Mecklenburg County NcArchives Obituaries.....Mayes, Daniel Wallace March 18, 1939
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Charlotte Observer March 19 1939
Final rites for Col. D.W. Mayes, 92 year old Confederate veteran, will be held 
this afternoon at Ramah Presbyterian Church near Huntersville at 2 o'clock.  
Interment will be in the church cemetery.  Colonel Mayes, who was commander of 
the Mecklenburg camp, United States Confederate Veterans, died Saturday 
morning after a two day illness of influenza.  Colonel Mayes, who fought with 
Lee in northern Virginia and later served in the North Carolina General 
Assembly, was born near West Springs, SC on August 22, 1846, the son of Mr and 
Mrs Sam Mayes. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Williams of Glenn Springs, SC 
in 1867 and he moved to Charlotte in 1875. He had been an elder in the Ramah 
church for 62 years. His second wife was Miss Henrietta Sloan and his third 
wife was Miss Virginia Sloan.  Colonel Mayes joined the Confederate army after 
the battle of Seven Pines near Richmond, VA after his two brothers had been 
killed.  He saw action at Charleston, SC and in the Shenandoah campaign of the 
Wilderness.  He was a member of the North Carolina legislature in 1881 and was 
honored by the current general sssembly at its recent meeting in Charlotte. He 
was seated on the rostrum with Governors Hoey of North Carolina and Maybank of 
South Carolina.  He was the only honorary member of the Charlotte Hornets Nest 
Post of the American Legion.  He is survived by four sons, George S Mayes of 
Charlotte, by his first marriage; and Glenn R, Will S, and Lamont Mayes all of 
the Ramah section, sons of his third marriage to Miss Virginia Sloan in 1874.  
He is also survived by 16 grand children and four great grand childern. Rev. 
John Grier pastor of the Ramah church will conduct the funeral service and 
interment will follow in the church cemetery.

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Submitted by Michael J. Mayes great grandson of Daniel Wallace Mayes

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