80.419.1

Grave marker of Henry May, Ames's first school teacher, who lived from 1829 to 1919, and his wife Ellen D. May, 1833-1909. No stone had been placed on their grave in the Ames Municipal Cemetery until this stone was provided by the Ames Heritage Association in the spring of 1983.The Mays arrived in Ames in 1866. Henry taught 3 terms in the little 1861 Hoggatt schoolhouse. Washington and Grant townships shared the costs of the school while May taught there. For more biographical information on the Mays, see the article in "The Ames Intellegencer," the newsletter of the Ames Heritage Association [May, 1983; vol. 1 #3, p.2] (See also: 82.432.1-2)