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Descendants of Harrison K Kay

Generation No. 1

1. HARRISON K¹ KAY was born Abt 1822 in Alabama, and died November 1889 in Stranger,Falls County, Texas. He married (1) LOUISA JANE HANCOCK in Stranger, Falls Co., Texas (Blue Ridge). He married (2) SARAH DUNN Abt 1840 in Alabama.

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       Harrison and Sarah (Dunn) were natives of Alabama where their marriage was celebrated circa1846. Parents at this time are unknown. After their marriage they removed to Cobb Co. Georgia where their first four children were born, William James Kay in 1847, John Thomas Kay 1849, Henry P. Kay 1851, Mary H. Kay in 1853. In or about 1857 Harrison moved his family to Arkansas, on Dec 1, 1857 he purchased 2 parcles of land totaling 120 acres for cash...in Navada County. On July 1, 1859 he purchased an additional 240 acres.. in Navada Co. Ark. By this time two more children had been added to the family. David C.( Crockett?) born in Ark about 1856 and Samuel Dunn born in Ark between 1858/59.
       According to an autobiographical sketch of his son, H.P. Kay of Comanche Co., Texas, Harrison(Harris) by profession was a physician. On the second call for troops, he entered the Confederate sevice, but was discharged on account of ill health and returned home. At another call, he again responded, and a second time was discharged and returned home. He later offered his service a third time and was sent home to practice his profession among the needy war widows in connection with another physician. For service he recieved no pay. After the close of the war, in 1865, he came to Texas, buying land in Falls Co., a part of the J.P. Moffett farm... He erected a store near his home south of the Joel W. Roberts home. He hauled supplies from Kosse, Texas to his store and always brought the mail before Stranger got its won post office.
       In an article from The Marlin Daily Democrat "Stranger Rekindles Memories." ........ Once again Harris Kay conducts Sunday School in the old church school or had another big Christmas Party at his home on the side of the hill" Kay had a store located southeast of the present Stranger store. Mr. Kay was a devoted church worker, Sunday School teacher and Supertendent until his death.""
       "He was a farmer and had the finest orchard in the county- a pear tree that bore fruit for him had an abundant crop in 1938."
       In 1879 , Harris Kay was appointed postmaster of Stranger, delivering the mail. Until that time Stranger was simply "Blue Ridge at Kays Store."
       From A History of Falls County..." Harris farmed, planted an orchard, and was very active in the Blue Ridge Missionary Baptist Church at Stranger-- being a charter member and Deacon for about 20 years, and is said to have been a favorite with children. It was a result of his allowing the children to cover him with snow that caused his pneumonia that resulted in his death in November of 1889. Sarah had passed away during a Flu epidemic in 1871and is buried in the Stranger Cemetery as is Harris and His second wife Louisa Jane (Adair)Hancock, a young widow with one son Holman Kendall Hancock. There were 2 children from this union... Fleetwood Kay b. 1872 and Saletta Kay b. about 1874.
       A head stone marks the graves of Harris and Louisa in the little cemetary at Stranger between the two churches still standing in 1981, it was placed there by Earl Hancock, son of Holman Hancock. The date on Harris Kays marker is 1899 which is a mistake but at least there is a marker for him there thank to a loving step grandson...... There is no markr for Sarah Dunn Kay, though it is certain she is buried there.


       Children of Harrison Kay and Louisa Hancock are:

	i.		FLEETWOOD² KAY, b. 1872.
	ii.		SALETTA KAY, b. 1874.

Children of Harrison Kay and Sarah Dunn are:

2.	iii.	WILLIAM JAMES² KAY, b. Abt 1847, Cobb County, Georgia; d. 1870-1871, Texas/ Arkansas.
3.	iv.	JOHN THOMAS KAY, b. 1849, Cobb Co., Georga; d. March 06, 1872, Belton,Bell Co., Texas.
4.	v.	HENRY P. KAY, b. May 25, 1851, Cobb Co. Georgia; d. July 25, 1931, Proctor, Comanche Co. Texas.
	vi.	MARY H. KAY, b. 1853.
	vii.	DAVID CROCKETT KAY, b. 1856.
	viii.	SAMUEL DUNN KAY, b. 1859.

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