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Isaiah Mays
Isaiah Mays
BAMartin


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Date Uploaded: Dec 30, 2007

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 For 76 years, the remains of Cpl. Isaiah Mays, like those of 2,400 others buried in the Arizona State Hospital cemetery, lay under a numbered stone slab covering a weed-choked grave. With Memorial Day approaching, Mays was finally honored last week with a headstone commemorating him as a winner of the Medal of Honor for bravery as a Buffalo Soldier. Mays was born a slave in Virginia in 1858. As a young man, he joined the all-black 10th Cavalry, the Buffalo Soldiers, and was stationed in Tucson, Ariz. In 1889, bandits attacked a payroll wagon he was guarding. Most of the other soldiers fled. But Mays stayed and fought. Shot in both legs, he dragged himself two miles to a farm to sound an alarm. Denied a pension by the U.S. government, Mays died destitute at the Arizona State Hospital in 1925.

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 02/16/2008 06:43:39 PM
OMG ... what a story! Thanks for sharing, Barb!
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