Sarah Elizabeth May, daughter of Harvey Trimble and Lydia Conley May, was born August 30, 1862, at Bonanza in Floyd County, Ky. m Sept. 12, 1883, Thomas Marion Caine a son of Oliver W. Caine from Magoffin County, Ky.
  In the 1860s and 70s, Floyd County had no county school system.  Sarah Elizabeth and her brothers and sisters attended a 3-month subscription school in their neighborhood.  Parents who had school-age children would sign an agreement to send their children to a 3-month school and agree to help pay, maybe $25 to someone to teach the school.  That was called a subscription school.  Sarah Elizabeth joined the United Baptist Church at Bonanza while a teenager.  She was baptized by a Rev. Conley.
  My grandparents, Harvey Trimble May, b Mar 25, 1836, d Sept. 12, 1888, and Lydia Conley May, b Jan 9, 1836, d Dec. 21, 1917.  They were m Sept. 8, 1853.  They are buried at Bonanza in Floyd county.  Harvey had long white beard and was a United Baptist minister.
   It is believed that the Mays in this country started with Joseph May, b 1693, in England and came to America and settled in Virginia, d 1740.  By 1796 some May families had come into Eastern Kentucky, to Shelby Creek and then into Mason, Pike, and Magoffin counties.  In 1783 John and George May were in Harrodsburg, Ky.  Col. Andrew Jackson May, b Jan. 28, 1829, was in Prestonsburg, Ky.
[There is no evidence that our May line descends from Joseph May.]
  The May family’s lineage of descent is from Caleb May, b 1781, d 1827, near Salyersville, to Blair May, b Nov. 15, 1808, to Harvey Trimble May, b Mar 25, 1836 to Sarah Elizabeth May, b Aug. 30, 1862.  Sarah Elizabeth was m(1) Sept. 12, 1883, Thomas Marion Caine, d about 1887.  She m(2) 1890, Winston Caudill.
  Harvey Trimble May and Lydia (Conley) May had 14 children including my mother Sarah Elizabeth.
The children were:
1. Thomas Blair May, b July 5, 1854, d Oct. 25, 1925, m July 21, 1875, Margret M. Hall, b 1859, d Aug. 7, 1887.  He later m July 25, 1888, Carrie Hackworth who was a sister to Violet Hackworth who married his brother Sam May.
2. Sam White May, b Dec. 3, 1855, d April 17, 1926, m 1876, Violet Hackworth.  I am Uncle Sam’s namesake.
3. Mahala C. May, b Aug. 17, 1857, m Feb. 19, 1878, Joseph Herald.
4. Dicy May, b Nov. 6, 1858, d May 28, 1937, m Nov. 30, 1876, Dr. T. J. Kendrick.  They had a son named Kelly.  My brother Kelly is his namesake.
5. Amanda C. May, b June 5, 1860, d Jan. 19, 1950, m Sept. 25, 1879, Sam Spradlin.  They had a son named Frank who married my sister Phoebe.
6. Sarah Elizabeth May, b Aug. 30, 1862, d Jan. 7, 1941, m (1) Thomas Marion Caine, m (2) Winston Caudill.
7. Samantha Jane May, b June 26, 1864, d April 14, 1933, m Aug. 18, 1880, James K. Polk Hill.
8. Eliza May, b Oct. 30, 1865, d Oct. 12, 1925, m Dec. 6, 1883, Sallie Dottson.  My brother Elza was Uncle Elza May’s namesake.
9. Nancy A. May, b Feb. 1, 1867, m July 31, 1890, James N. Herald.  We had 2 aunts by the name of Nancy; one was my mother’s sister and one was my father’s sister, Aunt Nancy Jane Caudill.  I guess my sister Nancy was named after both of them.
10. Nevada E. May, b Mar. 25, 1868, d Dec. 9, 1942, m Dec. 31, 1886, John George.
11. Susan Emza May, b Feb. 11, 1870, d Aug. 20, 1918, m Dec. 6, 1887, George W. Fitzpatrick.  My sister Malta’s name was Malta Emzie Caudill.
12. Jackson G. May, b May 14, 1873, d Sept. 12, 1875.
13. One son had his name cut out of the family Bible.
14. Caleb Sherman May, b Aug. 7, 1877, d Mar. 28, 1946, m Mar. 2, 1893, Martha Louise Music, b Sept. 24, 1879, d Mar. 2, 1951.  Caleb Sherman and wife had 16 children.  One of their daughters wrote, saying: “My Dad died in March, my Mother died in March, they were married in March, celebrated their anniversaries in March and had 4 children born in March.”

1. SARAH ELIZABETH MAY AND THOMAS MARION CAINE
Children:

2 Lydia Jane Caine, b July 6, 1884, d Dec. 9, 1966, m (1) Andrew J. Burchett, m (2) William Jeffords.
Children:
(1) Marion Francis Burchett, b Dec. 30, 1900, d July, 1952, m Pearl Stambaugh, b Oct. 14, 1909.
(2) Stella Mae Burchett, b July 29, 1912, d May 20, 1939, m Carl Turner.

3 Stella Blaine Caine, b Dec 29, 1885, m Jan. 29, 1903, Joseph Robert Baldridge, b Sept. 10, 1879, deceased.  Stella died Jan. 15, 1954, at her home Staffordsville, KY.  Robert came from Greasy Creek to teach the Froghonary school.  He boarded at our house.  Stella was one of his students.  He and Stella were courting on the sly and when school was out in Jan. 1903, he and Stella got married.
Children:
(1) Clarence Baldridge, b April 12, 1904, d July 5, 1891, m Dec. 16, 1926, Nora Sammons, b Nov. 25, 1909.  They had lived in Florida for several years when one day while riding his bicycle on a fishing trip, he failed to see an oncoming car and rode out in front of it and was killed instantly.  He was 77 years old and was a member of a Baptist Church.
(2) Heber Baldridge died in infancy
(3) Roy Baldridge, b Feb. 27, 1908, d Dec. 11, 1983.
(4) Kelly Baldridge, b Dec. 10, 1913, d May 6, 1965.
(5) Sarah Elizabeth Baldridge, b Aug. 9, 1916, d Mar. 15, 1983.
4 Julia May Caine, b Feb. 21, 1887, d Apr. 24, 1976, m Feb. 9, 1905, Willie Daniel, b May 10, 1883, d Feb. 22, 1972, at age 88, a son of Landon Taylor Daniel and my Aunt Fanny Caudill Daniel.  Aunt Fanny was a sister to my father, Winston Caudill.  That made Willie and me first cousins and he became my brother-in-law.  Julia was a daughter of my mother and Thomas Marion Caine.  Julia was born at Bonanza, Floyd Co. and Willie was born at Mingo, in Johnson Co.  Julia and Willie were members of the Old Hood United Baptist Church.  Willie had been a minister in the United Baptist Church for many years.  They are both buried at the Old Hood Church in the Sparks Cemetery.  They lived on the Head of the Buckbranch fork of Froghonary where all their children were born and later moved to Charley in Lawrence County.
Children:
(1) Gypsie Marie Daniel, b. Mar. 11, 1906, d Sept. 16, 1981, m May 30, 1942, Paintsville, Ky., Lloyd Fitch, b Dec. 8, 1902, d Mar. 6, 1982, a son of Charles P. and Mellisa (Ross) Fitch.  Charles was a son of Sampson Fitchpatrick and Dorcus Daniel, b about 1841.  Malissa E. (Ross) Fitch, b Jan. 1, 1878, d Jan. 10, 1931, m Oct. 25, 1899, Charles P. Fitch.  She was a daughter of David and Lila (Caudill) Ross and a sister to Chilt Ross who m Phoebe Caudill a daughter of Winston Caudill.  Charles and Malissa are buried in the Ross Cemetery in Lawrence County.  Gypsie Marie was born on Froghonary at Stambaugh, Ky. and went to our Froghonary School until it was closed about 1920.  She went to High School at the old John C. C. Mayo College in Paintsville and later attended Morhead State College.  She was a teacher in Johnson County schools for several years.  She and Lloyd had no children.  They both died in a Portsmouth, Ohio hospital and are buried in the Sparks Cemetery at the Old Hood United Baptist Church where they were both members.
(2) Thomas Jefferson Daniel, b Apr. 17, 1908, on Froghonary, d Oct. 22, 1981 at Springfield, Oh., m Nov. 15, 1937, Dimple Irene Chapman, b July 2, 1919.  Thomas attended the Froghonary and Chandlerville grade schools.
(3) Sarah Daniel, b July 1, 1910, d Oct. 22, 1930, m Walter Pack on July 2, 1929.
(4) Taylor Daniel, b Jan 26, 1916, m Jewell Hayes.
(5) Gertrude Daniel.
(6) Willie Daniel Jr., b Nov. 1, 1925, deceased.
(7) John Elmo Daniel, b Dec 24, 1929, d 1984 or ’85.
 
Rev. Willie Daniel, b May 10, 1883, d Feb 22, 1972, m Feb. 9, 1905, Julia Mae Caine, b Feb. 21, 1887, a daughter of Thomas Marion Caine, b 1855, d 1887 and Sarah Elizabeth May, b Aug. 30, 1862, d Jan. 7, 1941.  Willie was a son of Landon Taylor Daniel and a grandson of George W. and Mary “Polly” (Ward) Daniel.  George W. and wife gave a tract of land near the mouth of Sycamore to the Tom’s Creek Freewill Baptist Church where they built their first meeting house, a one room log house.  This was in 1876, the year the new church was organized.
 

Last updated on Sunday, 30-Jan-2000 15:54:14 MST.