THE FAY FAMILY PAGE GENEALOGIES |
Sullivan Fay |
The Fay Family and The Fay School |
Portraits and Other Items from the Fay School |
Fay Lines and School Census in Southborough |
Peter Fay's discussion of Southborough Fays |
Among the items taken down from the wall at Fay School for cleaning and conservation is this portrait of Sullivan Fay. Of Sullivan Peter Fay wrote, "He was a very feeble man in body all his life, but I think he did more brain work than any man of his age that ever lived in town" (Historical Sketches, p. 19). |
On the death of Dr. Joel Burnett on February 22, 1845, it was Sullivan who became executor of his will and guardian of his three younger children, Eliza, Harriet and Waldo (see, for example, Noble's Fences of Stone, page 149). Eliza married Sylvester, Sullivan's nephew, in 1858 (see Orlin, page 262). Eliza Burnett Fay and her sister Harriet Burnett started Fay School in 1866. |
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