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Stephen McMahan (abt. 1780 - abt. 1863)

Stephen McMahan
Born about [location unknown]
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Died about at about age 83 in NOrth Carolinamap
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Biography

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9GZ-423V?cc=1911121 settling of his estate in 1863. Note that Jemima Bradley is a recipient and lives close by.

Sources

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F3ZR-5C4 Stephen is usually associated with Blanche Ridley as his wife. This is a death cert on son Levi McMahan in 1832 at the age of 91 in North Carolina.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4BL-TPH

1850 census, Stephen is 70, Blanchey is 60. Levi and Riley are young adults living in Yancey, NC Stephen died around 1863 according to estate papers, so he would be alive in 1850. This makes sense right now. He has sons named Riley and Levi. And estate mentions Levi and Jemimi.





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Hello, I have no idea if there are any additional records. I pulled up the North Carolina estate info (https://www.ncgenealogy.org/north-carolina-estate-files-jackson-county-index/ ) for Stephen McMahon (1863), which is tied into Family Search. There are just those two estate inventory pages if that is all that shows up in FamilySearch. There are notes for the counties that many records were lost, or destroyed during the 1860’s by Union soldiers. I was using the record to establish Jemina McMahan Bradley, as early census records are very poor on giving out female names and info.
posted by M Wade
That record establishes a *connection*, but it doesn't establish a *familial relationship*.

I'm somewhat familiar with Jackson Co., NC. Records for that county are fairly intact. The Register of Deeds has an extensive filing-drawer section containing loose records, for example, and the deeds also seem to be intact.

Have you checked the county's deeds and court minutes for records related to this family and Stephen's estate?

posted by Dawn Watson
Re: This record: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9GZ-423V?cc=1911121 (linked to in the biography as of this date).

That linked record is a record of the *sale* of items attached to the estate, not its settling. It lists items inventoried as part of the estate, the people who purchased those items, and the amounts they paid.

Are there any other records pertaining to Stephen's estate?

posted by Dawn Watson
McMahan-937 and McMahan-916 appear to represent the same person because: Duplicate fathers of duplicated daughters Jemina and Rose McMahan. Please merge.
posted by [Living Tardy]

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