Polk County, Missouri Biographies - Adam Clark MAY
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri; 1889, published by Goodspeed, Pgs. 677, 678
Polk County Biographies Section

    Adam Clark May, another prominent farmer and stock-raiser of
Polk County, Mo., was born in Washington County, Tenn., April 3,
1837, and is the son of Adam C., Sr., and Mary (McGinnis) May, 
who were among the early settlers of East Tennessee.  The father
was of German, and the mother of Irish descent.  They never left
the State of Tennessee, the mother dying there when the subject
of this sketch was but eighteen months old, and the father died
when Adam was thirteen years of age.  The longest term he ever
attended school was one and a half months, and in all he did not
attend more than three months.  When eighteen years of age he 
came to Taney County, Mo., driving a team to pay his passage.  
After coming to this State he hired out by the months or worked
at whatever he could find to do.  March 21, 1861, he married Miss
Catherine J. McHaffie, a native of Greene County, born February 9,
1844, and this union resulted in the birth of seven children: 
Luther M., Charles F., Herschel H., Mary M., William A., Eugene C. 
and Clara. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church.   He did not take an active part in the late war,
but resided in this and Greene Counties until peace was declared;
when he moved to Polk County and has since made it his home.  
Having rented a time, he bought a place, which he sold in 1886
with a view of going to Texas, but backed out and bought the place
where he now lives.  He has 170 acres, with about ninety acres 
under cultivation.  During the period of township organization he
was collector a year, and filled the office in a highly efficient
manner.  He is a member of the Masonic order, and was noble grand
of the Odd Fellows' lodge at Morrisville when the hall burned.  
He affiliates with the Democratic party politically.  
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