Tyrone - Gay, Margaret Stewart 1819 - February 13, 1859

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GAY, MARGARET STEWART 1819 - FEBRUARY 13, 1859

Source: A History of Preston County West Virginia, 1914
Author: J. R. Cole

He [George Washington Fairfax] was married to Margaret
Stewart GAY, April 29, 1846. She was a daughter of Robert
GAY and was born in Tyrone county, Ireland, in 1819, and
died February 13, 1859. She came across the ocean in 1831,
when twelve years of age, and lived in Morgantown with her
uncle, Matthew GAY, until her marriage, as her father went
to Illinois and died there. Four children were born to
George Washington and Margaret Gay FAIRFAX, as follows:
James Mathew Gay, born July 10, 1847, now living near
Reedsville; Emma R., born September 14, 1850, married Daniel
G. Watson and lived and died in Reedsville, leaving several
children, now grown; Ann C., born July 8, 1853, and married
to a man named Shields and now living in Mendocino county,
California; George Washington, Jr., born August 9, 1856, and
died August 26th of same month. Colonel G.W. FAIRFAX died
suddenly October 25, 1885.