Millard Fillmore May, great great grandfather

  

MF May, son of Jesse and Mary

Millard F. MAY, Clerk of township and village, and carpenter and joiner by occupation, was born at Girard, Macoupin Co., Ill., March 15, 1860, 

 son of Jesse W.  May

and Mary (KITZMILLER) MAY, he a prominent stock-dealer, born in Tennessee in 1830,  

who came to Illinois in 1855; 

she, also of Tennessee, born in 1835; 

 they had five children – Florence, wife of J. A. BRADLEY; Millard F., Mary, Dora and Jessie; the latter died when four years of age. 

Our subject, after receiving an education in the schools of his native county, learned the carpenter and joiner's trade, and has assisted in building some of the principal business blocks of Raymond, Illinois;

 he is at present (1882) engaged in building a residence for himself on one of the principal streets of Raymond.

October 31, 1881, he married Miss Sina Belle MILLER 

born in Montgomery County April 21, 1862, 

 daughter of Lemuel Greene Miller (my third great grandpa)

 and Lucinda (LEE) MILLER, 

 both of Greene County, Ill.

 Mr. MAY is a Freemason and a Democrat. 

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("Kitzmiller : Americanized form of German Kitzmüller  

(see Kitz + Muller) a nickname for a miller who kept goats; 

 alternatively the first element may be from a personal name 

 formed with the ancient Germanic element Gid- cognate with Old English gidd ‘song’.") 

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Mary Finley Miller, mother of Lemuel  ( fourth great Grandma)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133487105/john-finley 

 John "Fighting Jack" Finley, ( fifth Great Grandpa)  father of Mary Finley Miller  

Thomas Finley, father of John Finley 

Thomas Finley (. Sixth Great Grandpa)

Birthdate: November 18, 1734 

John Finley, I ( father of Thomas Finley) 

 My 7th Great Grandfather, first Irish  

Also Known As: "Middle River"

Birthdate: December 18, 1706 

Birthplace: Dublin, County of Dublin, Leinster, Ireland 

Death: June 06, 1773 (66)

Augusta County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America  

https://www.geni.com/people/John-Finley-I/6000000011221035727 

https://www.geni.com/people/John-Finley-I/6000000011221035727 

 ( Patterson, Fullerton, Morduck, Mackie, Forbes, Erskine, Scrymgeour 

Gray, Stewart, Douglas, Graham, Lindsay, Stirling, Swinburne, Maitland, Wardlaw, 

de Valoniis, Monypenny, Arbuthnot, Keith, Barclay, Wood, Strachan, Cragie,  Smyth, Cochran, Warrender, Hayes,  Gordon, Crichton, Gremislaw, Seton, Fleming, Fraser, Wyntoun, Murray, Moray, Moravia, de Gask, Olifard, Glenbervie, https://www.geni.com/people/Annabella-of-Scotland/6000000000772779081 

Beaufort, Holland, FitzAlan, Plantagenet, Chaworth, Crouchback, Van Brabant, Hohenstaufen, Barbarossa, Wulfhilda, Skleros, https://www.geni.com/people/Leon-Skleros/6000000002187988392

https://www.geni.com/people/Thankful-Finley/6000000011221266487 

https://www.geni.com/people/Thankful-Finley/6000000011221266487

Thankful Finley (Doak)

7th Great Grandmother, Irish

Also Known As: "Elizabeth", "Mary", "Thankful Finley"

Birthdate: March 06, 1707

Birthplace: Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland 

(Jennings)