MY RIVERSIDE CEMETERY TOMBSTONE
INSCRIPTIONS SCRAPBOOK PART V
by Jonathan K. T. Smith
1994

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JAMES M. AND OLIVIA T. (DAY) McREE FAMILY BIBLE

Published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1846. A deluxe edition, including the Apocrypha and other scriptual study aids. Well-illustrated with block-plate prints. Donated to the Tennessee Room Collection, Jackson-Madison County Library by Warwick Aiken, Jr. and wife, Marianne S. Aiken of Eden, North Carolina, March 13, 1994.

BIRTHS

James M. McRee born 26th of March 1814
Olivia T. McRee born 5th of February 1828
Martha Dorothy McRee was born 29 August 1843
Malvinia G. McRee was born 21 June 1845
Buena Vista McRee was born 9 April 1847
William Henry McRee was born the 6th September 1849
Russell Legar McRee was born March 7th 1861
James Sydney Mcree was born October 29th 1866
James Sidney McRee was born Thursday morning at 2 o'clock. November 10, 1892
Wesley Day McRee was born Nov. l, 1892
Reed McKinley McRee born Sept. 17th 1894

MARRIAGES

J. M. McRee & O. T. Day was married 10 Octr. 1842*
Dr. S. L. Cheaney and Miss B. V. McRee were married May 21st 1863
Mr. Sydney Parker and Gertrude McRee were married Feb. 15th 1864
Mr. G. E. Green & Martha D. McRee were married Nov. 9. 1864
Mr. W. H. McRee and Miss Parrie Williams were married Feb. 10th 1875
James Sidney McRee and Mila May Rice was married at Humboldt. Tenn., Tuesday night. 10.17. Feb. 16, 1892
Wm. Henry McRee and Emma Key were married Dec. 29, 1890 at Booneville. Miss.

DEATHS

Mrs. B. V. Cheaney departed this life on March 19th 1877 at Harrisburg, Ill.
Mrs. Olivia T. McRee, wife of James M. McRee, died at Jackson, Tenn. June 12, 1881
James M. McRee died Sept. 21, 1891 at one o'clock P.M.
Wm. Henry McRee died July 31, 1893 at 5 1/2 o'clock P.M.
Reid M. McRee died at Gulfport, Miss. Tuesday October 16 at 10 o'clock a. m. /no year given/

 

*Madison County. Tennessee Will Book 6, page 283. Will of John H. Day executed by him August 14, 1856: probated September 1856. Mentions as his daughter, Olivia T. McCrea /McRee/ on page 284. Daughter, Mrs. Martha A. Ford, wife of Robert P. Ford, on page 285.

 

JAMES M. & OLIVIA T. McREE LOT #25

 

Shaft tombstone of James M. and Olivia T. McRee, Riverside Cemetery

 

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