Jesse "Valley" Lay

Jesse Lay served in the War of 1812Service started: 1814Unit(s): Tennessee and Kentucky Riflemen under Captains Percifield and ThompsonService ended: 1814"Valley" Jesse Lay married Hannah Lay.
Children:

1. Catherine Lay (c. 1800-aft.1870)
2. James Lay (uncertain)
3. David Lay (uncertain)
4. Susan Lay (c. 1805-aft. 1880 )
5. Jesse Duncan Lay (1811–1896).
6. Elijah Jessie Lay (1813–1885).

Jesse Lay was probably a son of David Lay of Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
He was born there and as a young lad moved to Wilkes County, N.C., and then followed his cousins into Tennessee.
Eventually he was one of a number of Jesse Lays who lived in the neighboring counties of Campbell County, Tennessee, and Whitley County, Kentucky.
He appeared in the Whitley County records as Jesse Lay Jr., Jesse Leigh, Jesse valley Lay, and Jesse V. Lay.
The name Valley was used to distinguish him from River Jesse Lay who owned land nearby on the Clear Fork River.
Jesse V.'s land was on Indian Creek in the Elk Fork Valley.
Indian Creek hugs the state line and flows into the Elk Fork near Black Oak Church.
Jesse’s wife was Hannah Lay who married first Joseph Baird in 1794 in Wilkes County, N.C.

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