May Family Photos
Being updated 1Q2005

The family and descendants of
John May, Jr. [1781-1849]

Anyone who has photos to share can contact Fred T. May

More May family photos
John May, Jr. | Samuel | Thomas | Elizabeth | Daniel | Mary | Reuben | Tlepolard

Return to Photo Index  

More notes and photos to be posted

Thomas Waldo May
2nd of 11 children of John & Elizabeth
b: 12 Dec 1812 North Carolina or Kentucky
d: 6 Mar 1880 Oregon City, OR;
buried in Graham Cemetery

....... +Nancy Caroline McNeeley
b: 24 Mar 1813 m: 20 Sep 1832
    Shelby Co., near Tower Hill, IL
d: 13 Dec 1859

 

 

Need PHOTO

 

See brief family story
a photo of his daughter, Sophia Jane May.

 Lafayette May
9th of 11 children of John & Elizabeth
b: 28 May 1825 d: 14 July 1876
----- +Nancy Caroline Abbott
b. 1 Sep 1844 d. 12 Feb 1875

-- 2nd Wife
----- +Susan Ball

Lafayette and his brother Thomas were partners in the saw mill business in Canby, OR. Lafayette went to the California gold rush with his brother-in-law, John Sharrock in 1849 and later moved to Oregon.


Old Canby Cemetery - now known as Baker Prairie Cemetery - in Clackamas Co., Oregon


Grave of Lafayette May
& his wife Nancy