Hiram Mayle
(1889- ? )
Hiram Mayle was born in 1889, most likely in Doddridge County, WV, the son of Richard Z. and Mary (Minard) Mayle. His parents and older siblings had come to Doddridge in 1884 from Barbour County.
Hiram is thought to have married Pearl Johnston ( ? - ? ) of Smithfield, WV. They had at least five children -- Robert Mayle, Glenn Mayle, Lavonne Mayle, Betty Mayle and Vance Mayle.
Circa 1937, the family resided "as tenants on the Englewood Country club property two miles from Bridgeport on the Grasselli road," reported the Clarksburg Sunday Exponent-Telegram in Harrison County.
Tragedy struck the family in the dead of winter 1937, when Robert was 22, and Glenn 18, and both were employed as lumbermen for the West Virginia State and Lumber Company of Bridgeport. On Jan. 16, 1937, while riding in together in their mother's 1930 blue Chevrolet sedan, on the "newly constructed Philippi pike into Elk creek at Nutterdale," they failed to "take a curve in the road, [and] the auto plunged straight ahead over a six-foot embankment." While passengers Ralph Freshour and John Barnes escaped, and swam to shore, Robert and Glenn could not escape their submerged vehicle, and drowned. The accident generated top headlines in the Clarksburg newspaper, which spelled their names "Maylee." The brothers were laid to rest in the Stanley Cemetery after a double funeral at the Victory Baptist Church.
Hiram resided in Bristol, Harrison County, WV circa 1950. His fate is not yet known.
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Clarksburg Sunday Exponent-Telegram headline about the tragic deaths of Robert and Glen Mayle |
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