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A fact from Knoxville riot of 1919 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 April 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the Knoxville Riot of 1919, one of the events of that year's Red Summer, began when a lynch mob stormed the jail in pursuit of a man believed to have been the mayor's illegitimate son?
The TN Encyclopedia article gives Maurice's name as 'Mayes,' which would normally satisfy me. Bruce Wheeler's credentials are excellent. Then again, all of the books of a legal slant seem to consistently spell his name 'Mays,' which may only indicate that he was booked incorrectly when White (who had a documented grudge) arrested him. I'm not sure when birth certificates came into common use in east TN: I have an idea Maurice didn't have one. FindaGrave.com has Mayes, but as much as I like FindaGrave, it is crowd-sourced, not requiring supporting citations. In this case, I posted the memorial myself, and I can tell you that we know which cemetery holds his remains, but we also know he has no marker, and likely no papertrail. I used the spelling favored by W Bruce Wheeler, but my confidence in it is shaky.
His father, usually referred to as 'John E. McMillan,' is posted as 'Jonothan Edgar,' though his carved marker (photo posted) calls him 'Jno. E. McMillan.' I don't believe 'Jno.' is usually used to represent 'Jonathan,' much less 'Jonothan' (which may also be a typo). If any of you know of more definitive sources, I feel they are in order. Rags (talk) 09:46, 5 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
