Person:Humphrey May (1)

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Humphrey May
d.1 Dec 1862 Kentucky
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Name Humphrey May
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 12 Mar 1782 Pittsylvania County, Virginia
Marriage 1810 to Elizabeth Connelly
Marriage Kentuckyto Margaret Connelly
Death? 1 Dec 1862 Kentucky
References
  1. Family Recorded, in Perrin, William Henry; J. H. Battle; and G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky: a History of the State: Embracing a concise account of the origin and development of the Virginia colony : its expansion westward, and the settlement of the frontier beyond the Alleghanies; the erection of Kentucky as an independent state and its subsequent development. (Louisville: F. A. Battey, 1887).

    ... 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. ...

  2. Family Recorded, in Green County Historical Society (Greensburg, Kentucky). The Kentucky explorer : a history magazine published for Kentuckians everywhere. (Jackson, Kentucky: Kentucky Explorer)
    10:96, No 5 (1995).

    Taken from old clippings dealing with Kentucky family history, newspaper
    unknown. These clippings are about 100 years old (1997).
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    THE MAY FAMILY
    ... Humphrey, son of Gabriel, 1757, was born in Pittsylvania Co., Va. in 1782 and married in Elizabeth Co. ...