MASSIE FAMILY ALBUM

"In the home, we learn to treat others-and ouselves-with respect"
Beth Mende Conny

John & Rulana Massie May ca. 1900
Roach, West Virginia
Near Salt Rock, West Virginia
Off RT 10 in Cabell County

Family of Rulana Massie May

Left to right:
Martha May Lewis (dau) & baby, Malinda May (later Thompson, age 8), Bernie May (grandson - son of Beckie May), Eustace May (son), Willard May (son), John Wesley May (husband), Rulana Massie May, (her mother was a Dillon) Oscar May (son)& baby, Otis May (son), Ben Lewis (husband of dau. Martha)
Rulana was a midwife and delivered many babies in her time.

*note* Martha May Lewis was standing so far to the rear and to the side because she was pregnant.
Oh, how times have changed!

Malinda Elizabeth May Thompson
ca. mid 1970s
August 5, 1890 - September 8, 1978

This is how I remember grandmom. She was soft and gentle and a true lady.

Malinda May (Thompson) was an inspiration to many, and a much loved lady who became the mother/grandmother of a large family as well as helping to finish raising the younger siblings of her husband, begining when she was but 17 years of age immediately after their marriage.
She has had a granddaughter and several great-granddaughters named after her.

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