John Simpson McGee (1818 - 1890)

Born 9 Dec 1818 in Beavertown, Beaver County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Died 28 Mar 1890 at age 71 in Uno, Hart County, Kentucky

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Biography

The focus of this book is the Reverend John Simpson McGee, his wife, Ann Reminta Hawkins, and their respective families. John McGee was born in Pennsylvania in 1818, the son of a tailor. His mother died when he was quite young, and he was raised by his father and step-mother in Butler Co., Ohio and Fayette County, Indiana. When he was old enough to strike out on his own, he traveled to central Kentucky where he met and married Ann Hawkins in 1839. The Hawkins family resided near the village of Salvisa in Mercer County, and it was in Salvisa, Kentucky, in 1842, that John McGee answered the call to become a preacher. As a Methodist circuit-rider, his assignments took him throughout the state of Kentucky and into western Virginia. Twice he made the long trek with his family from Kentucky to south-central Texas, where he organized and preached at several churches in Bexar, Guadalupe and Wilson Counties. It was while the family was in Bexar Co. in 1855, that his second oldest son, Jouette McGee, was killed by marauding Indians.

Sources

• http://www.so-ky.com/books/mcgee/chapter-one.pdf

THE JOHN S. AND ANN (HAWKINS) MCGEE FAMILY

A family history of the Methodist circuit-rider, John Simpson McGee, his wife, Ann Reminta Hawkins, and their descendants.

BY JON E. HUFFMAN 2008 Author can be contacted at the address below:

Jon E. Huffman 6605 Falls Creek Road Louisville, KY 40241 Email: johnlau@bellsouth.net