Additional information from Find A Grave Contributor, Laura Elliott #47231429:
Captain Cummins McBride Lay, a native of Tennessee, came to Gadsden, Alabama in 1835. He married Elizabeth McGhee Lay, and with her, reared seven children. He was a flat-boat captain, and subsequently a steamboat captain on the Coosa River. Cummins McBride Lay is listed in later census as an engineer because by 1882 he was operating a company building tug boats and flatboats. Their children included William Patrick Lay, who founded the Alabama Power Company in 1906.
His father, John Lay, was an Englishman; came to America. settled first in Virginia, thence migrated to Tennessee; came into Alabama in 1835, and, in 1859, removed to Dallas, Texas, and there died in 1866. Source: McCalley, Henry, Northern Alabama : historical and biographical. Birmingham, AL: Smith & De Land, 1888, pp. 835.
Captain Cummins McBride Lay, a native of Tennessee, came to Gadsden, Alabama in 1835. He married Elizabeth McGhee Lay, and with her, reared seven children. He was a flat-boat captain, and subsequently a steamboat captain on the Coosa River. Cummins McBride Lay is listed in later census as an engineer because by 1882 he was operating a company building tug boats and flatboats. Their children included William Patrick Lay, who founded the Alabama Power Company in 1906.
His father, John Lay, was an Englishman; came to America. settled first in Virginia, thence migrated to Tennessee; came into Alabama in 1835, and, in 1859, removed to Dallas, Texas, and there died in 1866. Source: McCalley, Henry, Northern Alabama : historical and biographical. Birmingham, AL: Smith & De Land, 1888, pp. 835.
Additional information from Find A Grave Contributor, Laura Elliott #47231429:
Captain Cummins McBride Lay, a native of Tennessee, came to Gadsden, Alabama in 1835. He married Elizabeth McGhee Lay, and with her, reared seven children. He was a flat-boat captain, and subsequently a steamboat captain on the Coosa River. Cummins McBride Lay is listed in later census as an engineer because by 1882 he was operating a company building tug boats and flatboats. Their children included William Patrick Lay, who founded the Alabama Power Company in 1906.
His father, John Lay, was an Englishman; came to America. settled first in Virginia, thence migrated to Tennessee; came into Alabama in 1835, and, in 1859, removed to Dallas, Texas, and there died in 1866. Source: McCalley, Henry, Northern Alabama : historical and biographical. Birmingham, AL: Smith & De Land, 1888, pp. 835.
Captain Cummins McBride Lay, a native of Tennessee, came to Gadsden, Alabama in 1835. He married Elizabeth McGhee Lay, and with her, reared seven children. He was a flat-boat captain, and subsequently a steamboat captain on the Coosa River. Cummins McBride Lay is listed in later census as an engineer because by 1882 he was operating a company building tug boats and flatboats. Their children included William Patrick Lay, who founded the Alabama Power Company in 1906.
His father, John Lay, was an Englishman; came to America. settled first in Virginia, thence migrated to Tennessee; came into Alabama in 1835, and, in 1859, removed to Dallas, Texas, and there died in 1866. Source: McCalley, Henry, Northern Alabama : historical and biographical. Birmingham, AL: Smith & De Land, 1888, pp. 835.
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