McGee reunion held at Shellsford

The 65th annual McGee reunion was held August 28 at Shellsford Baptist Church Fellowship Hall. The exact date of John McGee settling in Warren County indicates he was here before May 1, 1805. The group is celebrating 200 years of McGee’s residing in this county. The new Shellsford pastor, Steve Morse, gave the blessing for the food.

Vice-president Jessie Floyd McGee and former president Jane McGee Allison presided at the business meeting. Shirley McGee Douglass gave the treasure report and read the minutes for he 2004 reunion.

Recognized from out of town were: Jim, Sharon, Becky and Jeff of Nashville; Donald Amber, Serena Yanda of Woodbury; Georgia, Ben and John Parker of Ingalls, Ind; Melissa and William Ellis, Shawn and Lilly and Daylyn Helsley of Anderson, Ind.; Glynn and Mary McGee of Henderson.

Others present were Wilma Jean Yancy, Willa Dean Savage, Anna Rhea Basham, Fern McGee, Tyson, Angela, Allison and Hunter Brock; Mason and Lenia Smith, Wade and Ann Melton, Stephen, Hannah, Spencer, Geneva, Emily and Katie Morse; Ernest Bost, Lorraine and Charles Yancy, John Douglass, Malinda Brown, Ada Mai Church, Johnny, Donna, Jonathan and Jarah Anderson; David and Diane Pendergraph, Clata Kell, Ann Grove, Tom, Pam, Matt, Micah and Merek McColloch; Tracy and Danny Herrin, Jr.; Eloda Lorraine, Dennis and Gloria Henley

Other officers are Jane McGee Allison, vice-president; Shirley McGee Douglass, secretary/treasurer and Malinda Brown, general manager. Georgia Parker, Jim McGee, Dean McGee and Melissa are the family historians. A scrapbook will be compiled by Sharon and Becky McGee and activity directors are Donna Anderson, Ada Mai Church and Angela Brock.

The meeting was adjourned by a prayer by Wade Melton.