This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nZB.2ACE/253.2 Message Board Post: Tom, Henry, Levi and Andy May came west from Kansas to Woodburn and Sherman County about 1900-1904. I am editing a story about these families for publication in Sherman County: For the Record, the twice-yearly historical anthology of the Sherman County Historical Society - PO Box 173, Moro, OR 97039. www.shermanmuseum.org - click on publications. Should be available by mid-May 2005. Excerpts: Tom May (1853-1925), brother of Andy, Levi and Henry, came from Kansas to Sherman County, “with his wife, Esther, and three daughters,” according to Grace (May) Zevely. Tom worked in several places and then settled on a homestead in Gilliam County.” William Andrew “Andy” May, brother of Levi and Henry, married Josephine Pourron, (1874-1954) in Kansas in 1897. He was born at Bloomington, Indiana, died at Moro, Oregon, and is buried at Wasco. Josie was born at Chanute, Kansas and died July 26, 1954 at Vancouver, Washington. They came to Sherman County in 1904 and farmed near Wasco. Grace (May) Zevely wrote, "Andy May and his wife, Josephine, came from Oklahoma with four children. Andy went to work for Robert Belshee and later rented land in various areas of the county.” Henry Daniel May, Levi’s brother, was born in Indiana in December 1856 and died at the family home at Wasco on March 4, 1914. Burial was at Sun Rise Cemetery. Henry married Docia Coffey, sister of Emma Grace Coffey who married his brother, Levi. Docia died in 1938. Levi D. May was born about 1858 in Harrodsburg, Indiana. There is some confusion around his middle name: Dennison, Denison or Dennis. His known siblings were Andrew, Henry, Tom and Emma. He moved west to Kansas as a young man. He and Emma Coffey were married in Solomon City, Kansas. He died in 1940 and she in 1949; both are buried in Moro. One of the family’s stories is that Levi’s brother Henry and wife Docia, were already in Oregon and Docia started a letter campaign to Levi and Emma, urging them to come to Woodburn where everything was green and growing.