Chambers County AlArchives Photo Tombstone.....McGinty, Mary Reese "Molly" ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gerald K. McGinty, Sr. http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00021.html#0005198 May 10, 2005, 3:02 pm Cemetery: Fairview Cemetery, McGinty Plot, Valley, AL Name: Mary Reese "Molly" McGinty Date Of Photograph: April 12, 2000 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/chambers/photos/tombstones/fairview/mcginty550ph.jpg Image file size: 34.5 Kb Mollie McGinty 1875 - 1941 Additional Comments: Mary Reese (Mollie) McGinty, b. September 8, 1868 (confirmed by 1870 and 1880 census and family bible), in McGinty, Chambers Co., AL, d. February 5, 1941, in Chambers Co. Mollie never married and late in life lived with her niece, Nannie Ruth McGinty Anderson in West Point, GA. There was an Easter morning chimney fire in Mollie’s room at the Anderson home, for which Ruth’s husband, Bill Anderson Sr., asked fire chief Novatus L. Barker "not to sound the siren". This request was made because when the siren was blown in West Point, once for downtown, twice for the west side of the river and three times for the east side of the river, everybody in town would flock to the location to watch the action and Bill Anderson did not want a crowd to gather as it had the week before during another fire that was in the dining room. At that time, spectators were actually walking around inside the house and Mrs. Anderson had to run them out. This amusing story confirmed by Wiley Anderson, son of Bill and Ruth Anderson who, as a young boy, was living at the house at the time of the fires. In December 1898, Molly purchased forty-seven acres in Section 32 from the family of William Pitts McGinty (deed book 28, pg. 119). This land was adjacent to that owned by William Pitts and William Levin McGinty. Both the 1900 and 1920 census, show her living in the home of her brother, James Madison McGinty. She owned land in Chambers Co. in 1925. Her name is shown on a deed as adjacent to land that had been owned by William Pitts McGinty. The 1930 census shows her living in the home of Wiley P. McGinty, Sr. I have not yet confirmed her occupation, but have heard that she was a schoolteacher. Mollie is buried in the McGinty plot at Fairview Cemetery. Her gravestone shows an incorrect birth date of 1875. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/chambers/photos/tombstones/fairview/mcginty550ph.txt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Photo has been resized/compressed for use in the USGenWeb Archives Project ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb