Ray County, Missouri Biographies - Franklin McBee (b. 1840) Source: History of Ray County, Missouri 1881; p.730 FRANKLIN MCBEE Franklin McBee. Was born in Ray county, Missouri, in the year 1840, and has lived here ever since. He has been all his life engaged in farming, beginning on his own account to do business in 1861. Five years afterward he settled upon the farm where he now resides, section four, township fifty-three, range twenty-six. Here he owns a valuable farm of one hundred and seventy acres, in a fine state of cultivation and handsomely improved. He is turning his attention to stock-raising, and intends, in the near future, to make it a specialty, as his farm is especially adapted to grass growing. Mr. McBee was married in the year 1862, to Miss Susan F. Gentry, daughter of B. B. and Narcissa Gentry, and born in Ray county, Missouri. Mr. McBee and wife are the parents of seven children, named as follows: Mary Jane, Martha Ellen, Benjamin F., Edward P., Nora F., Everett M., and Jessie E. In the autumn of 1864, to escape troubles growing out of the civil war, Mr. McBee took refuge in Nebraska, and remained there about eighteen months, until the war was over and peace restored, and then returned to his home in Ray county. Mr. McBee, his wife and their eldest daughter, are members of the M. E. Church South. His father, Mr. Daniel McBee, was a native of Ohio. He died in 1846, aged forty-seven years. His mother, Catherine, was born in Ohio. She is still living in Ray county, Missouri. Mr. McBee is a leading, practical and successful farmer and stock-raiser, and is greatly respected by the community in which he resides. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by County Coordinator USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or their legal representative, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------