Elizabeth Thornton McGehee

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Elizabeth Thornton McGehee (Gilmer) (1780 - 1846)

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Birthplace: Amherst County, Virginia, United States
Death: September 06, 1846 (65)
Bastrop County, Texas, United States
Place of Burial: Bastrop, Bastrop County, Texas, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Blair Gilmer and Mildred Thornton Gilmer
Wife of Thomas Baytop McGehee
Mother of Thomas Gilmer McGehee; Sarah Jane Driskill and William Blair McGehee
Sister of Dr. John Thornton Gilmer; Nicholas Meriwether Gilmer; Harrison Blaire Christian; Sarah Lewis Gilmer; Francis Meriwether Gilmer and 3 others

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About Elizabeth Thornton McGehee

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=94814607

Betsy was a daughter of John Blair Gilmer and his wife, Mildred Thornton Meriwether. She married Thomas Baytop McGehee at Ogelthorpe County, Georgia on October 8, 1798. She and her husband were parents to twelve children. The family relocated to Madison County, Alabama about 1815 where the husband prospered. Tom died in 1832 at his Alabama home, located just a few short miles from the Tennessee border. Around 1840 she relocated to Bastrop County, Texas where several of her children had gone before her.

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Elizabeth Thornton McGehee's Timeline

1780
October 15, 1780
Amherst County, Virginia, United States
1810
1810
Goodepond District, Oglethorpe County, Georgia, United States
1820
1820
1822
October 23, 1822
Alabama, United States
1846
September 6, 1846
Age 65
Bastrop County, Texas, United States
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Fairview Cemetery, Bastrop, Bastrop County, Texas, United States