WHEELER, Susannah

Family/Spouse: MCGUIRE, Edward. Edward (son of MCGUIRE, Constantine and MCELLENGOT, Julia) was born in 1720 in Ardfert near Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland; died before 1 Dec 1806 in Winchester, VA; was buried in 1806 in Winchster, Frederick, VA USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Merchant
• Religion: Episcopalian

Notes:

From Frederica Holmes Trapnell 1968 biography of John Macky

The second Edward McGuire “was born in Winchester in July 1767. He was bred to the business of a merchant, entering first the store of Col. Dowdell in Winchester with whom he remained several years.   After attaining the age of 20, he began business for himself at Battletown, now Berryville, and was so successful as to be able to also to open stores at Winchester and in North Carolina.  Desiring to retire, he sold his three stores for 8000 Virginia currency, but fraudulent behavior on the part of the purchaser prevented him from receiving any of the purchase money for a long time and brought him to acute financial embarrassment.  In 1805, he commenced keeping the large hotel in Winchester (which had been built by his father and previously rented to various innkeepers), made a very comfortable fortune, paid all his debts and supported and liberally educated his children.

“He was a quiet man, apparently stern to those who did not know him well; but in reality sociable and hospitable, and generous and charitable to the needy.  His son said, in his own old age, that his father was the most strictly truthful man he had ever known.” (Stanard, p. 32-33.)

He died on November 23 at his home in “Woodville,” near Berryville.  Standard and the Frederick Parish Register, 1825-42, both say he died in 1827, but his will was dated the 12th of November, 1828, and was proved on December first of that year.  It provided for payment of his debts and then his estate was to be divided equally among all his children, except that over and above their equal share, his daughter Rebecca Macky was to have $500., his son Edward D. McGuire, a Negro boy named Bill; his son John Samuel McGuire, $500. Towards completion of his education.  His son Hugh H. McGuire and his son-in-law Alexander S. Tidball (a lawyer and the husband of his daughter Millicent) were the executors. (Fred. Co. WIll Bk. 15, p. 19.)


From Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography:

Edward (2) McGuire, son of Edward (1) McGuire, the immigrant, and Elizabeth (Wheeler) McGuire, was born in 1768, at or near Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia. He always lived in Winchester; was a merchant and had stores in Alexandria and Norfolk, Virginia; and in Wilmington, North Carolina. Also owned large farms in Frederick county and elsewhere in Virginia. In politics he was a Federalist, and was a member of the Episcopal church. He married Elizabeth Holmes, of Winchester, Virginia. They had issue, namely: Rebecca, Milicent, Hugh Holmes, Edward D., William David, of whom more hereafter; David Holmes, John.

Died:
Standard and the Frederick Parish Register, 1825-42, both say he died in 1827, but his will was dated the 12th of November, 1828, and was proved on December first of that year.

Edward married HOLMES, Elizabeth on 10 Mar 1796 in Frederick Co, VA. Elizabeth (daughter of HOLMES, Col Joseph and HUNTER, Rebecca) was born on 24 May 1777 in Frederick Co, VA; died on 28 Mar 1828. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: Abt 1844, Charles Town, Jefferson, West Virginia, USA

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell notes:

Her great-granddaughter, Mary Meade Ewart, said that she remembered one of the Riddles of Charles Town telling her that she and her sister as little girls like to go with their mother to call on Grandma Macky.  She had such a charming home and always had cookies to give them, – “evidently they were seen and not fed when they went other places.”   Mrs Tucker (another great-granddaughter) wrote that during the War (Civil), “Charlestown was overrun with the ‘damnyankees.’ My mother (Nannie Tidball) said that many a night they would bang on their doors and demand they get up and make pancakes. They would have to grease the whole top of the stove to make enough pancakes to satisfy them. Did you ever hear the tale that a bullet came crashing through the window and took the top off Grandma Macky’s cap?” No, and Mrs. Tucker died before she could relate it for inclusion here.

What the sources were of Rebecca Macky’s income is not known, but they could not have been great.  On February 10th, 1855, when she was fifty-seven, she first applied for a pension in consequence of her late husband’s service in the War of 1819, under the Act of Congress passed in September 1850, she deposing that her husband had not during his life time received any bounty lands nor had she.  On July 13, 1878, the Hon Andrew Hunter, aged 74, and N. S. White, 60 years of age, appeared before B. C. Washington, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia, to apply for a pension for Mrs. Rebecca Holmes Macky under a Law of Congress passed in March 1878. N. S. White, her son-in-law, swore that of his personal knowledge Mrs. Macky applied for and obtained a Land Warrant for 160 acres of land under the 1850 Law and that she sold the land for a dollar an acre.  One of the papers in this latter claim ends with the statement, “She has been known by general reputation and by her intimate friends as the widow of said John Macky and is and has ever been a lady of the highest respectability.”  The file does not show what disposition was made of this claim.  She was eighty years old and died before its probable conclusion.

On the 15th of April, 1852, “...Rebecca H. Mackey of Charlestown, Jefferson County, Virginia, for motives of benevolence and in consideration of the long fidelity of servant Thomas, commonly called Thoms Hataway, have manumitted and set free from slavery,...my negroe man Thomas Hataway and I hereby give, grant and return unto said Thomas all my right, title and claim of, in and to his person, labor and services and of, in and to all the estate and property to which he may now have or may hereafter acquire.” (Jeff. Co. Deed Bkl, 32, p272).  

Birth:
Rebecca McGuire was born at “Grove Farm,” the home of her maternal grandfather, Joseph Holmes

Arrival:
Sometime in 1844, Rebecca Macky moved to Charles Town, West Virginia, following the marriage of her daughter Frederica whose husband, Nathan Smith White, was practicing law there.

Rebecca married MACKY, John on 25 May 1815 in Winchster, Frederick, VA USA. John (son of MACKY, Dr Robert and SNICKERS, Catharine) was born on 25 May 1794 in Frederick Co., VA; died on 1 Apr 1825 in Winchester, Frederick County, VA, USA; was buried in Apr 1825 in Winchester, Frederick County, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Milicent married TIDBALL, Alexander Scott about 1820. Alexander (son of TIDBALL, Joseph and SCOTT, Jane) was born on 19 Jan 1796; died on 3 Jan 1848 in Winchester, Frederick, VA, USA; was buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester City, Winchester, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Winchester, Frederick, VA, USA

Family/Spouse: MOSS, Ann Eliza. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: University of Pennsylvania Medical School
• Occupation: Physician, and later Planter

Notes:

From Encyclopedia of Virginia:

Dr. William David McGuire, son of Edward (2) and Elizabeth (Holmes) McGuire, was born February 23, 1810, at Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School as M. D. in 1830, and soon afterward began the practice of medicine at Winchester, Virginia, but after a few years gave up his profession and became a planter near Winchester. Before the civil war he was a Whig, but after the war a Democrat; served as presiding justice in the justice court of his county for some years. Died February 4, 1877, at or near Winchester, Virginia.
He married (first) Lucy Catherine Ware, in 1833, who had issue several children of whom only one daughter lived to maturity, to wit: Elizabeth Holmes, born in 1834 in Clarke county, Virginia. He married (second) Nancy Boyd Moss, daughter of Captain William and Gertrude (Holmes) Moss, February 16, 1841, in Fairfax county, Virginia. She was born December 4, 1818, at Aspen Hill, Fairfax county, Virginia; her mother, Gertrude (Holmes) Moss, was a daughter of Colonel Joseph Holmes, of Winchester, Virginia, and her father, Captain William Moss, was a son of Ann Minor by Captain John Moss, of Fairfax county, Virginia, who was an officer in the revolutionary war. Said last mentioned John Moss was a son of Thomas Moss, of Fairfax county, Virginia, who was the son of Thomas Moss, of Westmoreland county, Virginia, and the latter a descendant of Edward Moss, of York county, Virginia, whose father came to Virginia in 1625, from Staffordshire, England. Dr. William David McGuire and his wife had eleven children, ow whom only the following mentioned survived to maturity, namely: Margaretta Holmes, born January 12, 1844; Nannie Wilmer, born May 30, 1854; Evelyn Parker, born November 7, 1857; William Edward, of whom more hereafter.

Birth:
Dr. William David McGuire, son of Edward (2) and Elizabeth (Holmes) McGuire, was born February 23, 1810, at Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia.

William married WARE, Lucy Catherine in 1833. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married MOSS, Nancy Boyd on 16 Feb 1841 in Fairfax Co, VA, USA. Nancy (daughter of MOSS, Captain William and HOLMES, Gertrude) was born on 4 Dec 1818 in Aspen Hill, Fairfax, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frederica married WHITE, Nathan Smith on 11 Nov 1841 in Frederick Co, VA. Nathan (son of WHITE, Benjamin and CHISWELL, Rachel) was born on 6 Nov 1817 in Montgomery Co., MD; died on 4 Nov 1888 in Charles Town, WV; was buried on 12 Nov 1888 in Zion Church Yard, Charles Town, WV (Lot 81N). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Elizabeth Holmes Meade died of a heart attack at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hunter Richey, in Indianapolis, Indiana, on October 5, 1895, and was buried beside her husband in the graveyard of Meade Memorial Episcopal Church, White Post, Virginia.-

Family/Spouse: MEADE, John Nelson. John was born on 1 Oct 1821; died on 6 Jan 1880; was buried in 1880 in Meade Memorial Episcopal Church, White Post, Clarke, VA USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Cause of Death: Post childbirth complications

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell:

The third daughter of John Macky and Rebecca McGuire was born on October 20, 1822, and was named Catharine. She, too, was listed as a communicant of Christ Church, Winchester, on October 15, 1842, and as living in the “Country.”  She, also, was subsequently marked “Removed.”

Catharine married TIDBALL, A. Scott on 14 Dec 1843. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Encyclopedia of Virginia:

Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire, father of Mary Stuart (McGuire) McGuire, was born in 1835, son of Dr. Hugh Holmes McGuire, of Winchester, Virginia, and Ann Eliza (Moss) McGuire. He also was a physician and surgeon in Philadelphia, and was connected with the Jefferson Medical College prior to 1861. When the civil war began, he, together with other southern students, went South, and he enlisted as a private in the Confederate army. Was appointed surgeon in the Second Virginia Regiment, Confederate States Army, afterward surgeon of the "Stonewall Brigade," and then medical director of Ewell's and of Early's corps. After the war, he went to Richmond, Virginia, where he practiced his profession. Was professor of surgery in the Medical College of Virginia, and founder of St. Luke's Hospital, of Richmond, also of the University College of Medicine there. He was president of the Medical Society of Virginia, the Southern Surgical Society, and of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire married Mary Stuart, daughter of Hon. Alexander H. H. Stuart, of Staunton, Virginia. They had children, namely: Stuart, of Richmond; Hugh Holmes; Mary Stuart, married Dr. William Edward McGuire; Frances Baldwin; Augusta Stuart, deceased; Giretta Holmes; Margaret.

Family/Spouse: STUART, Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: Berryville Academy, Berryville High School, followed by study of medicine at University of Virginia, graduating in 1886 as MD
• Occupation: Civil Engineer for Pennsylvania Railroad Co, and later MD

Notes:

From Encyclopedia of Virginia:

Dr. William Edward McGuire, son of William David and Nancy Boyd (Moss) McGuire, was born March, 1860, at Norwood, near Berryville, in Clarke county, Virginia. He attended the Berryville Academy, and the Berryville High School, after which he studied medicine at the University of Virginia, and graduated therefrom as M. D. in 1886; however, prior to that time, he had spent three years as a civil engineer in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. After his graduation in medicine he began practice in Richmond, Virginia, where he has continued as a physician and surgeon since that time. He was at one time president of the Richmond Academy of Medicine at Richmond, Virginia; from 1894 to 1911, professor of gynecology in the University College of Medicine at Richmond, Virginia; professor of clinical medicine in the same institution from 1911 to 1913, and thereafter professor of clinical medicine in the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, Virginia. He is a member of the Virginia State Medical Society, the Southern Medical and Surgical Society, and of the American Medical Association. In politics he is a Democrat, and member of the Protestant Episcopal church, also of the Westmoreland Club, of Richmond, and of the Country Club of Virginia.
Dr. McGuire married Mary Stuart McGuire, daughter of Dr. Hunter Holmes and Mary (Stuart) McGuire, October 9, 1894, at Richmond, Virginia. She was born 3, 1872, in Richmond, Virginia, and had a son, Hunter Holmes, born October 22, 1895, in Richmond, Virginia, was educated at the McGuire University School, at Richmond, Virginia, the Episcopal High School, near Alexandria, Virginia, and the University of Virginia.

William married MCGUIRE, Mary Stuart on 9 Oct 1894 in Richmond, VA, USA. Mary (daughter of MCGUIRE, Dr. Hunter Holmes and STUART, Mary) was born in 1872 in Richmond, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]