Son of William Harvey Lay and Sytha Crosby
Married Rachel Ellen Wiltbank, 8 Oct 1870, St. Geroge, Washington, Utah
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 2, p. 465
John Taylor Lay was born in Monroe county, Mississippi on November 13, 1845, the eldest child of Sytha and William Harvey Lay. His mother embraced the gospel of the Mormon Church and was baptized March 2, 1845. The family went to Council Bluffs where another child, Joseph Coleman Lay was born and soon after the little family started the westward trek with other Mississippi Saints.
After their arrival in Utah in 1848 they lived for a time at Cottonwood then went to San Bernardino, California; hence, back into Utah where they settled at Santa Clara. As a boy, John Taylor served as a Minute Man and engaged in several skirmishes with the Indians of that vicinity. He was with the Jacob Hamblin party when they went into Arizona to recover the body of George A. Smith who had been killed by Indians.
John remained with his parents in Santa Clara until they passed away and a marker was placed at their last resting place, then he and his wife, Rachel Ellen Wiltbank, and five children namely, Annie, John William, Sarah, Joseph Coleman and Charles Spencer, made the journey to Escalante where they established a home. Three more children were born here, Mina, James and Franklin Ellis. Here he raised cattle, dairied and farmed, providing food and warm clothing for his family according to his means, shunning debt and protecting his word of honor to his creditors. He died March 15, 1930 after a very brief illness. Safely stored in an old trunk, his family found a wallet containing enough money to defray his funeral expenses. He was laid to rest in the Escalante cemetery. — Sarah Lay S. Larsen
Married Rachel Ellen Wiltbank, 8 Oct 1870, St. Geroge, Washington, Utah
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 2, p. 465
John Taylor Lay was born in Monroe county, Mississippi on November 13, 1845, the eldest child of Sytha and William Harvey Lay. His mother embraced the gospel of the Mormon Church and was baptized March 2, 1845. The family went to Council Bluffs where another child, Joseph Coleman Lay was born and soon after the little family started the westward trek with other Mississippi Saints.
After their arrival in Utah in 1848 they lived for a time at Cottonwood then went to San Bernardino, California; hence, back into Utah where they settled at Santa Clara. As a boy, John Taylor served as a Minute Man and engaged in several skirmishes with the Indians of that vicinity. He was with the Jacob Hamblin party when they went into Arizona to recover the body of George A. Smith who had been killed by Indians.
John remained with his parents in Santa Clara until they passed away and a marker was placed at their last resting place, then he and his wife, Rachel Ellen Wiltbank, and five children namely, Annie, John William, Sarah, Joseph Coleman and Charles Spencer, made the journey to Escalante where they established a home. Three more children were born here, Mina, James and Franklin Ellis. Here he raised cattle, dairied and farmed, providing food and warm clothing for his family according to his means, shunning debt and protecting his word of honor to his creditors. He died March 15, 1930 after a very brief illness. Safely stored in an old trunk, his family found a wallet containing enough money to defray his funeral expenses. He was laid to rest in the Escalante cemetery. — Sarah Lay S. Larsen
Son of William Harvey Lay and Sytha Crosby
Married Rachel Ellen Wiltbank, 8 Oct 1870, St. Geroge, Washington, Utah
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 2, p. 465
John Taylor Lay was born in Monroe county, Mississippi on November 13, 1845, the eldest child of Sytha and William Harvey Lay. His mother embraced the gospel of the Mormon Church and was baptized March 2, 1845. The family went to Council Bluffs where another child, Joseph Coleman Lay was born and soon after the little family started the westward trek with other Mississippi Saints.
After their arrival in Utah in 1848 they lived for a time at Cottonwood then went to San Bernardino, California; hence, back into Utah where they settled at Santa Clara. As a boy, John Taylor served as a Minute Man and engaged in several skirmishes with the Indians of that vicinity. He was with the Jacob Hamblin party when they went into Arizona to recover the body of George A. Smith who had been killed by Indians.
John remained with his parents in Santa Clara until they passed away and a marker was placed at their last resting place, then he and his wife, Rachel Ellen Wiltbank, and five children namely, Annie, John William, Sarah, Joseph Coleman and Charles Spencer, made the journey to Escalante where they established a home. Three more children were born here, Mina, James and Franklin Ellis. Here he raised cattle, dairied and farmed, providing food and warm clothing for his family according to his means, shunning debt and protecting his word of honor to his creditors. He died March 15, 1930 after a very brief illness. Safely stored in an old trunk, his family found a wallet containing enough money to defray his funeral expenses. He was laid to rest in the Escalante cemetery. — Sarah Lay S. Larsen
Married Rachel Ellen Wiltbank, 8 Oct 1870, St. Geroge, Washington, Utah
Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 2, p. 465
John Taylor Lay was born in Monroe county, Mississippi on November 13, 1845, the eldest child of Sytha and William Harvey Lay. His mother embraced the gospel of the Mormon Church and was baptized March 2, 1845. The family went to Council Bluffs where another child, Joseph Coleman Lay was born and soon after the little family started the westward trek with other Mississippi Saints.
After their arrival in Utah in 1848 they lived for a time at Cottonwood then went to San Bernardino, California; hence, back into Utah where they settled at Santa Clara. As a boy, John Taylor served as a Minute Man and engaged in several skirmishes with the Indians of that vicinity. He was with the Jacob Hamblin party when they went into Arizona to recover the body of George A. Smith who had been killed by Indians.
John remained with his parents in Santa Clara until they passed away and a marker was placed at their last resting place, then he and his wife, Rachel Ellen Wiltbank, and five children namely, Annie, John William, Sarah, Joseph Coleman and Charles Spencer, made the journey to Escalante where they established a home. Three more children were born here, Mina, James and Franklin Ellis. Here he raised cattle, dairied and farmed, providing food and warm clothing for his family according to his means, shunning debt and protecting his word of honor to his creditors. He died March 15, 1930 after a very brief illness. Safely stored in an old trunk, his family found a wallet containing enough money to defray his funeral expenses. He was laid to rest in the Escalante cemetery. — Sarah Lay S. Larsen
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