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Harold Frank Douglas Lay Gravesite

Milagro Soleda Lay

Harold Frank Douglas Lay

Rev Walter Lay, Kentucky Baptizing

Wilbur Vertrees, 1939 baptizing

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Louetta Lay

Louetta Lay

Roy Lay,Lloyd,Herbert Guilliam

Roy Lay ,LLoyd Guilliam ,Wilburn Lay

Violet Lay Unknown,Elena and Lloyd Guilliam

Roy Lay ,Lloyd Guilliam,Wilburn Lay

Possibly Ruth and Roy Lay

Wilburn and Violet lay and Their Children

Lay Bunch

William Anderson Lay and Emma Clementine Guilliam Lay

Ruth and Roy Lay

Wilburn and Violet Lay

Ruth and Roy Lay

Roy Lay

Wilburn and Violet Lay and Their Children

Guilliam/Lay Bunch

Guilliam /Lay

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In 1931, in the year that Luther S Lay was born, in March, “The Star Spangled Banner” officially became the national anthem by congressional resolution. Other songs had previously been used - among them, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", "God Bless America", and "America the Beautiful". There was fierce debate about making "The Star Spangled Banner" the national anthem - Southerners and veterans organizations supported it, pacifists and educators opposed it.

In 1957, when he was 26 years old, on September 24th, the "Little Rock Nine" (nine African-American students) entered Little Rock High School. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus had previously prevented the students from entering the school at the beginning of the term with the Arkansas National Guard - they blocked the door. President Eisenhower ordered federal troops - the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army - to guard the students and allow them entry.

In 1964, at the age of 33 years old, Luther was alive when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.

In 1974, he was 43 years old when on February 5th, Patty Hearst, age 19 - granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst and daughter of publisher of the San Francisco Examiner Randolph Hearst - was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a left wing terrorist group. She was found, alive, 19 months later.

In 1997, in the year of Luther S Lay's passing, on August 31st, Princess Diana of Great Britain was killed when her car crashed into a pillar in the tunnel under the Pont de l'Alma bridge in Paris. The car she was riding in was trying to evade the paparazzi but it was also discovered later that the driver of the car, who was also killed, had three times the legal limit of alcohol which likely contributed to the accident.