Benjamin Allen McGee
Submitted by Sharon
Bruce, great granddaughter of Benjamin Allen McGee and granddaughter of
Alonzo Allen McGee
Benjamin Allen McGee, born in Butler County in 1866
and died in Cleveland, OH in 1939.
Benjamin McGee was the son of John
McGee b. 1837 in Ireland and is believed to be the son of Mary
Zulema Manley b. 1832 in PA. Mary Zulema
Manley was the daughter of William Manley
and wife Jane of who lived in Armstrong County in
1850.
In addition to Benjamin, John and Mary Zulema McGee
had the following children: James (who married Amelia Anderson, daughter of Samuel
Anderson and Elizabeth Baumgartner), Sarah,
Susannah, John, Johanna, and possibly a Mary
and a William.
Benjamin McGee married Laura
A. Lackey. Laura was the daughter of William J.
Lackey, Civil War Veteran of the 102nd PA Volunteers, and granddaughter
of Jacob Leckey a resident of both Butler and
Clarion Counties. Jacob Leckey's first wife was
named Mary (surname something like Osenbaugh
or Ostenberg) and his last wife was Mariah
Catherine Slater.
Benjamin and Laura were the parents of four
children: Blanche (who died at age 16), Catherine
"Kate", Cecelia, and Alonzo Allen (b. 1898). Laura
Lackey McGee died when her youngest child Alonzo
was 3 or 4 years old, about 1902.
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