John Gay

John and Ibbie Gays first home was in Rush Creek. The house was built around a tree stump, and the stump served as the dinner table. They then moved to Turkey Branch, in Leslie County, Kentucky, above the mouth of Leatherwood. As John would get a logging job, the family would move. At one time the family lived in Onieda Kentucky. John would use crosscut saws, in his logging. They bought a home from John and Mary Estep, in Sizerock, Leslie, Kentucky, and John took up farming.

John and Ibbie (Hensley) Gay

JOHN M.GAY was born April 10, 1872 in Buckhorn, Perry, Kentucky, and died February 27, 1966 in Sizerock, Leslie, Kentucky. He married IBBIE HENSLEY July 03, 1899 in Ky, daughter of ELITHA HENSLEY and RACHELL HENSLEY. She was born July 20, 1882 in Leslie County, Kentucky, and died March 14, 1969 in Sizerock, Leslie, Kentucky

Lawrence Gay

LAWRENCE GAY, b. April 02, 1913; d. December 07, 1992, Sizerock, Leslie, Kentucky; m. BERTHA JONES