Biography of Edward May, St Francis County, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Paul V Isbell Date: 19 Nov 2008 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** PIONEER-Among the precious written evidence of the May family's once extensive land holdings in the possession of the present day May family is an old wrinkled and fade abstract dated 1821, which states that Edward and Lida May (great-uncle and aunt of John May) were legal "homestead" owner of the land they farmed in St. Francis County. SOURCE: HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher -Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas