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Note: Dannett Brevard Mays, the youngest son of Enoch surviving into adulthood was
born in Florida about 1857 and never married according to his cousin Sam Elias
Mays based on information acquired from Lula Mays Connors in 1929. This is the
extent of the information supplied by Sam E. Mays about D. B. Mays. Apparently,
Lula did not provide any further information about him. For unknown reasons, in
some censuses, D. B. was referred to as D. Boyd, and was also called David and
Daniel in school and court records. Maybe he did not like his name or maybe
people had trouble pronouncing it? D. B. worked primarily as a merchant or
clerk and disappears from history and Dallas in 1884 after the death of his
mother. He is not listed in the first city directory of 1873 but was only about
15 years old at this time. In the 1875 edition, D. B Mays works as a clerk at 82
Bryan and resides at 62 Bryan. [the location of Mays business and home]. During
the intervening time until his disappearance from history, it is reasonable to
believe that D. B. continued to work in the same line of work In the 1881/82
directory, he works as a salesman for the Fee Brothers. The Fee Brothers
operated a dry goods store at 511-513 Elm Street. Dannett resides at 62 Bryan
the family home place. Never married according to his sister Lula Jane Mays Connor in information she submitted for her Daughters of the Revolutionary War ancestry research. She gave only his date of birth and no further information. Listed in the 1878/79 city directory living with his mother. Listed in the 1880 Dallas County census living with her mother. Disappeared from Dallas city directory in 1884, the year his mother died. He was living with her at the time. No further record has been found, but believed to have been deceased by 1906 when his brother W. A. Mays died. He is not buried in the Mays plot in Greenwood Cemetery unless his grave is unmarked.
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