Rebecca B. Bay

Rebecca B. Bay

• Father: Andrew Foster Bay b. 1 April 1817, d. 25 April 1878
• Mother: Elizabeth B. Jones b. 17 March 1820, d. 3 February 1898

• Rebecca B. Bay was born in May 1849 in Tennessee.
• Andrew Foster Bay and Elizabeth B. Jones appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Dyer County, Tennessee. Other members of the household included Rebecca B. Bay, Francis Bay.
• Andrew Foster Bay and Elizabeth B. Jones appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Montgomery PO, Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included Rebecca B. Bay, Francis Bay, Cynthia Jane Bay, Mary King Bay, Wiliam Anderson Bay and John Edwin Bay.
• Andrew Foster Bay and Elizabeth B. Jones appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Longstreet, Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included Rebecca B. Bay, Cynthia Jane Bay, Mary King Bay, Wiliam Anderson Bay, John Edwin Bay, Cordelia Thomas Bay and Roda A. Bay.
• It is curious that Roda A. Bay, age 22 appears in the household of Andrew and Elizabeth Bay in 1870, apparently a daughter, but she is not present in 1850 or 1850. In 1870, Rebecca B. Bay is age 20, and it appears that she is enumerated in 1850 as Rebeca, age 1, and in 1860 as R.B., age 2.
• She married Luther Whitfield Blount, son of William Augustus Blount and Sarah Ann Turrentine, in 1870.
• Luther Whitfield Blount and Rebecca B. Bay appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Montgomery County, Texas. Other members of the household included Sarah Blount, Ozella Mae Blount and Oclaio Blount.
• Rebecca B. Bay became a widow at the between 1888 and 1900 death of her husband Luther Whitfield Blount.
• Rebecca B. Bay appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Grimes County, Texas.
• She was a farmer, according to the 1900 census.

• Last Edited: 14 Sep 2008