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First Generation
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John McGuire. Born
22 Apr 1756 in Fermanagh Co., Ireland and died in Morgan County, KY on 10 Apr
1837 when he was 80. John was on the
1810 census for Floyd Co., KY and the 1830 census for Morgan Co., KY.
In 1775 when John was 18, he
married Nancy Holder, in Ireland or Virginia.
Born between 1750 - 1760 in Ireland or Virginia. Nancy died in Morgan County, KY on 2 May
1837, she was 87. She was on the 1830 census
for Morgan Co., KY.
They had the following children:
Rebecca Jane (1779-1858)
James (1780-1870)
Samuel Wiley (1791-1872)
Second Generation
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James McGuire. Born
1780 in Virginia and died in Morgan Co., KY on 2 Apr 1870 when he was 90.
James was on the 1820 census for Floyd Co., KY and the 1830, 1840 and
1850 census for Morgan Co., KY.
In 1800 when James was 20, he
first married Sarah Coffee, daughter of Ambrose Coffee
(1755-1820) & Ailsey (1755-), in Montgomery County, KY. Sarah was born 1783 in Fayette County, KY
and died in Kentucky. She was on the
1820 census for Floyd Co., KY and the 1830 and 1840 census for Morgan Co., KY.
They had the following children:
John (1802-1863)
Rebecca (1805-)
William (1806-)
Ambrose (1810-)
Jane (1812-)
Nancy (1814-)
Elijah (1817-)
Ailsey (1819-)
Samuel Wiley
(1822-1891)
Jesse James (1824-1913)
After 1825, when James was 45, he second married Nancy Barker.
Third Generation
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John McGuire. Born
1802 in Montgomery or Floyd County, KY and died in Carter County, KY in 1863,
he was 61. John was on the 1820 census
for Floyd Co., KY and the 1850 census for Carter Co., KY.
On 8 Mar 1827, when John was 25,
he married Mary Cook, in Morgan County, KY.
Mary was born in 1806 in Virginia and died in Kentucky. She was not listed with family in the 1850
Carter Co., KY census.
They had the following children:
James (1832-1911)
Joel C. (1834-)
William (1836-)
Nancy (1840-)
Emily J. (1842-)
Rebecca (1848-1925)
Fourth Generation
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James
McGuire. Born on 13 Apr 1832 in Floyd Co., KY, died in Iron Hill, Carter Co., KY on 8 Nov 1911
when he was 79, and buried on 9 Nov 1911 in the Haney Burial Ground, Carter,
KY. James was on the 1850, 1870, and
1880 census for Carter Co., KY. James
was a farmer and served in Co. D, 40th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry during the
Civil War.
Civil War Pension Record, The
National Archives, Washington DC
Private, Co. D,
40th Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry
Civil War Pension
Number: 726.350
Civil War
Pension: $12
Civil War Unit
Commander: E.P. Davis
Enlisted at
Grayson, KY, July 1863
Honorably
Discharged at Catlettsburg, KY, 31 Dec 1864
Medical: Double
Inguinal Hernia
Born in Morgan or
Floyd Co., KY and lived there until he was 11 years old. Then he moved to Carter Co., KY until his
enlistment.
After his
discharge, he lived about three miles from Walland or Willand, KY? for about eight years then moved to
Carter City, KY.
The 1870 Carter Co., Census says
he can't read or write.
On 22 Sep 1852, when James was
20, he married Elizabeth Haney, daughter of John Haney (1793-) & Mahala
Brumfield (-1843), in Lawrence County, KY.
Elizabeth was born on 15 Sep 1831 in East Fork, Lawrence Co., KY and
died in Iron Hill, Carter Co., KY on 27 Jul 1920 when she was 88. She was on the 1870 and 1880 census for
Carter Co., KY.
They had the following children:
Mary E. (1853-)
John (1855-1952)
Louisa (1857-~1860)
Joel Franklin (1858-)
William H. (1861-)
George Frances (1863-)
James Sherman (1867-)
Fleming (1869-)
Rachel Lee (1873-1957)
James and Elizabeth were married at
her fathers home in Lawrence Co., KY by Rev. Joel Cook (Baptist Church)
Fifth Generation
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Rachel
Lee McGuire. Born on 17 Jan 1873 in KY and died in
Michigan in 1957 when she was 83. She
was on the 1880 and 1900 census for Carter Co., KY and the 1910 and 1920 census
for Antrim Co., MI. She is buried in
Mancelona, MI.
Rachel’s birth date was taken
from her father’s Civil War Pension Record which is located in the National Archives,
Washington DC.
In 1889 when Rachel Lee was 15,
she married Samuel
Lambert, son of George W. Lambert (1827-) & Melissa, in Carter,
KY. Sam was born 15 Aug 1864 in
(location disputed, may be Ohio) Carter, KY and died in Mancelona, MI on 25 Jul
1953 when he was 88. Sam was on the
1870, 1880, and 1900 census for Carter Co., KY and the 1910 and 1920 census for
Antrim Co., MI.
Sam may have worked on river
boats in Ohio. (family story)
They had the following children:
Pearl (1891-)
James (1893-1957)
Oscar Fleming
(1896-1979)
Bettie (1898-)
Stella (1900-)
Mary A. (1901-)
Ethel (1903-1995)
Essie (1905-)
Ray (1907-)
Ruth E. (1911-1985)
Margaret L. (1915-)
Helen (1918-)
