Samuel Ellis McGAUGHY

Father: Samuel McGAUGHY
Mother: Jane LAUGHLIN

Family 1: Sarah STEPHENSON

(1) Source: Alabama, U.S., Marriage Indexes via Ancestry.com.

  1. John N. McGAUGHY
  2. Mary Ann McGAUGHY
  3. Elizabeth Maneriva McGAUGHY
  4. Samuel Green McGAUGHY
  5. Eliza Carolyn McGAUGHY

Family 2: Lively Ann LITTLE

(1) Source: Alabama, U.S., Marriage Indexes via Ancestry.com.

  1. Margaret I. McGAUGHY
  2. James Monroe McGAUGHY
  3. Josephine A. McGAUGHY
  4. William Harrison McGAUGHY
  5. Alabama M. McGAUGHY
  6. Christopher Columbus McGAUGHY
  7. Lucy G. McGAUGHY
  8. Charles L. McGAUGHY
                                         _William McGAUGHEY _
                    _William McGAUGHEY _|
                   |                    |____________________
 _Samuel McGAUGHY _|
|                  |                     ____________________
|                  |_Elizabeth LACKEY __|
|                                       |____________________
|
|--Samuel Ellis McGAUGHY
|
|                                        _John LAUGHLIN _____
|                   _John LAUGHLIN _____|
|                  |                    |_Jane MATHEWS ______
|_Jane LAUGHLIN ___|
                   |                     _Thomas PRICE ______
                   |_Mary PRICE ________|
                                        |_Mary CAWOOD _______

Notes

Updated April 9, 2026. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Alabama, U.S., Marriage Indexes via Ancestry.com: Lawrence County

"1829 Oct. 2, McGAUGLEY, Sam'l. + STEPHENSON, Sarah. Married by John C. STEPHENSON." Note: the ceremony was probably performed by Rev. John Campbell STEPHENSON (Sarah's brother), a Cumberland Presbyterian minister in New Hope, Alabama.

(2) Stephenson, J.C., The Stephenson Family. Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, self-published, 1906. Page 84.

"Sallie R. STEPEHNSON, the eighth child and fourth daughter of Hugh W. STEPHENSON and Margaret, his wife, married Ellison McGAUGHEY. They reared a family near Mount Hope [Alabama]. Sallie died. Ellison married Miss Lively LITTLE and went to Marshall County, Mississippi. I think the family are all dead."

(3) Alabama, U.S., Wills and Probate Records via Ancestry.com: Lawrence County, 10 May 1839.

Samuel Ellis McGAUGHY received land from his father in his will as follows: "My quarter section of land that I now live on that is to say the north east quarter of section ten range nine township seven west I give and bequeath to my son Samuel Ellis McGAUGHY but on condition that should my wife survive me she is to have her support out of the profits arising from the land free free from want and the use of my houses as before bequeathed and I do hereby empower my Executors or any one of them to make the deed to Samuel E. McGAUGHY for said land after my decease.

(4) Alabama, U.S., Marriage Indexes via Ancestry.com: Lawrence County

- Date of Marriage: June 16, 1848
- Man's Name: Samuel E. McGAUGHLEY
- Woman's Name: Sively LITTLE
- Officiant: Thos. B. McCORD, Minister
- Record: Vol. "C" Page 258

(5) 1850 United States Census for Mississippi, Marshall Co., Northern Division: Page 302; September 28, 1850.

Samuel McGAUGHY is head of household, married to Livly A. [LITTLE] McGAUGHY. He is 40 years old, born in Tennessee and is a farmer with real estate value at $1000. Children in the household are [from his first marriage] John N. (age 19), Mary Ann (age 16), Elizabeth (age 14), Samuel Green (age 13), and Eliza C. (age 11), and [from his second marriage] Margaret I. (age 1). All children were born in Alabama except Margaret who was born in Mississippi.

(6) 1860 United States Census for Mississippi, Marshall Co., Township 4, Range 1 (Holly Springs Post Office): Page 14; August 2, 1860.

S. C. McGAUGHY is head of household, married to L. H. [LITTLE] McGAUGHY. He is 50 years old, born in Tennessee and is a farmer with real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $4,000. Children in the household are Mary A. REID (age 27, b. Alabama, with her two children, G.M. age 5 and James M. age 3), E.C. (age 20), M.J. (age 20), L.C. (age 9), J.M. (age 7), J.A. (age 5), Wm. H. (age 3), and Ala M. (age 1).

(7) 1870 United States Census for Mississippi, Marshall Co., Range One (Holly Springs Post Office): Page 84; July 22, 1870.

S.E. McGAUGHY is head of household, married to Lively A. [LITTLE] McGAUGHY. He is 60 years old, born in Tennessee and is a farmer with real estate valued at $2,000 and personal estate valued at $585. Children in the household are James (age 17), Josephine (age 15), William (age 13), Alabama (age 11), Columbus (age 9), Lucy G. (age 7), and Charles (age 5). All children were born in Mississippi.

(8) 1880 United States Census for Mississippi, Marshall Co., Chewala Precinct: Supervisor's District 1; Enumeration District 111; Page 7; June 4, 1880.

S.E. McGAUGHEY is head of household, married to L.A. [LITTLE] McGAUGHEY. He is 69 years old, born in Tennessee, and is a farmer. Children in the household are Ala (age 22), C. (age 18), Lucy G. (age 15), and Charly (age 13), plus grandson S.G. (age 10). All children were born in Mississipi with the grandson born in Arkansas.

(9) Find a Grave

- Name: Samuel Ellis McGAUGHY
- Birth: 10 Aug 1810
- Death: 11 Jan 1887 (aged 76)
- Burial: Harmony Cemetery; Snow Lake Shores, Benton County, Mississippi, USA
- Note: Marker includes a Masonic square & compass symbol
- Children included in Find a Grave: Mary Ann McGAUGHY ROBERTS (1834-1897); Elizabeth Maneriva McGAUGHY CASEY (1836-1875); Eliza Carolyn "Cathey" McGAUGHY DUNCAN (1839-1904); James Monroe McGAUGHY (1853-1936); William Harrison McGAUGHY (1856-1886); Christopher Columbus McGAUGHY (1861-1942); Charles L. McGAUGHY(1865-1945)
- Memorial ID: 93059103

(10) William and Margaret McGaughey/y, Supplement 1991, Polly Sutton, p. 88.

- "6 children"