CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  G. A. McKee - Cherokee County, TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, pages 188-189 

G. A. McKEE.

G. A. McKee, of Mount Selman, was born in Marshall, Tennessee, 
April 27, 1842.  Four years later he came with his father's family 
to Texas, locating in the little town of Larissa, where the McKees 
became one of the leading fam­ilies of Cherokee county.  On the 
eleventh day of June, 1861, G. A. McKee, a promising youth of 
nineteen years left Larissa College, where he was being educated, 
to join Capt. Frank Taylor's troop which was mustered in the 
Con­federate army at Dallas as Troop C, Third Texas Cavalry. He 
served through the entire war, being successively under brigade 
commanders Ben McCulloch, Joseph L. Hogg, W. L. Cabell and L. S. 
Ross, serving under the latter from the day he was promoted brigadier 
general until the end of the war.  He was at Oak Hill, Elkhorn 
Tavern, Corinth, Iuka, Holly Springs, Thompson Station, Vicksburg 
and Jackson. He was in the Georgia campaign of 1864, when his 
command fought almost without intermission for more than one hun­dred 
days, beginning at Rome, and ending at Jonesboro.  He was also under 
General Hood in the Tennessee campaign during the winter of 1864-5.  
When hostilities ceased he returned to Cherokee county and engaged 
in the nursery and fruit business at Mount Selman, in which he 
attained success and where he lived the life of an influential 
citizen and Christian gentleman,  He was an elder in the Cumber­land 
Presbyterian Church.  He died at his home March 25, 1907, and was 
laid to rest by his comrades in the beautiful cemetery at old Larissa.  
His wife, Virginia Ewing, whom he married Aug. 17, 1865, followed 
him a few days later to the grave.  They left four sons, who are 
among the best citizens of Cherokee, and one daughter to mourn their 
loss, and who can ever cherish the example of a noble patriotic 
father and a loving Christian mother.