Georgia (McGee) Whittle
Privacy Level: Open (White)

Georgia Ann (McGee) Whittle (abt. 1837 - 1918)

Georgia Ann Whittle formerly McGee
Born about in Columbia, Georgia, United Statesmap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of , , , and
Wife of — married 23 Jul 1856 in Barbour, Alabama, United Statesmap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , and
Died at about age 80 in Macon, Bibb, Georgia, United Statesmap
Problems/Questions Profile manager: Michael Whitehurst private message [send private message]
Profile last modified | Created 4 Oct 2023
This page has been accessed 50 times.

Biography

Georgia Ann McGee was born in April 1837 in Columbia County, Georgia. By 1850, her family was living and farming in Barbour County, Alabama, west of Eufaula, Alabama. Georgia Ann married Laban Oliver Shepherd on July 23, 1856. Laban and Georgia Ann had four children; Lucy Virginia Shepherd was born about 1857 in Alabama; Green A. Shepherd born May 23, 1859, in Barbour County, Alabama; Martha J. Shepherd born March 25, 1861; and Susan Ollie Shepherd born in 1863 in Barbour County, Alabama.

By the time of the Civil War, Georgia Ann’s father, Alfred McGee was a prosperous cotton farmer. By 1860, Alfred fortunes had greatly increased. He owned 11 slaves and 121 acres of land planted mostly in cotton. According to the U.S. Federal census for Eufaula, he was a prosperous farmer worth $21,200 or about $780,000 in today’s dollars, but then the war came, and he and all three of his sons joined the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment Company D. During the war, he was captured and sent to the prisoner of war camp at Johnson’s Island off the coast of Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio. His oldest son, William McGee, was killed and buried near Lynchburg, Virginia, and his middle son, Seaborn F. McGee, was killed in the second Battle of Bull Run and buried in a Confederate cemetery near Manassas. Out of the 1,958 men enlisted in the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment only 170 remained to be paroled at the end of the war.

His losses during the war were not limited to the loss of his sons. He also lost two son-in-laws. Laban Oliver Shepherd was married to his Georgia Ann McGee. Laban joined the Confederacy in Hilliard’s Legion. Laban died as a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas in Chicago Heights, Illinois. “In June 1862 a U.S. Sanitary Commission agent decried the camp's “foul sinks,” “unventilated and crowded barracks,” and “soil reeking with miasmatic accretions” as “enough to drive a sanitarian to despair.” By the end of the war more than 4,000 rebels had died in the camp.” Soon after the war was over Georgia Ann married Irving Green Whittle.

His other son-in-law, George W. Dunaway was married to Mary McGee and was also a member of Hilliard’s Legion. After receiving wounds in battle, George was allowed to return home where he died on July 18,1862. Mary lived at home with her parents after George’s death until she married Jesse Whitehurst on April 29, 1883. Jesse was Willoughby Whitehurst’s youngest son. Hilliard’s Legion suffered as badly as the 15th Alabama. By November 1863, the remaining soldiers were absorbed into the 59th and 60th Alabama Regiments.

After Laban Oliver Shepherd’s death, Georgia Ann married Irving Green Whittle and they had seven children: Eddie in 1867, Carrie in 1869, James in 1871, Louisa in 1873, Elizabeth in 1875, Nora in 1877, and Jasper in 1879. The Whittle family lost so much during the Civil War, but they came back home and not only survived, but they also thrived.

My Great-grandmother Susan Ollie Shepherd loved her mother enough to name her first son McGee Gilder Whitehurst. She used her mother’s maiden name as a first name. Uncle Guilder kept the McGee name alive by naming his fourth son McGhee Guilder Whitehurst.

Sources





Is Georgia your ancestor? Please don't go away!
 star icon Login to collaborate or comment, or
 star icon contact private message the profile manager, or
 star icon ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com

DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Georgia by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Georgia:

Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.

Images: 1
Georgia Whittle Image 1
Georgia Whittle Image 1


Comments

Leave a message for others who see this profile.
There are no comments yet.
Login to post a comment.

Rejected matches › Ann Elizabeth Whittle (abt.1841-)

Featured National Park champion connections: Georgia is 17 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 24 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 18 degrees from George Catlin, 17 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 24 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 18 degrees from George Grinnell, 29 degrees from Anton Kröller, 18 degrees from Stephen Mather, 26 degrees from Kara McKean, 10 degrees from John Muir, 20 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 26 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.

M  >  McGee  |  W  >  Whittle  >  Georgia Ann (McGee) Whittle