My family: Ericka Mays, Allen Mays, Wesley Cummings, me, Paedra Mays, Phillip Cummings, Eric Mays, Patrick Mays, and Russell Mays - Little Rock 2024
12 Days of My Family in Newspapers 2024 – Day 12
My Dad, Wayman Mays; and my brother, Russell Mays, fishing - Batesville Guard, Wednesday, June 11, 1980
12 Days of My Family in Newspapers 2024 – Day 8
Card of thanks from the family of my 2X great grandmother, Charlotte Denson, after she passed away - Arkansas State Press December 01, 1944
12 Days of My Family in Newspapers 2024 – Day 6
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 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