James Edward McGehee

James Edward McGehee

• Father: Micajah McGehee b. circa 1745, d. 31 July 1811
• Mother: Ann Baytop Scott b. circa 1753, d. 23 February 1816

• James Edward McGehee was born on 8 November 1786 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia.
• He was known as Edward.
• He married Margaret Louise Cosby on 6 June 1811 in Georgia.
• He married Harriett Ann Goodrich on 22 December 1823.
• He married Mary Hines Burrus circa 1832.
• On Saturday, 21 July 1849, Green Wood recorded in his travel journal: Stoped to feed & cook dinner 3 miles east of Woodville, 13 miles. Traveled on 9 miles to Mr McGahas, staid in the house. A very mudy road all day, 22 miles, rainy day. [Edward MdGehee was a first cousin of John Moore McGehee, father of Martha McGehee who married E. O. LeGrand, uncle of Green Mark's wife Mary Jane LeGrand.]
• James Edward McGehee and Mary Hines Burrus appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Other members of the household included George T. McGehee, John Burrus McGehee, Wilbur F. McGehee, Mary Louise McGehee, Scott McGehee and Harriet L. McGehee.
• He was a planter, according to the 1860 census.
• James Edward McGehee died in October 1880 at age 93 in Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi.
• The following appeared on 1 November 1880 in The Daily Picayune: Yesterday morning Bishop Keener preached a sermon in the Carondolet street M. E. Church South upon the occasion of the death of Judge Edward McGehee, of Mississippi, who departed this life a few days ago. . . . He had moved into the State in his early manhood some seventy-two years ago. . . . Judge McGehee's own family was a large one. He had been married three times, and was himself the last survivor of thirteen children. His brothers Aber, Abram, John and William were all of them successful planters in Mississippi and Alabama. He at first settled on Thompson's Creek, Miss., and from there removed to the neighborhood of Woodville. Seven of his children and many of his grandchildren still survive him. . . . His son, Micajah, was nursing him in his last illness, when he was suddenly seized with a congestive chill and died.

• Last Edited: 22 Jul 2009