NameGeorge William MAYS 653,654
Birth DateJan 1876
Birth PlacePennsylvania
Birth Memobig boarding house
Birth Date14 Oct 1876
Birth PlaceKnox Township, Clearfield Co., PA, USA
Birth Date14 Oct 1888
Birth PlacePittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA, USA
Birth Memoimpossible
Residence Date1911
Residence PlaceJordan Township, Clearfield Co., PA, USA
Residence Memo“a single man” sold for $100.00 to Myrtle
Residence Date1918
Residence PlaceIrvona, Beccaria, Clearfield, Pennsylvania
Residence Memosignature: George Mayes
Residence Date1919
Residence PlaceAltoona, Blair, Co., PA, USA
Residence Memo2422 W Oak Av same as Orvis Kulp
Residence DateDec 1919
Residence Memoleft wife and 2 children
Residence Date7 Feb 1925
Residence Memojail
Residence Date1937
Residence PlaceWilkinsburg, Allegheny Co., PA, USA
Residence Memo419 Rosedale
Death Date13 Jan 1937
Death PlacePittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA, USA
Death MemoU. S. Marine Hospital, 40th & Penn, autopsy
Burial Date15 Jan 1937
Burial PlaceSharpsburg, Allegheny Co., PA, USA
Burial MemoGreenwood cemetery, Grime & Blair undertaker, 4112 Main?, pgh
Birth DateJan 1876
Birth PlacePennsylvania, USA
Death Date13 Jan 1937
Death PlacePittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA, USA
Burial PlaceGreenwood Cemetery, Sharpsburg, Allegheny Co., PA, USA663
Occupation1918: Sawmill Laborer, Big Run, Jefferson County, McClure & Tyson; 1919: RR Fireman; 1924-23 Nov 1936: Riverman, Fireman
FatherWilliam “Price” MAYS (?1842-1910)
MotherSarah E OGDEN (1842-)
Misc. Notes
No gravestone. Section 2, Range 16, Lot 5, Grave 2 west tier
Your grandfather, George W. Mays was born on 14 October 1876 and he died of various urinary and renal failures caused by tertiary syphilis on 13 January 1937 in Pittsburgh. At the time, he was separated from his wife, Bessie “Tobias” and had not worked for a year at his job as fireman on the river. He died at the Marine Hospital at 40th and Penn in Pittsburgh. The hospital is no longer in existence. His remains were buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Sharpsburg, Allegheny county. Before he entered the hospital he lived at 419 Rosedale in Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, PA.

He worked for about 12 years at his job on the rivers in Pittsburgh. But, in 1918 he lived in Irvona with Bessie and signed his name on his WWI draft registration as “George Mayes.” At that time, he was a sawmill laborer in Big Run, Jefferson county, PA at the McClure & Tyson company.

On more than one document he gave his birth year as 1888, but this is not possible because he appeared on the 1880 census with his birth family, Price and Sarah. I have tried to find him on the 1930 census, but have not been able to as of this moment. A George Mays who was only 37 is on the 1930 census in Collier, Allegheny, PA in the Allegheny County Hospital for the Insane. But, there is no other identifying information to say yea or nay to that George Mays.

At last! I have proof enough to say that George Mays, son of Price and Sarah Ogden Mays married Bessie Mays Kulp. Well…I still don’t have proof of a MARRIAGE, but at least we have proof of their union and their lineages.

Looking back at other information, I see now that Charlotte was correct when she married George Waller and stated that her father was dead (in 1940.) But, why she said her mother was, too….?

Voila!

Valerie

P. S. You may want to add to your trip up here Pittsburgh and Redbank township, Armstrong county, and Porter township, Clarion county.
Misc. Notes
George was the son of Price Mays and Saris Norton. He was the husband of Bessie Tobias and was riverman. The couple lived at #419 Rosedale Street in Wilkinsburg. He died at the US Marine Hospital* of pyonephrosis and cyctitis. Buried on January 15, 1937 from the Grime & Blair Funeral Home. 
 
Note: No tombstone663

*Compiler of this database was unable to find any record of a U.S. Marine Hospital in Pittsburg. There were U.S. Marine hospitals in Louisville, KY; Mobile, AL; and Seattle, WA3

Pyonephrosis since Dec 1936, Cystitis Chronic hypertrophy & Ureteritis Chronic hypertrophy since 1934, Tertiary Syphilis, Arterior Sclerosis.654
Spouses
Birth Date11 Mar 1884
Birth PlacePennsylvania
Residence Date12 Jun 1899 Age: 15
Residence PlaceFerguson, Clearfield, Pennsylvania
Residence Date1925
Residence PlaceAltoona, Blair, Co., PA, USA
Residence Memor 1806 12 av Mrs. Bessie Culp
Residence Date1927
Residence PlaceAltoona, Blair, Co., PA, USA
Residence Memo803 12th Street
Residence Date1944
Residence PlaceAltoona, Blair, Co., PA, USA
Residence Memo1218 6th Avenue
Residence Date1945
Residence PlaceAltoona, Blair, Co., PA, USA
Residence Memo1218 6th Avenue, widow Milton
Residence Date1948
Residence PlaceAltoona, Blair, Co., PA, USA
Residence Memo1122 7th Avenue, widow Milton
Residence Date? 1957
Residence PlaceVirden, Carlinville, Macoupin, Illinois
Residence Memoat Hazel’s invitation?
Residence Date21 Sep 1966 Age: 82
Residence PlaceVirden, Carlinville, Macoupin, Illinois
Residence Memophysician attended her from 1966
Death Date11 Apr 1971 Age: 87
Death PlaceVirden, Carlinville, Macoupin, Illinois
Death MemoMacoupin Nursing Home
Burial Date14 Apr 1971
Burial PlaceVirden, Carlinville, Macoupin, Illinois
Burial MemoVirden
Burial PlaceOlanta, PA 16863, USA
Burial MemoSnyder, next to Milton Kulp Row 6, #11
Soc. Sec. #207-22-8588A
FatherJohn B. MAYS (1839-1892)
Misc. Notes
1900: 1 child, 1 living; 1910: 5 children, 5 living. Pearl 10, Orpha 8, Oliver 4, Ohera 2, Niale 6/12ths.
1920: no one of interest on same page.
1940: marriage certificate of Charlotte says Bessie Snyder, dead; George Mays, dead
track bessie in directories for 1930. She was with kids in 1920 but they were farmed out in 1930.
Are Orpha, Orvis and Jack the same? Yes, if 1910 daughter Orpha is wrong sex.
Are Ohera and Harold the same? Yes, I think so because on 23 Apr 1910 Ohera was 8 at last birthday and on 22 Jan 1920 Harold was 13 at last birthday=15 Nov 1907.
Family ID1542
Marr Date? 1916
Marr PlaceClearfield County, PA, USA
Marr Memono marriage record in Blair, West Virginia nor Maryland
Sep Date? 1925
Sep PlacePittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA, USA
Sep Memohe lived in Pittsburgh since about 1924, but in jail in Blair in June 1925
Birth Date11 Mar 1884
Birth PlacePennsylvania, USA
Death Date11 Apr 1971654 Age: 87
Death PlaceVirden, Macoupin Co., IL, USA
Death MemoSource reads “Virden, Carlinville, Macoupin, Illinois” [Carlinville is another town in Mascoupin county]
Family ID13645
Reside DateJan 1937663
Reside PlaceWilkinsburg, Allegheny Co., PA, USA
Reside Memo#419 Rosedale Street
ChildrenRalph (5 17 2017) Sheldon (1918-1994)
Last Modified 7 Apr 2017Created 17 May 2017 Rick Gleason - ricksgenealogy@gmail.com