My grandfather, Booker Mays traveling to St. Louis and enjoying baseball and family. Arkansas State Press, September 27, 1957
12 Days of My Family in Newspapers 2024 – Day 6
12 Days of My Family in Newspapers 2024 – Day 3
Obituary of Mollie Harper, my sister in law's, Ericka Newton Mays, great grandmother - Hot Springs, Sentinel Record - Wednesday, March 30 1955
Wordless Wednesday – A Mays Kids Conversation
Trisha, Russell, and Paedra Mays - Jacksonport, Arkansas 1992 Photo Courtesy of Paedra I. Mays
My Ancestors Were Registered Voters in 1914
Voting has always been important to my family. I remember going with my Granny, Gladys Denson Mays, when she worked the polls during elections in the 1980s. I would pack my lunch and some books and sit in the back while she worked. My father and mother would always go vote together. I remember registering... Continue Reading →
Wordless Wednesday – Working From Home
Gladys Denson Mays - Newport, Arkansas circa 1960
Wordless Wednesday – All Smiles with Our Grandmother
Paedra Mays, Ernestine Wright Hatchett, and Trisha Mays - Newport, Arkansas 1983
2024 Hatchett Family Reunion
The Hatchett side of my family has been having family reunions since 1973. This is the side of my family that I know the most about and have researched the furthest. It is because of these reunions that I have been able to trace our family history back to slavery in Arkansas, Alabama, and Virginia.... Continue Reading →
Wordless Wednesday – Hatchett Family Reunion 2024
Photo courtesy of Hubert Finkley
Telling My Family’s Story
I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the 2024 Black Family Expo in Little Rock, Arkansas that was sponsored by the Central Arkansas Library Systems for Black History Month. This event gave me the opportunity to display and talk about my family history. I decided that I would focus my display on my 3X... Continue Reading →
Wordless Wednesday – Happy Heavenly Birthday Daddy
My father, Wayman A. Mays Arkansas 2005
Journey Through the Generations 