Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gay, L. Ashby, 1938 

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LEE ASHBY GAY

L. ASHBY GAY, TOWN CLERK MORE THAN 25 YEARS DIES SUDDENLY

   Lee Ashby Gay, well-known Franklin citizen and Recorder of the Town of 
Franklin for the past 26 years, died suddenly Sunday afternoon, August 7, 
of a heart attack. Mr. Gay, who was 54 years of age, was the son of the 
late Littleton Allen and Mrs. Elizabeth Rosa Gay of this community, both of 
prominent Southampton families.  He had served the town acceptably as its 
Recorder since August 30, 1912, resigning recently on account of ill-health.

   Ashby Gay was a man of unusually lovable character, friendly and genial 
with everyone, and numbered a host of friends.  Funeral services were held 
Monday afternoon from the residence of his brother, Joe Bynum Gay, in Fourth 
Avenue, burial services being conducted from the grave in the family plot in 
Poplar Spring Cemetery by the Rev. R.D. Stephenson of the Franklin Baptist 
Church.  A quartette from the church choir sang "Rock of Ages" and "The Old, 
Rugged Cross."  The active pallbearers were: Edgar B. Jackson, Mayor Claude 
J. Edwards, J.W.B. Thompson, J.P. King, Hinson Parker, Tup Jones, P.R. Camp 
and Linwood Edwards.

   He is survived by a brother, Joe Bynum Gay; a sister, Mrs. B.L. Holt; two 
nephews, Joe Bynum Gay, Jr. and Douglas Holt of Chattanooga; two nieces, Miss 
Antoinette Parker of this town and Mrs. S.F. Winiker of Danville, and by a 
large family connection.


Lee Ashby GAY, former Recorder of the Town of Franklin, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 7 Aug 1938, age 54, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 58*), Franklin, 
   8 Aug 1938, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 12, 1938, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 


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