Mcgaffey biography

  • Paul McGaffey.
  • Margaret McGaffey Fisk was born overseas during her father's first full post with the US State Department.
  • He can picture beautiful things, grand scenery, lofty mountains and deep valleys, he can create a hero and heroine whose ultimate destinies will deeply.

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    Boat snagged & sunk in river between Belgrade & Sabine - we saved out baggage.  I went across to Lowe (?) Mills & went with Father - was with Dr John A (unreadable word) that year selling goods.  Father went north & brought back the family, Mother, Brother & Sister - in Jasper County.  In April inom went back to Michigan & May 18th was married to Miss Mary McCollister - daughter of Deacon Chas McCollister who kept the Farmer's Inn 4 miles west of White Pigeon.  Our first child was born there, May 11th & now lives in Luling, Tex, wife of Capt K. D. Keith.  I remained in Michigan until in July , then off for Texas again, in two horse wagons with wife & child - was at Michigan City some time with wife's sister, then to Chicago & got on out to Dixon with Aunt Rachel Fellows & the cousins until late in Sept; then by SB (steam boat) all aboard to St Louis; then to Natches & up Red river to Alexandria, then bygd land; crossed S

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    Some Notes on the Pioneer McGaffey Families of Sabine Pass, Texas

    By W. T. Block

    About a feature writer published the legend of "McGaffey&#;s gold" at Sabine Pass. He inadvertently misidentified &#;Neil&#; (sic) McGaffey, brother of John McGaffey, as the first settler at Sabine Pass. John&#;s wife, Sarah "Sally" Garner McGaffey, was known throughout her lifetime as the "mother" of Sabine Pass. The writer also credited "Neil" McGaffey with being an immigrant Irishman, who wanted only "to return to Ireland and build a castle" Actually the brothers Neal (Sr.) and John McGaffey were fourth generation Americans of Scottish descent, born in Sandwich, New Hampshire.1

    Errors also exist in T. J. Russell&#;s history of the McGaffey family, published in Beaumont Journal in Jan.-March, ; nevertheless Russell&#;s articles remain valuable for the wealth of information they contain.2

    The writer, being age 78, has long ago retired from writing

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    McGaffey, New Mexico

    Census-designated place in New Mexico, United States

    McGaffey is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 0 as of the census.[2]

    Geography

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    The community is in the southern part of the county, at the south end of New Mexico State Road , which leads north 11 miles (18&#;km) to Interstate 40 near Fort Wingate. McGaffey is within Cibola National Forest, and the Forest Service's McGaffey Campground is just south of the center of the community.

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the McGaffey CDP has an area of square miles (&#;km2), of which square miles (&#;km2), or %, are water.[1] McGaffey Lake is a small reservoir in the northeast corner of the CDP. The lake drains south toward Tampico Draw and the Rio Nutria, a south-flowing tributary of the Rio Pescado and the Zuni River, part of the Little Colorado River watershed.

    Demographics

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