He was named after his father, and was born near the time his father went off to the Civil War. His father was a casualty of the Civil War. After the war, he and his siblings were "farmed out" as laborers in the area.
In 1886 he married Eugenia Cornelia Spivey and started a family. He was a farmer and miller, with a grist mill in the Western part of Neshoba Co., near Laurel Hill, and was known, inevitably, as Mayo's Mill. He and family moved to the town of Philadelphia, perhaps when he was elected sheriff, around the year 1900. His ocupation on the 1900 census was shown as sheriff.
He was one of the signers of the petition to the governor requesting the incorporation of the village of Philadelphia. The village was incorporated on Mar. 1, 1904, and he served as alderman, clerk, and treasurer of the village. With the elections on Oct. 1, 1904, he became the first elected mayor of Philadelphia. He had a stable and set up the first water works in Philadelphia. His water works were near a girst mill that he probably built and operated on the SW corner of Main St. and Peachtree Ave. This mill was later owned and operated by his son Tom.
His first wife died in 1903, and in 1904 he married Bettie Lou McMichol. There were no children from this marriage. The family lived in the village of Philadelphia for a number of years. In the 1920 census the family was again living at Mayo's Mills. Some time after the death of his second wife in 1936, he moved back to Philadelphia into the old Mayo home on the SW corner of Main and Range. The big house was used as a boarding house during this time and even had two small apartments upstairs. In 1938 when he could no longer walk, his daughter, Ava Rigler, and her large family moved into the old house so she could look out for him. He died there of apoplexy in 1943.
He was my great grandfather.
In 1886 he married Eugenia Cornelia Spivey and started a family. He was a farmer and miller, with a grist mill in the Western part of Neshoba Co., near Laurel Hill, and was known, inevitably, as Mayo's Mill. He and family moved to the town of Philadelphia, perhaps when he was elected sheriff, around the year 1900. His ocupation on the 1900 census was shown as sheriff.
He was one of the signers of the petition to the governor requesting the incorporation of the village of Philadelphia. The village was incorporated on Mar. 1, 1904, and he served as alderman, clerk, and treasurer of the village. With the elections on Oct. 1, 1904, he became the first elected mayor of Philadelphia. He had a stable and set up the first water works in Philadelphia. His water works were near a girst mill that he probably built and operated on the SW corner of Main St. and Peachtree Ave. This mill was later owned and operated by his son Tom.
His first wife died in 1903, and in 1904 he married Bettie Lou McMichol. There were no children from this marriage. The family lived in the village of Philadelphia for a number of years. In the 1920 census the family was again living at Mayo's Mills. Some time after the death of his second wife in 1936, he moved back to Philadelphia into the old Mayo home on the SW corner of Main and Range. The big house was used as a boarding house during this time and even had two small apartments upstairs. In 1938 when he could no longer walk, his daughter, Ava Rigler, and her large family moved into the old house so she could look out for him. He died there of apoplexy in 1943.
He was my great grandfather.
He was named after his father, and was born near the time his father went off to the Civil War. His father was a casualty of the Civil War. After the war, he and his siblings were "farmed out" as laborers in the area.
In 1886 he married Eugenia Cornelia Spivey and started a family. He was a farmer and miller, with a grist mill in the Western part of Neshoba Co., near Laurel Hill, and was known, inevitably, as Mayo's Mill. He and family moved to the town of Philadelphia, perhaps when he was elected sheriff, around the year 1900. His ocupation on the 1900 census was shown as sheriff.
He was one of the signers of the petition to the governor requesting the incorporation of the village of Philadelphia. The village was incorporated on Mar. 1, 1904, and he served as alderman, clerk, and treasurer of the village. With the elections on Oct. 1, 1904, he became the first elected mayor of Philadelphia. He had a stable and set up the first water works in Philadelphia. His water works were near a girst mill that he probably built and operated on the SW corner of Main St. and Peachtree Ave. This mill was later owned and operated by his son Tom.
His first wife died in 1903, and in 1904 he married Bettie Lou McMichol. There were no children from this marriage. The family lived in the village of Philadelphia for a number of years. In the 1920 census the family was again living at Mayo's Mills. Some time after the death of his second wife in 1936, he moved back to Philadelphia into the old Mayo home on the SW corner of Main and Range. The big house was used as a boarding house during this time and even had two small apartments upstairs. In 1938 when he could no longer walk, his daughter, Ava Rigler, and her large family moved into the old house so she could look out for him. He died there of apoplexy in 1943.
He was my great grandfather.
In 1886 he married Eugenia Cornelia Spivey and started a family. He was a farmer and miller, with a grist mill in the Western part of Neshoba Co., near Laurel Hill, and was known, inevitably, as Mayo's Mill. He and family moved to the town of Philadelphia, perhaps when he was elected sheriff, around the year 1900. His ocupation on the 1900 census was shown as sheriff.
He was one of the signers of the petition to the governor requesting the incorporation of the village of Philadelphia. The village was incorporated on Mar. 1, 1904, and he served as alderman, clerk, and treasurer of the village. With the elections on Oct. 1, 1904, he became the first elected mayor of Philadelphia. He had a stable and set up the first water works in Philadelphia. His water works were near a girst mill that he probably built and operated on the SW corner of Main St. and Peachtree Ave. This mill was later owned and operated by his son Tom.
His first wife died in 1903, and in 1904 he married Bettie Lou McMichol. There were no children from this marriage. The family lived in the village of Philadelphia for a number of years. In the 1920 census the family was again living at Mayo's Mills. Some time after the death of his second wife in 1936, he moved back to Philadelphia into the old Mayo home on the SW corner of Main and Range. The big house was used as a boarding house during this time and even had two small apartments upstairs. In 1938 when he could no longer walk, his daughter, Ava Rigler, and her large family moved into the old house so she could look out for him. He died there of apoplexy in 1943.
He was my great grandfather.
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