Tom McCabe's Genealogy 2025

Mary "Granny Gee"
Name
Mary Melisse Caroline BENNETT
Given names
Mary Melisse Caroline
Surname
BENNETT
Married name
Mary Melisse MAGEE
Birth February 14, 1868 31 30
Birth of a sisterAnna Delilah Francis BENNETT
November 21, 1870 (Age 2 years)

Death of a maternal grandfatherIsaac MOORE
after 1870 (Age 22 months)
Note: Several genealogists have claimed (conjectured) that Isaac Moore, father of Sarah Jane Moore Bennett, was murdered in Alabama after 1870. They found newspaper reports of a murder of Isaac Moore near Uniontown Alabama in 1876. However, research into the claim has shown that the Isaac Moore who was murdered was a long lived resident of Alabama, had a good deal of money and plantation there, and was almost certainly not our ancestor Isaac of Trinity Co. Verification of this can be found in the Agricultural Census of Alabama (1860s). But even better, the court case for the murder ended up in the Alabama Supreme Court! See page 96 of \"Report of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama\", Volume 55, By Alabama. Supreme Court which is available to freely read online. So, it is still unknown what happened to Isaac Moore of Trinity County after 1870.
Birth of a sisterNimmie BENNETT
October 30, 1873 (Age 5 years)
Birth of a brotherJohn Hamlin BENNETT
February 15, 1876 (Age 8 years)

Birth of a sisterRosa Anna BENNETT
March 26, 1878 (Age 10 years)
Birth of a sisterHenryetta BENNETT
November 16, 1881 (Age 13 years)

Birth of a brotherRichmond Floyd BENNETT
February 20, 1884 (Age 16 years)

MarriageWilliam Joseph MAGEEView this family
February 9, 1889 (Age 20 years)
Birth of a daughter
#1
Carrie MAGEE
January 30, 1890 (Age 21 years)
Birth of a daughter
#2
Alta MAGEE
June 22, 1891 (Age 23 years)
Birth of a daughter
#3
Ethel “Effie” MAGEE
December 24, 1892 (Age 24 years)
Birth of a daughter
#4
Maggie MAGEE
September 1, 1894 (Age 26 years)
Death of a fatherRichmond Oliver BENNETT
January 15, 1895 (Age 26 years)
Note: In one application for her pension Sarah declared Richmond died in 1895. In another she said 1896. The application for his military headstone, submitted in 1932 after Sarah had died, states he died Jan 15, 1895.

Birth of a son
#5
Dewey MAGEE
October 8, 1896 (Age 28 years)
Death of a daughterMaggie MAGEE
July 17, 1897 (Age 29 years)
Birth of a son
#6
Donald MAGEE
August 1898 (Age 30 years)
Birth of a daughter
#7
Attie“Sis” MAGEE
February 3, 1901 (Age 32 years)

Death of a sisterAnna Delilah Francis BENNETT
May 3, 1903 (Age 35 years)
Birth of a son
#8
Everett “Bill” MAGEE
October 1, 1903 (Age 35 years)
Birth of a daughter
#9
Evie “Sal” MAGEE
October 1, 1903 (Age 35 years)
Birth of a daughter
#10
Gertrude MAGEE
December 9, 1905 (Age 37 years)
Marriage of a childHarry HAYMANCarrie MAGEEView this family
December 24, 1911 (Age 43 years)

Death of a half-brotherJohn ROGERS
January 12, 1918 (Age 49 years)
Note: From findagrave entry for John Rogers:
Death of a daughterGertrude MAGEE
about 1924 (Age 55 years)
Death of a motherSarah Jane MOORE
October 23, 1931 (Age 63 years)
Note: Paper in Confederate Widow Pension states Sarah died of senility in the home of her son-in-law GW Kennedy.

Death of a half-brotherWilliam Robert ROGERS
April 21, 1937 (Age 69 years)
Note: From findagrave entry for William Rogers
Death of a husbandWilliam Joseph MAGEE
May 14, 1941 (Age 73 years)
Death of a sisterMartha Jane BENNETT
August 6, 1943 (Age 75 years)
Note: From Death Certificate:
Death of a sisterNimmie BENNETT
January 1, 1944 (Age 75 years)
Note: Buried: Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA in Laurel Land Memorial Park
Death of a brotherMicagah Y BENNETT
November 27, 1945 (Age 77 years)
Note: California Death Record: Mccager Y Bennett
Death of a sisterHenryetta BENNETT
May 21, 1962 (Age 94 years)
Burial of a sisterHenryetta BENNETT
1962 (Age 93 years)
Note: From findagrave for Henryetta Bennett Deaton.
Death of a brotherJohn Hamlin BENNETT
December 16, 1965 (Age 97 years)
Note: Obituary of John Hamlin Bennett
Death May 25, 1967 (Age 99 years)