Charlotte Observer, North Carolina
15 February 1911
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Death's Record
ED MAY DEAD
Former Compositor on The Observer and One of the Best Printers in the State Passes Away at the Home of His Sister Near Hickory.
Hickory, Feb 14 -- Mr. Ed May died Saturday morning at 3 o'clock at the home of his sister, Mrs. W. W. White, several miles from Hickory. He was one of the best compositors in the State and had worked almost everywhere in it, and out of it. He was one of the best printers Foreman Lee Latta had in those palmy days of yore when the Murrills ran The Hickory Press and did all the printing for the C. & N. W. Railway and when things hummed in the old print shop. He had worked in memphis not so very long before his final sickness with the dread white plague. He was a compositor on The Observer under Mr. J. P. Caldwell.
He was a member of the Asheville Typographical Union up to the day of his death.
Mr. May was the son of Mr. S. Y. May and 37 years of age. He was born and raised in this county. In his search for health he spent some time at Colorado Springs, but the disease was too far advanced to be arrested.
