Edward McGehee (1786 - 1880)

Born 8 Nov 1786 in Wilkes, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Louisa (Cosby) McGehee — married 6 Jun 1811 in Wilkes, Georgia, United States

Husband of Harriett Ann Goodrich — married 9 Dec 1823 in Alabama, United States

Husband of Mary Hines (Burruss) McGehee — married 15 Feb 1829 in Wilkinson, Mississippi, United States

Descendants

Died 1 Oct 1880 at age 93 in Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, United States

Biography

Edward McGehee is Notable.

Judge Edward McGehee, born 1786 in Oglethorpe county, Georgia [Not formed until 1793], died 1st October, 1880, ninth child of Micajah McGehee, was one of Mississippi's most remarkable men, as a planter, philanthropist and financier. ^{[1] [2]}

Married :
1. 6th June, 1811 , Margaret Louisa Cosby , of Wilkes County, Ga.; (d. 9th January, 1821 ).

2. 23d December, 1823 , Harriet Ann Goodrich (d. 15th October, 1827 ). ^[3]

3. 15th February, 1829 , Mary Hines Burruss (b. 21st March, 1812 ; d. 30th October, 1873 ), daughter of Rev. John C. Burruss and Elizabeth Brame. Rev. John C. Burruss * was a distinguished divine in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His wife came from Virginia to Lawrence County, Ala., and from thence to Louisiana.^[4]

4. His fourth wife was Miss Nutting of Boston, whom he married in Tuscumbia, Ala., a most accomplished and lovable woman. She lived to be quite aged; and, honored and lamented by all, died, 1894 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Claiborne Foster, Shreveport, La. (Mrs. Bishop Linus Parker, of New Orleans , and Mrs. Harding, of Shreveport, La. , noble and intellectual women, are also daughters).

Judge McGehee lived at Woodville, Miss. His lovely home was called "Bowling Green," and he had large planting interests. He was also founder of the Carondelet Street Methodist Episcopal Church South, New Orleans, and of the Female College at Woodville, named for him. He built the first railroad in Mississippi, owned the first cotton factory, was the patron of Centenary College, and engaged in every enterprise for the welfare of his State.

The railroad was the West Feliciana Rail Road Company, chartered in 1831, later the Woodville and St. Francisville Railroad.

Research Notes

^[5] In 1849, McGehee organized a company and traveled to Lowell, Massachusetts to obtain information about textile manufacturing. Returning to Mississippi, he engaged Thomas Weldon to construct a factory upon plans probably obtained in Lowell. ... On April 8, 1851, the Woodville Manufacturing Company began manufacturing cloth, with a bolt of lowell being the first to come from the looms. The factory was then equipped with 4,000 spindles and eighty looms, and 50 workers were employed. An eighty horsepower engine manufactured in Cincinnati provided power for the machinery. In october, 1851, the editor of the Clinton (Louisiana) Floridian reported that establishment was turning out 38,000 yards of lowells per week in addition to an unspecified number of linseys."

Sources

1. ↑ Memories of Mississippi , Vol. I, p. 1191
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_McGehee
3. ↑ "Louisiana Tombstone Inscriptions, 1812-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7HLN-JCMM : 21 August 2019), Edward McGehee in entry for Harriet Ann Richards, 20 Oct 1827; citing Death, Louisiana, United States, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C.
4. ↑ "Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V28R-VJF : 14 February 2020), Edward McGehee, 1829.
5. ↑ "The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest: Mississippi, 1770-1860" By John Hebron Moore

See also:

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4LV-339 : 22 December 2020), Edward McGehee in household of Emily R Williams, Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Mississippi, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6GZ-46C : 18 February 2021), E Mc Gehee, 1860.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4PC-K5V : 14 January 2022), Edward McGehee, Beat 1, Wilkinson, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .

• Find A Grave: Memorial #69081581, citing Bowling Green Cemetery, Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, USA ; Maintained by Pamela Jean-Ludington-Wallstead-Rice (contributor 47157216) .

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• Micajah McGehee Bible of Broad River. Title: Owner: Mrs. Lamar Smith, Como, MS, Micajah McGehee Bible of Broad River (Reprinted in "Georgia Bible Records", Jeannette Holland Austin, page 205)

• Website: "Descendants of Micajah McGehee, 1730 - 31 JUL 1811; Outline Format" https://www.ourfamtree.org/descend.php/Micajah-McGehee/357670