Husband: William Taylor McGHEE (1,2)
Birthdate: Sep 1841
Birthplace: Liberty Township, , Hancock, Ohio, USA (3,4)
Death date: Aft 1899 (5)
Place of death:
Burial:
Father: John McGHEE, Jr (Cal 1810-1885) (6)
Mother: Elizabeth McKINNIS (1814-1893) (7,8)
Other Spouses:

Marriage date: 8 Sep 1865
Marriage place: , Poweshiek, Iowa, USA (9,10)

Wife: Sarah Catherine McDONALD (11,12,13,14)
Birthdate: Feb 1847
Birthplace: , , Indiana, USA (15,16)
Death date: 1917
Place of death: , Gentry, Missouri, USA
Burial: Berlin Cemetery, , Gentry, Missouri, USA
Father:
Mother:
Other Spouses:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: John Frank McGHEE (17,18)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1867
Birthplace: , , Iowa, USA (19,20)
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 2: Samantha R McGHEE (22,23)
Sex: F
Birthdate: 26 Apr 1868
Birthplace: , , Iowa, USA (24,25)
Death date: 23 Aug 1936
Place of death: , Logan, Colorado, USA
Burial: Riverside Cemetery, Sterling, Logan, Colorado, USA
Marriage date: 1886 (28)
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Willis Sylvester HORNING (1859-1923) (26,27)

Child No. 3: Joseph Meredith McGHEE (29,30,31)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 9 May 1870
Birthplace: , , Iowa, USA (32,33,34)
Death date: 21 Aug 1941
Place of death: , , Nebraska, USA
Burial: Omaha Valley Cemetery, , Dakota, Nebraska, USA
Marriage date: 1892 (37)
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Adella ENDSLEY (1872-1939) (35,36)

Child No. 4: George E McGHEE (38)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1873
Birthplace: , , Iowa, USA (39)
Death date: 1898
Place of death:
Burial: Berlin Cemetery, Berlin, Gentry, Missouri, USA
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 5: Nelson W McGHEE (40)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 3 Apr 1875
Birthplace: , , Iowa, USA (41,42)
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date: 1894
Marriage place: , , South Dakota, USA (44)
Spouses' names: Mary SULLY (1871-????) (43)

Child No. 6: Charles McGHEE (45)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1878
Birthplace: , , Iowa, USA (46)
Death date: Deceased
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 7: Isaac Clinton McGHEE (47,48)
Sex: M
Birthdate: Aug 1883
Birthplace: , , Iowa, USA (49,50)
Death date: 1904
Place of death:
Burial: Berlin Cemetery, Berlin, Gentry, Missouri, USA
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 8: Sara Eliza McGHEE (51,52,53,54)
Sex: F
Birthdate: 24 Jul 1886
Birthplace: , , South Dakota, USA (55,56,57)
Death date: 3 Aug 1967
Place of death: Albany, Gentry, Missouri, USA (54)
Burial: Berlin Cemetery, Berlin, Gentry, Missouri, USA (54)
Marriage date: 1 Jan 1908
Marriage place: , Gentry, Missouri, USA (60)
Spouses' names: Sanford WEESE (1884-1964) (52,58,59)

Child No. 9: Ernest Elwood McGHEE (61,62)
Sex: M
Birthdate: 10 Sep 1889
Birthplace: , Charles Mix, South Dakota, USA (63,64)
Death date: Aft 1944
Place of death:
Burial:
Marriage date: [1] Cir 1913 [2] 1931
Marriage place: [1] [2] , , South Dakota, USA (67)
Spouses' names: [1] Sophia C ??? (1895-????) (65) [2] Lacey ASHLEY (1901-1968) (66)

Child No. 10: Myrtle Catherine McGHEE/McDONALD (68,69,70,71)
Sex: F
Birthdate: 2 Dec 1892
Birthplace: , , South Dakota, USA (72,73,74)
Death date: 14 Apr 1949
Place of death: , Los Angeles, California, USA (71)
Burial: Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, USA
Marriage date: 1911 (77)
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Bert Earl McGHEE (1883-1957) (75,76)
 
 
Documentation:
1. 1850 Federal Census, Ohio, Hancock, pg 782 (391B), d/f #38/38. William McGee.
2. Iowa County Births, 1880-1935 (FamilySearch.org), McGhee, Isaac Clinton. William Tayler McGhee.
3. 1850 Federal Census, Ohio, Hancock, pg 782 (391B), d/f #38/38. age 9, Ohio.
4. 1900 Federal Census, Missouri, Benton, ED 6, pg 7A. age 58, Sep 1841, Ohio.
5. Forstad, Paul, McGhee, William. South Dakota. Ancestry.com database
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1932384&id=I111761274
6. History of Hancock County (Ohio),(Chicago: Warner Beers & Co, 1886) Chapter XVIII, Part III. pg 425
   "On the 6th of December, 1830, all of the territory lying between the present western boundary of Findlay Township and the Putnam County line, and extending from Wood to Hardin County, was erected as Liberty Township. This was only one row of sections narrower than Old Town, and embraced the present townships of Pleasant, Portage, Blanchard, Liberty, Union, Orange, Van Buren and three-fourths of Eagle. The following March the lands now composing Blanchard, Eagle, Van Buren and the west half of Madison were cut off; and on the 21st of June, 1831, the first election for justice of the peace was held in Liberty. William Wade, George Chase and Moses Predmore were the judges, and Amos Bonham and Joshua Jones, clerks. The voters were John Fishel, John Magee, John Travis, John J. Hendricks, John Fishel, Jr., William Wade, Meredith Parrish, Moses Predmore, George Chase, Nathan Frakes, Joshua Jones, James Caton, James McCormick, Amos Bonham, Addison Hampton, Zebulon Lee, John Mullen, William Wade, Alfred Hampton, Ebenezer Wilson, Charles Jones, Jacob Poe, James McKinnis, Robert McKinnis, Charles McKinnis and Philip McKinnis. Total, 26. Benjamin Cummins received every vote cast and was declared elected. Of these twenty-six voters. Zebulon Lee, of Orange Township, and Alfred Hampton, of Findlay, are the only survivors living in this county."
pg 431
   "The year 1830 brought into the township a large number of settlers. Nathan Frakes, John J. Hendricks, Amos Bonham, Zebulon B., Jonathan, Solomon, James and Stephen Lee, John Magee, Meredith Parrish, John Hubbs, Moses Predmore and James Caton, all came that year, but some of them had previously lived in other parts of the county."
pg 434
   "John Magee, a step-son of Meredith Parrish, married Eliza, daughter of Judge McKinnis, and settled on the east half of the northwest quarter of Section 9, which he entered June 1, 1829, and where they resided until their removal to Iowa about 1851. Meredith and Sarah Parrish located on the west half of the northeast quarter of the same section, entered August 21, 1829, and in 1834 sold out to John Fletcher and went to Putnam County. John Hubbs settled on the east half of the southeast quarter of Section 5, entered November 3, 1830, which land he sold to Daniel Cusac in 1839, and then moved to Indiana. Moses Predmore settled on Section 9, and James Caton on Section 8. Both sold their farms and went to Iowa. All of the foregoing came about 1830."
pg 437
   "Religious Societies.
   "- A class of the Methodist Episcopal denomination was organized at the house of Johnson Bonham as early as 1831. Among the earliest members were Johnson Bonham and wife, Amos Bonham, Mrs. Meredith Parrish, Mrs. Addison Hampton, Nathan Frakes and wife, Mrs. William Fountain and Barna Beardsley and wife. The class was organized by Revs. Thomas Thompson and Elnathan C. Gavit. In 1851 this society built a frame church across the line in Findlay Township, which is still used by the Methodists of the neighborhood."
7. History of Hancock County (Ohio),(Chicago: Warner Beers & Co, 1886) Chapter XVIII, Part III. "... Eliza, daughter of Judge McKinnis ..."
8. 1850 Federal Census, Ohio, Hancock, pg 782 (391B), d/f #38/38. Eliza McGee.
9. 1900 Federal Census, Missouri, Benton, ED 6, pg 7A. married 35 years.
10. Iowa County Marriages, 1838-1934 (FamilySearch.org), McGhee, William. to Sarah McDonald, 8 Sep 1865, Poweshiek County.
11. 1880 Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee, ED 15, pg 2 (428B). Sarah McGhee.
12. 1870 Federal Census, Iowa, Guthrie, pg 27 (179A), d/f #213/215. Catharine Magee.
13. Iowa County Marriages, 1838-1934 (FamilySearch.org), McGhee, William. to Sarah McDonald.
14. Iowa County Births, 1880-1935 (FamilySearch.org), McGhee, Isaac Clinton. Sarah Catherine McDonald McGhee.
15. 1880 Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee, ED 15, pg 2 (428B). age 33, Indiana.
16. 1900 Federal Census, Missouri, Benton, ED 6, pg 7A. age 51, Feb 1849, Indiana.
17. 1880 Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee, ED 15, pg 2 (428B). Frank McGhee.
18. 1870 Federal Census, Iowa, Guthrie, pg 27 (179A), d/f #213/215. John F Magee.
19. 1880 Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee, ED 15, pg 2 (428B). age 13, Iowa.
20. 1870 Federal Census, Iowa, Guthrie, pg 27 (179A), d/f #213/215. age 4, Iowa.
21. 1900 Federal Census, South Dakota, Spink, ED 304, pg 9B. Mattie Horning.
22. 1880 Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee, ED 15, pg 2 (428B). Samantha R McGhee.
23. South Dakota, Department of Health, Index to Births 1843-1914 and Marriages 1950-2014 (FamilySearch.org), Horning, Jess. Samantha McGhee.
24. 1880 Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee, ED 15, pg 2 (428B). age 12, Iowa.
25. 1900 Federal Census, South Dakota, Spink, ED 304, pg 9B. age 32, Apr 1868, Iowa.
26. South Dakota, Department of Health, Index to Births 1843-1914 and Marriages 1950-2014 (FamilySearch.org), Horning, Jess. Willis Horning.
27. 1900 Federal Census, South Dakota, Spink, ED 304, pg 9B. Willis Horning.
28. 1900 Federal Census, South Dakota, Spink, ED 304, pg 9B. married 14 years.
29. 1880 Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee, ED 15, pg 2 (428B). Joseph M McGhee.
30. 1870 Federal Census, Iowa, Guthrie, pg 27 (179A), d/f #213/215. Meredith Magee.
31. Iowa Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939 (familysearch.org), McGhee, Howard Lucious. Joseph Meredith McGhee.
32. 1880 Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee, ED 15, pg 2 (428B). age 10, Iowa.
33. 1870 Federal Census, Iowa, Guthrie, pg 27 (179A), d/f #213/215. age 1/12, Iowa, M. The enumerator only put an M in the box for month so it's March or May.
34. 1900 Federal Census, South Dakota, Charles Mix, ED 72, pg 3A. age 30, May 1870, Iowa.
35. 1900 Federal Census, South Dakota, Charles Mix, ED 72, pg 3A. Adella McGhee.
36. Iowa Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939 (familysearch.org), McGhee, Howard Lucious. Della Endsley.
37. 1900 Federal Census, South Dakota, Charles Mix, ED 72, pg 3A. married 8 years.
38. 1880 Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee, ED 15, pg 2 (428B). George E McGhee.
39. 1880 Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee, ED 15, pg 2 (428B). age 7, Iowa.
40. 1880 Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee, ED 15, pg 2 (428B). Nelson W McGhee.
41. 1880 Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee, ED 15, pg 2 (428B). age 5, Iowa.
42. U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (FamilySearch.org), McGhee, Nelson M. 3 Apr 1873.
43. 1910 Federal Census, South Dakota, Tripp, ED 109, pg 5A. Mary McGhee.
44. 1910 Federal Census, South Dakota, Tripp, ED 109, pg 5A. married 16 years.
45. 1880 Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee, ED 15, pg 2 (428B). Charles McGhee.
46. 1880 Federal Census, Iowa, Allamakee, ED 15, pg 2 (428B). age 2, Iowa.
47. 1900 Federal Census, Missouri, Benton, ED 6, pg 7A. Clinton McGhee.
48. Iowa County Births, 1880-1935 (FamilySearch.org), McGhee, Isaac Clinton.
49. 1900 Federal Census, Missouri, Benton, ED 6, pg 7A. age 16, Aug 1883, Iowa.
50. Iowa County Births, 1880-1935 (FamilySearch.org), McGhee, Isaac Clinton. 18 Aug 1882, Allamakee County.
51. 1900 Federal Census, Missouri, Benton, ED 6, pg 7A. Eliza McGhee.
52. Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991 (FamilySearch.org), Weese, Sanford. to Sarah Eliza McGhee.
53. 1910 Federal Census, Missouri, Gentry, ED 91, pg 6B. Eliza Weese.
54. Death Certificate, Weese, Sarah Eliza #26614.
55. 1900 Federal Census, Missouri, Benton, ED 6, pg 7A. age 13, Jul 1886, South Dakota.
56. 1910 Federal Census, Missouri, Gentry, ED 91, pg 6B. age 23, North Dakota.
57. Death Certificate, Weese, Sarah Eliza #26614. 24 Jul 1886, Falkton, S Dakota.
58. 1910 Federal Census, Missouri, Gentry, ED 91, pg 6B. Sanford Weese.
59. Death Certificate, Weese, Sanford #26507.
60. Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991 (FamilySearch.org), Weese, Sanford. to Sarah Eliza McGhee, 1 Jan 1908, at the bride's residence in Gentry County, by Samuel Higdon, Minister.
61. 1900 Federal Census, Missouri, Benton, ED 6, pg 7A. Ernest McGhee.
62. U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (FamilySearch.org), McGhee, Ernest Elwood.
63. 1900 Federal Census, Missouri, Benton, ED 6, pg 7A. age 10, Sep 1889, South Dakota.
64. U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (FamilySearch.org), McGhee, Ernest Elwood. 10 Sep 1889, Castalia, South Dakota.
65. 1920 Federal Census, South Dakota, Gregory, ED 67, pg 2B. Sophia C McGhee.
66. 1935 State Census, South Dakota, Buffalo, Card 13. Lacey McGhee, maiden Ashley.
67. 1935 State Census, South Dakota, Buffalo, Card 13. married 4 years.
68. Iowa County Births, 1880-1935 (FamilySearch.org), McGhee, Dorothy B. Myrtle C McDonald.
69. 1900 Federal Census, Missouri, Benton, ED 6, pg 7A. Cathrine M McGhee.
70. 1920 Federal Census, Iowa, Polk, ED 170, pg 13A. Myrtle McGee.
71. California Death Index, McGhee, Myrtle Catherine.
72. 1920 Federal Census, Iowa, Polk, ED 170, pg 13A. age 27, South Dakota.
73. 1900 Federal Census, Missouri, Benton, ED 6, pg 7A. age 8, Dec 1891, South Dakota.
74. California Death Index, McGhee, Myrtle Catherine. 2 Dec 1892, South Dakota.
75. 1885 State Census, Iowa, Alamakee, pg 17 (238), d/f #109/115. Enos McGhee.
76. Iowa Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939 (familysearch.org), McGhee, Bert Earl.
77. 1930 Federal Census, Iowa, Polk, ED 61, pg 8A. Bert and Myrtle first married at ages 28 and 19.

Notes:
* I haven't found as much on William's family as I would like. The way this family moved around, I can't comfortably say that William probably died in Missouri. It's possible that he could have gone back to South Dakota, to Colorado or even Nebraska.
* I'm pretty sure Catherine is listed as Marry K Magee (1849-1917) on a death certificate in Gentry County, Missouri. There is a stone for Cathern McGhee (1849-1917) in Berlin Cemetery and there are also stones for Clinton (1882-1904), George (1872-1898) and Eliza Weese (1886-1967). The only thing that links the 1900 McGhee family to the 1880 McGhee family is the grave of George in the same cemetery but I believe this information is correct. I originally got Sarah's first name from Paul Forstad.
* There are a John and a Frank McGhee in Charles Mix County in 1900, both born in 1866, Iowa. One is married to Ella, the other to Millie. Frank has a son named Frank J, possibly the Frank McGhee with whom Ernest was living in 1930 and married to Mercy.
* I found records in South Dakota and Oklahoma for a Nelson W at the right age with wives named Mary and Nettie. Nettie ended up in Arkansas in 1940 but is buried in Grant County, Oklahoma, with Nelson. I'm not positive that is our Nelson.
* I don't know why Myrtle Catherine's name is listed as McDonald on many of her records unless the folks were getting her mixed up with her mother. I'm sure she spelled her middle name with a C but her headstone has a K.

If there is no SOURCE, I have no PROOF! If the source is a PERSON, the information is HEARSAY.

Last Modified: 16 Aug 2018