Jesse was born May 21, 1933, in Linesville, Pa., a son of Luther and Emma Wilfong Nelson. He graduated high school and joined the Army. He worked as a truck driver for Thompson Mining and Snyder Farms ...
Jesse J. Mayes, the first black member of the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors in modern times, an educator and a decorated soldier, has died. He was 100 and had suffered from dementia in ...