Individual Details

The following is what Mayme Parrott Wood wrote about Ganum Cox McBee in the book Hitch Hiking Along the Holston River - Page 143:
(During the Civil War) "Lemuel and Sarah Meek McBee's son Ganum Cox, was taken from a sick bed out into a woodland and shot by 'riff-raff' who followed the army killing and robbing anything or anyone in sight. His clothes were taken off and stolen. One of the offenders was convicted by identification of the shoes which he was wearing. He served a term in prison. The terrors of this war are not to be forgotten." Gannum Cox McBee died 13 October 1863. The last few years of Gannum Cox McBee's life certainly were tragic. Between the 12th and the 16th of November 1861, three of his ten daughters died. I would imagine there was some sort of epidemic. Gannum Cox McBee married Malvina Lamar (b. 1820) and she was still alive for the 1900 US Census.


1850 Census. Jefferson Co, TN, 13th Dist, Hh 1611
G. C. McBee, age 34, b. TN. Melinda, age 30.
Sarah K. age 8, Mary Jane 6, Nancy 4, Eliza E. age 1
Eliza Douglas, age 21.
In 1850, G. C. McBee owned two slaves, a male age 24, and one age 9.

1860 Census. Jefferson Co TN, Hh 2052
G. C. McBee, age 44, b. TN. M. age 40, female.
E. Douglas, age 30.
S. C. McBee, age 18, female. M. J. 16, female. N. E. 13, female. E. E. age 10, female. H. L. age 7, female. A. J. age 2, female.

1870 Census. Jefferson Co TN, Dist 7, New Market P.O., p.401, Hh 4
Melvina McBee, age 48, b. TN
Sarah C., 26. Eliza E. 20. Amanda J. 12. Emma C. age 9.
Adam A. Douglas, age 35, b. TN.

[I never found Melvina in the 1880 census.]

1900 Census. Jefferson Co TN, Dist 7, New Market, Sheet 9A, Hh 153
William Callaway, age 40, b. Nov 1859, married 18 years, b. TN
Sarah C., wife, age 57, b. Jun 1842, no children
Melvina McBee, mother-in-law, age 79, b. Jun 1820, has 1 child living.

Birth	1816	Tennessee
Death	13 Oct 1863

Father	Lemuel McBee (1783 - 1843)
Mother	Sarah Meek (1787 - 1864)
Sibling	Martha M. "Patsy" McBee (1807 - )
Sibling	Mary Ann McBee (1808 - 1854)
Sibling	William Claiborn McBee (1808 - 1874)
Sibling	Adam H. McBee (1812 - )
Sibling	Isaac M. McBee (1814 - )
Sibling	Lemuel J. McBee (1818 - )
Sibling	Milo McBee (1824 - )
Sibling	Daniel M. McBee (1825 - )
Sibling	Callaway McBee (1828 - )
Sibling	James A. McBee (1829 - )