... Humphrey May, was born in 1782 in Pittsylvania County, Va., and was of Welsh extraction. He came to Kentucky at the age of seven years, and was the fourth of eleven children born to Gabriel and Susanna (Stokes) May. ... The Mays were people of fine sense, sobriety and great amiability of temper. Humphrey May's wives were Elizabeth and Margaret Connelly, the daughters of John Connelly and Frances Brent, who immigrated from Fluvana [sic] County, Va., to Nelson County, Ky., in 1805. ...