In 1908 she married young architect Thomas Millikan Kaufman on March 25, and they settled to the eastern part of the state in Richmond, Indiana. May’s father saw that she was determined to compose, and spurred on in part by her ability to publish a rag on her own and by the slowly growing sales of Dusty Rag, he formed J.H. Aufderheide & Company to publish her works. John bought the Dusty Rag copyright and reissued it under his label along with her Richmond Rag, named for her new locale. She published many ragtime songs and few popular genres under this company such as jazz but was not able to gain any attention for her non-rag music.