My Genealogy Hound

G. A. Fay, one of the young enterprising citizens of Dyer County, engaged in the saw-mill business, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1854, and was one of four children, his parents being Anthony and Mary Fay. His father was of the old Puritan stock, tracing his ancestors back to two brothers who came over on the Mayflower. He was born in Whately, Mass., in 1812, and in 1829 went to Jamestown, N. Y., and after a year moved to Warren County, Ohio, where he married in 1836, and in 1842 went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and engaged in the lumber business. In 1871 he came to Dyer County, locating on the Obion River, ten miles northwest of Dyersburg, continuing the lumber business on an extensive scale, and building a large saw-mill, which he ran until his death, in April, 1879. He was a man of fine business capacity, and very successful. Mr. Fay’s mother was born in Franklin, Ohio, in 1812, and died April, 1886. Mr. Fay was educated at the public schools in Cincinnati. In 1880 he married Miss Ula, daughter of Dr. H. F. Ferguson. She was born in Dyer County, in 1858, and they have two children: Floyd A. and George E. After his father’s death Mr. Fay took charge of the mill, and has since given his time to it, doing more sawing than any other mill in the county. He is one of the young, active, progressive business men of the county. He is conservative in politics, never sacrificing principles for the sake of party, and is also a Mason. Mr. and Mrs. Fay belong to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.