Washington-Lamoille County VT Archives Obituaries.....Gay, Mrs. Frederick November 15, 1934 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/vt/vtfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jan Jordan jnrose@webtv.net March 4, 2006, 5:48 pm see below Obituary for MRS. FREDERICK GAY - from "The Bethel [Washington County, Vermont] Courier" *MRS. FREDERICK GAY*, died November 15, 1934. the funeral was held at the GAY home on Sunday afternoon, REV. W. C. HARVEY officiating. She was one of the oldest and most prominent people of the town. The bearers were: *MARTIN L. WYMAN, WRISLEY J. MASON, GUY S. HODGKINS, and JOHN JOHNSON JR*., all of Gaysville, and the honorary bearers were: *HARRY WHITTIER* of Rutland , *DR. HERBERT S. MARTYN* of Cuttinsville, *JOHN GAY JR *., of Bethel, and so by gentle and friendly hands, she was laid to rest in Mount Pleasant Cemetary. *LAURA JANE BAKER* was born in Morristown, Vt. August 20, 1848, and was the eldest of three children born to *ANDREW and HULDAH (WILKINS) BAKER*. From Morristown they moved to Hartland, and there the father died. When LAURA was a little girl of nine, the mother came to live in Gaysville, bringing her three children, and here Clara, the beautiful and much loved sister, died in her early girlhood. On Oct. 9, 1872, LAURA married Frederick Gay, son of Merrick Gay, and grandson of the founder of the village. For a time they lived here, and here their son *ROBERT HARVEY GAY* was born. Then they moved to Rutland, where Mr. GAY was interested in a button shop. Later they went to Burlington where MR. GAY was in the coal business, as GAY and HENDERSON. When he was ready to retire from business, he came down to Gaysville and had the fine old GAY house, built by his father, fully restored to its old time beauty, with added modern conveniences and fitted up to be the home of their old age. But on a last trip to Burlington MR. GAY fell on an icy walk, and died, so it was alone that MRS. GAY came to the home he had made ready for her, the son ROBERT, than an attorney in New York City, coming to spend a week with her when he could, and she spent the winters with him in N. Y. But death claimed ROBERT on November 25, 1925, and she left alone except for her brother, *FRANK BAKER*, who has made his home with her. Then *NELSON MERRICK GAY*, a nephew, and his wife came to support her advancing years, but a little more than two years later, he also passed away. His wife has remained, the main stay of the family and has given everything a devoted daughter could have given of loving care and attention. MRS. GAY was finely educated, cultured, refined, a typical " lady" in the old sense of the word, she was broad minded, a great reader and student, an artist, and strained singer, until an illness took her voice. Older people remember her as a beauty in her younger days. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/vt/washington/obits/g/gay74gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vtfiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb