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McGehee Family Cemetery - Clay County, Alabama
History
The cemetery is on McGehee Mountain, and is on land that was where the McGehee family
lived and farmed before moving to Florida.
Current status
The McGehee family cemetery in Clay County, Alabama is a private cemetery on property that
is no longer under McGehee ownership. The laws of the State of Alabama require that our
family be granted access to the cemetery within certain restrictions. The property is
currently owned by Mr. Bobby Horne and is located on County Road 18 approximately 5 miles
North of Millerville. The cemetery was cleaned up and rededicated in March, 1997. Murphy
McGehee and his family did all the work on this project.
The task of looking after the family interest in the cemetery is now being handled by
(needs to be verified):
• Robert Murphy McGehee
• Wayne Pickard
• Clarence McGehee
• Stephen McGehee
The following is taken from a drawing by Amanda McGehee. On it, she wrote "This is a plat of the graves of my family of McGehees and McNeils in Clay County, Ala. I drew this in Dec., 1903. Amanda"
| "Grandma" Jane Ellis McNeil | Uncle Charlie McNeil | |
| Uncle Charlie McNeil | Jane McNeil (Child) | |
| Uncle John McNeil | Susie McNeil (Child) | |
| Aunt Sarah Phillips | Lucius Phillips (Child) | |
| Martha Clay McGehee (Child) | ||
| May McGehee (Child) | Addie McNeil McGehee (Child) | |
| Charlie McGehee | ||
| Sister Mary's boy (Ledbetter) | ||
| My Mother Mary Jane McNeil |
The cemetery also contains the graves of slaves owned by the family. Their graves are marked with mounds of stones, but there are no headstones with names.
Photos of the cemetery
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Headstone of Charles C. McNeill -
11/01/1997
Headstone of William Pelham McGehee,
with C.T. McGehee - 11/01/1997
Group standing between graves of
William Pelham McGehee and Mary J. McNeill McGehee - 11/01/1997
(L to R) Percy McGehee, Elizabeth Sullivan, C.T. McGehee, William Clay McGehee, Murphy
McGehee
Slave graves in family cemetery -
11/01/1997