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Thomas Guilford McConnell (1824 - 1900)

Thomas Guilford "Gilf, Tom" McConnell
Born in Green Spring, Washington County, Virginia, United Statesmap
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Husband of — married 25 Feb 1855 in Virginia, United Statesmap
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Died at age 76 in Rural Retreat, Wythe County, Virginia, United Statesmap
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Thomas McConnell was born in Washington County, Virginia.
Thomas McConnell, known as "Tom", "Gilf" and "Gif," was born on 13 January 1824 in Green Spring, Washington County, Virginia, about five miles south of Abingdon in Washington County, Virginia, the second of five known children and the older of two sons of Abram McConnell and Susan McChesney.
On 25 February 1855, a month after he turned thirty-one, he married Rachel Beatie. She was to bear him eleven children including[1]
  1. Laura McConnell
  2. Robert McConnell
  3. Susan McConnell
  4. Charlton McConnell
  5. Infant Son McConnell
  6. Unnamed Daughter McConnell
  7. Unnamed Daughter McConnell
  8. Ada McConnell
On 26 November 1900, at the age of seventy-six, Thomas died, perhaps of Alzheimers Disease, at the home of his oldest living child, Laura Bell(e) Prickett, in Rural Retreat, Wythe County, Virginia,
by Patricia Prickett Hickin, a great-grand-daughter
The South Fork of the Holston River
appears at the center right
crossing the Virginia-Tennessee line.
We know nothing of his youth, although we can surmise that he grew up on his father's farm, which straddled the South Fork of the Holston River near the Tennessee line. He is probably the male between the ages of 15 and 20 who appears in Abram McConnell's 1840 census information. There were at least four other children in the family: one older sister who had already married and left home, one younger brother, and two younger sisters, a small family for the day. Abram apparently owned a small family of 3 slaves, one of whom was a boy under 10. By 1850 all the McConnell children had left home, and Abram owned eight slaves, three adults and five children. (Thomas does not appear elsewhere in the 1850 census, as far as I have been able to determine.)
No doubt Thomas was already prospering. In February 1855, a month after his thirty-first birthday, he married a bright and spirited young lady,
Col. Robert Beatie, 1787-1870,
Thomas's father-in-law
twenty-year-old Rachel Elizabeth "Bettie" Beatie, whose father was a prosperous farmer in Chilhowie, SMYTH County, VA, about twenty miles northeast of Green Spring. According to family tradition, Bettie was in love with another man, but he was poor and her parents would not let them marry. She is said to have been hospitalized for a time, probably for depression, as a result.
At any rate, she married Thomas. They went to New York for their wedding trip and there is a favorite family story of how she jumped behind her new husband when she saw a train for the first time in her life. On their return, they settled in Abingdon. Their first child, a baby boy, was born eighteen months later, but lived only a month. Apparently he was not expected to live as his parents did not give him a name. Their next child, a baby girl, arrived just nine months after his death, but was either born dead or died within a matter of hours, and she too was not named.
Bettie with baby
Laura Belle"Lollie"
in her christening dress.
Finally, on May 1, 1858, Laura Bell was born and thrived. She was to live to the age of 70.


In June 1860, another baby daughter was born and quickly died; she too went unnamed. In that same year Thomas reported $10,000 in real property and $33,000 in personal property. In addition, he was the owner of five slaves, ranging in age from 8 to 37. He and one Henry McKee were partners in a store in central Abingdon, located on the site of the present County Treasurer's Office. McKee died in the early 1860s and Thomas purchased the lots, but in 1864 the buildings were destroyed by fire. He rebuilt the store in 1869.
In 1867, on a business trip to New York or Philadelphia, Thomas bought a handsome piano for Lollie, who could both sing and play the piano quite well. It was made of rosewood and was a big square affair with cabriole legs. (It remained in Lollie's family until 1980, after her last child died and the house was sold.)
Piano bought by her father for Laura Bell


By 1870 he and Bettie had two daughters and two sons: Laura Bell ("Lollie"), 12; Susan Pauline ("Paulina"), 6; Robert Abram ("Robbie"), 8; and Charlton Lee ("Charltie"), 4. Two servants lived with them; laborer Taylor Wertz (reported as Taylor Works in the census, 25, black; and domestic Minerva Works,15, a mulatto, probably Taylor's wife, or possibly his sister. There had been other children: a baby girl named Ada was born in May 1865 and three other babies who were unnamed and whose gender and birth dates are unknown -- all of them died,

1870 census

T[homas J [sic., i.e., G.] Mc[C]onnell appears in the 1870 United States Federal Census as a 46-year-old merchant with $50,000 in real and $40,000 in personal property living with his 35-year-old wife, Rachel, and four children, two sons and two daughters, a son-in-law, and 25-year-old single black male laborer a 15-year-old mulatto single female domestic. All, including the servants, are shown as able to read.

For a larger view of the 1870 census image below, click here.

1870 census for Thomas Guilford McConnell household
Name: Thos J [sic., i.e., G.] McConnell; Age in 1870: 46; Birth Year: abt 1824; Birthplace: Virginia; Dwelling Number: 101; Home in 1870: Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia; Race: White; Gender: Male; Occupation: Merchant; Male Citizen over 21: Y; Personal Estate Value: 40000; Real Estate Value: 50000; Inferred Spouse: Rachel E Mc Connell; Inferred Children: Laura B Mc Connell; Robert A Mc Connell; Susan P Mc Connell; Charlton L Mc Connell.
Household Members: Name Age
Thos J [sic., i.e., G.] Mc Connell 46
Rachel E Mc Connell 35
Laura B Mc Connell 12
Robert A Mc Connell 8
Susan P Mc Connell 6
Charlton L Mc Connell 4.[2]
Despite the Civil War, Thomas's wealth had increased.
Minter Jackson, 1824-1907
. By 1872, Thomas had completed construction of the Colonnade Hotel in central Abingdon. From 1876 to 1913 it was owned by his brother-in-law Minter Jackson and its proprietors were James C. Campbell & James A. Armistead. The hotel is listed in an Abingdon city directory as having one of the "saloons" of Washington County.
Title: For many years T.G. McConnell prospered. This photograph was made in Philadelphia. He was probably there on a business trip.
Thomas Guilford McConnell, 1824-1900
At the end of the 1870s, "Lollie" married young Minter Jackson Prickett, the nephew of Bettie's sister Isabella Holt Beatie Jackson, despite Thomas's and Bettie's opposition, (according to family lore, they warned "Lollie" that Minter was in poor health and had no money and would die and leave her penniless and with a houseful of children. They eloped from Bettie's brother's home, the "Town House" in Chilhowie, Smyth County, on a summer night and were married in Bristol, Tennessee, on 12 July 1879. They moved in with Tom and
Lollie with new baby
Laura Elizabeth (later called "Gladese")
in her christening gown.
Bettie for a time. Lollie was immediately pregnant and on 12 April 1880, Laura Elizabeth (soon nicknamed "Gladese" by her grandmother, for a character in a favorite novel) was born in Abingdon. The 1880 census shows the family had a 19-year-old black cook, Janette Harden. In the census, "Mint," as he was called, is shown without an occupation but apparently he taught for a few months and also worked in his father-in-law's store.

Thomas's father had died before the war; his mother died on 20 August 1880, about four and a half month after the arrival of Lollie and Mint's new baby.

Comments about the McConnells by grandson Allen Bridgforth

In his McConnell Genealogy, Allen Cabaniss Bridgforth wrote (p 62): "The writer never saw his McConnell grandparents but once, and then when he was quite a small child. He remembers his grandfather McConnell as a handsome dark complexioned old man, of but few words, even for his small grandson." [Probably he was already suffering from senility. pph 16 June 1995.]
Her [Allen's mother, Susan Pauline McConnell Bridgforth] father was about 40 years old at the time of the War Between the States, and served as a provost marshal in the Confederate army. . . . He also was appointed on a committee charged with organizing an outfit of the volunteer Confederate companies at the County Court of Washington County. (citing Sumner's History of Southwest Virginia and Washington County, page 515.)
In his younger days, he was an extensive businessman. He was a merchant; and also dealt in mountain products – lumber, coal, roots and herbs, at McConnell's Switch, where the railroad had put in a switch for his convenience.
He also was a partner with Minter Jackson of Wytheville, Virginia, (who was a cousin of the great Stonewall.*
[*Widely believed in the family but untrue. Stonewall Jackson grew up near Minter but he was descended from an entirely different Jackson family. There was however, a tenuous family connection. Stonewall’s uncle David Jackson married Minter Jackson’s first cousin once removed Juliet Norris.
The connection goes like this:
Stonewall’s father, Jonathan, had a brother, David, who married a Juliett Norris.
Juliett Norris was the daughter of John Norris, b1760 and (m1782) Mary Jones.
John Norris was the son of William Norris, b1741, and (m1739) Hannah Bell.
John was also the brother of Ann "Nancy" Norris, b1767.
Ann "Nancy" Norris married (1789) Minter Bailey, Sr.
Minter and Nancy Bailey were the parents of Hannah Bailey.
Hannah married (1821) Stephen Pomeroy Jackson.
Hannah and Stephen were the parents of Minter Jackson, b1824, (and of Minter's sister Nancy Jackson, b1826, who married Minter Prickett's father, William Benjamin Franklin Prickett.
At any rate Minter Jackson had married Thomas Guilford McConnell’s sister-in-law Isabella Beatie. And Jackson and McConnell were joint owners of the Colonnade Hotel in Abingdon. The Jacksons were the parents of Hannabelle Jackson, to whom the writer's mother was devoted. She married one Phipps Miller, long headmaster of the Memphis University School in Memphis, Tennessee.
They spent many Christmas vacations with "Captn" and "Miss Polly" [Paulina McConnell Bridgforth]. "Miss Polly" spent many winters with the Jacksons in Ponce de Leon Spring, Florida. After a long business association, the writer's grandfather. and Mr. Jackson severed their partnership, and the former always thought Mr. Jackson had taken advantage of him in the dissolution and was bitter toward him afterwards. [Minter Jackson was the brother of Nancy Jackson Prickett, the mother-in-law of Laura Bell McConnell Prickett. Nancy’s son Minter Jackson Prickett Sr. came to the Marion, Virginia, area c1874 to work for Minter Jackson. (Pph 16 June 1995)]
Stonewall Jackson College, where Miss Polly [Susan Pauline McConnell] was educated in Abingdon.
During the war, [Thomas served] as a provost marshal, [and] the Yankees made great effort to capture him. At one time they sacked his house in Abingdon, forcing his small children out of bed. His wife, Rachel Elizabeth Beatie, with the fire of her Beatie breed, threatened to shoot the officer with her pistol, whereupon he called off his men and left.
[My father, Minter Jackson Prickett, Jr., who was close to his grandmother, Rachel Elizabeth, told the story this way:
When the Yankees came unexpectedly one evening, Grandpa ran upstairs and crawled under Robbie’s bed. Robbie was a little blond of about 3 years of age. The Yankee officer dashed up the stairs after him with my grandmother close behind. The officer started to pull Robbie out of bed by his heels, whereupon Grandma whipped out her pearl-handled revolver, pointed it at the Yankee officer and said, "If you touch one hair of that child's head, I'll make you kiss the floor, Sir!"
The Yankee officer looked at her in surprise and exclaimed, "Why I believe you would, Ma'am!" And he turned and left with his men.]
Our cousin Mary Virginia McConnell Wolfe says that at times he [Thomas] drank too much, that Rachel would lock him out of the house, whereupon he retired to her father's house, where he was gladly received. The fondness of liquors seems to have been a family failing for liquor was also a failing of the two Abrams, his father and grandfather. [I never heard this before.PPH
It has also been said that after his retirement, he was much interested in mineral development of Washington County, and adjoining counties, and often made long prospecting trips to the mountains and thus made many friends among the mountain people.
The writer on his trip to Virginia with his mother during her father's latter days, when on a hiking trip with an older boy to White Top Mountain, was lost and wound up at a mountaineer's cabin. The owner took them in and when he found out that the writer was a grandson of "Tom McConnell,” even piloted them back to Abingdon.
[Thomas] was a staunch Presbyterian from his mother's training in the Green Spring Church, where his ancestors are buried. [Actually, the family converted to Methodism, influenced like many other Southwest Virginians by "Madame Russell", Patrick Henry's sister. There is probably another family connection at play here: Bettie Beatie McConnell's maternal grandmother Susannah Walker Henry White first married Patrick Henry's oldest son, John.
Thus Lollie went to a Methodist boarding school in Staunton and Thomas was a founder of Martha Washington College in Abingdon, a Methodist boarding school for young women. Contrary to popular belief there was a great deal of cooperation between Methodists and Presbyterians in those days.]
Transcription of the sign at right:
The McCabe Lodge No.36, Independent Order of Odd Fellows decided in 1853 it would establish a women’s college, named after Martha Washington. The Holston Conference of the Methodist Church assumed control of the project by 1854. That same year the conference purchased the Gen. Francis Preston house (ca. 1822) to house the college. In 1860 the first classes were held at Martha Washington College. Several additions were made to the college’s main building over the next 70 years. The school merged with nearby Emory & Henry College in 1918. In 1921 Martha Washington became a junior college but closed in 1931. In 1937, the former main college building was converted into the Martha Washington Inn.


[The McConnells'] story and a half frame home in Abingdon still stands [it was torn down in the 1970s or 1980s] and is deteriorating greatly. The detached kitchen is torn down; but there were 10 rooms in the house, and it still shows many signs of its former grandeur. [I think the writer let his imagination carry him away, and if there were ten rooms they were not large ones. It was in fact a rather plain white frame house. I was in it with my parents after it was no longer lived in. (PPH, 16 June 1995). It was built by one Harry Parrot in 1812 and was sold to [McConnell].
There were caves in the mountains
called "The Knobs" where Tom McConnell
would hide from Federal troops.

The Civil War

During the war, when the Yankees came to town, Thomas would leave town and hide out in the caves in the Knobs south of Abingdon. His widow told my father, Minter Prickett, Jr. that one night when Tom was riding his horse to the caves he realized a mountain lion was running along beside him -- he could see his eyes glistening in the dark. Then the panther sprang and barely missed his horse's rump. Thomas got away.

Comments about the McConnells by grandson James McChesney Prickett

from Travelgrams:
His grandson James McChesney Prickett in his Travelgrams, page 29, wrote, "The old McConnell home [where] my grandparents [lived] in their prime, my aunts and uncles and my cousins were wont to gather in the old-fashioned parlor and have my mother Laura Bell McConnell play for them, and many a time back there hovering near her would be my father, a young Lochinvar of the late 'Seventies.’”
My father's parents died before I was born, but I had my maternal grandfather McConnell until I was eighteen and my maternal grandmother until I was past thirty. God pity the poor children who do not have good, attentive grandparents. Great was my delight when I was a small lad to be all dressed up in "Buster Brown" collars, button shoes, have my hair all slicked down and be ready to ride the train to Abingdon to visit our grandparents.
Jamie described a typical visit in I Review My Yesteryears:
Soon we were getting off the train at Abingdon. Old Taylor Wertz, who had once been a slave in the McConnell home, was sitting on the top of a closed coach. I recall the upholstery was somewhat faded and the carriage wheels a bit wobbly, and the horses very lean, for the last of my grandfather's wealth had about ebbed away. Old Taylor never addressed my grandparents without removing his hat and bowing low, saying "Mar'sr Tom," or "Mish Bettie!" We reach the old home of my mother. Grandfather is waiting for us at the gate (with all his erect six feet two). He was ever the essence of kindness and gentility with all that goes to make up a soft-spoken Southern gentleman. He pulled my sisters and me, one by one, from the old carriage, pitched us up and caught us with his mighty "Ho Ho!" Grandmother gave us equal welcome. It was their delight to look after our comfort and enjoyment.
Grandmother never visited in our home, but what she carried a big willow basket, and when she got off the train, my sisters and I, all three of us wanted to carry it, knowing that within its downy folds, loving hands had tucked away small gifts for all of us. In this old home of my Mother fruit and shade trees graced the surroundings. Delicious gooseberries and currants (same as at our home) lined the fence here and there. It was an old fashioned frame building with upper rooms in the middle section, and a wing on each side of the central part. There was an observatory on the roof with a platform and hand rails all around from which one could get an excellent view of the surrounding country. The entire porch was encircled with green blinds.
The kitchen after the manner of old Southern homes, was a brick building about twenty feet away from the home proper, and connected with a brick walk. It had a big hearth where an enormous kettle hung, surrounded by pots and pans, and also where the grandchildren could run in and warm themselves on a chilly day. Beyond the kitchen, the carriage house, and the chicken house, as I recall the latter was about twenty feet high. There were heavy old cellar doors from which the grandchildren found great delight in sliding down their steep incline. Old fashioned furniture, high bed stead s that sometimes we youngsters, would have to take a running start to enable us to land within its downy folds. The tall "grand-father clock," I always thought some one had been in the McConnell home, and had been inspired to write about this old clock.
I would sit on the front porch with grandfather, while he smoked his pipe. He would have a carpet slipper hanging perilously on the tip end of one foot. I would ask him questions, no philosopher or scientist could answer, but in his quiet dignity would give me some kind of satisfactory answers. Our home was in the heart of town, but my mother's old home was near a creek in the East end of Abingdon. I was not accustomed to the rapid serenade of multitudes of frogs, katydids, and crickets. Then grandfather would lean over and put the tip ends of his fingers together and whistle mournfully. This mingled with the eerie sounds from creek and trees would cause me to think about what our colored cook had told my sisters and [me] about the spooks and hobgoblins that roamed at large at night and sometimes snatched little children clear out of existence. Then I would sit closer to Grandfather, so just in case a long arm would reach across the banisters and grab me by the nape of the neck, grandfather would grab me by the heels before I disappeared behind the thick shrubbery and vines that surrounded the porch.
Then grandmother would come wearing a black sunbonnet, and with a sharp reminder to the old gentleman of some household duty, and in contrast, Grandfather would look over his spectacles, point a finger at her and say gently; "Alright Betty! Alright Betty!" . . . .
The old McConnell's home still stands in the east end of Abingdon, a ghost of the vanished yester-years. I get fleeting glances of it as I drive along Highway No. 11 on my way into Tennessee. However, there have been times I have slowed down my motor, then gone out of my way to pass this old home.

1880 census

T[homas] G . Mc[C]onnell appears in the 1880 United States Federal Census as a 52-year-old farmer living with his 45-year-old wife, Rachel, and four children, two sons and two daughters, a son-in-law, and a 19-year-old black female cook.

For a larger view of the 1880 census image below, click here.

1880 census for Thomas Guilford McConnell household
Name: T G . Mc[C]onnell; Age: 52; Birth Date: Abt 1828; Birthplace: Virginia; Home in 1880: Abingdon , Washington, Virginia , USA; Dwelling Number: 415; Race: White; Gender: Male; Head of House; Marital status: Married; Spouse's name: Rachel E. Mc[C]onnell; Father's Birthplace: Virginia; Mother's Birthplace: Virginia; Occupation: Farming.
Household Members: Name Age
T.G. Mc[C]onnell 52
Rachel E. Mc[C]onnell 45
Robert Mc[C]onnell 17
Pauline Mc[C]onnell 15
Charlie Mc[C]onnell 12.
Minter J. Prickett 22
Laura Prickett 22
Jenetta H_____ 19.[3]

Last years

By the early 1890s Thomas was becoming senile. He lost his business acumen and the Panic of 1893 ended the remains of his prosperity. He also lost his older son, Robbie, who after working with him as a partner, had moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, and entered the lumber business. Robbie was run over by a railroad log car and his death came from shock, following the premature amputation of his mangled leg by a young physician at Halsey, a town in the mountains far from competent medical help. He left a widow, Mary "Mamie" Franz McConnell, and four young children. He died on July 28, 1893, just two weeks short of his 31st birthday. Of Thomas and Rachel's eleven children only three were still living.
When Thomas's son-in-law Minter Prickett died in January 1896, leaving his family virtually penniless,
Living room pieces brought by
Thomas and Bettie Beatie McConnell
when they moved to Rural Retreat.
Thomas and Bettie moved in with the Prickett family. They all lived for the next few years on Thomas's Civil War pension of $11 a month (beef cost 3 cents a pound in those days). At times Thomas would think he was taking the train to go north on a business trip. He would get dressed up and sit on a trunk by the window in the upstairs front parlor and his grandchildren would go out in the front yard and wave him goodbye.
Thomas died at Lollie's home on 26 November 1900, about six weeks short of his 77th birthday. The diagnosis was "softening of the brain."

Obituary

"DEATH OF T. G. McCONNELL
"At One Time One of the Most Prominent Business Men of Southwest Virginia.
"Thomas Guilford McConnell died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Laura B. Prickett, Friday, Nov. 30th, at 10:15 p. m., aged 76 years, 10 months and 17 days. Mr. McConnell was not very well known to the people here among whom he came to reside in '96, his active life was spent for the most part at Abingdon. He was born January 13, 1824, and married Rachel Elizabeth Beattie, February 20, 1855. From this union there were eleven children, three of whom are still living, Mrs. Laura B. Prickett, of this place, Mrs. W.R. Bridgeforth [sic.], of Pickens, Miss., and Charlten [sic.] L. McConnell, of Nashville, Tenn. Mr. McConnell was at one time one of the wealthiest men in this section being worth about $100,000. He engaged in the mercantile and lumber business at McConnell's Switch, near Abingdon, under the firm name of McConnell & Son. They began speculating in cotton and for a while fortune favored them, but the beginning of his downfall came when the Yankees burned several thousand bales. [missing from copy I made] building and furnishing the Colonade [sic.] Hotel at Abingdon, which completed his ruin. Mr. McConnell was one of the founders of Martha Washington College, at Abingdon, paid the tuition of three or four pupils when this institution was struggling to make a beginning, and was one of the trustees at the time of his death. His life had been an active one and up to a few months ago his health was fairly good, but death, who is kinder than we think, called him away from these scenes of trials and vexations, and bade him lie down and rest. Rev. W. E. Bailey read a few verses and prayed at the residence here and then the remains were taken on the morning train, Sunday, for interment at Abingdon, there followed by McCabe Lodge I. O. O. F., of which he was a member, and the president and young ladies of Martha Washington College, and with the prayers of Rev. Langston, of the Presbyterian, and Dr. Atkins, of the Methodist church, and obsequies of the Odd Fellows, the remains were laid away in Sinking Spring Cemetery. "

For a larger, clearer version of the document below, click here.

McConnell was a founder and one of the directors of Martha Washington College in Abingdon, Virginia

Burial

Thomas was buried in Sinking Spring Cemetery, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Bettie was later buried beside him.
McConnell Family Gravestone with
foot-stones for Thomas and Rachel
Gravestone for Thomas Guilford McConnell

From Findagrave.com

Thomas Guilford McConnell
Birth: 13 Jan 1824 Green Spring, Washington County, Virginia, USA; Death: 30 Nov 1900 (aged 76) Rural Retreat, Wythe County, Virginia, USA; Burial: Sinking Spring Cemetery, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia, USA. Memorial #: 96905438.
Bio: Thomas Guilford McConnell was the son of Abraham McConnell and Susan Berry McChesney. He married Rachel Elizabeth Beattie. On the 1880 Abingdon, Washington Co., VA census, I found farmer T.G. McConnell, 52; wife Rachel E. McConnell, 45; son Robert McConnell, 17; daughter Pauline McConnell, 15 and son and farmer Charlie McConnell, 12, plus "son" Minter J Prickett, 22; daughter Laura Prickett, 22, unnamed relation, Laura Prickett, 1/12, born in May, and cook Jenetta Harden, 19, all VA born, except the baby, born in TN. On the 1900 Rural Retreat, Wythe Co., VA census, both T G McConnell, 76 and Rachel E McConnell, 65, born Oct 1834 were residing with widowed daughter Laura's Pricket family. Laura (Ancestry indexes her as Dora B) B "Prickets," 42, May 1858 and 6 Prickets sons and daughters, all Virginia born.
Family Members: Parents: Abraham McConnell (1793-1859), Susan Berry McChesney McConnell (1802-1880); Spouse: Rachel Elizabeth Beatie McConnell (1834-1912); Siblings: Sarah McChesney McCONNELL KEYS (1822-1880), Abram Albert McConnell (1825-1828), Rosannah Elizabeth McConnell Campbell (1828-1859), Susan Rebecca McConnell Bradley (1830-1872).[4]

Citations

  1. ↑ 1900 census for Rachel McConnell.
  2. ↑ 1870 Census, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia; Roll M593_1681, Page 18A, Image 33 of 78, Family History Library Film 553180. Ancestry.com. Transcription URL: https://search.ancestryheritagequest.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=xgz1135&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&qh=L0fHuGYS1AYZ86gFR7OJNw%3D%3D&db=1870usfedcen&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=thomas%20guilford&gsfn_x=0&gsln=mcconnell&gsln_x=0&msbdy=1824&msbpn__ftp=Virginia,%20USA&msbpn=49&msrpn__ftp=Washington%20County,%20Virginia,%20USA&msrpn=3077&MSAV=1&uidh=mpf&successSource=Search&_phtarg=xgz1133&msbdy_x=1&msbdp=2&pcat=35&fh=0&h=39358877&recoff=&ml_rpos=1 Image URL: https://www.ancestryheritagequest.com/interactive/7163/4268770_00039?pid=39358877&backurl=https://search.ancestryheritagequest.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3Dxgz1135%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26indiv%3D1%26qh%3DL0fHuGYS1AYZ86gFR7OJNw%253D%253D%26db%3D1870usfedcen%26gss%3Dangs-d%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26gsfn%3Dthomas%2520guilford%26gsfn_x%3D0%26gsln%3Dmcconnell%26gsln_x%3D0%26msbdy%3D1824%26msbpn__ftp%3DVirginia,%2520USA%26msbpn%3D49%26msrpn__ftp%3DWashington%2520County,%2520Virginia,%2520USA%26msrpn%3D3077%26MSAV%3D1%26uidh%3Dmpf%26successSource%3DSearch%26_phtarg%3Dxgz1133%26msbdy_x%3D1%26msbdp%3D2%26pcat%3D35%26fh%3D0%26h%3D39358877%26recoff%3D%26ml_rpos%3D1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=xgz1135&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true Accessed 23 Aug 2019.
  3. ↑ 1880 Census, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia; Roll 1394, Page 47A, Image 45 of 56, Enumeration District 093. Ancestry.com. Transcription URL: https://search.ancestryheritagequest.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=RoC84&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&qh=wuHcmKb/DwWoy0NrSjKH1A%3D%3D&db=1880usfedcen&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=T.G.&gsfn_x=0&gsln=MCCONNELL&gsln_x=0&msbdy=1835&msbpn__ftp=Virginia,%20USA&msbpn=49&msrpn__ftp=Abingdon,%20Washington,%20Virginia,%20USA&msrpn=24179&msrpn_x=1&msrpn__ftp_x=1&MSAV=1&uidh=mpf&pcat=35&fh=0&h=19223173&recoff=&ml_rpos=1 Image URL: https://www.ancestryheritagequest.com/interactive/6742/4244642-00017?pid=19223533&backurl=https://search.ancestryheritagequest.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DRoC83%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26indiv%3D1%26qh%3D97FLYVJZyn47xyS8Ph8biw%253D%253D%26db%3D1880usfedcen%26gss%3Dangs-d%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26msT%3D1%26gsfn%3Dminter%26gsfn_x%3D0%26gsln%3Dprickett%26gsln_x%3D0%26msbdy%3D1857%26msbpn__ftp%3DWest%2520Virginia,%2520USA%26msbpn%3D51%26msrpn__ftp%3DWashington%2520County,%2520Virginia,%2520USA%26msrpn%3D3077%26msrpn_x%3D1%26msrpn__ftp_x%3D1%26MSAV%3D1%26uidh%3Dmpf%26pcat%3D35%26fh%3D0%26h%3D19223533%26recoff%3D%26ml_rpos%3D1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=RoC83&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true Accessed 27 Mar 2019.
  4. ↑ LSP (46860931), maintained by path1209 (47933208), “Thomas Guilford McConnell,” Findagrave.com. Record added 11 Sep 2012. URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96905438/thomas-guilford-mcconnell. Accessed 23 August 2019.

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