Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Fay, Gilbert 1803 - 1835
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Author: E. O. Jameson (1886)

REV. GILBERT FAY.

GILBERT FAY, son of Otis and Mary (Morse) Fay, was born May 2, 1803, in
Westboro, Mass. He graduated in 1826 from Brown University, and studied theology
with the Rev. Dr. Ide, of Medway. He was ordained Oct. 6, 1830, as an evangelist
in Westboro, Mass., and entered the service of the American Home Missionary
Society, being stationed at Wadsworth, O., where he labored some five years
without the loss of a single Sabbath from illness. But at the early age of
thirty-two years, after a short and very useful ministry, he died Oct. 27, 1835.
The little church of eleven members during his ministry increased to sixty
members, and this is the record made: "He was much loved and lamented by his
church and his brethren in the ministry." The Rev. Mr. Fay married, Sept. 11,
1831, Clarissa Walker, .daughter of Comfort and Tamar (Clark) Walker. She was
born Nov. 28, 1805, in Medway, and died Nov. 23, 1881. Their only son was
Gilbert Otis Fay.


Additional Comments:
THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS,
AND
The Genealogical Records
OF
MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES
IN
MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886.
Illustrated
WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
BY
E. O. JAMESON,
THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS." ETC.
MILLIS, MASS. 1886.

Copyright, 1886.
E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS.
All Rights Reserved.

J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I.


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