Person:Hezekiah Magee (1)

From "A Short History of William Magee I and His Wife Mary James," edited and published in 1954 by Hezekiah Magee's grandson, Leon V. Bankston, are the following remarks concerning Hezekiah Magee:

"Hezekiah Magee settled just across the river from Franklinton, just south of the cemetery where he and his family are buried on the east side of the Franklinton-Covington highway." "Hezekiah Magee served on the first Board of trustees of the Franklinton Academy organized in 1838. He was one of the organizers of this school." "During Civil War the Federal Troops camped on his place, using his rail fence for fuel. They took most of his livestock, cotton, corn and several slaves."

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Pvt Hezekiah Magee, Sr, in Find A Grave
   tombstone photo, Hezekiah Magee Cemetery, Washington Parish, Louisiana.
2. ↑ Hezekiah Magee War of 1812 Pension, File WO11827, Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15, National Archives Building, Washington, DC, in War of 1812 Pensions.

   20 June 1853 before Alfred Richards, JP of Washington Parish, appeared Hezekiah Magee, age 57, who declared he was a Private in the company of Capt William Hogan in the 13th Regt Louisiana militia; that he was drafted in St Tammany Parish at the residence of John Vernon on 1 Jan 1814 for three months and continued in service for two months and fifteen days and was discharged at Covington on 15 March 1814; also that he served as Pvt in company of Capt William Bickham in the 13th Regt of Louisiana militia commanded by Col Thomas C. Warner, drafted at the courthouse of St Tammany Parish on 15 Dec 1814 and continued in service for three months until he was discharged at the Navy Yard about 15 March 1815; He applied under the Act of 28 Sept 1850 for bounty land.
   
   19 June 1855; Hezekiah Magee made second affidavit "on account of mistake of him as to the Captain he mustered under he gave the name of Hogans in place of Bickham."
   
   A.P. Sparkman, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Pike County, Mississippi, certified to the copy of marriage certificate by which Nathaniel Morris, Minister of the Gospel, married Hezekiah Magee and Dicey Magee on 20 January 1820.
   
   2 Feb 1874; Dicey Magee, age 74 applied for pension as widow of Hezekiah Magee who died in Washington Parish, Louisiana on 31 Dec 1871; witnesses were H. G. Magee and Theophilus Dillon.
   
   15 March 1879; Hezekiah Magee applied for reimbursement of $31.45 burial expences for the death of Dicey Magee who died 24 Oct 1878.
   
   Editor's note: Dicey's original pension was rejected because she married the soldier in 1820, after the declaration of peace 17 Feb 1815...this excluded her from the provisions of the Act of 14 Feb 1871, under which she applied. She applied again under the act of 9 March 1878, waved her claims under her previous application, and her pension was granted under the 1878 act.