Dean's Picks - recommended McGee Family surfing

The following are items that I think are especially worth checking out:

Collections

• Erle Jones, A Family History
  Images of Leonard Jones booklet on the Jones family history. Of special interest is L.C. Jones' riveting tale of his trip as a stowaway on a train from Nebraska to Idaho, also of interest are the numerous diary entries and tails relating to Carrie Smith and Irma Jones
  
• Individual Collections
  
  • Audra McGee's Collection
    Numerous photos of McGee family, present and past
    
  • David McGee's Collection
    Winnie McGee's bible, Ellis McGee's WWII diary excerpts
    
  • Debbie Wilkin's Collection
    Photos and stories on the Thompson line
    
  • Ethel Fattig's Collection
    Numerous historic Trosper/Fattig/Runkle family photos
    
  • Jane Maynard's Collection
    A number of photos of the David Clendenon McGee Family
    Genealogy from Jane's work, "My Limb on the Cox Tree"
    
  • Norman McGee's Collection
    A number of photos, bible records, and land records
    
  • Tracy McGee's Collection
    Photos of Jessie Floyd McGee's land and family
    who live on the land settled by John McGee
    eight generations ago.
    

Sources

• Cooke Cemetery Robert Cooke's ten foot high memorial stone. Most interesting inscription: Check out George Pirtle's footstone
• Shellsford Cemetery Numerous McGee ancestors and kin
• McGee Cemetery, Boyd Creek Road Burial place of John A. McGee Sr. and Caroline McGee Hooper
• McGee Cemetery, McGee Cove Burial place of John McGee, Samuel and Minerva McGee, on the land of Jessie Floyd McGee

Of Special Interest

• Ethel Dicie Trosper Trosper/Fattig stories
• Benjamin Franklin Trosper (b1865) Trosper story by Ethel Trosper Fattig
• Dora Belle Runkle her autobiography as published by the Cambridge Clarion
• Rose Florence Thompson photos and story written by Debbie Wilkins
• Bennett Ballard story written by Debbie Wilkins
• Bland Ballard story written by Debbie Wilkins
• Sanders Thompson story written by Debbie Wilkins
• Win Failner's tale of his childhood "Buggy Ride" as written by his daughter, Debbie Wilkins
• George Pirtle his unique gravestones
• Robert Cooke Revolutionary war soldier, letter to his grandson, graveyard photos and transcriptions
• Martha England Wife of Clendenon McGee, 1828 petition for divorce with Tennessee Legislature (she remained married)
• John McGee (b1751) Revolutionary War Soldier, original pension request and one later filed by his children in 1852

Work Notes

• 56 files of select abstracts and transcriptions of portions of Heritage Quest, LDS, and TSLA microfilms
• McGee land office patents and grants by Virginia
• Miscellaneous select Revolutionary War pension file abstracts