Person:John Gay (43)

The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society By Kentucky Historical Society, pg. 74:

The children of John Gay, Jr., and Sarah Lockridge follow: 1st Margaret, born Sept., 1771; 2nd Mary, born January, 1774; 3rd Robert, born June, 1776; 4th Agnes, born February, 1779; 5th James Gay, born Nov., 1781; 6th Sarah Gay, born-April, 1784; 7th John, born Nov., 1786; 8th Rdbekah Gay, "born May, 1790; 9th William Dunlap Gay, born May, 1793; 10th Samuel Gay, born March, 1796 and llth Kin- kead Gay, born Oct., 1799. Of this large family of children reared in Woodford county, only three raised families in the county, viz.: Robert, Sarah and John Gay.

John Gay, the 7th, married Catherine Claggett. The Claggetts were prominent Marylanders, and related to Bishop Claggett (first Episcopal Bishop in the United States). They had Mary D. Gay, born in 1818, married Guy Hamilton Kinkead, born in Woodford but moved to Brown county, Ohio; Sarah Gay, born in 1819, married Edwin Wright, son of Col. William and Annie Jackson Wright, of Bourbon county; Margaret Gay, born in 1821, married Dr. Robert Henry Wasson, of Pisgah (whose .parents came from Greencastle, Pa.). She was his second wife, and they had Rebecca Wright Wasson, born in 1851, married Dr. Robt. Singleton Hart; Kate Claggett Wasson, born 1856, married Peter G. Powell, Sr.; Caroline Douglas Wasson, born in 1858, married J. Wilmore Garrett; Robert Herbert Wasson, Jr., born in 1861, married Mary Talbott Farra; and John T. Wasson, born in 1864, married Alma Brooks.