May Family Photos

Descendants of Thomas & Dorcas Patton May

Album for

Samuel May [1820-1904]


Samuel May

Second five of ten childlren

Thomas | Martha | Samuel | William | Bascom

See first five children

6. Thomas J. May b: 19 Apr 1855 Prestonsburg, KY d: 26 Oct 1886 Prestonsburg; buried in the May cemetery. Age at death: 31

...... +Jennie Booten b: 21 Dec 1856 Greenup Co., KY m: 27 Mar 1879 Prestonsburg, Ky. by Rev. S. F. McClung. d: 28 Sep 1888 Prestonsburg; buried in the May cemetery. Age at death: 31

They had three daughters:

1. Emma St. John May b: 5 Apr 1880 Prestonsburg, KY
...... +James William Hatcher b: Jan 1870 Floyd Co., KY m: 18 May 1898 Floyd Co., Ky, in the log home of her uncle, Bascom May.


Emma St. John May
Photos courtesy of her family in 2005


daughter, Mae Hatcher
b. May 11, 1911


daughter, Francis Virginia Hatcher (Keathley)
b. June 8, 1905

 

 


Lawrence Keathley
& daughter, Betty

2. Mary E. May b: 19 Jul 1882 Floyd Co., Ky.; baptized by Rev. Cook
...... +William K. Allen b: 15 Jan 1875 m: 5 May 1903 Floyd Co., KY, at the home of J. W. Hatchins
3. Fanny May b: 12 Nov 1887 Floyd Co., Ky.; baptized by her grandfather, Samuel May
...... +Robert Miller Grant b: 30 Nov 1887 Catlettsburg, Ky. m: 11 Oct 1909 Floyd Co., Ky

7. Martha May b: 17 Apr 1857 Prestonsburg, KY, baptized by Rev. Landrum in 1859. d: 26 Apr 1936 Frenchburg, KY Age at death: 79

...... +Thomas Greenwade b: 2 Oct 1848 Bath Co., KY m: 13 Oct 1874 Floyd Co., Ky d: 20 Feb 1926 Frenchburg, KY Age at death: 77


Martha May (Greenwade) [1857-1936]


A gathering of May cousins.
Martha May (Greenwade) is third standing from right.
Probably taken at one of the May reunions in the early 1930s.
Photos coutesy of Martha's granddaughter, Roberta Daws of Nashville, TN.

Read about the 1933 May family reunion held at their home near Frenchburg, KY.

8. Samuel May b: 23 Jun 1859 Floyd Co., KY, baptized by Rev. Landrum. d: 26 Nov 1917 at his home near Allen, KY, buried in the family cemetery there. Age at death: 58

...... +Anna Banner b: 19 May 1860 m: 3 Oct 1878 Floyd Co., KY d: 8 Jan 1940 at her home near Allen, KY, buried in the family cemetery there. Age at death: 79

Read about the 1934 May family reunion held at his home south of Prestonsburg, KY.

9. William Harvey May b: 14 Mar 1862 d: 31 Aug 1949 Emma KY, where he had lived with his niece Byrd May Leslie for several years. Buried in the May cemetery near Allen, Ky. on the Banner farm. Age at death: 87

...... +Dora Ratliff b: 11 Jul 1862 m: 25 Nov 1885 Pike Co., KY d: 19 Feb 1893 Nicholas Co., KY; buried in Locust Grove Cemetery at Myers, Ky. Age at death: 30

. *2nd Wife of William Harvey May:

...... +Sallie Durham b: 18 Sep 1867 m: 1 Mar 1893 Nicholas Co., Ky. d: 29 Mar 1903 Meyers, KY; buried in Locust Grove Cemetery. Age at death: 35

. *3rd Wife of William Harvey May:

..... +Bessie Brown Marrs b: 25 Jan 1885 Floyd Co., KY m: after 1903 in Floyd Co., KY

10. Bascom May b: 23 Jun 1867 d: 1958 Prestonsburg, KY, buried in the May Cemetery Age at death: 91 est.

...... +Anna Rhoda Mayo b: 9 Dec 1869 m: 17 Dec 1890 Floyd Co., Ky d: 1953 May's Branch, on the north side of Prestonsburg. Buried in the May Cemetery near her home Age at death: 84 est.


Bascom May was the 21st man to serve as
Master of the Mason's Zebulon Lodge in Prestonsburg.

 

Bascom May in the 1950s

 


The "Weaning House"

This house on May`s Branch was constructed of hand-hewn poplar logs in 1871 by Bascom May's father, Samuel May (1820-1904). Samuel called this house the "Weaning House" because each of his sons was allowed to use the house while saving money to buy his own farm. Bascom, the youngest of the sons, and his wife, Annie Rhoda Mayo, lived in the house from 1890 until Bascom`s death in 1958. He was buried in the May cemetery near his home.

Bascom made his living with his dairy operation on May's Branch, and his milk wagon was a familiar sight in Prestonsburg. The house was razed about 2000.

See first five children