William S. Gay (1813-1892) Betsey Harlow Gay (1815-1887) Henry W. Gay (1836-1837) William S. Gay was born in 1813 in Dorchester. On December 2, 1835, he married Betsey Harlow of Sharon. The couple had two sons. Henry W. Gay was born in 1836 and died a year later in 1837. Their second child, William Harlow Gay was born in June of 1840 in South Dedham. He lived to adulthood and served in the Civil War.   Gay was a cabinetmaker by trade but for many years worked for Ellis D. Draper as a pattern...

Herbert A. Corbett (1859-1903)   Herbert Andrew Corbett was born on November 24, 1859 in South Dedham. He was the son of David H. Corbett and Sarah P. McIntosh Corbett. David was born in Nova Scotia, Sarah in Stoughton.   In 1887, Herbert Corbett married Stella Augusta Gay who was born in Dedham on February 21, 1864. She was the daughter of Jarvis Gay Jr. and his wife Martha Kendall Gay. The couple had one child who died in infancy. That child was interred in the Gay family lot 95.   Like his...

Jesse Morse (1788-1861) Clarissa Guild Morse (1792-1854)   Jesse Morse was born on August 14, 1788, one of ten children born to Seth Morse, Jr. (1753-1801) and Mary Dean Morse (1754-1842) (lot 175, 176). As a young man, Jesse’s father, Seth Morse, Jr. answered the militia call on April 19, 1775 on the day of the Battle of Lexington and Concord.   On August 12, 1815, Jesse Morse married Clarissa Guild who had been born on June 23, 1792. Clarissa was the daughter of Joel Guild (1762-1842) and...