Chambers County AlArchives Photo Tombstone.....McGinty, George Washington Sr.
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Cemetery:           Fairview Cemetery, Valley, AL
Name:               George Washington McGinty

Date Of Photograph: April 12, 2000
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George Washington McGinty was born in Wilkes Co., GA and moved to the Valley 
area of Chambers Co. in 1833/34. He was one of the early pioneers to the area 
after the Creek treaty was signed. 

According to probate court records, he died March 14, 1874, while residing in 
Chambers Co., AL, probably with one of his children.  He and Elizabeth were not 
living together at the time of his death. No obituary has been found. His body 
is said to have been buried in Fairview Cemetery.  He left no formal Will or 
testament.  According to a document dated March 30, 1874, concerning his estate 
settlement, he still owned the 160 acres received as bounty for serving in the 
military, and it was valued at $300. This appears to have been his entire 
estate at the time.  In this document, his heirs were listed as Elizabeth, his 
widow, and children, Nancy Means, Robert McGinty, William McGinty, Frank 
McGinty, George W. McGinty, Narcissa Carpenter, Dora Ann Harroll, Pinckney H. 
McGinty, Missouri A. Webb and Salina A.Webb.  The administrator of his estate 
was son-in-law, John A. Webb.  Wife, Elizabeth is shown as declining to be the 
administrator.

The 1880 census shows his wife, Elizabeth, age seventy-five, living with her 
daughter, Salina and son-in-law, John A. Webb.  Elizabeth died in 1891, and is 
buried at the Beulah Baptist Church cemetery in Lee Co., AL (photo).  
Washington’s death was related by his grandson, Wiley P. McGinty, Sr. who was 
quoted as saying that when he was nine years old, Washington actually died 
while visiting in Randolph Co., AL. Wiley remembered the mule pulled wagon, 
bringing Washington’s body back to McGinty, AL for burial and that he was 
buried under “the cedar trees” in what is now Fairview Cemetery. The gravesite 
remained unmarked until 1986, when Mary Hand McGinty, widow of Rev. Basil B. 
McGinty, who was a grandson of Washington, in keeping with Basil’s final wishes 
after his death, put a marker on the spot where Washington was buried (photo). 


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