Cumberland County KyArchives Biographies.....McGee, Granville B. November 25, 1829 - unknown
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Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin

GRANVILLE B. McGEE was born November 25, 1829. His father, Jacob McGee, born in 
Wayne County, Ky., in 1806, was a farmer and was married in 1824 to Miss Sarah 
Jones, a daughter of Landy and Lucy (Farrow) Jones, both born near Richmond, 
Va. To this marriage were born five children: Julia Ann, wife of William Eston; 
Elizabeth, who died in infancy; Granville B.; Jane, wife of Henry Lawhon, and 
Jacob. Jacob, father of Granville B. And Jacob, died in 1834; his wife is still 
living in the seventy-eighty year of her age (1886). John McGee, grandfather of 
Granville and Jacob McGee was also a native Virginian, who came in a very early 
time of Kentucky's colonization of Wayne County, Ky., where he lived all his
life, and after his death his widow, Miss Elizabeth Cox before marriage,
moved with the family of ten children to Fentress County, Tenn. The names of
his children are Robert, William, Samuel, John, Jacob, James, Hannah, wife
of Samuel Hinds; James, Hannah, wife of Samuel Hinds; Jane, wife of John
Martin; Polly, wife of David Cox, and Rachel, wife of John Moss, of whom
Mrs. Rachael Moss alone is living. The great-grandfather of Granville B.
McGee, with his wife, came from old Ireland and settled in Virginia, where
he lived and died. Landy Jones, maternal grandfather of Mr. McGee, was a man
of wealth in Virginia, but by unsuccessful trading lost most of his
property, and on the death of his wife, returned to the Old Dominion. His
son, Meriweather L. Jones, a maternal uncle of Granville B. McGee, was a
Baptist minister of great notoriety in Virginia, and the Jones family are of
English origin. Granville B. McGee, a native of Cumberland County, Ky., was
four years old when his father died. His early training was all in the
direction of agriculture, and he was hired a great part of the time to do
farm work at 25 and 30 cents per day. The two sons left Mrs. Sarah McGee had
the care of the family [sic], and the partners in youth and adversity have
continued to be partners in prosperity. At the age of thirty-three Mr. McGee
was married to Miss Margaret Dixon, a daughter of William J. And Elizabeth
(Neely) Dixon, of Cumberland Co, Ky., and in six short weeks after marriage
death entered his new home and took from him his wife. She was in the
eighteenth year of her age. On May 3, 1871,Mr. McGee was married to Miss
Ellen Martin, a daughter of Nelson and Mary J. (Hickey) Martin, natives of
Warren County, Ky. This marriage has been blessed by six
children: Jacob, William, Frank, Robert, Mary Bowman and James L., of whom
Frank and William are now dead. Until 1865 Mr. McGee and his brother Jacob
farmed in partnership, but since that time have been engaged in farming and
general merchandising in Burkesville, Ky., together, with considerable
success. In October, 1885, they admitted into the business John Q.
Alexander, and the style of the firm is McGee Brothers & Co., with a capital
of $15,000 and they do a thriving business of $30,000 worth of sales per
annum. Mr. and Mrs. Granville B. McGee are both members of the Christian
Church. In addition to merchandising, McGee Bros. & Co. own four valuable
farms in Cumberland County, Ky., aggregating 1,225 acres. Jacob McGee, in
October 1856, was married to Miss Nancy Johnson, a daughter of James L. And
___ (Wilson) Johnson, natives of Adair County, Ky., and there were born to
them five children: John Q., James, Mary T., wife of John Q Alexander, and
two who died in infancy. Mrs. McGee, who was a member of the Christian
Church in life, died in 1866. In 1867 Mr. Jacob McGee married Mrs. Sarah
(Williams) Baker, and they are the parents of seven children: Elva, Leslie,
Curtis, Charles, Jacob, Hattie and Effie. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob McGee are both
members of the Christian Church.



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