James C Mays b Jun 1865 Wise Co VA d about 1907 Bondtown, Wise Co VA of gunshot wound; s/o Eli Mays and Elisa Louisa Wright. James C Mays m. 11 Sept 1883 Wise Co VA to Josephine Lucas Wright b 22 SEP 1865 Wise Co VA d about 1959 buried Caney Ridge; d/o Alexander H Wright and Susannah Hale. Children of James C Mays and Josephine Lucas Wright;

1. Elbert Eli Mays b 14 SEP 1891 Wise Co VA d 30 Jun 1970 buried Temple Hill Memorial Park, Castlewood, Russell Co VA m. Hila B Hamilton b 16 Mar 1892 Wise Co VA d 23 Jun 1965 buried Temple Hill Memorial Park, Castlewood, Russell Co VA; d/o William M Hamilton and Martha Alice "Patsy" Mays. Children of Elbert Eli Mays and Hila B Hamilton;

i. Evelyn Mays m. Everett Hobbs

ii. Ernest Mays b 25 May 1914 Wise Co VA d 13 Jun 1996 buried Temple Hill Memorial Park, Castlewood, Russell Co VA; m. Allie Carter b 20 May 1918 d 21 Dec 2005

iii. Elbert Mays b 28 Jan 1915 Wise Co VA d before 1918

iv. Eula May Mays b 21 Jan 1917 Wise Co VA d 24 May 1987 buried Lawson Cemetery, Sandy Ridge, VA; m. Ernest Charles Lawson b 10 Aug 1913 Wise Co VA d 22 Aug 2006 buried Lawson Cemetery, Sandy Ridge, VA; s/o Robert Carson Lawson and Eliza Jane Bise. (11 children)

v. Female Mays (not named) b 15 Dec 1918 Wise Co VA d 15 Dec 1918 Wise Co VA

2. Mary Mays

3. Edgar Cleveland Mays b 25 AUG 1884 d 15 Nov 1981 buried Lawson Cemetery, Sandy Ridge VA m. 28 Sept 1909 Wise Co VA to Hulda Savannah Buchanan b Jun 1893 Wise Co VA d 1976 buried Lawson Cemetery, Sandy Ridge VA; d/o Moses Clarence Clomance Hill Buchanan and Mary Jane Wright. Children of Edgar Cleveland Mays and Hulda Savannah Buchanan;

i. Worley Mays (male) m. Cecil Page (female)

ii. Anna May Mays m. Arvil Vise; m. (2) Elmer Meade

iii. Virgie Lee Mays m. Clifford Massie

iv. Allen B Mays b 1916 d 1991 m. Female Winebarger

v. Claude L Mays b 1921 d 1988 m. Female Hillman

vi. Male Mays m. Female Hebert

4. Eliza Susannah Mays b 30 MAY 1888

5. Wade Mays b MAY 1890

6. Ader Mays (male) b MAR 1897

7. Rosa Mays b 1898

8. James A. Mays b MAY 1899 St. Paul, Wise Co VA m. Lucy Neal Coleman b about 1901 Wise Co VA

9. Allie Fare Mays b 1905 St. Paul, Wise Co VA d Dec 1991 Wise Co VA; buried Caney Ridge, Dickenson Co VA; m. Male Taylor

10. Virginia Jennie Mays b JAN 1895 m. 17 Jul 1915 to John Hamilton b 15 Mar 1893 Dickenson Co VA d 5 Jun 1972 buried Caney Ridge Cemetery, Dickenson Co VA; s/o Joseph Lafayette "Fate" Hamilton and Elizabeth Beatrice Kennedy.