OBIT: James G. MAY, 1944, Davidsville, Somerset County, PA

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JAMES G. MAY

Highway Disaster Proved Fatal to James G. May

  James G. May, who was injured in an automobile accident while going to his 
work early last Thursday morning, died Sunday night at 9:45 o'clock in Memorial 
Hospital, Johnstown, to which he was admitted soon after the accident occurred.  
He became unconscious before he was taken to the hospital and remained in that 
state until his death.
  The accident occurred on Route 53, between Davidsville and Holsopple.  It is 
reported that he was crowded off the road by another vehicle, and that in 
endeavoring to get back onto the concrete road from the berm, the car skidded 
and turned over.
  Deputy Coroner Joseph Govekar of Cambria County, to whom the accident was 
reported, following the death of the injured man, referred the case to P. C. 
Dosch, Somerset County coroner, who will make an investigation.  An autopsy 
revealed that the cause of death was a severe concussion of the brain.
  He was born September 1, 1880, and was a son of Samuel and Amanda (Beitz) May, 
residents of Bard, Bedford County, Pa.
  Mr. May had only one arm, having lost his left arm in a hunting accident when 
he was 19 years of age.  In his earlier life he taught in the rural schools in 
the south and of Somerset County, having resided at Boynton.  Later he located 
at Jerome and had resided in Davidsville for the last 13 years.  He was a 
justice of the peace at Davidsville and weighmaster at the Maple Ridge Coal Co. 
mine.
  He is survived by his wife, Martha (Shoemaker) May, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
W. A. Shoemaker, Meyersdale; a sister, Mrs. Augusta Holler, Cornville, Arizona, 
and four brothers - Calvin May, Holsopple; Norman May, Winchester, Va.; William 
May, Barberton, O.; and Charles M. May, Salisbury.
  Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon in St. David's Evangelical 
Lutheran Church, Davidsville of which he was an active member, by the pastor, 
Rev. John Fisher.  Interment was made in the cemetery of the Maple Spring Church 
of the Brethren, near Jerome.

Meyersdale Republican, December 7, 1944