The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1914-05-15
DEATH CLAIMS
JOHN C. C. MAYO.
Great Kentuckian Gone to Rest.
Passes Away in New York City as Result
of Relapse Following Period
of Improvement

johnson and Pike counties and he won
the attachments. For five years Mayo
was barely able 10 keep his holdings
together under the name of the Sandy
Valley and Elkhorn Coal Company and
when In 1898 w. S. Dudley, of Car
lisle and three other Blue Grass men
met him quite by accident he was very
long on land and very short on cash.
Dudley and his friends became inter-
ested in Mayo and invested $4,000 in
bonds OF the Sandy Valley and Elk
horn Coal Company
Rated as MultimiIlionaire.
From that time his progress was
nothing short OF wonderful. He was
generally conceded to be a multimil-
lionaire. In addition to the $70,0O0,O00
consolidated coal corporation, which
controls 100000 acres in Pike and
Letcher counties and 10000 acres in
johnson and Martin counties. togeth-
er with a vast acreage in West Vir
ginia, Mayo was interested in the
$4,000, 900 Elkhorn Coal and Fuel Co.,
which controls 265, 900 acres in Letcher
and other Kentucky counties; the
Slemp Consolidated Coal Company,
which controls 10000 acres, the Toms
Creek Coal Company, which has 10000
acres; the williams Coal and Coke
Company, which has 1000 acres, and
in several other companies.
About II years ago Mayo married
Miss Alice Meek. daughter Of Green
Meek OF Paintsville. who operated a
line Of steamboats, on the Big Sandy
river and was heavily interested in
the timber industry. They have two
children, John, 13 years old, and Mar
garet, 8 years old.
After years OF the hardest kind of
work he last summer found himself
run down in health, and upon the ad-
vice OF physicians went abroad. He
came back at the end of August look
Ing like a new man and feeling fine.
He continued so until Sunday, Feb
ruary Is, when he caught cold which
attacked his kidneys.
Taken to Cincinnati.
on February 2s Mr. Mayo was taken
to the Jewish hospital, in Cincinnati
from his home in Paintsville, where
for eight weeks, he made a game fight
for his life. Practically all OF the time
he was under the care OF DIR. r. r.
Wilkinson, OF Cincinnati, and Drs.
Biggs, Slade and Lindeman, special
lists. Of New York.
On April II TRANSMISSION of blood
was made from Washington Mayo,
the capitalists brother, and three days
afterward another operation of the
same kind was made. The patient ap-
parently rallied and gained strength
after the two transfusions, and when
he was sent TO New York on April "a
on former United States Senator Clar-
ence Watsons private car, which had
been equipped as veritable hospital,
his physicians thought that he had
won his battle.
The funeral took place at Paints
Vile at 10;30 a. m. today, Thursday.
1t was attended by prominent people
from all over the State, and some from
the Eastern cities.
The Funeral.
The body arrived from New York
Wednesday morning in a special car
attached to the regular train Accom-
panying Mrs. Mayo and the two chill
dren were Mr. Mayo's father T. ].
Mayo. brother Washington Mayo, sis
ter Mrs. Fred Atkinson, Mr.. Fred At
kinson, Mr. and Mrs. ]. Il. Bucking-
ham, j. w. M. Stewart At Ashland
they were Joined by w. S. Dudley,
Gen. Percy Haley. Charles and John
f. Howes. Other friends went aboard
the car at points on the Big Sandy div
ision. About 200 people met the train
at the Paintsville station which is a
mile and half from town. All busi-
ness houses, including the banks, were
closed for two days.
The Rev. DR.. Foote, OF Louisville, N.
E. Church South, was selected to
preach the funeral. The services were
held In Mayo Memorial Chapel, the
handsore Q edlfice erected three years
ago. cl efly through the aid Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Mayo.
special train brought to the fun
eral Senator Clarence w. Watson and
sixty officials OF the Elkhorn Fuel Co.
Also. number Of C. & O. -offlclais
arrived by special train.
The floral tributes were 50 numerous
and of such rare beauty that the COL
lection could hardly be surpassed.
The body was viewed at the resi-
dence by hundreds Of sorrowlng friends
on Wednesday. On Thursday imme-
diately following the services at the
church, tho remains were laid TO rest
IN tho beautiful family burial ground