McGehee

CHARLES J. McGEHEE was born December 8, 1840, in Todd County, Ky.; is the son of Carr and Lucy (Tate) McGehee-both natives of Louisa County, Va. The father was a farmer, and soldier in the war of 1812. He first furnished a substitute and later volunteered; his death occurred in 1852, aged fifty-five. The mother died in 1852, aged fifty-one. They were both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The parents came to Todd County in 1825, and settled in the southern portion of the county, where Charles J. was born and raised; he remained there till 1861; he first … Read more

SAMUEL McGEHEE was born in 1826, in Louisa County, Va.; he, with his two brothers John and Thomas, alone remains of a family of nine children born to Dillard and Elizabeth (Tally) McGehee. The father was a soldier in the war of 1812; he afterward engaged in farming, and died July 18, 1853, at the age of sixty-three years. The mother died July 9, 1874, between sixty and seventy years of age. Samuel began at the age of twenty-two for himself, without pecuniary assistance, and by his energetic, industry has amassed a fine competency. He is a farmer, and owns … Read more

WILLIAM C. McGEHEE, merchant and farmer, was born November 9, 1844, in Todd County; his parents were John and Julia A. (Penileton) McGehee, natives of Virginia. The father is living in this county, and engaged in farming; the mother died June, 1879. Our subject began for himself on the farm at the age of twenty-one; he worked two years on his mother-in-law’s farm, and attended land of his own also; he lived at Bivinsville one year, and came to his present location in 1869; he owns 156 acres of land where he now resides; he keeps a store of dry … Read more