History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
620.

JAMES M. MAY, born in Nelson County, Ky., Dec. 27, 1815, is a son of 
John W. May, a native of Virginia, who brought his family to Daviess 
County in 1820, and settled in Knottsville Precinct.  Mr. May is the 
only one left of a family of twelve children.  His father kept a tavern 
in an early day on the place where our subject now lives which is ten 
miles east of Owensboro, on the Hardinsburg road.  He has been married 
three times and is the father of six children.  He is a member of the 
Baptist church and the Masonic fraternity.

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