History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 538.
[Bourbon County]  [North Middletown Precinct]

WATSON M. GAY, farmer and horse dealer; P. O. North Middletown; son of
John D. and Catharine (Gardner) Gay, of Clark County, and was born on the
2nd of January, 1836; his grandfather, James Gay, was a native of Virginia
and was among the early emigrants to Kentucky, and settled on the waters
of Stoner Creek, in Clark County, near Snyder's Mill; he raised six sons
and one daughter.  John D. Gay, the youngest son, was born in 1802 and in
1825 was married to Catharine, daughter of John Gardner, also of Clark
County; by this marriage there were four sons and three daughters.
Watson M., the youngest son, who is the subject of this sketch, remained
with his father on the homestead and assisted in the duties of the farm
until January the 22nd, 1857, on which day he was united in matrimony
with Nancy, daughter of Johnathan Owen, of Bourbon County; soon after his
marriage he moved on a farm five miles north of Paris, near Ewalt's X
roads; after remaining here for six years, he purchased a nice from of
440 acres lying two miles south of North Middletown on Winchester Pike,
where he immediately moved and still resides.  Mr. Gay has six children,
one son, James Hodge, and five daughters, viz: Mary, wife of Jephtha
Haggard, of Clark; Bettie, wife of John Sudduth, of Clark; Cinnie, Katie
Hood, and Callie.  Mary and Bettie are both graduates of Sayre Female
Institute at Lexington, Ky.  Mr. Gay is one of the representative farmers
of the county; makes a specialty of fine horses, both single and matched
teams; is a prominent exhibitor at most of the fairs throughout the State,
and those that have been his rivals in many of these exhibitions pronounce
him quite a formidable competitor; he well merits  the enviable reputation
he bears of being one of the best and most successful horsemen in central
Kentucky; he is a many of very firm convictions and is a descendant of a
family long noted for their remarkable unanimity in religious beliefs;
himself and every member of his family, that is old enough, are members of
the Methodist Church, and as far back as their ancestry can be traced,
without a single exception they were all members of this religious
denomination.  Politically, he is an avowed Democrat.

Gay Gardner Owen Haggard Sudduth
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Clark-KY Fayette-KY VA

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