MAYS/MAY/MAYSE/MEASE GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr


I first became aware of my Mays lineage in 1980 after a distant cousin, Charlotte Bond, of Danielsville, GA sent me a book called Notes on Charles Bond, Sr. And His Descendants From 1733 by Catherine Sams Bond Gheesling, 1975. This book contains a wealth of information and source documentation on the BOND family which came from Goochland County, VA and settled in Elbert, Franklin, Madison, and other counties in Georgia.

I have been unable to ascertain the parentage of Susannah Mays, although there were several Mays families living in Goochland an Amherst County, VA in the 1700s which undoubtedly are related to her in some way. My latest theory is that possibly Susannah was a young widow who had married a Mays and then married Richard Bond as her second husband, since I cannot locate a Susannah Mays of the right age in any of the Mays families in the Amherst Co., VA area.

There was also a family by the surname of MAY which was living in Madison County, Georgia in the late 1800s. Charlotte Bond has also sent me information on the MAY family of Georgia. Possibly the names are interchangeable??

I have also seen this surname spelled as MAYSE, MEASE, etc.

Here is my MAYS lineage as far as can be proven:

  1. Susannah MAYS, b. ca. 1763 Amherst Co., VA, d. 6 Nov. 1843 Cobb Co., GA; md. 15 May 1783 Amherst Co., VA to Richard Cox BOND, Sr., b. ca. 1760 Amherst Co., VA, d. 31 Jan. 1837 Franklin Co., GA
  2. Nelly BOND, b. 27 Mar. 1798, d. ca. 1847 Lafayette Co., MS; md. 20 Dec. 1821 Franklin Co., GA to John SARTAIN, Sr., b. ca. 1800 Madison Co., GA, d. Aug. 1869 Yalobusha Co., MS
  3. Russell SARTAIN (brother of Elizabeth Ann Sartain below), b. 24 Aug. 1828 Madison Co., GA, d. 24 April 1909 Jack Co., TX; md. 3rd ca. 1869 Danielsville, GA to Martha Auntny BEARD, b. 23 Oct. 1833 Madison Co., GA, d. 23 Mar. 1913 Jack Co., TX;

    Elizabeth Ann SARTAIN (sister of Russell Sartain above), b. 30 July 1837 Madison Co., GA, d. 29 Oct. 1921 Katie, OK; md. 16 May 1851 Lafayette Co., MS to Henry Washington GARVIN, b. 28 June 1833 Madison Co., GA, d. 21 Feb. 1909 GARVIN Co., OK
  4. Maizie Elmira Catherine SARTAIN (daughter of Russell SARTAIN and Martha BEARD above), b. 7 Dec. 1871 Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., MS, d. 15 March 1954 Morton, Bailey Co., TX (Buried at Morton Cemetery); md. 12 Dec. 1888 Jack Co., TX to McCager Martin GARVIN (son of Elizabeth Ann SARTAIN and Henry Washington GARVIN above), b. 19 Oct. 1856 Newton Co., MS, d. 17 Dec. 1920 Frederick, Tillman Co., OK (Buried at Hackberry Cemetery) (first cousins on the Sartain side)
  5. Orpha Antonia Hazel GARVIN, b. 11 November 1895 Jack Co., TX, d. 21 Dec. 1979 Cortez, Montezuma Co., CO; md. 12 Dec. 1915 Parker Co., TX to William Earl HARRIS, b. 8 Aug. 1895 McNairy Co., TN, d. 5 Jan. 1967 Cortez, Montezuma Co., CO (Both buried at Dove Creek Cemetery, Dove Creek, CO) *These are my grandparents.


MAYS E-MAIL LIST


If you have queries concerning the MAYS surname, you may post these at the Mays Family Genealogy List which is a part of the Rootsweb e-mail discussion lists. It offers free queries and discussion on the Mays surname and variant spellings.

To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected]
Leave subject line blank (This will be ignored).
In the body of the message type: subscribe

Then a welcome message will be sent telling how to post messages. Once you are subscribed, you may send a query to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: [email protected]

Archived postings to the Mays e-mail list can be found on the WEB at:

    https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/

When prompted, type in MAYS for the name of the list. A second screen will appear where you can choose a year and type in a search word(s). If you type in MAYS you would probably get all the previous postings to the list. You can also type in a person's name instead or a locality to narrow your search. If you wish to do a search by date, try entering it in quotation marks with the day and then the month as "01 Mar" using single digit dates preceded by a zero and only the first three letters of the month.



ROOTSWEB MAYS MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the MAYS surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Mays Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any MAYS name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.




An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the MAYS family on GenForum. It can be found at the following address:

    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/mays

***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the MAYS/MAY lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.


Some other Mays researchers and web sites include:

    Steven Page's Web Page


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Last updated November 10, 2004.


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