Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Vitals.....Gay, McClause S., 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ McClause Simon "Mack" GAY, 6 Sep 1858 - 15 Feb 1925, death certificate abstract ______________________________________________________________________________ Certificate of Death, Vol. 830, No. 23889 Commonwealth of Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics {BVS} State Board of Health Place Of Death: Southampton Co., Magisterial District of Jerusalem Registration District No. 873A; Registered No. 13 Full Name: M. S. Gay ______________________________________________________________________________ Personal and Statistical Particulars Sex: Mail [sic] Color or Race: White Married; Spouse: [blank*] Date of Birth: Sept 6 / 1858 Age: 67 Years, 1 Month, 10 Days Occupation: Carpenr [sic; Carpenter] & Farmer Birthplace: Va. Father: -Name: James Gay -Birthplace: Va. Mother -Maiden Name: Lucy Low [sic; LOWE] -Birthplace: Va. Informant: Mrs. M.S. Gay, Sedley, Va. Filed: Oct. 17th, 1925 Registrar: A.G. Bradshaw ______________________________________________________________________________ Medical Certificate of Death Date of Death: Oct. 15, 1925 I Hereby Certify, That I attended deceased from Oct. 1, 1925 to Oct. 14, 1925 I last h__ alive on Oct. 14, 1925 Death is said to have occurred, on the date stated above, at 6 P.M. The Cause of Death was as follows: Apoplexy [Health Dept. code 129] Duration: [blank] Contributory (Secondary): chronic nephritis Duration: [blank] Where was disease contracted if not at place of death? [blank] Did an operation precede death? no Was there an autopsy? no What test confirmed diagnosis? [blank] W.T. McLemore, M.D. [not dated] Courtland, Va. ______________________________________________________________________________ Burial: Southampton Co., near Sedley, Va.*, 10/17/1925 Undertaker: W.J.M. Holland & son Franklin, Va. ______________________________________________________________________________ The Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA Bureau Of Vital Statistics, Death Certificate 1925-830-23889 *Additional information: Buried in the GAY family cemetery, on Unity Rd. (Rt. 603), near Drake Rd. (Rt. 638). Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 7 (VII-20): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol7.txt He sometimes appears as Simon M. GAY, but went by nickname Mac/Mack. He married twice, and both wives are buried in the same family plot. Mack S. Gay, 22, b. & res. Southampton, sn/o James M. & Lucy Gray Gay, Mechanic Martha M. Lowe, 19, b. Southampton, dt/o James & Virginia Hedgepeth Lowe m. 10/07/1880 by James E. Stephenson (Southampton Co., MB4:188) M.S. (McClause Simon "Mac") Gay, 37, w, So.Co., So.Co., s/o James Mallory and "Lucy" Louisa Anne Lowe Gay, Farmer m. 11-21-1895 John Wellons’ residence by Rev. J.E. Stephenson Sarah Elizabeth "Bettie" Wellons, 23, s, So.Co., So.Co., d/o Simon and Nancy Hedgpeth Wellons (Southampton Co. MB8:442; transcribed & annotated by Bruce Saunders: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/mb08pt.txt) Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Matt Harris, zoobug64@aol.com (Jul 2013) [brackets mine] file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/deaths/g000m1dc.txt file size: 4 Kb