Lory, In 1978, a woman named Lucille Lawler of Ridgeway, Illinois, wrote to me after seeing a McGehee/Gallatin Co. Query that I placed in some genealogy journal. She offered to do some research for me for a nominal rate. She is the person who went to the McGehee Cemetery and made polaroids of the stones and recorded most of the inscriptions (she left out Mildred and Nathalie, the two little girls who died in 1907.) She said this in her typed report: Samuel McGehee has marker dated (1848-1872) That makes two sources with those dates for him. I don't know which Samuel married Hester but I suspect he was a third one. Mary Ann