Biographies and Obituaries
In loving memory
James Milton McGehee
James Milton McGehee was born 1 January 1833 in Mayslick, Kentucky. His parents were Jesse McGehee and Sarah McCracken. They moved to Daviess County, Indiana when James was a small child and lived in Barr Twonship near Sarah (McCracken) McGehee's brothers and sisters.
The first wife of james M. McGehee was Sarah Hunter. They were married 20 February 1857 and had two children before Sarah died in July of 1860. An infant daughter also died in 1860. On 29 December 1861 James married Elizabeth Stafford.
At the time of his enlistment, James M. McGehee was 32 years old and the father of two living children. He enlisted in Company "K" 143rd Regiment of Indiana Volunteers on 25 January 1865 at Washington, and was mustered in on 4 February 1865 at Evansville. During the time of his service, the 143rd was assigned to provost duty in Kentucky and Tennessee. James was discharged 17 October 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee, having served eight months of his one year enlistment.
James M. McGehee returned to his family and he and Elizabeth had seven more children. About 1867 the McGehhess moved to Neosha County, Kansas, where they lived until after 1880. Elizabeth died in Pittsburgh, Crawford County, Kansas about 1885-88. James McGehee married a third time to Jane (Hagan) Holt and they lived together in Pittsburgh, Kansas,until Jane died in January of 1897. James lived in Crawford and Chatauqua Counties, Kansas until he entered the National Military Home at Leavenworth, Kansas in 1905 at the age of 72. he lived in the Military Home until 1914 or 1915 when he married his fourth wife, Julia Ann (VanWinkle) Jones. He was then 81 years old and she was about the same age having survived four husbands. It is not known when Julia Ann died, but James was a widower by 1921 when he was living with his dauhter, raos Hobaugh, in Bramman, Oklahoma. James M. McGehee died 21 March 1927 in Pittsburgh, Kansas, at the home of his son, Charles, having reached the age of 94.
Contributed by Mrs. Jeanne Everett, McCracken Family Historian