LAY, Harvey, born March 1890, 4th Civil District, Wayne Co., TN. son of Frank M. (b. June 1865) and Mathey (b. Dec 1867) LAY. Siblings: Frederick LAY, b. May 1892; Parker LAY, b. Oct 1895; Dewey LAY, (1899-1964). Inducted into service at Waynesboro, Tennessee.
Additional information submitted by Mrs. Margaret Freeman
Harvey Lucas Lay, born March 15, 1889, 4th Civil District, Wayne County, Tennessee, Son of Franklin M. Lay (1865-1929) and Martha Harriet (Mattie) (1867-1925) Siblings: Fredrick 1893-1930, Parker 1895-1926, Dewey 1899-1964, Cordelia Elizabeth (Lizzie) 1904-1939 and Rhoda Katherine 1909.
Married first Etna McClain (1891-1914) December 14, 1912 in Wayne County Tennessee. She died in childbirth. Married second Alice Greer sometime in 1920. Harvey died August 18, 1966 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and is buried in the Milton Cemetery in Milton Tennessee. Harvey had no children.
He as a farmer and severed on the Jury sometime in the 1950s in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. He was a Constable of Lawrence County, Tennessee, as remembered by niece Josephine Freemon Clifton and nephew Bobby Freemon.
Also remember by Murray Marston of Leoma, Tenn., who said some folks call Harvey Lay “Two Gun Lay” for he carried two guns.