Valentine Mayo (abt. 1767 - aft. 1820)

Born about 1767 in Buckingham, Colony of Virginia [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Winnifred (Wilder) Mayo — married 19 Dec 1813 in Hancock County, Georgia, United States

Died after 15 Nov 1820 after about age 53 in Hancock, Georgia, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Valentine Mayo, possible son of Valentine Mayo and Ann Patterson, was probably not born in Wilkes County, Georgia c.1767, as the data for this profile originally stated, though he may have ended up there. His (connected) parents were living in Buckingham County, Virginia when they had their first six children, then moved to the Carolinas and had three more.^[1]

He married Winifred Wilder in Hancock, Georgia in 1813.^[2] This implies that he could have been born as late as c.1793 (in which case probably from the next generation of Mayo parents) or this could have been a second marriage.

According to the census, in 1820 he was living in Hancock, Georgia with four males (three under age 10, one age 16-26) and two females (one 26-44, one 45 or older), and was 26-45 years old (so born between 1775 and 1794). Next door was Rachel Wilder, his widowed mother-in-law (age 45 or over).^[3] The next older male and female living with them may have been children of a previous marriage.

He died at an unknown date and location after the 1820 census.

Research Notes

• There were other Valentine Mayos. Two served in the War of 1812-- one in Virginia and one in Tennessee. Neither is likely to have been this one, both because of the locations and because he is estimated to have been born in 1767, making him around 45 years old at 1812. However, the DOB, unsourced, came with the orphaned profile. Family Search's version of this profile has him with unknown parents and born in 1785.

Sources

1. ↑ Harter, Mrs. Bert, "James Mayo of Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist (article) pp. 53-55.
2. ↑ "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXJ2-V2R : 4 November 2017), Valentine Mayo and Winifred Wilder, 19 Dec 1813; citing Marriage, Hancock, Georgia, United States, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Morrow, FHL microfilm 222,074.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1820", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLW-SBN : 16 July 2015), Valentine Mayoo, 1820.