Magee, Tempie

Wade Magee, Tempie Wilson s father. Paterfamilias and Republican politico, Magee was reputedly a son of slaveholder John Magee. 

Lewis Miller s regular wife was Tempie Magee. Tempie was a half white woman, who had one whole sister named Margaret. She also had two black half-sisters, Sarah and Harriet. Sarah was wife to Tom Greenback, and had a baby by Jake Magee Harriet is the one who had a baby by Fleet Magee, Jake s brother, regular. 

Tempie Magee Wilson, who took her children to Chicago after the lynching of her son Jerome. She never saw her husband, John Wilson, again. 

Isom s favorite boy was John. John was shifty like the rest of them. He bought a place of fifty acres when he was eighteen years old. The next year he married Tempie Magee. He had been going to see Tempie for about four years before he married her. Then one night he asked her to marry him. She was tickled to death, but she said, You ll have to ask my father and mother. So John went to old man Wade Magee... 

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