 Both of Bishop Lay's brothers served as Confederate colonels, and Mrs. Lay's uncle, Thomas Atkinson was bishop of North Carolina.Cases surrounding an 1895 Lunenburg County murder are the subject of historian Suzanne Lebsock's book, "".According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 432 square miles (1,120 km²), of which 432 square miles (1,118 km²) is land and 1 square mile (2 km²) (0.16%) is water.