When Colombus Lafayette McGee was born on 9 December 1846, in Lawrence, Tennessee, United States, his father, Henry McGehee, Sr., was 40 and his mother, Sarah Sallie Hughes, was 102. He lived in Hardin, Tennessee, United States in 1860 and Tennessee, United States in 1870. He died on 18 September 1877, in Ozark, Missouri, United States, at the age of 30.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Aoidh or Mag Aodha ‘son of Aodh’, an old personal name meaning ‘fire’, originally the name of a pagan god. See also McCoy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesHistory of James Giles McGee 1806-1888 Quote “James Giles amcGee, son of Henry McGee, Junior and Mary “Polly” Kilburn was born 22 February 1806 in Northwest Georgia and died on 17 March 1888 in Thorn …
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