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John Wyatt Mays

ID Number: T04490

Biographical Data
Basic Identification

Gender: male

Ethnicity:

Immigration:

Attributed Race: white

Free or Enslaved: free

Birth & Family

Birth Date: 1895/05/04

Birthplace: Lowesville, Amherst County, Virginia

Mother: Sarah Massie Mays

Father: B. W. Mays

1st Spouse: Martha Peterson Gunter Mays

2nd Spouse: male

Age Details

Age: 27

Age Group: adult (20-59)

Life Details

Occupation(s): carpenter; store owner; Thornhill Wagon Works

Last Church: unknown

Military Service: veteran

Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia

Last Address: 706 Fifth Street

Death

Death Date: 1923/04/21

Death Note: none

Place of Death: unknown

Cause of Death: pulmonary tuberculosis

Burial & Undertaking

Burial Date: 1923/04/22

Funeral Home: J. E. Fauber, Inc.

Diuguid ID Number:

Indigent?: private interment

Gravesite and Grave Marker Data

Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: none

Section: unknown

Confirmation Source for Location:

Grave Marker Erector(s): unknown

Confirmation Source for Interment: official ledger

Others In Same Plot (T0410)
Full Name
Birth Date
Death Date
Ernest Russell Mays
1921/08/21
1923/02/11
Raymond Wyatt Mays
1919/02/02
1921/12/22
Obituary and Biographical Detials

Residence in 1917: Stapleton, Amherst County, Virginia

Death certificate gives occupation as “soldier”

Death certificate informant was Jack Mays of Stapleton, Amherst County, Virginia

1920 census: carpenter, living with wife Martha and son Raymond in household of parents-in-law Thomas and Berta Gunter in Appomattox County (Stonewall District)

1923 LCD: 706 Fifth Street was address of Liggan & Williams (grocers)