Chambers County AlArchives Photo Tombstone.....McGinty, William Levin & Laura Eckles
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Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00021.html#0005198 May 4, 2005, 6:50 pm

Cemetery:           Fairview Cemetery, Valley, AL
Name:               William Levin McGinty

Date Of Photograph: April 12, 2000
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William Levin McGinty, b. August 23, 1859 (confirmed by family bible), probably 
in Randolph Co., AL, d. October 19, 1937, at Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa, AL.  
He married Laura Virginia Echols, January 15, 1887, in Tallapoosa Co., AL, W. 
T. Rowe, pastor.  Earlier research shows that William was born in a log cabin 
on the land where his father lived in Chambers Co. It seems more probable that 
he was born in Randolph Co., AL where his parents were living in 1859.  He 
shows in the 1860 census of Randolph Co., at age one.  His wife was born in 
1866 and died in 1918. Her father, Thomas M. Echols (Eckles?) (1820-1898), was 
shot to death by a son-in-law, Richard Calhoun, Sept. 30, 1898. Her mother was 
America Fuller (1824-1885) and both of her parents are buried in the cemetery 
at Camp Hill, AL. William and Laura are both buried in the McGinty plot at 
Fairview Cemetery. He is the father of Rev. Basil B. McGinty who contributed 
much to the McGinty family research. He was a tenant farmer, and from 1883 
until 1900, he and his family rented a farm in old Dudleyville, Tallapoosa Co., 
AL.  After the death of his father, William Pitts in 1901, he came back to 
Chambers Co. and farmed on the old McGinty lands. They had four children, 
Basil, George Carlton, Grover and Annie Sujette.



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