General Sources

1. Norman T. McGee
   Biographical Appendix, Pg. 1010-1011,GOODSPEED'S History of Hamilton, Knox and Shelby Counties of Tennessee.
   Dr. J.P. McGee, surgeon and physician of Memphis, Tenn, is a native of Henry County, Tenn. born in 1835, and is one of a family of six children--three sons and three daughters. The father, Richard McGee, was born in Rockbridge County, Va., in 1775, and came to Tennessee when a young man. He was married in Kentucky about 1808 to Elizabeth Gentry, a native of that State, born about 1787, and the daughter of a prominent farmer and stock-grower of Kentucky. Richard McGee was a farmer by occupation, and located in Henry County in 1833. Previous to this he had resided for some time in Giles County and had held some prominent political offices in that county. From 1833 to 1851 he resided in Henry County, after which he removed to Gibson County, and here passed the remainder of his days. He served in the war of 1812 as captain and died in 1865. Our subject received his literary education at Bethel College, McLemoreville, Tenn., taking the degree of B.A. and in 1881 was called upon by that institute to deliver the baccalaureate discourse. Hebegan the study of medicine under two of thje prominent physicians of Trenton in 1856, and in 1861 graduated as M.D. from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. In May, 1861, he joined Company F, Twelfth Regiment, Provisional Army of Tennessee, and when the company was organized as regular soldiers of the Confederate Army he was made assistant surgeon. From that he was promoted by degrees to the highest ranks in that department. He was once captured but remained in prison only a short time. After the war he practiced medicine at Hickman, KY., a short time, and in April, 1867, he located at Trenton, Tenn. February 22, 1866, he married Jennie C. Elder, a native of Gibson County, and the daughter of Monroe B. and Lucy Elder. This union resulted in the birth of four children--two sons and two daughters. In September, 1883, the Docytor came to Memphis, and he is succeeding well in the practice of his profession. He is prominently connected with the Tennessee Medical Association, and as he has given his special attention to surgerey, is unexcelled in that branch of the profession. He is an aardent Democrat in politics, and he and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.
   
2. Genealogy Books
   Page 295-296
   
   The Millers of Millersburg
   And their Descendants
   
   With Kindred Families of Miller, McGee, Jameson, Read, Scott, Wyatt
   Donnelly, White, Washington, Blackwell, Smith, Mayfield,
   Johnson, Kuykendall, Beene, Sadler, Clark,
   Woodfin, Whiteside, and Myers.
   
   Compiled for Gustavus Hindman Miller of Chattanooga,
   by John Bailey Nicklin, Jr., Member
   Kentucky, Maryland, and National
   Historical Societies
   
   1923
   
   Copy of Letter from G.R. McGee, of Jackson, Tennessee, to J.B. Nicklin, Jr. dated June 19, 1922
   
   My Grandfather's grandfather, Archibald McGee, was born in Perthshire, Scotland, date unknown. He went to Ireland in his youth, married Ellen Lowe, established himself as a farmer near Belfast, and raised flax and sheep. This is all I know of him. His son, Richard McGee, came to America about the year 1750, married Gertrude Calloway, and settled as a farmer in Rockbridge County, Virginia. He reared a family of five sons and three daughers, who scattered to the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois. My grandfather, Richard McGee, Jr., was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, September 18, 1774, came to Giles County, Tennessee, in 1794; married Elizabeth Gentry, entered a farm on Richland Creek, and there reared his family of five sons and one daughter. My father was the second son, and was born July 4, 1808, graduated from the medical school of Tulane University in 1836, established himself at Ebenezer, Mississippi, and there practiced medicine until his death, in 1850. He and my mother, Marian Ford, daughter of Judge Rufus Ford, of the Probate Court of South Mississippi, were married in June, 1838, and I, their oldest child, was born September 17, 1839 or 1840. The records differ. I had two sisters and one brother. My older sister died at ten years of age. My brother was killed in battle at Colliersville, Tennessee. He was a soldier of the Confederate Army and so was I. My younger sister, Mattie McGee, married Joseph Wade of Gibson County, Tennessee. By that marriage she had one son, Gentry W. Wade, now living in Yakima, Washington. Her second marriage was to Abner W. Reaon, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where she died two years ago, aged seventy-five years. By her last marriage she had three daughters, whose names since their marriages I do not know. I have one daughter, Mrs. George H. Brandau, of Jackson, Tennessee.
   
   Of my grandfather's family (besides my father), Calloway Lowe McGee, died without children; so did the third son, William Carroll McGee. The fourth son, Richard Bartley McGee, had two sons and three daughters, all now dead except one daughter, Carrie Belle McGee of Jackson, Tennessee. The fifth son, John Preston McGee, M.D., Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, had two sons and two daughers, all now dead except one daughter, Mrs. Camille Kelly, of Memphis, Tennessee, now judge of the Juvenile Court of that city. Grandfather's one daugher, Martha Courtney McGee, married Daniel E. Jetton, of Trenton, Tennessee; had two sons andone daughter. Both sons are dead and the daughter, Mamie Jetton is living in Trenton.
   
3. 1870 Census
   

   1870 Census - Gibson County, Tennessee - August 1, 1870
   |h#|f#|name           |age |s|r|occu              |vre  |vpe |birth      |s|r|w|2|twp       |po     |pg
   |17|17|McGee, R. B.   |50  |m|w|Dry goods merchant|25000|4000|Tennessee  | | | | |District 7|Trenton|311a
   |  |  |McGee, Eliza   |34  |f|w|Keeps House       |     |    |Tennessee  | | | | |          |       |
   |  |  |McGee, Charles |19  |m|w|At school         |     |    |Tennessee  |1| | | |          |       |
   |  |  |McGee, Emma    |15  |f|w|At school         |     |    |Tennessee  |1| | | |          |       |
   |  |  |McGee, Willie  |10  |m|w|At school         |     |    |Tennessee  |1| | | |          |       |
   |  |  |McGee, Callie  |6   |f|w|At Home           |     |    |Tennessee  | | | | |          |       |
   |  |  |Grace, Ellen   |12  |f|w|At Home           |     |    |Tennessee  | | | | |          |       |
   |  |  |McGee, Amanda  |18  |f|b|cook              |     |    |Tennessee  | |1|1| |          |       |
   |  |  |McGee, Ray     |15  |m|b|Domestic sevt     |     |    |Tennessee  | | |1| |          |       |
   |  |  |McGee, Claiborn|4   |m|b|at home           |     |    |Tennessee  | | | | |          |       |
   |  |  |McGee, Maria   |2   |f|b|at home           |     |    |Tennessee  | | | | |          |       |
   |23|23|McGee, J.P.    |36  |m|w|Physician         |1000 |1500|Tennessee  | | | |1|District 7|Trenton|311b
   |  |  |McGee, Virginia|20  |f|w|Keeps House       |     |    |Tennessee  | | | | |          |       |
   |  |  |McGee, Howard  |3   |m|w|At Home           |     |    |Tennessee  | | | | |          |       |
   |  |  |McGee, Infant  |6/12|m|w|At Home           |     |    |Tennessee  | | | | |          |       |
   |  |  |McGee, Mary    |14  |f|m|Nurse             |     |    |Mississippi| | | | |          |       |
   |  |  |McGee, Margaret|24  |f|b|Domestic sevt     |     |    |Tennessee  | | | | |          |       |
   

4. 1880 Census
   

   1880 Census - Gibson County, Tennessee
   |d# |f# |name            |r |s|Age |by |rel     |s|m|w|occu         |s|r|w|birt|Father  |moth|twp         |pg  |date
   |485|505|Preston McGee   |w |m|42  |   |        | |1| |M.D.         | | | |Tenn|Virginia|KY  |7th district|320a|June28, 1880
   |   |   |Virginia McGee  |w |f|38  |   |wife    | |1| |Keeping House| | | |Tenn|Tenn    |Vir |            |    |
   |   |   |Howard McGee    |w |m|13  |   |son     |1| | |at home      |1| | |Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Babington McGee |w |m|11  |   |son     |1| | |at home      |1| | |Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Genivive McGee  |w |f|8   |   |daughter|1| | |at home      | | | |Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Camille McGee   |w |f|8/12|Oct|daughter| | | |             | | | |Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Mary King       |w |f|10  |   |servant | | | |domestic     | | | |Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Benton Bondurant|m |m|27  |   |servant | | | |domestic     | |1|1|Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Jane Lassiter   |b |f|36  |   |servant | | | |cook         | |1|1|Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Joe Lassiter    |mu|m|4   |   |son     | | | |             | | | |Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |462|491|Mrs. McGee      |w |f|53  |   |        | | |1|             | | | |Tenn|England |Vir |            |    |
   |   |   |Charles McGee   |w |m|28  |   |son     |1| | |clk in store | | | |Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Willie McGee    |w |m|19  |   |son     |1| | |farmer       | | | |Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Emma E. McGee   |w |f|21  |   |Daughter|1| | |without occup| | | |Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Callie McGee    |w |f|13  |   |Daughter|1| | |at home      |1| | |Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Mary Cowen      |b |f|33  |   |servant | | | |cook         | | | |Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Arabella Cowen  |b |f|4   |   |Daughter| | | |             | | | |Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Oldin Cowen     |b |f|2   |   |daughter| | | |             | | | |Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Earnest Cowen   |b |m|1   |   |son     | | | |             | | | |Tenn|Tenn    |Tenn|            |    |
   |   |   |Alex Woods      |b |m|22  |   |servant | | | |Domestic serv| | | |    |        |    |            |    |
   

5. 1850 Census
   

   1850 Census - Henry County, Tennessee - November 28, 1850
   |h#|f#|name         |ag|s|occu   |re |birt|m|s|twp         |pg
   |74|75|Richard McGee|75|m|Farmer |800|VA  | | |6th district|285b
   |  |  |Martha McGee |20|f|       |   |Tenn| | |            |
   |  |  |William McGee|30|m|Teacher|   |Tenn|1| |            |
   |  |  |Mary G. McGee|16|f|       |   |Tenn|1| |            |
   |  |  |John P. McGee|17|m|none   |   |Tenn| |1|            |