Terry (Ginn) Magee (1801 - 1858)

Born 1801 in North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Jesse Howell Crawford — married after 1847 in Pike County, MS

Descendants

Died 23 Jul 1858 at about age 57 in Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

Terry was born in 1801. Terry Ginn passed away in 1858.

Benjamin married Terry GINN daughter of Jeptha Ginn and Penina Magee in 1826 in Washington Parish, LA. Terry was born 1 in 1801 in North Carolina.

She died on 23 Jul 1858 in Silver Creek Community. She was buried in the Rev. Jessie Crawford Cemetery on the east side of the Bogue Chitto, now Walthall County, Ms

They had the following children:

1. Arcadia MAGEE
2. William Ginn MAGEE
3. Zachariah MAGEE
4. Harriet M MAGEE
5. Benjamin MAGEE Jr
6. John Warren MAGEE III
7. Eliza S MAGEE
8. Mary Melissa J MAGEE 1, 2 was born 3 on 29 Apr 1839 in Washington Parish, LA. Mary married Tom COOK 1. Tom was born in 1835 in Washington Parish, LA.
9. Terry Melissa MAGEE
10. Dr Hugh Ginn MAGEE

After the death of Benjamin Magee in 1847, his widow married Rev. Jesse Crawford (1795-1869). Rev. Jesse Crawford lived at Silver Creek, nPike County, Miss. He was one of the pastors of the original Half-Moon Bluff.^[1]

Slave Lawsuit

Magee, Benjamin– Jesse Crawford vs. Nathaniel Graves et al, Docket number 6706, April 1860, New Orleans Circuit, Louisiana Supreme Court Archives, currently held at Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.

Appeal from the 8th District Court, Parish of Washington. Filed 29 Feb 1860—Jesse Crawford of Pike County, MS showed that on 30 Aug 1858 in Pike County, 15 slaves were in his possession, to wit negro man Jacob (a cripple, age 40), Dick (black, age 35), Harry (dark color, age 28), Lah (griff, age 30) and her twin children John and Eliza (both age 8 months), Samantha (black, age 15), Milby (age 10), Isham (age 13), Rachel (black, age 10), Emily (black, age 10), Esther (griff, age 9), George (griff, age 6), Bob (age 4), & Mariah (griff, age 3).

Slaves were property of his wife Terry Crawford, now property of her succession in course of administration, Pike County. His wife died in Pike County, MS 23 July 1858 at home of Jesse Crawford.

On the night of 30 Aug 1858, said slaves were stolen or enticed away and were later found in Washington Parish in possession of Nathaniel Graves (husband of Arcadia Magee), Zachariah Magee, Benjamin Magee, and John Magee, all residents of Washington Parish who “together with their co-heirs” are descendants of Mrs. Terry Crawford.

Terry Crawford, a number of years prior to her death was resident of Washington Parish, where she acquired the slaves; she married Jesse Crawford, being then the widow of Benjamin Magee. Jesse Crawford sued for recovery of the slaves in order that succession of Terry Crawford might be completed. Children of Mrs. Terry Crawford, issue of her marriage with Benjamin Magee were given as: William G. Magee, Arcadia Graves (wife of Nathaniel Graves), Zachariah Magee, Benjamin Magee, John Magee, all of full age and residents of Louisiana, Elisa Selina Ragan (wife of Joseph Ragan), Terry Melissa Magee, Hugh G. Magee & Margaret Jane Magee [listed as Margaret Jane in two places, as Mary Jane in one other location], minors…also one daughter, Harriet Melinda Magee (deceased, wife of Thomas W. Bickham, issue of their marriage was Wesley Bickham). Included in the case file is a copy of partition of Benjamin Magee’s estate.

Testimony given in the case by Stephen Ellis, John Magee, Joseph Lewis, Jesse D. Rhymes, James M. Burris, Thomas Burch, George W. Martin, Thomas C. W. Ellis. John Magee testified that Terry Crawford was first married to Benjamin Magee “a brother to the witness” John Magee. John Magee stated he was guardian for the minor children of Benjamin & Terry Magee, and was appointed their guardian “before they left for Mississippi with their mother.” This article is listed on Bevin's Louisiana and Mississippi Genealogy Blog. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/washington/churches/fbchurch.txt
2. ↑ https://bevincreel.wordpress.com/m/

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~guinevere60/mcg/pafg17.htm#2339

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Acknowledgments

Thank you to Heather Donohoe for creating Ginn-169 on 5 Oct 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Heather and others.