JAMES SLADE MCGAHEY

JAMES SLADE MCGAHEY WAS BORN AUGUST 8 , 1825 IN ILLINOIS . HE CAME TO CALIFORNIA OVERLAND IN 1849 . HE SETTLED ON THE TULE RIVER IN TULARE AND WORKED AS A FARMER , ALSO WAS TULARE COUNTY CLERK 1859 TO 1861 , RECORDER & AUDITOR , ELECTION CLERK IN TULE RIVER PRECINCT AUGUST 23 , 1858 , SUPT OF SCHOOLS

DURING EARLY SKIRMISH WITH THE INDIANS ON TULE RIVER WHILE UNDER CAPT. DILL HE WAS SHOT WITH AN ARROW , BUT NOT KILLED. JAMES DIED ON AUGUST 19 , 1893 IN TULARE COUNTY CALIFORNIA
JAMES MARRIED JULIA ANN LOOP IN 1877 , JULIA WAS BORN ON MARCH 26 , 1858 IN SUISUN , CALIFORNIA . JULIA'S PARENTS WERE ASAHEL LOOP & CAROLINA CATLIN. JULIA DIED ON SEPT, 9 , 1928 IN TULARE COUNTY CALIFORNIA.

JAMES AND JULIA HAD A SON JAMES SLADE MCGAHEY JR. BORN 1878 , MARRIED MINNIE VAUGHN, DAUGHTER OF DAVID VAUGHN AND AMANDA SHIPPEE . JAMES JR AND MINNIE'S CHILDREN WERE EARL H. MCGAHEY.

EARL H. MCGAHEY WAS BORN 1902 , MARRIED BEATRICE , EARL DIED IN 1972.

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