Tallapoosa-Chambers County AlArchives Biographies.....McGinty, Robert Alexander March 8, 1821 - January 10, 1892
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Author: Gerald K. McGinty, Sr.

Robert Alexander McGinty, b. March 8, 1821, in GA, d. January 10, 1892, 
Tallapoosa Co., AL.  He was the son of George Washington McGinty, Sr., an early 
Chambers Co. pioneer. On April 3, 1845, he married Jane Elizabeth Sharman, who 
was born, November 14, 1827 in GA. On November 25, 1851, he purchased 120 acres 
in section 19 of Chambers Co., which joined the land of his father in section 
18. This land was located in present day Fairfax (deed book 10, pg. 474). The 
1860 census of Chambers Co., shows them with children, James A., Adnie, Robert, 
Calvin, Frances, Sarah J., and Mary (pg. 113/114, So. Div., Oakbowery P.O.). In 
this census, he shows a good-sized farming operation, with property worth $3000 
and personal worth reported at $5000. He is shown on the same page as his uncle 
and aunt, James and Temperance McGinty and their daughter-in-law, Nancy. His 
farming operation is shown in the 1860 agricultural census of Chambers Co. (pg. 
27) and includes 100 acres of improved land and an additional 283 acres of 
unimproved land. Some of the larger items include production of 350 bushels of 
corn and twenty swine. Son, James Alexander, joined the CSA reserves at age 
seventeen and later served as a Sgt. in the 63rd AL Infantry. This unit was 
sent to Mobile where he was hospitalized. He was captured in Blakely, AL, Apr. 
9, 1865 and paroled in Meridian, MS, May 11, 1865. After the war, Robert signed 
the oath of allegiance to the United States during the reconstruction period of 
1866-67. The 1870 census shows them with eight children. The other children 
were Jesse, Adnie Tabitha, Calvin Eudorius, Frances (Fannie), Sarah (Sallie), 
Mary Ellen (Mollie), who married Almon Clay Wyatt, Martha (Mattie), Robert W., 
William F., George P., and John Lee. The 1900 census shows his wife Jane living 
with her son, William Franklin McGinty, in Camp Hill, Tallapoosa Co., AL. Jane 
died July 19, 1903, and both are buried in the Fargason - Wyatt Cemetery, down 
the road from the Sandy Creek church, outside of Camp Hill, Tallapoosa Co., 
AL.  



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