Looking for information on my Great Grandfather Roy May. He was married to Cassie Cooper (d:of William C.Cooper and Nancy Butler) in 1910. Roy and Cassie had 5 children that lived. (Charles,George,Floyd,Grace and Ruth) Roy placed the children in the Toccoa Orphanage at Stephens Co.GA in 1924 when Cassie died. There is no other record of Roy May.
One family story says he died in a factory fire but we don't know when. I'd be grateful for any info you may have.

Roy May and family are on the 1920 Ga census. But I didn't find him in Ga on the 1930 census.
Bernice

Roy's wife Cassie, my Great Grandmother,died in 1924 and five of their six children were placed in the Toccoa Orphanage in Stephens Co.GA. We do know Roy's brother Cal? had a taxi service and we think Roy moved around a lot.

Hi Heather. You don't happen to know Roy's middle initial, do you?

It's probably just a shot in the dark, but I'm also looking for information on my Great Grandfather, also named Roy May. I know next to nothing about him other than the fact that he abandon his wife and six children. I think he married my grandmother in 1925 (although I can't recall where I got the date, so it could be faulty).

I think he lived in Oklahoma with my grandmother, Mattie Opal (Cochran) May, and the kids for a while before he left, but I'm also not 100% positive about that either. I have no idea where he went after he left the family or where he was prior to marrying my Great Grandmother. (I have heard stories that his family [parents, siblings, etc... I guess] disowned him, though, but I don't know why.)

Like I said, it's probably nothing (Roy isn't the most unique name out there), but I figured I'd respond just in case. After all, if a man can place his five children in an orphanage after the death of his wife, then he certainly seems like a man who can just up and leave his second family and six more children. (Plus, if I'm correct about the year my great grandparents were married, it also fits with the timeline of your great grandmother passing away and the children being given up in 1924.)