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MCGEE, Matilda America
1834 - 1925

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• Birth	1834
  Gender	Female
  Died	1925
  Person ID	I755	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	05 Sep 2011

  
  

  Father	MCGEE, Burrell S.,   b. 18 Dec 1795, Ware Shoals, Abbeville, SC ,   d. 25 Jan 1854
  Mother	HODGES, Sarah,   b. 18 Nov 1799, SC ,   d. 18 Oct 1887, Anderson County, SC
  Married	Abt 1818	SC
  Family ID	F187	Group Sheet

  
  

• Photos		Matilda America McGee
  		Matilda America McGee 2

  
  

• Notes

  Matilda America McGee was born on November 12, 1833 in Anderson Co., SC. She was a daughter of Burrell S. McGee and Sarah Hodges. On September 9, 1852 she married John James Smith in Jefferson Co., TN. She was 18, and he was about 24. The family moved quite a bit over the next 20 years. Children were born in Tennessee, SC, Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama. For more information on their family, see the material on John J. Smith. John J. Smith apparently died in July 1874, according to a document signed by Georgia Smith in 1917. It is not known where John J. Smith is buried. On October 31, 1876, America married Nelson M. Bryson in Fort Payne, DeKalb Co., AL. She was 42. America and Nelson Bryson had one child, Lela, who was born on July 26, 1878 in Tallahassee, Leon Co, FL. One of Lela's descendants, Samuel W. Ault, III, has old photographs of the Smith family. In the 1880s the Brysons moved to the Chattanooga area in Hamilton Co., TN. In the 1900 federal census for Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., TN, America was enumerated with the family of her son-in-law: Sam W. Ault, 30, druggist Lula L. Ault, 28 Vashti Ault, 9/12 America Brison, Nov. 1833, 66, married William E. Smith, Feb. 1872, 28, paper hanger In the 1910 federal census for Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., TN, she was enumerated with the family of her son-in-law: Sam W. Ault, 41 Lela B. Ault, 31 Vashti V. Ault, 10 Samuel Ault, 6 Willard B. Ault, 4 William H. Ault, 2 Mary E. Ault, 1/12 America M. Bryson, 76 In the 1920 federal census for Civil District 3, Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., TN, she was enumerated with her son at 209 Belle Avenue: Walter Smith, 59, widowed, shoe maker America Bryson, 86, widowed America McGee died at the age of 92 on June 7, 1925 in Chattanooga. The following obituary is from the Chattanooga Daily Times, June 8, 1925: Mrs. America McGee Bryson Mrs. America McGee Bryson, age 92, died Sunday night at 9:20 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Samuel W. Ault, 631 Forrest avenue, North Chattanooga, after a lingering illness. She was the daughter of Burl McGee and Sarah Hodges McGee of South Carolina and was born Nov. 13, 1833 in Anderson, S. C. where she spent her earlier years, later moving to Tennessee. She is survived by three daughters: Mrs. R. L. Beville of Miami, Fla; Mrs. Willard Springfield and Mrs. Samuel W. Ault of Chattanooga; four sons, W. W., W. E, H. H., and C. B. Smith, and by fifty-two grandchildren. Complete funeral arrangements will be announced later by the R. J. Coulter Undertaking company. The following notice is from the Chattanooga paper: Funeral Mrs. Bryson Funeral services were conducted on Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the residence, 631 Forrest avenue, for Mrs. America McGee Bryson. The Rev. O. E. Gardner officiated, with interment at Chattanooga Memorial Park. Elsea Smith, John Smith, Frank Smith, W. J. Springfield, D. S. Henry and George E. McGee served as pallbearers. Coulter's had charge of arrangements.