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Dr George Washington Mayhew Sr.

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Dr George Washington Mayhew Sr.

Birth
Mayhew, Iredell County, North Carolina, USA
Death
9 Nov 1872 (aged 67–68)
Grenada, Grenada County, Mississippi, USA
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Grenada, Grenada County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map
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Dr. Mayhew was the son of John Love William Mayhew and Elizabeth Self Mayhew of North Carolina. He moved to Camden District (later Kershaw Dist.), S.C., with his older brother Dr. Ezekiel Polk Mayhew where he married Mary Turley Williams. Ezekiel P. Mayhew represented Camden District in the S.C. state legislature. G.W. Mayhew is on the 1834 tax list at Grenada, then in Yalobusha County, among the earliest settlers there along with his brother-in-law, Maj. John Williams. (Ref., JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPI GENEALOGY, vol. 5, p. 54, 1835 tax list; A History of Mississippi (1891) by Robert Lowry, p. 610; Early Hist. of Grenada and the Surrounding Areas by J.C. Hathorn;) But his children were still being born in Camden District/ Kerhaw District, S.C., as late as 1837. He owned several plantations in Yalobusha County and present Grenada County, including 4,000 acres on Redgrass Creek. The 1860 census lists 64 slaves. According to an old newspaper article, he once owned 165 slaves. He was on the board of directors of the Grenada Female Academy, owned a mercantile store in Grenada, and built his two-story brick townhouse on South Main Street where the Masonic Temple was later erected. When he built the newer house next door, he gave the older home to his daughter Mrs. Angevine. He reportedly died in the new house just a few years after it was constructed.
However, in his will, he stated his residence was the house at the corner of S. Main and 4th St., the house he gave his youngest daughter, Alice Eugenia.
After Grenada County was formed from part of Yalobusha County in 1870, his 1872 will was the first one recorded in Grenada County, vol. A, pp. 1-2.
Dr. Mayhew was the son of John Love William Mayhew and Elizabeth Self Mayhew of North Carolina. He moved to Camden District (later Kershaw Dist.), S.C., with his older brother Dr. Ezekiel Polk Mayhew where he married Mary Turley Williams. Ezekiel P. Mayhew represented Camden District in the S.C. state legislature. G.W. Mayhew is on the 1834 tax list at Grenada, then in Yalobusha County, among the earliest settlers there along with his brother-in-law, Maj. John Williams. (Ref., JOURNAL OF MISSISSIPI GENEALOGY, vol. 5, p. 54, 1835 tax list; A History of Mississippi (1891) by Robert Lowry, p. 610; Early Hist. of Grenada and the Surrounding Areas by J.C. Hathorn;) But his children were still being born in Camden District/ Kerhaw District, S.C., as late as 1837. He owned several plantations in Yalobusha County and present Grenada County, including 4,000 acres on Redgrass Creek. The 1860 census lists 64 slaves. According to an old newspaper article, he once owned 165 slaves. He was on the board of directors of the Grenada Female Academy, owned a mercantile store in Grenada, and built his two-story brick townhouse on South Main Street where the Masonic Temple was later erected. When he built the newer house next door, he gave the older home to his daughter Mrs. Angevine. He reportedly died in the new house just a few years after it was constructed.
However, in his will, he stated his residence was the house at the corner of S. Main and 4th St., the house he gave his youngest daughter, Alice Eugenia.
After Grenada County was formed from part of Yalobusha County in 1870, his 1872 will was the first one recorded in Grenada County, vol. A, pp. 1-2.

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