Chambers County AlArchives Photo Tombstone.....McGinty, James Madison - Oliver J. Weaver 
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Cemetery:           Fairview Cemetery, Valley, AL (McGinty Plot)
Name:               James Madison - Oliver J. Weaver McGinty

Date Of Photograph: April 12, 2000
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James Madison McGinty, b. September 30, 1847 (confirmed by family bible), in 
McGinty, Chambers Co., AL, d. February 19, 1929, in Chambers Co., AL. This date 
is taken from his death certificate.  However, his gravestone shows 1920 as the 
year of his death. He married Oliver J. Weaver (her name is spelled Oliver on 
her gravestone and also in the 1860 census) on March 15, 1872, in Chambers Co., 
AL., H.M. Higginbotham, pastor.  She was born in 1835 in GA (confirmed by 
census records) and died June 24, 1913, in Chambers Co.  Previous McGinty 
researchers show that her father was Tyre Weaver. Actually, her father was 
Holly Weaver (b. 1812) and her mother was Nancy Floyd. Holly was a farmer who 
had also moved to Chambers Co. from GA and who is shown in the 1860 census as 
owning the farm next to Washington McGinty. James wrote several entries in his 
parent’s family bible. He also wrote his mother’s epitaph.  James is also shown 
as signing the oath of allegiance to the United States after the war during the 
reconstruction in 1866-67. James is shown as a farmer in the 1880 census.  On 
December 26, 1898, he purchased eleven acres of his father's land at McGinty's 
Crossroads for $200 (deed book 28, pg. 113). There is an article in the 
Lafayette Sun dated December 26, 1923, saying, "J. M. McGinty, who has been a 
resident of this town for over seventy years, left Monday for his new home in 
Tallapoosa Co."  Later, in 1924, we see him living there in Dadeville. James 
and Oliver are buried together in the McGinty plot at Fairview Cemetery 
(photo). They produced no children.



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