Individual Details
John Wesley McGee
(13 Oct 1908 - 17 Apr 1956)
Tuscaloosa News Wednesday 18 Apr 1956
J. W. McGee Dies of Cancer
John Wesley McGee, farmer of Echola Community and merchant, died in Doctors' Hospital in Bessemer this morning. He was 47.
Mr. McGee had been ill several months, suffering from cancer. He had undergone treatment in a New York Hospital recently but had been at home for several weeks.
Funeral services will be held from the Dunn's Creek Baptist Church Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. John Springer and the Rev. J. T. Swann officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery, Jones and Spigener directing.
Mr. McGee was born and grew up in the Echola Community and was operating a farm there at the time of his death. He operated a store in the Kirk Community in Pickens County at one time and another in Holman. Just prior to his death he owned a restaurant in Mississippi.
Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Marie Noland McGee; two sons, John Wylie and Larry Glenn McGee; three daughters, Eleanor Jane, Jo Anne, and Shelby Jean McGee; and his mother, Mrs. Etta McGee Carver, all of Echola; and a half sister Mrs. Mary Hardy of Gordo.
Pallbearers will be members of the Gordo Masonic Lodge.
Parents:
Wiley McGee (1841 - 1917)
Sarah Etta Lavenia Springer McGee Carver (1880 - 1957)
Spouse:
Marie Ann Noland McGee Boyd (1910 - 1995)
Children:
John Wiley McGee (1932 - 2016)*
Siblings:
Mary Eliza McGee Hardy (1868 - 1962)**
Sarah Emma McGee Springer (1874 - 1897)**
Martha Ann McGee Stuckey (1876 - 1949)**
Milton Luther McGee (1881 - 1947)**
John Wesley McGee (1908 - 1956)
J. W. McGee Dies of Cancer
John Wesley McGee, farmer of Echola Community and merchant, died in Doctors' Hospital in Bessemer this morning. He was 47.
Mr. McGee had been ill several months, suffering from cancer. He had undergone treatment in a New York Hospital recently but had been at home for several weeks.
Funeral services will be held from the Dunn's Creek Baptist Church Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. John Springer and the Rev. J. T. Swann officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery, Jones and Spigener directing.
Mr. McGee was born and grew up in the Echola Community and was operating a farm there at the time of his death. He operated a store in the Kirk Community in Pickens County at one time and another in Holman. Just prior to his death he owned a restaurant in Mississippi.
Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Marie Noland McGee; two sons, John Wylie and Larry Glenn McGee; three daughters, Eleanor Jane, Jo Anne, and Shelby Jean McGee; and his mother, Mrs. Etta McGee Carver, all of Echola; and a half sister Mrs. Mary Hardy of Gordo.
Pallbearers will be members of the Gordo Masonic Lodge.
Parents:
Wiley McGee (1841 - 1917)
Sarah Etta Lavenia Springer McGee Carver (1880 - 1957)
Spouse:
Marie Ann Noland McGee Boyd (1910 - 1995)
Children:
John Wiley McGee (1932 - 2016)*
Siblings:
Mary Eliza McGee Hardy (1868 - 1962)**
Sarah Emma McGee Springer (1874 - 1897)**
Martha Ann McGee Stuckey (1876 - 1949)**
Milton Luther McGee (1881 - 1947)**
John Wesley McGee (1908 - 1956)
Events
| Birth | 13 Oct 1908 | Echola, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama | |||
| Census (family) | 18 Apr 1940 | Tuscaloosa County, Alabama - Marie Ann Noland |  |  | |
| Death | 17 Apr 1956 | Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama | |||
| Burial | Dunns Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Echola, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama | |
Families
| Spouse | Marie Ann Noland (1910 - 1995) |
| Child | John Wiley McGee (1932 - 2016) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
Notes
Census (family)
John Wesley McgeeHeadM31Alabama - FarmerMarie M McgeeWifeF29Alabama
John Wiley McgeeSonM7Alabama
Eleanor J McgeeDaughterF4Alabama
Joanne McgeeDaughterF2Alabama
Shelby Jean McgeeDaughterF0Alabama
Endnotes
1. "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V15X-C1X : accessed 16 May 2017), John Wesley Mcgee, Election Precinct 20, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 63-45, sheet 6A, line 23, family 96, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 85..
2. Find A Grave Memorial# 79527517.