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Subject: Re: Re: [COUCH-L] COUCH correction
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:48:28 EST
In a message dated 11/10/98 5:21:15 AM, Jim Couch wrote:
<<At 12:39 PM 11/7/98 EST, you wrote:
>K5, sorry, there was a typo in that: Mary Couch was born c.1782, not 1762,
she
>died sometime 1850-1860. Thanks again.
El, I have some questions:
I figure Mary was born c.1792. Is there some conflicting evidence from
another census?
What source do you have for her being a Couch? If it's a marriage record,
what county?
Who was the other widowed Mary McGhee in the same census?>>
Jim, the Mary McGHEE in the 1850 census is the widow of James McGHEE, who died
1850. He made his will January 12, 1850. It was brought to court by his son,
James Monroe McGhee in open court July 2, 1850. I have a copy of that will,
with the "certification" that James M. introduced the will. My understanding
that Mary COUCH was James' wife comes from unproven sources. In fact, I have
to confess that I don't know for sure where I got that information, although a
greatx2granddaughter of James and Mary (I'm a great3xgranddaughter), Carol
Scruggs, is an avid researcher and has given me much info.
Would be interested in your support for the notion that Mary (assuming we are
talking the Mary COUCH who was married to James McGHEE) was born 1792. I'm
certainly willing and more to reshape my beliefs about this!
Re marriage records: According to Carol Scruggs, James & Mary's first son,
John, was born in NC in 1805. If we are talking the same Mary (I don't know
that Mary is John's mother for certain), she would only be 13 years old if
born in 1792. North Carolina marriage records were destroyed during the Civil
War, so there is a great gap and if they were married in NC, there wouldn't be
such a record. James' grandson Pleasant McGHEE, b.1833 (and I assume, but
don't know that he is Mary's grandson as well), was brought from Morgan
County, TN in 1840, when he was seven years old, to Murray County to reside
with James and Mary (see: Memoirs of Georgia, pub. 1895). He stayed there and
is named in James' will as a beneficiary. So was James at one time in TN? Or
only a son of his? John? Burton? Ambrose (who, if born in 1816, would have
been 17 when Pleasant was born)?
It occurs to me, Jim, that I have only seen an abstract of that 1850 census,
and not the actual census record. Does the actual record say Mary was born
1792?
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