Frederick-Richmond City-Essex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Biographies.....McGuire, John Peyton 1800 - 
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Source: Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
Author: Lyon Gardiner Tyler

From biography of John Peyton McGuire (1866- ):

John Peyton McGuire, son of Judge William and Mary (Little) McGuire, was born 
in Winchester, Virginia, September 4, 1800.

He was a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal church; rector of South Farnham 
parish, Essex county, Virginia, 1825-52; rector of the Episcopal High School, 
1852-61, and chaplain of the Officers' Hospital, Richmond, 1863-64. In 
politics he is a Whig. He was a talented, scholarly man of deep piety. He 
married Maria Mercer Garnett, at Elmwood, Essex county, Virginia. October 4, 
1827, Rev. E. C. McGuire officiating; she was the daughter of James Mercer and 
Mary Eleanor (Mercer) Garnett. Children: William Henry; Mary Eleanor Mercer, 
carried Major John Johns, of the Confederate army; James Mercer Garnett, 
married Betty Holmes McGuire; Anne Susan ; John Peyton (2), of whom further; 
Maria Garnett; Grace Kenton Hunter, married Rev. Kinloch Nelson; Emily Page, 
married Philip W. Nelson.


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