The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1914-06-24
Mrs. Mayo
Rules $4,000. 900 Estate in
Eastern Kentucky.

SICnu OdihOuh uuJO, WiuOW Oh
HE richest man in Kentucky,
Salso the wealthiest widow In
sthe Central West, and by odds
athe most interesting, since she
sis to carry on the gigantic af-
Hairs left by her husband.
4 Mrs. Mayo's wealth ia esti-
mated at $50, 100000. She has
1.-Two children to help her enjoy
sit-John, aged 3,and Margaret,
tagged S.
h The Mayo home. where Mrs.
sMayo will conduct her business,
5is the handsomest in Eastern
Kentucky.
offices 10 the Family Home.
Its buildings and surround
4ings, with furnishings, some of
(which came from over the sea,
scost in the neighborhood Of
f;950,OOO. Mrs. Mayo will fit up
sofices in n part of her big home,
aand there, with the assistance
8 of secretaries and experts in the
syarious lines of work in which
gher husband was interested,
awilI carry out what she believes
She would have her do.
q 1t is an interesting life Mrs.
Mayo has mapped out fer her
self. When John Calhoun
sMayo died, after a struggle for
3life which attracted attention
Sof the whole country, she was
3bequeathed his entire estate,
awithout bond, without security
sof any sort.
4 He was taken i'll at his home
8at Paintsville last February,
and for three months fought
with death. He spent over
4;lOO,0O in physicians and hotel
abiils and travelling expenses, all
in vain.
\ All this time Mira. Mayo was
constantly with him. He be
Il gan to teach her the details of
his complicated affairs. She
Il had watched him grow from a
gpoor country school teacher in
4 to coal and timber baron, and
she had absorbed much infor-
Il malion from working with him.
q But when sickness came and
\ the physicians told him what
the trouble was, he began to
n really train Mrs. Mayo so she
would be able to carry out his
A plans.
8 Daily they went over the
details of big affairs. and she
8 absorbed the material informa-
q ton so rapidly that she now
( faces her task with u compare
II lively light heart.
q Educated the Mountain Boys.
4 Many yearg ago he began a
q system of educating mountain
boys and girls. Some of these
q he watched after their gradua
lion and then placed them in
s. high places in a business way.
4 lie endowed colleges and he
a built churches. All this was
done IN the country of the hills
4 which had given him his large
81 wealth.
& Fully 800 boys and girls have
y been helped to better things in
Y llie through the friendship of
u Mr. Mayo. So, one of the first
things Mrs. Mayo looked into
was the condition of these
Z young people her husband had
helped. Then she announced
q mat as she is sole arbiter of
4 Tue destinies of the great Mayo
s. properties, she would take her
husbands place. She would
a laEe his scat in the directoral
& bodies of the companies in
winch he held big interests. In
B snort, she would be u second
s. 'ohn Z. Mayo until her little
son, John, shall come along to
nv the burden from her
8 ~ Inc estate has probably 3d.
WOOO IN cash. The other as
se!s are vast holdings of coal,
SH and timber lands. The
Mayo 63o interests control probably
81 wv 200 acres of the best min
.tai-producing lands IN the Ken
'acky mountains. Mrs. Mayo
states that the education of the
soath that her husband had
,,ai'sd will go on; that she, TOO,