Jay Taylor and Betsy Rose Taylor in Havana, Cuba in ca. 1989. Jay was a Navy helicopter pilot station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba in the 1950's. The story I heard was that he flew to Camp Polk, Louisiana to meet up with his future wife Betsy Rose, who was a Nurse and married her. I think this might be the meeting that sealed Jay's fate.

James Michener's Novel - Amazon.com says "When James Michener visited Havana with his associate John Kings, he was only researching Cuba for a new novel on the Caribbean, but he found much more to excite his interest. Michener's insightful text and Kings's evocative photographs record their impressions of Havana thirty years after the Revolution." 1989	John Kings, his coordinating editor and associate, first worked with him on Centennial in 1972.
This is Jay Taylor and Betsy Rose Taylor, daughter of Sally Payne Rose. Sally Payne was the daughter of Byrd Maynard Payne and Sally A.M. Jennings. Jay was assigned to what the State Department calls it's American Concern in Havana. Many local's from Tazewell and Lone Mountain traveled to Cuba for Jay and Betsy's daughter, Amy Taylor Scully's wedding in 1987.	Jay Taylor has himself written several book on the Chinese people and it's socio-economic polices. They visit Lone Mountain often. Click here for a recent picture of a 2007 Reunion in Lone Mountain, Tennessee
A letter among my remembrances of my brother George Eddie Payne was from Larry Ault. If it is Larry then it is Lawrence C. Ault born 1922 son of Lawrence Ault and Irene Payne, daughter of Byrd Payne who were married in 1917. Larry Ault first married Helen Moore but divorced in 1941. He remarried Mary Ruth Riley in December 1953. Since first posting this I have learned that the wedding that was refered to was not the Jay Taylor and Betsy Rose wedding it was the wedding of Patricia (Patsy) Payne Perkins and Ray Farmer. My brother, stationed at Ft. Polk, Louisiana after returning from Germany was contacted by Larry Ault, first cousin of Patsy, saying he was going to travel there from Lawton, Oklahoma to attend. Being the detective I am it took me a while but I think I got it right. Mary Ruth Riley was the daughter of Frank Kincaid Riley and Della Maude Buis. What I am trying to determine is whether my brother was attending West Point or had already decided not to attend for he did enroll in 1953. Football, as you can see from the letter, was and is a tremendous inspiration to many of my family and the scandal at West Point no doubt was a deciding factor in my brother not attending. When you read the letter you can gather that U.T. Football was something special to Ault's also.

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