Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....McGahey, R. P. 1846 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  R. P. McGAHEY, farmer, P. O. Robinson, was born June 21, 1846, on the old
homestead in La Motte Township. He is a son of Allen McGahey, born September 6,
1797; he died 1857; he was the first Coroner in this county, and was married to
Miss Harriet Newland, born February 27, 1810; she died October 2, 1851. David
McGahey, who was the grandfather of our subject, married Elizabeth Donnell; he
was one of the first settlers in this county, and died in September, 1851. Our
subject went to school in Palestine, and has been a farmer all his life. He
answered the call of his country to defend the stars and stripes, and enlisted
in the spring of 1865, in the One Hundred and Fifty-second Infantry Volunteers,
Company H, and served till the close of the war. He was married, February 27,
1869, to Miss Maggie Van Horn, born June 2, 1848, in Ohio. She is the daughter
of Joseph and Parthenia (Moor) Van Horn, and the mother of the following
children: Allen, born November 25, 1871; John W., born February 7, 1873 (he died
September 16, 1873); and Ralph, born December 9, 1875. Mr. McGahey is a Knight
of Honor; a Democrat in politics, and a member of the "Alfred Harrison Post,"
No. 152, in Palestine Depart, Ill., G. A. R.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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