Biographical Sketch of Mathew Bay, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Mathew Bay, farmer and stock raiser, was born in the locality where he
now resides in 1839; he was reared on the farm, which occupation he has
since followed, and received his education in the common schools of the
county.  He was the eldest in the family of twelve children born to 
James M. and Ann (Cole) Bay, natives, respectively, of St. Louis and
Franklin Counties, Mo.  James M. Bay served eight years as justice of
the peace in Franklin County, and when Calvey postoffice, which was
established in 1850, was moved to its present location in 1861, he was
appointed postmaster, in which capacity he has since served; he was a
son of Samuel and Sallie (Musick) Bay, who settled in St. Louis County,
Mo., about 1808, where the former purchased 900 arpents of land for an
Indian pony.  Samuel Bay was a son of Huey Bay, possibly a native of
Ireland, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.  Mrs. Ann Bay, 
mother of our subject, was a daughter of Mathew and Sarah (Johns) Cole,
natives of Kentucky, the latter a daughter of John and Lydia Johns.
Mathew Cole was a son of Eleven and Sarah Cole, natives of Kentucky.
Eleven Cole and John Johns served in the British army during the Rev-
olution.  Mathew Bay owns sixty acres of well improved land where he
now resides.  He was married in 1865 to Miss Lizzie Wilson, a native
of Beaver County, Penn., who came with her parents to Missouri when
thirteen years old.  They have six children, viz.: Luella, Cora, Nora,
James W., Stanley S. and Edith.  July 15, 1861, Mr. Bay enlisted in
Company K, Eleventh Missouri Infantry, and was mustered out of service
at Memphis, Tenn., August 5, 1864, having received a wound at the 
battle of Marksville Prairie.  He served three terms as justice of the
peace, is a Master Mason, a member of the G. A. R., and a Republican 
in politics.  Mrs. Bay is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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