Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B, 1887
Robertson County

BEVERLY C. MAY was born in Floyd County, Ky., September 29, 1860, and is a
son of William J. and Cynthia (Power) May, natives of Pike and Magoffin
Counties.  His paternal grandfather, Thomas May, was a farmer, came from
Tennessee to Pike County, Ky., in 1800 or 1812, and for several years was a
magistrate.  Lewis Power, maternal grandfather of our subject, was a native
of South Carolina.  William J. May was born in 1819, was county surveyor
many years, accumulated 10,000 acres in Floyd and adjacent counties, and had
been a resident of Floyd County for forty years at the time of his death,
which occurred in July, 1883.  Beverly C. May was elected sheriff of Floyd
County in August, 1884, and re-elected in August, 1886.  He is a farmer and
owns a tract of 500 acres in Floyd County, 8,000 in Magoffin County, and
twenty-eight acres in Bath County.

May Power 
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Floyd-KY Pike-KY Magoffin-KY Bath-KY TN SC

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