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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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mcneill_headstone.jpg (4519 bytes) Headstone of Charles C. McNeill - 11/01/1997

ct_wpmgrave.jpg (10400 bytes) Headstone of William Pelham McGehee, with C.T. McGehee - 11/01/1997

cemeterygroup.jpg (12507 bytes) 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

slavegrave.jpg (13461 bytes) Slave graves in family cemetery - 11/01/1997