MCGUIRE, Rebecca Holmes

1798 - 1879  (81 years)

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  Rebecca Holmes McGuire Macky

  
  

• Name	MCGUIRE, Rebecca Holmes
  Birth	1798	Frederick Co, VA   [1, 2]
  	Rebecca McGuire was born at “Grove Farm,” the home of her maternal grandfather, Joseph Holmes
  Gender	Female
  Arrival	Abt 1844	Charles Town, Jefferson, West Virginia, USA   [3]
  	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.
  Burial	1879	Zion Church Yard, Charles Town, WV (Lot 81N)   [1]
  Death	4 Jul 1879	Charles Town, WV   [4]
  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).   [5]
  Person ID	I953	Hugh Byrne and Nanette Asimov Lines
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2023

  
  

  Father	MCGUIRE, Edward,   b. Jul 1767, Winchester, VA d. 23 Nov 1827, Woodville near Berryville, VA (Age 60 years)
  Mother	HOLMES, Elizabeth,   b. 24 May 1777, Frederick Co, VA d. 28 Mar 1828 (Age 50 years)
  Marriage	10 Mar 1796	Frederick Co, VA   [1]
  Family ID	F373	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	MACKY, John,   b. 25 May 1794, Frederick Co., VA d. 1 Apr 1825, Winchester, Frederick County, VA, USA (Age 30 years)
  Marriage	25 May 1815	Winchster, Frederick, VA USA   [1, 6]
  	They were married in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, by Dr. Alexander Balmain, “clergyman of the P. E. Church,” on the 25th of May, 1815, and that neither of them had been married before
  Notes	From Frederica Trapnell research: Rebecca Holmes McGuire was a redheaded, seventeen year old Irish lass when she married John Macky. [5]
  Children	1. MACKY, Frederica,   b. 4 Apr 1816, Frederick Co, VA d. 9 Apr 1891, Charles Town, WV (Age 75 years)   2. MACKY, Elizabeth Holmes,   b. 7 Dec 1819, “Glen Gary”, Winchester, Frederick County, VA USA d. 5 Oct 1895, Indianapolis, Indiana (Age 75 years)   3. MACKY, Catharine,   b. 20 Oct 1822, Winchester, Frederick County, VA, USA d. 19 Aug 1849 (Age 26 years)
  Family ID	F366	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2023

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1798 - Frederick Co, VA Marriage - 25 May 1815 - Winchster, Frederick, VA USA Arrival - Abt 1844 - Charles Town, Jefferson, West Virginia, USA Burial - 1879 - Zion Church Yard, Charles Town, WV (Lot 81N) Death - 4 Jul 1879 - Charles Town, WV  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

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  [S57] Frederica Holmes Trapnell, Frederica Holmes Trapnell notes, (Various letters, charts, notes 1940s-1990s), Joseph Trapnell fan chart. [S629] Frederica Holmes Trapnell, John Macky, Rebecca McGuire was born at “Grove Farm,” the home of her maternal grandfather, Joseph Holmes. [S629] Frederica Holmes Trapnell, John Macky, 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. . [S629] Frederica Holmes Trapnell, John Macky, Three years later to the day, on July 4, 1879, she died, “age 81.”. [S629] Frederica Holmes Trapnell, John Macky. [S629] Frederica Holmes Trapnell, John Macky, The pension record includes a notarized Claim in his widow states that he was of medium size, had dark hair and blue eyes, and that they were married in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, by Dr. Alexander Balmain, “clergyman of the P. E. Church,”.