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"See a map of synonyms of gee in the Visual Thesaurus.""Share this word with del.New Books Available on the Gee Family!!The name "Gee" appears to have originated with the Normans in England.There
are possibly as many as three villages in France named Gee.According to the book The Gee Family, copyright 1937 by W.Fletcher, the Gee surname cannot be directly traced beyond the 17th century, however the Gee
name was prevalent, according to Fletcher, in Leicestershire from 1400, Nottinghamshire from
1460, and Lincolnshire from about 1340.Scottish origin of the Gee surname and links to such spellings as MacGee, MacGhie, MacGhee,
and Magee derived from the Strathclyde Britons.In the 1700's Americans in New England continued to be heavily influenced by their British
origins.There was a tendency to pronounce an "e" as though it was an "a".As a result the
name Gee was often pronounced Jay.Since spelling at this time was not "fixed" and often a
matter of personal preference the name Gee was often written, as it sounded in some dialects,
"Jay".The family is definitely English and the spelling Gee is well documented in England as
far back as the 1300's.Charles Gee was born in the period between 1650 and 1670.He emigrated, most likely, from
Stretford near Manchester, England to Surry County Virginia before 1688.The first known reference
to Charles Gee in the colonies is in 1688 when he is involved in a judgement to Col.Charles City County at Westover.Charles had a brother, Henry, who came to Virginia with him.Fletcher, in The Gee Family, indicated that Henry had no offspring but current research has revealed some of the descendants of Henry Gee.It appears that all the succeeding generations of the Gee family in Virginia
up to the Revolutionary War were descendants of
Charles and Hannah Gee.Samuel Edward Gee,
1975, (also a descendant of Charles and Hannah) a Gee or Gees immigrated to
New England or New York at about the same time as Charles Gee and his
brother, Henry.Gee operated a ferry across the Hudson River
from West Point to Cold Springs, NY before the Revolutionary War.There is a light
house on a rock outcropping known as Gee's Point near West Point.There
appears to be no link between the New York Gee and our family in this
country.Indeed, with few exceptions, the northern Gee's appear to have stayed in the north and
the southern Gee's appear to have stayed in the south until after the Civil
War.Peter Gee appears in Massachusetts records in the year 1653.This Peter Gee and
his wife Grace had sons Thomas, John, and Joshua.Joshua Gee, was
a colleague of Cotton Mather at the Old North Church in Boston.Gee succeeded
Mather as pastor of the Old North Church and preached at Mather's funeral.Peter Gee was christened on January 25, 1614 in Newton Ferrers, Devon, England.He was
the son of a John Gee.Peter came to America and he was the master of a fishing vessel
that sailed out of the Isle of Shoals off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.Both of these brothers can be traced forward for several generations.Thomas Gee was christened on March 2, 1643.There are numerous references to Thomas Gee as a
possible ancestor of the Gee family in Virginia.Specifically he is possibly the father of
Charles and Henry Gee.There are references to a "tradition" in the Gee family of Virginia
that Charles and Henry were the sons of a Thomas Gee of Boston, Mass.In an article about
Pattie Williams Gee contained in The North Carolina
Booklet of the NC Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Vol VII, No.Charles Gee of Virgina
who was a descendant of Thomas Gee of Boston, Massachusetts.Fletcher, in an article that appeared
in an Atlanta newspaper, June 1, 1930 made reference to the tradition that the Virginia family was
descended from Thomas Gee of Boston.Fletcher chose to leave this reference
out of his book on the Gee family.None of the references to Thomas Gee as the ancestor of the
Virginia family have been substantiated insofar as I know.Hannah Gee of Surry and Prince
George Counties in Virginia.Neavil (or Neville) Gee b.Lucas of Lunenburg County
Virginia.Ky
John Bugg Gee b.Anna Sims
William James Gee b.Mary Newell of Monroe Co.John Robert Bugg Gee b.Notable characters up the Gee family tree.Fletcher, in The Gee Family, states that Charles Gee was born circa 1755
and that he was the first son of Neavil (or Neville) Gee (Charles1,
Charles2).More current research, however, indicates that the father of this
Charles Gee was not Neavil but his brother James.For details on this research read the
evidence page.There are many, many Gees of this period with the name Charles, however this Charles had the
distinction of being nicknamed "Powder Face".For the rest of his life Charles often signed documents with the name Powder Face Gee apparently
viewing his difigurement as a sign of distinction for having served his country in the war.Powder Face is listed in the information available in the
libraries of the Daughters of the American Revolution.John Henry Gee was born 1819 in Georgetown, South Carolina the son of
Henry Gee and Agness Forrester.When Agnes died Henry married Agness's
sister Martha Elizabeth Forrester.Henry Gee was a wealthy man and
prominent citizen who owned considerable property in Gadsden County,
Florida.He graduated at the age of nineteen and returned to Quincy
in 1838.He served as Assistant Surgeon in General Leigh Read's brigade
during the Second Seminole war in 1840.For the next several years John
Henry traveled extensively ultimately returning to Quincy to set up
medical practice.He rose
through the ranks and was ultimately pomoted to Major.In 1864 Major Gee
was ordered to North Carolina by General Braxton Bragg to take command of
the Salisbury Prison where he served until February, 1865.Before
Major Gee left command this number had swelled to 10,000.Severely understaffed
and undersupplied Major Gee struggled to maintain order and provide for
the prisoners in his charge but it was an uphill struggle.After the war Major John Henry Gee was arrested and tried in Raleigh, North
Carolina for war crimes, the trial beginning on February 21, 1866.Trial proceedings
were reported daily by a correspondent for the New York Tribune.Gee is about 47 years of age, five feet nine inches in height, well built
though rather slight, with brown hair largely sprinkled with gray, gray
mustache and goatee, blue eyes, aquiline nose, with an intelligent and rather
anxious expression.Gee was acquitted of all charges, the Military Commission
ruling that Gee was not directly responsible for any violations but that
higher authorities for the Confederate Government were responsible.Gee returned to Quincy to a hero's welcome where he soon
reestablished his medical practice in partnership with his brother Dr.John Henry never married but is reported to have lived with a woman
for some time.He continued to be a prominent and controversial figure in
Quincy until his tragic death on August 13, 1876.One of the first to arrive, Dr.Gee attempted
to stop the spread of the fire by placing a 25 pound powder keg in a warehouse
to blow a firebreak.Gee reentered the
warehouse at which time the keg exploded killing Dr.Hannah Gee of Surry and Prince George Counties in Virginia.Henry Gee
James Gee b.Mary Walker
Henry Gee b.Agness Forrester
John Henry Gee b.For much more information see the Rowan Public Library page on Salibury Prison.There is a yearly Salisbury Confederate Prison Symposium held in April.In addition Annette Gee Ford has written a book about the court martial of Dr.John Henry Gee entitled The Captive.Gee was born in 1867; died 1934, daughter of Dr.Charles James Gee and Tempie Williams
Austin Gee.Her father was a man of means and she was educated at private schools and at St."The Palace of the Heart by Pattie Williams Gee, is conspicuous chiefly
for the strong religious feeling, simple and fervent in its expression, that inspires the
greater number of poems.She spent the remainder of her life, more than 25 years, in a partially comatose
state confined to a mental institution.Hannah Gee of Surry and Prince George Counties in Virginia.Hancock and Elizabeth Dolby
Neville Gee b.Neville was a naval officer during
the war of 1812.Mary Temperance Williams
Charles James Gee b.Tempie Williams Austin
Pattie Williams Gee b.The following information on Mary Walker Gee is copied from a book by Lou Rogers entitled Tar
Heel Women, published in 1949.Some of the material cited by the author was taken from information on Mary from The Gee Family by W.Mary Walker was the daughter of John and Isobel McNeill (it is possible that Isobel's surname was
something else) Walker of Wilmington, and was born March 5, 1755.Back in colonial days a ship carpenter was a contractor or supervisor and was usually very wealthy.Mary's father was the John Walker who died in 1759 or 1760, a few years later than the other John Walker.In some ways Mary was connected with the Graingers,
McBrides, McLaines, McNeills, Murrays, Clarks, Lyons, Rowans and Duncans of New Hanover and Cumberland counties.Alexander Duncan, bequeathed to orphan Mary Walker, in 1767, when she was twelve years old and living at Cross Creek (Fayetteville), in the home of Richard Lyon, three Negro girls.The Lyons immediately brought Mary Walker to Cross Creek where she lived the rest of her 87 years.About 1771, when Mary Walker was quite young, she was married to James Gee (Charles1,
Henry2) of Cross Creek.James Gee had come to Fayetteville, prior to 1765, from Virginia, where his father, Henry Gee, and his grandfather, Charles Gee, had been prominent in the tidewater countries.James Gee, born in 1741, was connected with the Jeffersons, Masons, and other famous families of Virginia.Soon after coming to North Carolina he had taken up the following land grants: 130 acres in 1766, 20 acres in 1767, 500 acres in in 1768, and 200 acres in 1789.He seems to have been quite a land owner, having acquired most of this land before he married Mary Walker.He built for her a large home three miles west of Cross Creek (now within the Fayetteville city limits) upon the site which is now occupied by the Confederate Widows' Home.James Gee was a true patriot and although he lived in a community where it was
most dangerous to defy the king, he was one of the first to declare his independence.He was one of those 39 patriots who, on June 20, 1775, signed the famous Liberty Point Declaration of Independence.His name is engraved on the Liberty Point Marker which was erected in 1909 on Liberty Point in Fayetteville.When war came, James Gee marched off with the Whigs to fight the British.Gee brushing his uniform, while the tears
rolled down her cheeks.The neighbor asked why, if it grieved her so, would she let her husband go.He belongs to his country, and I'd poison his coffee if he did not go!"Captain Gee returned to Fayetteville before the war was over and organized a company.While commanding his troops, a bullet went through his handsome hat and on through his head.He staggered and fell, mortally wounded, his men thought.His friend brought it to him, at the same time lamenting over Captain Gee's badly mangled scalp.The Captain then exclaimed, according to Fletcher, "O, never think of the head; time and the Doctor will put that to rights; but it grieves me to think that the rascals have ruined my hat forever!"Mary Walker had the "cocky" spirit that her husband had and many a day in his absence was her spirit to be tested.The Tories, whom she detested more than the British, vexed her and robbed her, but she often got the best of them.Although the young mother was taking care of a small son and infant twin daughters, she kept her town house open as a boarding house and "carried on."One incident in which she showed courage and one even in which she saved the lives of two of Cumberland's patriots, are so well told by Fletcher, that they are copied here straight from pages 104 and 105 of his history, The Gee Family."One morning, while the army of Cornwallis was marching through this section, Mrs.Gee was intent on household cares in her kitchen, when she was startled by the entrance of an armed Negro in British uniform, who ordered to cook breakfast for him.There was no resisting the command, for she was alone in the house, and on the premises were only two or three young Negroes.But just as her unwelcome guest had seated himself at the table, his musket across his knees, John Lomax, strode through the door, and presented a gun at his head.Lomax kept the British Negro captive till all the army of Cornwallis had passed, and then gave him up to the authorities
at Fayetteville.John Lomax was a free Negro thoroughly imbued with the patriotic sentiments of his white friends and neighbors, and devoted all his life to the Gee family."Fletcher's other story, in which Mrs.Gee proved herself a heroine, is even more daring in its action and more spectacular in its results.Gee was raided by a band of Tories, having with them a squad of
Whig prisoners, and they commanded her to prepare dinner for them.In the "squad" of Whigs whom Mrs.Gee set free, were Theophilus Evans and John Oliver, two of the signers of the famous Liberty Point Declaration.Captain Gee, who was with General Greene when the Revolutionary War ended, returned to his wife at Cross Creek, where the Captain and his wife continued their interest in the affairs of the new Nation.From James and Mary Walker Gee, came a very unusual family.Isabella, who married Captain Benjamin Chapman; Rebecca, who married Archibald McDuffie; William; James; Robert and David."Uncle Jimmy" Gee, the ninth child, was quite a character and many interesting tales have been told about him.He was an ardent Democrat and declared that when a Democratic governor was elected, he would give the State of North Carolina a plot of land for a public burying ground.The piece of land lies between the Gee family burying ground and that part which later became the cemetery for the ladies of the Confederate Home.David, the youngest, had quite an influence on his mother.Jones, the daughter of a noted Baptist preacher, Mary Walker Gee changed her religion and was a stong Baptist for the last thirty or forty years of her life.James and Mary Walker Gee's descendants are scattted all over the Nation and there have been those among them who have answered their country's call to arms in every war since the Revolution.Strange to say, there are few left who bear the family name of Gee.However, around Fayetteville, there are a number of people with other surnames who trace their family histories back to the the
Revolutionary patriots, James and Mary Gee.These include the Ayers, Cooks, Glovers and Owens.Mary Walker Gee outlived her husband by 38 years but when she died, March 23, 1842, in her 88th year, she was buried beside her husband in the old Gee family graveyard.About 100 yards back of the present confederate Widows' Home.Enclosed by a brick wall and an iron gate covered with ivy, still may be seen the tombs of James Gee, of Mary Walker Gee, and many of the descendants.Shortly after her death the obituary appearing in the Fayetteville Carolinian for March 26, 1842, had this to say of Mary Walker Gee: "The demise of this truly venerable and pious lady has thrown into mourning and sadness an unusually large circle of relatives and friends who for years have clustered about her person, and listened with ardent enthusiasm to her kindly
admonitions, and her familiar accounts of the events of more than a half a century.Have helped their men build and protect the wonderful nation in which we live today.Hannah Gee of Surry and Prince George Counties in Virginia.Henry Gee
James Gee b.Little is known about Eason Gee except for a brief period of his life during a turbulent period of Texas history.Eason Gee made his way to Texas, possibly from Alabama.We, the undersigned, certify that the foreigner Eason Gee is a man of very good morality, habits, and industry; lover of the Constitution and laws of the country and the Christian religion; married; and generally known as a good man.On October 19, 1835 Eason was issued a Mexican Land Grant for one league of land (according to later records this was apparently 783 acres).Eason met his death during the Texas War for Independence in the service of his country on August 8, 1836 after which he was posthumously issued a grant of 320 acres from the Secretary of War.Eason was married at the time of his move to Texas.Gee (apparently listed as Anderson in some documents), Joseph S.The headright for the league of land was proved in 1840 by Jane Gee and Eason's heirs.These heirs are listed as William and George.Eventually Jane Gee married John Randolph.NC, Joseph Gee 17, b.AL, and William Gee 15, b.Thus it is apparent that Eason and Jane lived in Alabama for at least two years prior to moving to Texas.An 1858 inventory of 1,894 acres of land belonging to Eason Gee lists Jane Gee Randolph as deceased and lists heirs William Gee, Andrew J.The 1860 Smith County, Texas census indicates that two of Eason and Jane Gee's sons and their families were living in Smith County:
Joseph Gee 29, b.AL
Mariah Gee 19, b.TN
Emily Gee 2, b.TX
Mary Gee 2, b.TX
And
William Gee 27, b.AL
Louisa Gee 20, b.TN
John Gee 3, b.TX
George Gee 2, b.TX
Mary Gee 4, b.Last update January 6, 1997.This file contains 10,635 names in the
Solomon Gee family.His descendants spread
across the U.This gedcom cites
Descendants of Solomon Gee of Lyme, Connecticut as a source.ZIP files and require an appropriate decompression utility.Drops OS X Screen Saver
ElectropaintOSX Screen Saver
Happy Fun Ball!It's free to use any way you please.Requires Macintosh OS X 10.Atom Feeds that sits in your menubar.Gmail's atom feed but with any atom feed.This can be turned off in the Preferences.Why should I create a create a menubar Gmail notifier when there's a perfectly servicable notifier available for OSX?POP3 accounts would be a fun little project.Atom feeds for users to see what new emails they have brewing.It became the perfect conduit for Gee!.Cocoa Atom Framework to parse the Atom feed.It would have taken quite a bit longer to write without it.The source is released under the General Public License.Here's the old version of Gee if that suits your needs better.Unfortunately lack of forward thinking caused me to not include a way to disable version checking until version 1.It fixes bugs in looking at earthquakes from REV, and talking to the network server.If you've been seeing the GEE warning dialog pop up frequently when starting Explore Recent Earthquakes, this should take care of it.This release fixed many troublesome bugs.The Seismograph Day Viewer now has stations from all over the world.You can now access the documentation for GEE through this site.GEE User Manual intended for use with the 2.We have added a "Regional Hot Spots" feature, which you can get to from the GEE intro screen.Current "Hot Spots" include: the Mt.Helens area, California, and the USArray Network.We have fixed GEE's ability to work without an
internet connection, so if you plan to use GEE for this purpose, we highly recommend that you upgrade.Several significant reliability and robustness issues have been resolved.Several bugs have been fixed, including particle motion and travel time flags.Gee is now able to get stations from other networks via the station chooser in the edit menu.Macs, the Detecting the Layered Earth module, and an issue with the day Viewer occasionally locking up.We have learned that there is a problem with java some
upgrades of Apple's new version of OSX, aka Panther.This causes
GEE, along with all other java programs, to not run.Apple is
working on the problem and should have it fixed soon.Apple's Java Developer
site in this TechNote.GEE is now an element of Project GEE and is supported by an and
NSF ITR grant to USC and the DLESE Program Center.Stay tuned for
further developments!This page is part of the Games, Learning, and Society group website.
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