The John Gay Family Photo

~ IN MEMORY OF ~

The Samuel John Leonard and Alice America (Lewis) Gay Family Photo

(ca. 1908)

[NOTE: This picture has been stolen from this page of my website and uploaded on Ancestry.com family trees in violation of Ancestry's express written agreement rules and my copyright. If copied and uploaded in either whole or part and posted anywhere on the internet, it has been stolen and violates copyright law. NO ONE was given a jpg or permission to copy this photo. Attaching my photos to family trees propagates a situation wherein many others think "it's up for grabs" and they may do whatever they please with it. In other words, when people find it copied and uploaded on Ancestry, they believe it can be copied and published anywhere by anyone. Not true.]

This photo was taken in the Knobs near the Monroe County-McMinn County line in the vicinity of the Lewis family farm. Alice (Lewis) Gay was pregnant with her son George Hobert Gay. Standing left to right are Rossie Lee (Gay) Casteel and Ozra Margaret (Gay) Maupin. Seated is Samuel John Leonard Gay, and standing in the middle is Millard Akins Gay. Seated is Alice America (Lewis) Gay, and standing on the far right is Otsie Lou (Gay) Jimerson and Bob Gay.

"THOU SHALT NOT STEAL." DEUTERONOMY 5 : 19

John & Alice Gay's home in the Knobs of McMinn CO, TN
John Samuel Leonard and Alice America (Lewis) Gay's family group record

Many thanks to Mildred Maupin for this photo of her grandparents and their children!


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This site is dedicated to the memory of my mother Beulah Cline Nipper, a beautiful product of the Knobs.

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