solomon Gay Jr. and Chloe (Daniels) Gay of Sharon, Massachusetts as her parents: (1) Lucy lived in Sharon when her marriage intention was recorded in 1812, and she was married there; (2) of the three Gay households in Sharon appearing in the 1810 U. S. census, only that of Solomon Gay Jr. had a female in Lucy's age bracket; (3) the date of Lucy's birth fits in well with the births of Chloe's other children. - H. DeVoe.

The intention of marriage of Harford Morse and Lucy Gay of Sharon was entered on 12 April 1812.3

Lucy Gay married Harford Morse, son of Ezra Morse and Susanna Guild, on 30 April 1812 at Sharon, Massachusetts.4 Lucy Gay and Harford Morse resided in Roxbury, Massachusetts.5

Lucy Gay appeared on the census of 12 August 1850 at Roxbury, Massachusetts, as head of household; the value of her real estate was shown as 2500.6 She lived in 1852 at 30 Warren Street, near Washington Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts, according to a 1852 Roxbury directory.7

Lucy Gay appeared on the census of 26 June 1860 at Roxbury, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.8 The census gave the value of her real estate as 3000, and of her personal estate as 400.8

Lucy Gay appeared on the census of 31 August 1870 at Boston Highlands, Massachusetts, as head of household, with the value of her real estate shown as 5,000.9 Edgar A. Josselyn was very fond of his Grandmother Morse (Lucy Gay.)10

Lucy Gay died on 18 August 1873 at age 80.1 She was buried on 21 August 1873 in Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.1,11,12

Children of Lucy Gay and Harford Morse

Citations

  1. [S432] Gravestone inscriptions, Lot 2918, Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, original proprietor Henry Morse.
  2. [S415] GEDCOM file received July 2004 from A. Joanne Hunt, 18 Cranberry Lane, Litchfield, New Hampshire, 03052.
  3. [S418] Roxbury Marriages and Deaths, 163, 287.
  4. [S606] Baldwin, Vital Records of Sharon, 98.
  5. [S405] Morse, Memorial of the Morses, 13.
  6. [S444] Lucy Morse household, 1850 U.S. census, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Roxbury.
  7. [S466] Adams, Roxbury Directory, 1852, 77.
  8. [S448] Lucy Morse household, 1860 U.S. census, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Roxbury Ward 1.
  9. [S443] Lucy Morse household, 1870 U.S. census, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Boston Ward 13, Sub Div 133.
  10. [S463] Interview, Martha (Josselyn) DeVoe, 3 June 2001, comment while looking at Alonzo Josselyn's photo album.
  11. [S434] Record of the Henry Morse plot, Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
  12. [S856] Find A Grave memorial page for Lucy Gay Morse (1793 - 1873).

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