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Jay Cemetery Marker Belvidere, Thayer Co., NE.

  Sitting,  Jessie Jay, Jane C. Ables Jay   Standing, Orville J. Jay

                            Photo date   c. 1884

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    A  Brief History of Cedar Creek Monthly Meeting                    

    The Cedar Creek Friends Cemetery Restoration Project

Located near Salem, Henry County, Iowa. Next to the Church is the  Cedar Creek Friends Cemetery.  Many Jay family members are  buried there

  Cedar  Creek Cemetery

The stone above marks the Grave of Jemima MILLS-JAY 1768-c.bef.1850.

Located in the Cedar Creek Friends Cemetery. The stones were located by Don & Christy Jay a few years back. Christy says to day the stone with it's hand carved lettering can no longer be read.

The Photos were taken by Don & Christy Jay

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              Caesar Creek Friends Meeting  Historic Cemetery

                                          Clinton Co., Ohio

Headstones of John & Lydia Jay are just behind the fence on the right of the entrance. John Jay 1798-1884 Lydia Compton-Jay  1803-1896

Mary Vestal-JAY is also buried here.

                                                                    Photo's taken by; Joni Johnson

Lydia

John

  Jane Cochran Ables-Jay  1825-1902

           Photo date April 02, 1902

Photo complements of Todd Thompson

Jesse Jay was a veteran of the Civil War He enlisted in the 14th. Iowa Infantry, Company "I",  05 Nov 1861 and was discharged 13 Nov 1864.

Jesse was taken as a prisoner of war by the Confederate Army at the battle of Shiloh at Pittsburgh landing ( The hornets Nest).  06 April 1862. While a prisoner Jesse kept a Diary here is a transcrption of part of that  diary written while a prisoner of War.

Diary Of Jesse Jay

                          John Ables(s)

       Born in Amsterdam, Holland   c. 1780

  Death  22 Sept.1867  Salem, Henry Co. Iowa

  William H. 1831-1898 and Mary Jay-Irwin 1830-1871

(Mary was a daughter of William Jay & Labitha Hockett-Jay

and a sister to Jesse)

                               No photo date

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John Ables Head Stone Pleasent Point Cemetery Near Salem, Henry Co., Iowa.

The orginal head stone was broken and in Febuary 2001  Celeste Bishop has a new one put in place of it.

Photo provided by Nila Boone (2002)