Woodruff family.

William Henry Mayo (1845-1905), a native of St. Landry Parish, La., enlisted in Co. F. of the 8th Regiment of Louisiana Infantry of the Confederate Army. With his regiment, he fought in in Jackson's Valley Campaign and the campaigns of 1862-1865, including the Seven Days Battles, Maryland Campaign, Gettysburg, Chancellorville, Cold Harbor, Early's operations in the Shenandoah Valley, and Appomattox. Mayo rose to the rank of the regimental adjutant. After the war he returned to St. Landry Parish and was engaged in general merchandize and farming. In 1867-69, he was mayor of Washington, La. (1867-1869). In 1871, he moved to St. Louis, Mo.where he became correspondent and superintendent of circulation of the Saint Louis Daily Times. The then was a member of the editorial board of the Freemason. A staunch Democrat, Mayo was secretary of the Democratic state central committee and for two terms secretary of the state senate of Missouri. In 1866, he married Ella Agatha Curley, daughter of Mrs. Lucy Curly of New Orleans.

Mayo's son Harry Nathaniel Mayo (b. 1867), was a physician and Lieutenant Colonel of the Army. He received his MD in 1895 at Baltimore Medical College. In 1890, he married Ms. Elizabeth B. Torbett of Salt Lake City, Utah. He was Medical director of the Continental Life Insurance & Investment Co., Surgeon of the Holy Cross Hospital (Salt Lake City), and was a prominent Free Mason. His daughter Etha (1895-1996) married E.R. Woodruff, son of one of the most prominent Salt Lake City families.

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