Marcus Moore Kay (1835 - 1924)

Born Dec 1835 in Anderson, Anderson, South Carolina, United States

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Descendants

Died 28 May 1924 at age 88 in Williamston, Anderson, South Carolina, United States

Biography

Narrative from Findagrave.com:^[1]
Marcus Moore "Mark" Kay (1835-1924), a Confederate veteran, was born in Abbeville County in Dec 1835 and he died 28 May 1924. In 1858 he married Mary Angeline Campbell Kay (b. 28 May 1835 d. 29 Dec 1927). Both are buried at Whitefield Baptist Church Cemetery. He is the son of Charles and Mary Johnson Kay, buried in the Charles Kay Private Cemetery within a mile of Whitefield on the road that leads to Midway Road. Mark and his wife moved to Guntersville, Alabama, in Marshall County, Alabama, after they married (along with three of his brothers), but it is believed at least three of the four returned to Anderson before the start of the War Between the States. Mark served in Co. L of Orr's SC Rifles throughout the war -- his war record is on file at U.S. and S.C. Archives. In Census of 1870 they had 4 children and lived in Williamston. In Census of 1880 they had 7 children and lived in Hopewell Section of Anderson County. Census of 1890 is not available. In the 1900 Census they were living alone in Hopewell Section -- he was 64 and she was 65. None of their children was born in Alabama according to the US Census.

In 1858 Marcus Moore Kay married Mary Angeline Campbell, daughter of William Henry Campbell (May 28, 1808 - March 12, 1893) and Permelia Mildred "Millie" Jolly Campbell (1813 - 20 Aug 1884). Mary Angeline Campbell Kay was born 28 May 1835. She died 29 Dec 1927 and was buried in Whitefield Baptist Church Cemetery, Anderson Co., SC. Her father, William Henry Campbell, Sr., is buried at Double Springs Baptist Church Cemetery near Townville, SC. Her mother, Permelia Mildred Jolly Campbell, is buried at the Williamston Memorial Park in Anderson County, and her parents were Henry Jolly (1785-1872) and Cassandra Dickerson Jolly (1788-1872).

They had the following children:

• Oliver Jay Moore Kay was born 29 Apr 1857 and died 18 Dec 1923.
• William S. Kay (Mar. 7, 1867 - Feb. 1, 1943) is buried at Whitefield Baptist Church Cemetery in Anderson County, SC, near the Kay Family Cemetery.
• Mary Jane Marcus Kay was born 21 May 1862 and died 1 Feb 1941.
• Robert Obediah Higby Kay (Apr. 17, 1865 - Jan. 1, 1912) was married to Josephine W. Kay (1868 - 1956), and they are buried at Whitefield Baptist Church Cemetery in Anderson County, near the Kay Family Cemetery.
• James Harrison Vandiver Kay was born 26 May 1868 and died 29 Sep 1942.
• Sara Palmelia Elmira Kay was born 24 Aug 1871 and died 4 Feb 1913 and was buried in The Belton Cemetery, Anderson Co., SC.
• Lula Kay was born 1872.
• Austin Edward "Uncle Aus" Kay was born 28 June 1874 in Anderson Co., SC and died December 5, 1944.^[2] He was buried in Whitefield Baptist Church Cemetery, Anderson Co., SC. Austin married Unknown Benton.
• John Sanford Palmer Kay was born 17 Sep 1876 and died 2 May 1956. He married Ida Matilda Mann, who died in 1941. John Sanford Palmer Kay (1876-1956) and Matilda Mann Kay are buried at Old Silver Brook Cemetery in Anderson, South Carolina. Several others are buried nearby at Whitefield. See the Kay Family Association's Descendents of Robert Kay (DORK), No. 88. John Sanford Kay told one of his granddaughters, Johnnye Sue Kay Palmer, that his name was John Sanford Palmer Kay --- but he apparently told no one else who is living in 2011. He told her this before she married William Palmer.
• Viola Verona Kay was born 31 Mar 1879 and died 27 Jul 1939.

Mark's grandchildren loved his long, flowing, white beard!

The Kay Plot at Forest Lawn Memorial Park near the Carillon is where John Wayne Kay (a son of John Sanford Kay) & Louise Norris Kay and Mary Blanche Kay Campbell (John Sanford Kay's only daughter) & Harold Campbell are buried, as is John Ronald Kay (30 Aug 1939 - 10 Jan 2011), the twin brother of Wayne Donald Kay. Harold Kay, another son of John Sanford Kay, is buried a few yards away with his wife, "Missy" Whitten Kay. William Haskell Kay, the eldest son on John Sanford Kay, is buried (along with his wife Louise Wolff Kay) at Midway Presbyterian Church (where they all attended) Cemetery in the community in which they were reared.

Wayne Donald Kay's prospective plot is the Hammond-Kay Plot in the Pinehurst Section of the Old Silver Brook Cemetery in Anderson, SC.

BURIAL
Whitefield Baptist Church Cemetery
Anderson, Anderson County, South Carolina

Notes: ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13685695/marcus-moore-kay
2. ↑ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007; child: Austin Edward Kay
3. ↑ Research Notes

• Death Cert.: South Carolina Department of Archives and History; Columbia, South Carolina; Year Range: 1900-1924; Death County or Certificate Range: Anderson; file # 7697

• Web: Greenville County, South Carolina, Obituary Index, 1914-1992; Publication Date: 29 May 1924, Publication Place: Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, USA

• U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865; National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online <https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/>, acquired 2007.

• Year: 1850; Census Place: Eastern Subdivision, Anderson, South Carolina; Roll: M432_848; Page: 302A; Image: 610

• Year: 1860; Census Place: Eastern Division, Marshall, Alabama; Roll: M653_16; Page: 879; Family History Library Film: 803016

• Year: 1870; Census Place: Williamston, Anderson, South Carolina; Roll: M593_1482; Page: 704A; Image: 374182; Family History Library Film: 552981

• Year: 1880; Census Place: Hopewell, Anderson, South Carolina; Roll: 1219; Family History Film: 1255219; Page: 343C; Enumeration District: 034

• Year: 1900; Census Place: Hopewell, Anderson, South Carolina; Roll: 1516; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0057; FHL microfilm: 1241516

• profile creator's personal ref. link, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/36407284/person/260133530170/facts