Jesse Y. McQuigg, the youngest son and 9th child of Robert Gilmore and Elizabeth Fry McQuigg, was born in Giles Co., TN. His parents died while he was a small boy, so he and his siblings were placed with various members of his extended family. When he was abt. 10 years old, he moved to Springfield, MO with other family members. When the Civil War started, he enlisted in Co. C, 3rd Battalion, MO Cavalry, CSA, where he reached the rank of corporal. Following the War he moved to Bonham with other family members and on 12/12/1870, he married Amanda Jane Dale in Bonham. They had 9 children.

San Antonio Express Wednesday Morning, February 8, 1933 p13
ANNOUNCEMENTS
MCQUIGG - Jesse Young McQuigg died at his home Tuesday in his 89th year. He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J. P. Sewell, San Antonio; Mrs. Frank Caldwell, Austin; seven grandchildren. The body was sent to Bonham, Tex. Tuesday night for interment in that city. Direction. Wilbert Hanavan.


The Bonham Daily Favorite Wednesday, February 8, 1933 p4 col 3
J. Y. McQuigg is Called by Death--San Antonio, Tex.

MAN WHO HELPED MAKE HISTORY IN FANNIN COUNTY ANSWERS SUMMONS

J. Y. McQuigg, aged about 89 years, died at San Antonio yesterday. The body will be brought to Bonham, according to reports, to be buried by the side of that of his wife, who died several years since.
Looking back over a stretch of years, the writer remembers the first time he ever saw Mr. McQuigg. He was living where Mrs. Hayton now lives, but in another house. There were very few houses in that section of the city. The foundation for the J. R. Russell home, now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ed D. Steger, had just been built, and was waiting for the super structure. This statement is made to give the reader an idea of how soon Mr. McQuigg came to this country.
Deceased came from Missouri to Bonham, if the Favorite has been informed correctly. His wife was a daughter of Major and Mrs. John Dale. They were Missourians also, coming to Texas soon after the Civil War and settling first at Ladonia, afterwards removing to Bonham. The Dale family with Mrs. Sarah Dale in command came in an ox wagon to Texas. Major Dale's duties kept him from coming at the time. The long weary road from up there about Carthage, Missouri, to Bonham was lined with dangers--dangers from bushwackers and robbers and soldiers from either side, for Missouri was the shock-absorber state in the great struggle between the North and South--some were one and some the other champion of the quarrel subtly staged as one to preserve the union, but in reality a fuss over the negro.
Mr. McQuigg was a young man when all that happened--a very young man, for that has been years ago--so long that many of the scars, even of the affair have been effaced. But he was old enough to appreciate what it was all about. He also knew what it was to experience that other trying time--that of reconstruction, which, from reports was far more destructive than constructive.
Mr. McQuigg was as firm in his religious faith as any Puritan pilgrim who crossed the ocean in order that he might be where he could worship God, according to the dictates of his own conscience. He was a devout disciple of the late Alexander Campbell's teachings. He adhered to the primitive beliefs of that particular faith, and that embraced the idea that musical instruments should not be used in church music. He, with other members of the Church of Christ, here, had that distinctly understood that no musical instrument should be used in the services, and to this day it is not being done, the deed to the very land so stipulating.
As may have been surmised by the foregoing, it can be seen that Mr. McQuigg was a man of strong convictions. And, after all, strong convictions are not generally so bad. You always know where to find a man who believes what he believes--and practices it. The wishywashy kind of faith some have never appealed to them. They were like the rocks, in their foundations of faith, and not as the shifting sands.
Mr. McQuigg is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Jesse P. Sewell, of San Antonio, Mrs. Frank Sweeney, of Tucson, Arizona, Mrs. Frank Caldwell of Austin.
There were a number of children besides these, but they have preceded the father to that unknown world.
Mr. McQuigg, in his time was a man of means. At an early time in life he and Dave Nance ran a market garden. They were Damon and Pythias, in that they worked side by side in their garden, each doing his part, in order that both might live and lay by something for the inevitable rainy day that enters the lives of us all. Mr. McQuigg was afterwards in the merchantile business here. He was a man of keen discernment in business matters.
The life of this descendant of some Scot of old, where from he got his strong adherances to things he believed, reads as a romance, It was certainly as full of thrills as a movie, and now the curtain is rung down, for the last set in the life-drama of Jesse Y. McQuigg, farmer, frontiersman, merchant and churchman, is over.