Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....Gay, Allen M. 1831 - uk
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Author: MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA
ALLEN M. GAY, farmer, Bowdon, Carroll Co., Ga., son of Gilbert and Sarah
(Stamps) Gay, was born in Coweta county in 1831.,His paternal grandparents, 
Allen and Abrigail (Castleberry) Gay, were Virginians by birth, and he was a 
soldier in the patriot army during the revolutionary war. Some-years after that
they migrated to Georgia and settled in Hancock county-bona fide pioneers. Here 
Mr. Gay's father was born in 1811. When he was thirteen years of age he went to 
Wilkinson county, Ga., whence a few years afterward he moved to Coweta county. 
In I848 he removed to Heard county and settled on Jumping Creek, where he ended 
his days. Mr. Gay's mother was a daughter of Moses and Ann (Eason) Stamps, who 
came to Georgia and settled in the woods in Jackson county in 1795. He cleared 
a farm and also did work as a gun and blacksmith. Leaving Jackson, he went to 
Gwinnett, and after two years went to Clarke county, where he staid two years, 
and then went back to Jackson county. From Jackson he went to Fayette, and 
lastly to Coweta county, where he died. June 29, 1894, Eson Stamps, Mr. Gay's 
uncle, his mother's brother, was one hundred years old, and he was given a 
birthday dinner-spread picnic style on the grass under the trees at Mr. Gay's 
home. There were about 500 people there, of whom he fed 300. The Grandfather 
Stamps was a soldier during the war of 1812, in the wars with the Indians, and 
was captain of a company in the Indian war of I836. Mr. Gay was-reared a 
farmer, and was given such education as the schools afforded during his boyhood-
taught as they were in log houses; with dirt floor and slab or split log seats. 
In IS51 he was married to Miss Martha Stamps-born in Jackson county in I622-
daughter of Eson and Polly (Watts) Stamps, who has borne him five children, of 
whom only one, Sarah F., wife of Jeff Butler, is now living. When he married 
himself and wife had but one change of clothing, but now he has a well-improved 
350-acre farm and is a well-to-do farmer. Himself and wife are members of the 
Missionary Baptist church and are much respected by all who know them.


Additional Comments:
“MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA”, Historical and Biographical Sketches
by S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., Published in 1896.  Transcribed by Elizabeth Robertson 
July 2004.


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