There were also McGehee's in southern Hamilton :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: David Schichner <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 10 December, 1999 1:05 AM Subject: Re: [ILGALLAT] Re: McGehee Family from Saline... the magic word > You must remember that up until 1847, Saline county was part of Gallatin. > That's why Daniel is in the 1840 Gallatin Co Census. Also, sometimes people > talk to the census taker that don't have all the facts. The census then has > faulty info. Another thing, people don't always report there correct age. My > grandmother was go for that. What bothered me was not finding the right > marriage records. An answer to that may be Hamilton Co. If Joseph was living > in the northwest part of the county where Moses lived, he may have married > in Hamilton Co. Hamilton co is hard to get records on line. The state wide > database does not have Hamilton co in it. > > Sorry to hear about your loss. I guess it would be hard to get excited about > genealogy right now. > Let me tell you, I was excited. This was a tough nut to crack. > > My wife and I have a private joke. One of my grandmother's sisters was born > in Bowling Green, Ky. Her folks moved there, had a baby and came back. They > left Norris City, White, went to Bowling Green, came back to Omaha, Gallatin > Co. There name was DeWitt. My great aunt > Margaret Amazona DeWitt married George B. McGhee in 1899. Don't know > anything about him and have never researched that family, but a lot of folks > moved around in the Hamilton, White, Saline, Gallatin area, and other > counties too. > > Write when you get back. > > Dave > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 10:40 PM > Subject: Re: [ILGALLAT] Re: McGehee Family from Saline... the magic word > > > > Hi Dave, > > I'm not sure if we have the right one either, because any information is > more > > than I have had in the past. The only thing I do have is from census > records > > and what is documented on death certificates. We do know that some records > > may not be exact. I appreciate all of the help. > > I need to look at this along side the other information I have. I'm not > > willing to delete any of the information furnished until I have something > > concrete. > > We have had a death in the family, so I will be away from the computer foe > a > > couple of days. Please keep looking for information for me. > > I don't doubt that there is a connection to this family, because they were > > certainly in that area and our Daniel was born in what we thought was > > Gallatin County. > > Thanks again, Elizabeth > > > > >