James Beaty McGehee (1891 - 1948)

Born 24 Sep 1891 in Fulton County, Kentucky, United States

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Died 29 Dec 1948 at age 57 in Fulton County, Kentucky, United States

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When James Beatty McGehee was born in Fulton County, Kentucky on 24 Sep 1891, his father, William Burrus McGehee, Jr., was 26, and his mother, Mary Ella (Beaty) McGehee was 30. He lived with his parents in 1900^[1] and 1910^[2] helping with the farm.

He attended Rush Creek School until he finished the junior year of high school.^[3] it is highly likely that he became acquainted with joe Crostic at this time due to the Crostic's farm being adjacent to the McGehee farm according to the 1910 Census. He moved to California between 1910 and 1913 to work with his brother, Glenn Erroll McGehee, in an attempt to form a taxi business with Erroll as driver and he serving as bookkeeper. When he arrived in California, he was penniless having been the victim of a pickpocket en route.

He returned to Kentucky to marry Joe Crostic on 30 Sep 1914 in the home of his bride in Cayce, Kentucky.^[4] The couple moved to Pomona, California after their marriage,^[5][6] but the bus company saw their competition as being a problem and their company soon failed.

After the failure of the taxi company, he returned to Kentucky with Joe and his son in 1916. His father was renting the house he lived in and the property had an additional house that they could move into. It was the original house built on the farm when the land was being cleared from the forest. It was originally a log house, but it had four rooms added. (This house was near his father's house as shown by the 1920 Census.) During the 1917 draft for World War I, he reported that he was a farmer.^[7]

He farmed with his father until the fall of 1919. He worked as a farmer in the Fulton County, Kentucky area on a rented farm in 1920^[8] and 1930.^[9]

In 1938 a fire destroyed the house. The owner could not afford to build a replacement house; so they bought the farm and built a house there. He continued to farm on his own farm in 1940. Since the replacement house was in the same location as the one that burned, the question of residence in 1935 was answered as same house.^[10][11] and was active in the Red Cross,^[12] the Farm Bureau,^[13][14] and in the Fulton County Agricultural Conservation.^[15] In 1933 he underwent gall bladder surgery in Memphis under a Doctor McGehee who asserted that all the McGehees are of the same lineage going back to the McGregor family. (There is no documentation associated with this assertion, but it has been a part of the family legend since then.)^[16]

He died on 29 Dec 1948,^{[17][18][19][20][21][22]} the date that he had intended to retire.

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M947-1HZ : accessed 8 January 2020), James B Mcgehee in household of Wm B Mcgehee, Magisterial District 2, Lodgeston, Cayce, Cayce Station Precinct, Fulton, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 42, sheet 8A, family 131, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,521.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2DQ-RRB : accessed 8 January 2020), James B Mcgehee in household of William B Mcgehee, Driskill, Fulton, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 59, sheet 1A, family 9, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 477; FHL microfilm 1,374,490.
3. ↑ The Hickman Courier, Hickman, Kentucky, 28 Feb 1908 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53070251/the-hickman-courier/)
4. ↑ "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9S7-SD5G?cc=1804888&wc=QD3Q-4XR%3A1300873301 : 17 May 2018), 005560963 > image 409 of 929; citing various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky.
5. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. 1914 (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=2469&h=237208163&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=2442)
6. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. 1915 (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=2469&h=232555665&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=2442)
7. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYTC-SS7F?cc=1968530&wc=9FWK-BZ9%3A928311601%2C928539701 : 23 August 2019), Kentucky > Fulton County; A-S > image 2092 of 3082; citing NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GR62-4Z?cc=1488411&wc=QZJP-GQB%3A1036472601%2C1037476301%2C1037880901%2C1589332652 : 11 September 2019), Kentucky > Fulton > Cayce > ED 69 > image 1 of 30; citing NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
9. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RHH-3LB?cc=1810731&wc=QZF3-LS2%3A648805301%2C649706801%2C648828203%2C1589282415 : 8 December 2015), Kentucky > Fulton > District 2 > ED 7 > image 11 of 20; citing NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002).
10. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7RY-BMD : 9 January 2021), J B McGehee, Magisterial District 2 Lodgetown and Cayce, Fulton, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 38-7, sheet 12A, line 27, family 236, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1307.
11. ↑ World War II Draft Registration (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-RQN7-H?i=10&cc=1861144&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQKC4-YPFK)
12. ↑ The Paducah Sun-Democrat, Paducah, Kentucky 15 Oct 1933 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/54033892/the-paducah-sun-democrat/)
13. ↑ The Paducah Sun-Democrat, Paducah, Kentucky 23 Feb 1936 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/54034803/the-paducah-sun-democrat/)
14. ↑ The Paducah Sun-Democrat, Paducah, Kentucky 20 Aug 1942 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/54019519/the-paducah-sun-democrat/)
15. ↑ The Paducah Sun-Democrat, Paducah, Kentucky, 25 Nov 1948 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53069062/the-paducah-sun-democrat/)
16. ↑ This Wonderful Journey - The Memoirs and Recollections of James Billie McGehee, unpublished
17. ↑ Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives; Frankfort, Kentucky (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/354110:1222)
18. ↑ Death Certificate (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?viewrecord=1&r=an&db=KYdeaths&indiv=try&h=354110)
19. ↑ "Death Record: Kentucky, Vital Record Indexes, 1911-1999," (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKCM-23CQ)
20. ↑ Ancestry.com. Kentucky, U.S., Death Index, 1911-2000 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1607619:3077)
21. ↑ The Paducah Sun-Democrat; Publication Date: 30/ Dec/ 1948; Publication Place: Paducah, Kentucky, USA; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/501667436/?article=67d0b2dd-5598-442b-bfab-2885c4dbd7f5&focus=0.8635048,0.6182119,0.9858798,0.7909707&xid=2378
22. ↑ Find-a-Grave data (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134060404/james-b-mcgehee)

• Family knowledge

• Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/616993048:60901)

• The Paducah Sun-Democrat, Paducah, Kentucky, 11 Aug 1936 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83175646/the-paducah-sun-democrat/)

• The Paducah Sun-Democrat, Paducah, Kentucky, 12 Aug 1936 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/83176818/the-paducah-sun-democrat/)

• Ancestry.com. U.S., Enumeration District Maps and Descriptions, 1940 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/3028/images/m-a3378-00022-00440?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=956cacddcb3048b356c4cacf59018bbd&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Mcj412&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.223645083.1486426128.1615424096-2077164752.1604508266&pId=64478)

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Research Notes

• "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2D4-FWZ5 : 22 July 2021), J B Mcgehee in entry for Joseph Warner McGaugh and Ocella Mcgehee, 25 Oct 1935; citing Marriage, Hickman, Fulton, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 1,843,042.

• "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2D4-FW63 : 22 July 2021), J B Mcgehee in entry for Joseph Warner McGaugh and Ocella Marie Mcgehee, 25 Oct 1935; citing Marriage, Hickman, Fulton, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 1,843,042.