Joseph McGEE

MCGEE, WEIR, BABCOCK

Posted By: Linnie Howell (email)
Date: 6/9/2005 at 22:36:29

McGEE, Joseph, farmer, Sec. 25; P. O. Fayette; born in Williamsburg, Long Island, Dec. 25 (the year is illegible in the book I have); accompanied his mother to Cornwall in 1839; enlisted soon after, in Co. K, U. S. Art., Capt. Taylor; served through the Mexican War; was Sergt. of a battery in the battles of Palo Alto, Montery, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo and at the capture of the City of Mexico; was wounded at Cherubusco Aug. 20, 1847; discharged for disability in October, same year. Was married Feb. 14, 1842, to Elizabeth Weir; she was born in Ireland in 1824; she is the mother of eleven children - William, who served in the 7th I. V. C. during the war; Rachel, Joseph D., James, Ernest, Frank, Charles, David and Mary A. (now Mrs. Babcock), are living; George died Oct. 21, 1870, and Frank in infancy; came to this county in 1850; entered land here in the brush, and cleared out his farm, consisting of 400 acres.

1878 History of Fayette Co. Iowa - Westfield Township
Pages 689 and 690