Mrs. P. M. Mayes
Woman Who Rode Wagon Train to Texas From Tennessee Dies
Carrollton, Texas, Feb. 14 – Mrs. P. M. Mayes, 91, who came to Texas sixty-five years ago with her husband in a wagon train from Tennessee, died at the home of her son, E. P. Mayes, Carrollton.
Mrs. Mayes was born April 22, 1848, in Franklin County, Tenn., and started to Texas in 1875, six years after she was married. Her husband died in 1930. She often recounted stories of their trip to Texas, including one about a horse tied to the back of their wagon once saving their lives when the wagon slid into a stream. The horse pulled it out.
The family settled near Lewisville, living there until thirty-five years ago, when they moved to Carrollton. Later they returned to Lewisville and then moved to Trinity Mills. Mrs. Mayes had been living with a son since the death of her husband.
She is survived by three sons, Ed P. Mayes, Charlie Mayes and Walter Mayes, all of Carrollton, and two daughters, Mrs. Oscar Smith, Carrollton, and Mrs. Will Cunningham, Coppell.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Carrollton Baptist Church. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

The Dallas Morning News - February 15, 1940
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

MAYES
PLEASANT M. - 1848 - 1933
MARY D. - 1848 - 1939

Note: stated in his, and her, obituaries, he died in 1930, not 1933 as indicated on the marker

Forest Lawn Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas