Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....O.W. McGehee  1843 -  Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 1895

Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895
Pages 514-515

O. W. McGehee

O. W. McGehee is a well-known and very successful farmer of this county, where 
he was born in 1843. He belongs to one of the pioneer families of the state, 
his grandparents, Samuel and Nancy (Tate) McGehee, natives of Virginia, having 
been among the earliest settlers of Elbert county, Ga. Here their son, Thomas 
L., was born, who settled in Meriwether county in 1827; his wife was Miss 
Sarah K. Martin, a daughter of Marshall and Jennie (Oliver) Martin, natives of 
Wilkes county, who came to this county in 1828, where Mr. Martin died in 1856. 
Mr. Martin was a man of wealth and of a prominent family, his father, George 
Martin, having served with honor in the war of the revolution. The son of 
Thomas L. and Sarah K. McGehee, O.W. McGehee, in his boyhood on the farm had 
but limited educational opportunities, of which, however, he made good use. In 
1862 he enlisted in Company F of the Forty-first Georgia regiment, under Capt. 
S.D. Clemmens, and served with bravery in many battles: Perryville, 
Murfreesboro, siege of Vicksburg, and the battles around Atlanta. In 1863 Mr. 
McGehee was discharged and returned to his Georgian home to make his own way 
in the world. He engaged at once in the tillage of his soil, to which pursuit 
he has ever since devoted himself, and has been duly prospered. He is a man of 
large wealth and influence, who commands the respect of all of know him. In 
1868 Mr. McGehee married Miss Ophelia E. Hall, a daughter of Alexander and 
Elizabeth (Brown) Hall, the father a very prominent citizen of this county, 
but a native of Virginia. Mrs. McGehee is a native of this county, born in 
1845, and she and Mr. McGehee are both devoted and consistent members of the 
Methodist Episcopal church. He is also a member of the order of Masons. They 
have four children: Sarah, Lena, Joseph T.A., and John O.



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