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| Birth: | 25 Nov 1798 in , Hampshire Co, VA |
| Death: | 9 Jun 1865 in Fayette, Fayette Co., TX |
| Sex: | M |
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| Burial: Fayette, Fayette Co., TX |
| Changed: 19 Nov 2002 23:01 |
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| "Polly" Mary Elizabeth Hougland (Wife) b. 14 Jun 1797 in Williamsport, Wood Co., VA
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| Marriage: | 9 Jun 1821 in , Wash Co, OH 25 Sep 2002 22:33 |
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 David Allen McGinnis Rev b. 12 Oct 1822 in Now Mole Hill, Ritchie, WV
 Melville Louis McGinnis b. 7 Dec 1823 in Of Cabell Co. WV
- Melcina McGinnis b. 28 Nov 1828 in , Washington, OH
- Oliver Asbury McGinnis b. 13 Aug 1825 in Of Cabell Co. WV
- Fletcher McGinnis b. 8 Oct 1837 in Of Cabell, VA
- Mary McGinnis b. in Of Cabell, VA
- Julia McGinnis b. in Of Cabell, VA
- Eliza McGinnis b. in Of Cabell, VA
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Individual:
Notes for Edmond McGinnis redone Nov 2002. C.Minson.
Name: Edmund MCGINNIS
Birth: 25 NOV 1798 in Virginia
Death: 9 JUN 1865 in Texas
Occupation: Methodist Preacher
1798 Nov 25: Edmund McGinnis was born in Hampshire Co, VA , s/o Samuel McGinnis. (from Joan Vernon, 2305 Delaware Drive, Cleveland Heights, OH 44106.
She's a desc of this family thru child #6-Melcena McGinnis.)
1811: Moved west with parents to Guyandotte, Cabell Co, V A (Joan Vernon)
1821 June 9: Rev. Edmund McGinnis of Meigs Co OH, md Poll y Hougland of Washington Co, OH.--- Court Records. Mg by Abel Robinson, Min. ME Ch.
1822: Edmund was Licensed to exhort.
1827 Aug 11: Licensed to preach at ME meeting (five years a fter son David born.)
1830: Census of Cabell Co, VA p. 021
1834: -- took oath of allegiance to VA, gave bond to perfor m marriages.
1838: "He bought Lot 13 in Guyandotte for $600 in 1838,
1840: and sold it for $1050 in 1840.
1840: Census of Cabell Co, VA p. 34
1850: Census of Cabell Co, lists Edmond 55, Polly 55 and Fl etcher 12, all b VA. p. 53
1856: But by1854, they had divested themselves of even th e property they had inherited from John Hoagland, and owned no more land in Virginia
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1856 Apr 29: Edmund and Polly McGinnis family left WV for T exas,
1856 May 19: They arrived at their destination.
1856 Aug 30-Sep 2: Two letters from Edmund & Polly in Fayet te Co, TX to son David in WV.
1860: Census of Fayette Co Texas pg. 271 for Edmund & Poll y McGinnis..
1865 Jun 9: Edmond McGinnis died in Fayette Co. Texas. "Aft er Edmund's death, Polly and her sons moved to Liberty Co, TX where she lived next door to Fletcher."
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Oliver, Fletcher and Melville all went to TX
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1850 Sep 10: Census of 10th Dist, Cabell Co, VA.
Edmond McGinnis 55, farmer 2000, VA
Polly McGinnis 55 VA
Fletcher McGinnis 12 VA
next door is
Oliver A McGinnis 25 Sheriff 1050
Helen L (S?) McGinnis 17.
and one page over is
Allen McGinnis 53 farmer, wife Eliza 53 and 5 children. (br other to Edmond?)
1860 Jun 13: Census of Fayetteville, Fayette Co, Texas p 27 1: (Joan Vernon)
Edmond McGinnis 61 $8,802 VA
Polly 63 VA
Nevah Baunring 10 f VA (Beuhring)
Cosena N. 10 f VA
Ella E 9 f VA
Fanny M 7 f VA
Millard F. 5 m PA (this is likely VA)
John Bowlen 20 m PA
MM (Melville) McGinnis --- and FM (Fletcher) McGinnis & fam ilies are close by..
"Beuhring children born at Maple Grove, WV. After Hon Frede rick died they went with their mother (Melcena) to her parents in TX. Mr. and Mrs. McGinnis are not buried in the same cemetery. Mrs. (Melcena) Beuhring lies where Mr. McGinnis does." (JoAnn Vernon, Feb 2001.) Melcena died in 1860 in Fayette Co, TX.
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HISTORY OF RITCHIE CO., WVA, by Minnie Kendall Lowther, pu b Wheeling News, Litho Co, Wheeling WV, 1911. (Reprinted by Ritchie Co. Historical Society.
See Ritchie Co, WV- Wheeling WV by Minnie Kendall Lowther p .153
"parents of 10 children, all of whom have crossed the tide- -six preceded him. Among these were David A. McGinnis, lived and died at Mole Hill; Oliver A., Melvillle, and Fletcher, and Mrs. Melcena Beuhring, who all went to Texas; and Mrs. Mary Johnson, who sleeps at Huntington."
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PATHWAY: A FAMILY HISTORY. See
The Rev. Edmund McGinnis (32), the father of Rev. David All en McGinnis and a circuit rider in his own right, was born on November 25, 1798 and moved to Texas nine years before his death in 1865. He said that he was first convicted of sin when he was about six years old. He moved west with his parents to Guyandotte in 1811, when he was 13. He was converted four years later at a camp meeting on the Guyandotte River. Tradition says he met his wife while doing religious work in Ohio and they were married in 1821. Twice a day he prayed with his family, besides having private prayer alone.
Edmund was licensed to exhort in 1822, and licensed to prea ch at a quarterly Methodist Episcopal meeting at Adam Black's on August 11, 1827, five years after his son David was born. He began riding and preaching on the Logan circuit in 1828, the first of seven circuits he would travel during his lifetime. It was hard work. Edmund preached the first Methodist sermons in the West Virginia counties of Logan, Raleigh, Fayette, Wayne and Braxton, where his circuits were located, and in many other places. In 1834 he gave bond to celebrate the rites of matrimony, taking an Oath of Allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia.
An earlier West Virginia Methodist preacher covered 3,000 m iles in one year, visited 400 churches and was paid $12.10.
Edmund was a farmer and storekeeper too, and after about 18 40 his son David Allen McGinnis filled up the rest of his father's ledger book with his own journal. Cousin Herbert McGinnis repeatedly made the odd claim that Rev. Edmund McGinnis once owned 9,000 acres where Huntington, WV now stands (it may have been his uncle Edmund, the legislator) and that along with the Beuhring family he gave part of it for the campus of Marshall College. Edmund received a 144 acre land grant west of "Guyandotte Source." He bought Lot 13 in Guyandotte for $600 in 1838, and sold it for $1050 in 1840. But by 1854, they had divested themselves of even the property they had inherited from John Hoagland, and owned no more land in Virginia. They moved to Texas in 1856. The 1850 and 1860 Censuses list him as a farmer even in his fifties and sixties.
Except for his eldest son David Allen McGinnis, who resiste d all pleas to join him, all of Edmund's surviving children came to Texas in the 1850's, including Oliver, Melville, Fletcher and Melcena. After Edmund had arrived in Texas in 1856, he wrote a letter to his son David Allen McGinnis,"We left Virginia on 29 April 1856, with an eight day layover in New Orleans which made the trip 20 days 8+12 We came by water by (via) New Orleans & thinse acrofs the Gulf to Galveston on board of a ship from there we took a steamer up the Buffalow Bayou to Harris Burgh there we took the steam car for Richmond a distance of 30 miles then stage 60 miles which brought us in 6 miles of Olivers.... cost $40 each = $120." Edmund was pleased with his decision to relocate to Texas. He described his property, "...800 acres at $1750... back 20 acres fenced... peach trees... good well..."
"The land I have here is rich and good enough for me..."
Edmund McGinnis, 1856
Edmund told his son David that he had many opportunities fo r ministry: "I had 4 sabbaths appointments 2 in a town and 2 in the Country. I can go from home to any one of them and return the same day My camp meeting is to embrase the first sabbath in Oct we have among the pretyest camps grounds up on the Globe in the senter and before the stand a frame shed in which 1500 people could be seated I am trying to serve god in good earnest and find I have lost mutch the Last 2 or 3 years of my stay in Virginia here I have many friends and no enemies save the devel & the pilage of my own heart My love to Sarah and the littel ones pray for us and write soon."
On March 5, 1865, Edmund became ill while preaching his las t sermon five miles from home, and the sickness lingered for months until he died on June 9, 1865. At the last, he told his family that he was dying happy, gave his hand to everyone present, and told them, "Be good and serve God and meet me in heaven." In his will, he left his theological books to his son David. His wife Polly died eleven years later. His gravesite is unknown, but it is probably in Fayette County since his wife and sons apparently didn't move north to Polk and Liberty counties until after his death. Descendants of his children Melcena, Fletcher and Melville still live in Texas, including Pat Marburger, Pearl Brack, Sandra Vega and Peggy Pike Gordon, among others.
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Narratives are taken from Pathway: A Family History, ® 2002 , Michael McGinnis and may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes. To order your own copy (available for the first time in paperback), more than 200 pages plus photos, email pathway@biographiks.com or send $20 per copy, plus $5 shipping and handling per order, to Michael McGinnis, P.O. Box 73, Waring TX 78074.
Last Will & Testament - Rev. Edmund McGinnis, (1798-1865) o f Cabell County, WV and Fayette County, TX
Last Will filed 12th Aug 1866
- In the name of God amen, I Edmund McGinnis of the count y of Fayette and State of Texas do make and ordain this my last will and Testament
- Item 1st - After having paid all my just debts, I will t o my wife Polly McGinnis all of my real and personal Estate to have during her lifetime to use and dispose of in any way as I would if living, I recommend that my lands be sold as soon as practicable and the proceeds be vested in a more suitable family residence so as to obviate the Scarcity of Timber and the inconvenience of church and School facilites
-- Item 2nd -- Should the lands not be sold nor my debts pa id entire at the death of my wife then I will to my son Fletcher McGinnis, to my adopted son John Bolin and my grandson Millard Filmore Beuhring the lands to be equally devided among them after the payment of my debts and what other effects that may be on hand to go to my Son Fletcher to aid him in raising and educating my grancchildren viz the Beuhring children. My grandson Millard being a minor is not to be any hindrance to my son Fletcher Selling or Making a title to the lands, and Fletcher is to act as the guardian of Millard and to give him his portion of land whenever a purchase may be made. Fletcher is to have my buildings and will over and above the
other two legatees above named that he may be the better ab le to afford a home for my grandchildren intrusted to his case. My son Melville is to have access to a hole of water above my house and is to have all the claims that I hold against him given up and also the claims against Fletcher are to be given up
-- Item 3rd I appoint my wife Polly McGinnis Executrix an d my son Fletcher jointly with her Executor without having to give any security to the probate court and that the probate court have nothing to do with the will only to prove it
-- Item 4 -- I will to my son Oliver my black horse for th e benefit of his son Bertrand
-- Item 5-- I will to my son David A. McGinnis my theologic al library This the 29th day of May 1865.
Edmund McGinnis
- In presence of Jasper Fullur and William Mungler
Fayette Co TX - Probate Records Vol F, p. 493 (from Truax-A ncestry.com.)----------------------------------------
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