Enlisted September 29, 1864 with F&S as Major with 67th Militia Infantry discharged November 30, 1864.
Also served as Major with 1st Provisional E.M. Missouri Militia.
Mayor Bay was in charge of the Union troops that killed five young confederates in what is called the Browns Farm Massacre.
The men who were killed were: James Polk Selby, orderly sergeant of the company, Joseph Adair, Charles Sinclair, John R. Davis, George Allen, Alfred A. Kemp and William Key. All were under 22 years old.
Selby's body was buried at Prairie Chapel graveyard, west of Earl. The bodies of Adair, Sinclair, and Davis were buried in one grave at Millersburg, while the bodies of Allen, Kemp and Key were buried in the Pleasant Grove graveyard at Hatton, where a monument bought with money raised by public subscription by the late Benjamin Wood, was erected and dedicated in 1910.
"After the shooting," Mr. Fry tells, "Bay and some of his men rode up to the Brown dwelling and asked for the man of the house. Mrs. Brown met them and told them she did not know where he was. ‘Tell him when he comes back, to give those men decent burial,' he said, and then rode away."
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Son of Benjamin Blackburn Bay and Grace Campbell Bay
James Bay was born in Ohio and died in Wellsville, Montgomery Co, MO.
Also served as Major with 1st Provisional E.M. Missouri Militia.
Mayor Bay was in charge of the Union troops that killed five young confederates in what is called the Browns Farm Massacre.
The men who were killed were: James Polk Selby, orderly sergeant of the company, Joseph Adair, Charles Sinclair, John R. Davis, George Allen, Alfred A. Kemp and William Key. All were under 22 years old.
Selby's body was buried at Prairie Chapel graveyard, west of Earl. The bodies of Adair, Sinclair, and Davis were buried in one grave at Millersburg, while the bodies of Allen, Kemp and Key were buried in the Pleasant Grove graveyard at Hatton, where a monument bought with money raised by public subscription by the late Benjamin Wood, was erected and dedicated in 1910.
"After the shooting," Mr. Fry tells, "Bay and some of his men rode up to the Brown dwelling and asked for the man of the house. Mrs. Brown met them and told them she did not know where he was. ‘Tell him when he comes back, to give those men decent burial,' he said, and then rode away."
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Son of Benjamin Blackburn Bay and Grace Campbell Bay
James Bay was born in Ohio and died in Wellsville, Montgomery Co, MO.
Enlisted September 29, 1864 with F&S as Major with 67th Militia Infantry discharged November 30, 1864.
Also served as Major with 1st Provisional E.M. Missouri Militia.
Mayor Bay was in charge of the Union troops that killed five young confederates in what is called the Browns Farm Massacre.
The men who were killed were: James Polk Selby, orderly sergeant of the company, Joseph Adair, Charles Sinclair, John R. Davis, George Allen, Alfred A. Kemp and William Key. All were under 22 years old.
Selby's body was buried at Prairie Chapel graveyard, west of Earl. The bodies of Adair, Sinclair, and Davis were buried in one grave at Millersburg, while the bodies of Allen, Kemp and Key were buried in the Pleasant Grove graveyard at Hatton, where a monument bought with money raised by public subscription by the late Benjamin Wood, was erected and dedicated in 1910.
"After the shooting," Mr. Fry tells, "Bay and some of his men rode up to the Brown dwelling and asked for the man of the house. Mrs. Brown met them and told them she did not know where he was. ‘Tell him when he comes back, to give those men decent burial,' he said, and then rode away."
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Son of Benjamin Blackburn Bay and Grace Campbell Bay
James Bay was born in Ohio and died in Wellsville, Montgomery Co, MO.
Also served as Major with 1st Provisional E.M. Missouri Militia.
Mayor Bay was in charge of the Union troops that killed five young confederates in what is called the Browns Farm Massacre.
The men who were killed were: James Polk Selby, orderly sergeant of the company, Joseph Adair, Charles Sinclair, John R. Davis, George Allen, Alfred A. Kemp and William Key. All were under 22 years old.
Selby's body was buried at Prairie Chapel graveyard, west of Earl. The bodies of Adair, Sinclair, and Davis were buried in one grave at Millersburg, while the bodies of Allen, Kemp and Key were buried in the Pleasant Grove graveyard at Hatton, where a monument bought with money raised by public subscription by the late Benjamin Wood, was erected and dedicated in 1910.
"After the shooting," Mr. Fry tells, "Bay and some of his men rode up to the Brown dwelling and asked for the man of the house. Mrs. Brown met them and told them she did not know where he was. ‘Tell him when he comes back, to give those men decent burial,' he said, and then rode away."
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Son of Benjamin Blackburn Bay and Grace Campbell Bay
James Bay was born in Ohio and died in Wellsville, Montgomery Co, MO.
Inscription
MAJ. J.C. BAY
67TH MO. E.M.
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