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This file was contributed and copyrighted by: Rae Venable Calvert ================================================================================ October 2000 ALBERT GALLATIN McGEHEE BIBLE [Part of the pages are missing from this Bible which belonged to Albert Gallatin McGEHEE (b.in N.C.; d.Lowndes Co.AL) and then to his sole surviving child, Virginia Alice McGehee (1842-1934) and husband, Clement Reade VENABLE (b. VA; d. in Lowndes Co.AL, C.S.A.) then to their son, Nathaniel Abram VENABLE, and now is in the possession of one of their grandchldren, Geraldyn Goodnight SILVA, in Cantonmont, FL; record was transcribed from photocopies by Rae Venable Calvert] FAMILY RECORD "Bring up your children in the admonition of the Lord" BIRTHS Albert Gallatin McGehee was born March 15th A.D.1812 Ann V. McGehee was born February 1st A.D.1815 Thomas Preston St.Clair McGehee was born September 8th 1837 Marcellus Benjamin McGehee was born January 2d 1840 Virginia Alice McGehee was born April 26th 1842 Anna Payne McGehee was born December 31st 1844 Harriet Edward McGehee was born November 23rd 1847 [Different handwriting follows - probably that of Catherine Venable McGehee, second wife of Albert Gallatin McGehee] Clement Reade Venables, son of Thomas F. and Mary P. Venables, was born February 27th 1840 Catherine V. McGehee, wife of A. G. McGehee, was born November 9th, 1817, at Longwood. Her parents were N. E. and M.E. Venables This husband, A. G. McGehee, departed this life in his 77th year, Jan. 21st 1888 Thomas McGehee Venables, son of Clement Reade Venables and Alice McGehee Venable, was born in Lowndes County, Alabama, December 7th, 1867 Nathaniel Abram Venables, son of C. R. and Alice McGehee Venables, was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, May 7th, 1870 Nannie Payne Venables, daughter of C. R. and Alice McGehee Venables, was born in Lowndes County, Alabama, August 26th, 1873 Fannie McGehee Venable, daughter of Thomas McGehee Venable and Hattie L. Venable, was born November 15th, 1890 Gertrude Hocker Venable, daughter of Thomas McGehee Venable and Hattie L. Venable, was born Jan. 7th, 1892 [Different handwriting follows] Nannie P. Venable, daughter of Nathaniel Abram Venable and Saide J. Venable, was born December 18, 1897 Nathaniel Julian Venable, son of Nathaniel Abram Venable and Sadie J. Venable, was born December 31, 1899 Mary Alice Venable, daughter of Nathaniel Abram Venable and Sadie J. Venable, was born June 11, 1902 Rachel G. Venable, daughter of Nathaniel A. Venable and Sadie J. Venable, was born August 31, 1905 Clement McGehee Venable, son of N. A. and Sadie J. Venable, was born April 21, 1907 Sarah Catherine Venable, son of N. A. and Sadie J. Venable, was born April 21, 1907 Virginia Natalie Venable, daughter of N. A. and Sadie J. Venable, was born November 4, 1909 -------------------------- "Marriage is honorable in all" MARRIAGES Albert Gallatin McGehee and Ann Virginia Payne were married on Tuesday, the 21st of October A.D.1834 Ann Virginia Payne was born February the 1st 1815 [Different handwriting] Married in Prince Edward County, Virginia, A. B. McGehee and Catherine Venables on Wednesday, Sept. 26th, 1855 Married in Lowndes County, Alabama, Clement R. Venables and Virginia Alice McGehee, Thursday, February 7th, 1867 Married in Lowndes County, Ala., Jan. 27, 1897, Nathaniel Abram Venable and Sadie R. Julian ================ "Blessed are the Dead who die in the Lord" DEATHS Thomas Preston McGehee died October 27th, 1845, aged eight years one month and nineteen days "The dead we may not bring again, Or wake to life their sleeping clay Whose time of pain and tears are done For joys that pass no more away. Joy may not come - they may not come Nor we to them whose life is o'er Til all join their hosts whose spirit bands Fill all that bright, immortal shore. We'll go to him across the flood We'll join him on that heavenly shore Where parting and all tears are done And farewell sighs are heard no more." Marcellus B. McGehee departed this life September the 10th 1847 aged 7 years 4 months and 4 days Ann Virginia McGehee, wife of A. G. McGehee, departed this life July the 4th 1848, aged 34 years 6 months and 8 days Anna Payne McGehee departed this life August the 4th, 1849, aged 4 years 7 months and 4 days Harriet Edward McGehee, daughter of A. G. and A. V. McGehee, departed this life August the 27th, 1849, aged 1 year 9 months and 4 days [Note: Elizabeth M. Venable, VENABLES OF VIRGINIA, says of Clement Reade VENABLE; that he was born at "Scott-Greene," Prince Edward County, VA, 27 February 1840; died 9 May 1888 Lowndes Co., AL, A.B., A.M. Hampden-Sidney College 1858;studied at Univ. of VA; volunteered 1861 in Co.I 23d VA. Regiment, Stonewall Jackson's Division, made Sgt.; promoted 1864 to Lt. and transferred to Co.H, 1st Regt. Confederate Engineers. Albert Gallatin McGehee, Anna Virginia Payne McGehee, Catherine V. McGehee, Clement Reade Venable, Alice McGehee Venable and her brothers and sisters, Thomas Preston, Marcellus B., Anna Payne, and Harriet Edward McGehee, are buried in the Concord Cemetery near their plantation in eastern Lowndes County called "Prairie Home.]