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Robert McGough
b.28 Mar 1785
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- Robert McGough served in the army during the War of 1812. On October 10, 1811, he married Sandel Cabanis or Cabaniss of Jones County, Ga., where they lived for awhile before moving to Monroe Co., Ga. They raised a family of six boys and four girls. When he died his obituary said he might be the last survivor of the War of 1812. A Monroe County history reports that he came to that county from Jones, and that he was with the "first band of immigrants and blazed a trail through the forest to a place on Tobesofkee Creek, where he built a home." (Among the early settlers of Monroe were members of the Cabaniss family.) Two of his sons lost their lives "for the cause of the South." Two of his sons were merchants in Columbus, Ga. Two sons and a daughter resided in Monroe Co. Another lived in Alabama. His wife survived him. When he died they had been married 69 years. In "Memoirs of Georgia" in a sketch of their son R.C. it is reported that Robert and Sandal had ten children: John, a Columbus merchant; Matthew O.; Sarah B. (married Jacob A. Clements); Matilda; Elizabeth (married Ezekiel Hollis); William T. (killed at the battle at New Hope, Georgia), George L., a Columbus merchant: Mary A. (married to Robert Minten); Robert C., a farmer; and C. C. (killed at Gettysburg). Hugh McGough reports children named Matilda, John, Matthew, William, Robert, and Lafayette. He believes they had two other children. John, he reports, married Mary Elizabeth Dawson. In 1868 they moved to Glennville, Alabama in Russell County. Lafayette moved to Columbus and never married. Some of John's descendants moved to Seattle, Washington.
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