OBIT: Name: Fay, Clarence E.
Date: Sep 24 1947
Source: Cleveland Press; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #024.
Notes: Fay, Clarence E., beloved husband of Ruth (deceased), father of Eugene N., Dr. Dudley S., Walter G., Jerry W., and Esther May (deceased), passed away Wed. Friends may call at the Baker Funeral Home, Berea, where services will be held Sat., Sept. 27, at 2 p. m.

BIOGRAPHY: Biographical Memorial of Clarence E. Fay

Clarence Eugene Fay was born in the old Fay Homestead March 1, 1873 in Parma, Ohio. I believe his father, Jeremiah Wilcox Fay, to have been the first white male born in that town in 1822. Clarence's younger days were spent as a farmer. During his life he held several jobs such as working for the NYC Railroad as a firemen on the work train, stillman for an oil company, and as an employee for a carbon company.

He married Ruth R. Stevens, whom many considered "the dearest girl in town", and had five children. He and his family would frequently go to town in their Spring Wagon and stop at the People's Grocery store. This would have been at the intersection of Pearl and Broadview Roads. The bill for a weeks worth of food was 2 to 3 dollars. They would also take a calf or pig to the slaughter house for butchering. This was at the corner of Ridge and Brookpark Roads.

Gene, a son who is now ninety-nine with nineteen great great grandchildren of his own writes, "I can remember the first automobile Dad bought. It was a 1916 Mitchell-seven passenger touring car, fold-down top, side curtains. He was able to buy it because he had sold a part of the farm to a Catholic church for their cemetery. It is now located on West 54th Street, at the east end of Theota Avenue. As the years went by, I learned how to drive the car and was real proud. Mother also drove it and was the driver and owner of the first school bus Parma ever had. Kids rode in the car as well as on the running boards."

Clarence and his family lived in the old Fay house which s?ood on fifty acres, the small portion of once a larger farm. His social interests and pastimes included playing the bass tuba in a band, bowling, and being involved at the Odd Fellows Lodge Hall. Prior to 1916, they moved a block to the north. This smaller house was also built on the farm and can still be seen. It is on Bradley Avenue which was named for Clarence's mother, Mary Ann Bradley. The large brick Fay house, which was once known as "B. Fay's Inn", was torn down around this time.

He later lived with his son, Gene, in Berea, Ohio. At this time he worked at the Standard Drug store in town. My mother, Judy Fay, can remember taking longs walks with him through town as a girl. She recalls him frequently reciting Longfellow's "The Wreck of the Hesperus" which was a favorite poem of his. He would also ask for the Bible, or "The Good Book", and was a member of the Parma Presbyterian Church on Pearl Road. Later in life he suffered from throat cancer and died in 1947. He was seventy four years of age and was buried at Brooklyn Heights Cemetery near Parma. When Clarence was born Parma's population was about fourteen hundred, at his death about twenty two thousand.

This biographical memorial of Clarence E. Fay was written to the best of my knowledge. At the time of this writing it has been fifty six years since his death and he has many descendants who are of his sixth generation. I hope it will serve all those who are interested in their family heritage.

All of the above has been read and approved by Ruth Fay, the past and current president of the Parma Historical Society. Her knowledge of the Fays, Parma's first family, make her a source to many as speaker and historian.

BIOGRAPHY:
Written by A. Paul Johnson with Jennifer Fay (Johnson) Tetzloff, great grandchildren


BIOGRAPHY: Posted April 2003

BIOGRAPHY: Source --- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fayfamily/clarence_e.html

1. Eugene N. FAY
2. Dudley S. FAY
3. Walter G. FAY
4. Jerry W. FAY
5. Esther FAY d. Bef 1947.

1. Alfred Wylie FAY
2. 1. Clarence E. FAY b. 1 Mar 1873, Parma, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA; d. 24 Sep 1947, Parma, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
3. William N. FAY
4. Edgar B. FAY
5. Albert W. FAY, [infant]

1. Mabel Truman FAY b. 26 Jan 1820, Parma, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
2. Ruth FAY, (twin) b. 8 Mar 1822, Parma, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
3. 2. Jeremiah Wilcox FAY, (twin) b. 8 Mar 1822, Parma, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.

1. Christopher BRADLEY b. Abt 1832, Rockport, Cuyahoga,Ohio,USA.
2. 3. Mary Ann BRADLEY b. 5 Jul 1836, Rockport, Cuyahoga, Ohio; d. 1912, Parma, Cuyahoga, Ohio,USA.
3. Betsy BRADLEY b. 1833, Rockport, Cuyahoga,Ohio,USA.
4. Emily BRADLEY b. 1838, Ohio,USA.
5. Phoebe BRADLEY b. 1841, Rockport, Cuyahoga,Ohio,USA.
6. Alfred BRADLEY b. 1843, Olmstead, Cuyahoga,Ohio,USA.
7. William BRADLEY b. Abt 1840, Ohio,USA.

BIOGRAPHY: Name: Ebenezer FAY 1
Sex: M
Birth: 12 APR 1713 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts 2
Death: 13 OCT 1790 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts 3
Baptism: 11 SEP 1715 4
Note:

BIOGRAPHY: 1790 US Census for Brimfield, Massachusetts
Fay, Ebenezer
1 male 16yrs and over
2 Females

BIOGRAPHY: From the FAY GENEALOGY, published 1898

BIOGRAPHY: EBENEZER FAY
He settled in Sturbridge near Attom Pond at a point which took the name of "Fay's Cove" which was then in the midst of a dense forest one mile or more from where there had ever been any public road. He afterwards built on a portion of his large tract of land near the residence of Cyrus and John Fay.

BIOGRAPHY: He was very fond of fishing in the Pond above named and he used to go on horseback and get his saddlebag full of fish, this was after his removal from Fay's Cove.

BIOGRAPHY: Some of his children lived to a good old age, his son Jonathan was nearly 100 years old at the time of his death and the wife of Jonathan also lived to be 100 years old. FAY GENEALOGY Note by DEE 5/17/2000


BIOGRAPHY: Father: Samuel FAY b: 11 OCT 1673 in Marlboro, Massachusetts
Mother: Tabitha WARD b: 16 MAY 1675 in Marlboro, Massachusetts

BIOGRAPHY: Marriage 1 ABIGAIL
Married: 1738

BIOGRAPHY: Marriage 2 Thankf?l HYDE b: 1717 in Newton , Massachusetts
Married: 19 SEP 1739 in Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts 5
Children
Thomas FAY b: 2 OCT 1751 in Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts
Abigail FAY b: 23 APR 1741 in Sturbrdge, Massachusetts
Cyrus FAY b: 29 NOV 1750 in Sturbrdge, Massachusetts
Elijah FAY b: 1 FEB 1742/43 in Sturbrdge, Massachusetts
Joel FAY b: 27 SEP 1746 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Jonathan FAY b: 14 JAN 1741/42 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Jude FAY b: 6 APR 1748 in Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts
Levi FAY b: 28 MAR 1753 in Sturbrdge, Worcester, Massachusetts
Thankful FAY b: 26 JAN 1755 in Sturbrdge, Worcester, Massachusetts
Thankful FAY b: 13 NOV 1756 in Sturbrdge,Worcester, Massachusetts
Urah FAY b: 14 DEC 1745 in Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts

BIOGRAPHY: Marriage 3 Mary MASON b: 1744 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Married: 19 NOV 1765 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts 5
Children
Benajah FAY b: 28 JUL 1773 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Jabez FAY b: 15 OCT 1766 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Levinah FAY b: 20 FEB 1781 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Mary FAY b: 20 SEP 1775 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Sarah FAY b: 1 SEP 1768 in Sturbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts
Silvanus FAY b: 31 AUG 1770 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Sinah FAY b: 12 AUG 1777 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts

BIOGRAPHY: Sources:
Title: FAY GENEALOGY, JOHN FAY OF MARLBOROUGH AND HIS DESCENDANTS
Author: Orlin P. Fay
Publication: Press of J. B. Savage, Cleveland, Ohio, 1898
Repository:
Note: Copy in pers. ref. library of DEE
Call Number:
Media: Book
Page: page 175 and page 203
Title: Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachussetts, to the end of the year 1849
Publication: Sanford NC, Microfilming Corp of America, 1979
Repository:
Note: Mn Historical Society
Call Number: 155
Media: Map
Page: Births, Page 69
Title: Vital Records of Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Publication: Sanford NC, Microfilming Corp of America, 1979
Repository:
Note: Mn Historical Society
Call Number: 218
Media: Microfiche
Page: Deaths, page 327
Title: Vital Records of Marlborough County to the end of year 1849
Page: Marlborough births, page 69
Title: Vital Records of Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Publication: Sanford NC, Microfilming Corp of America, 1979
Repository:
Note: Mn Historical Society
Call Number: 218
Media: Microfiche
Page: Marriages, page 194

Ancestral File. Data apparently from John W. Fay, Fay Genealogy.

W.T. Brigham, History of the Brigham Family, LDS FHC microfilm
1033775, item #3. 18 children.

McClernand Butler Crawford 2000, genealogy file at
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/r/a/Mcclernand-B-Crawford/.
Born in Westborough. Settled at Sturbridge at Fay's Cove. Marriages
1738, 19 September 1739, and 1765.

From the "selvage1" database at WorldConnect. Please contact PetersonC@missouri.edu with corrections and additions.

1. Jabez FAY b. 15 Oct 1756.
2. Sally FAY b. 1 Sep 1767.
3. Sylvanus FAY b. 3 Aug 1770.
4. 4. Benajah FAY, Sr. b. 28 Jul 1773, Sturbridge,, Massachusets; d. 15 Apr 1860, Parma, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA.
5. Polly FAY b. 20 Sep 1775.
6. Seneth FAY b. 12 Aug 1777.
7. Lovinah FAY b. 20 Feb 1781.

1. 5. Ruth WILCOX b. 1781, , Lewis, New York; d. 16 Sep 1831, Parma, Cuyahoga, Ohio.