Omer Martin McGee 1910-1998

Omer Martin McGee 1910-1998. He is a second cousin of my Dad.  Omer and his wife Elinor, ran the McGee Christmas Tree farm in Placerville CA. It seems like the Tree farm is still in operation by their kids. My dad met him once and I remember stopping at the tree farm in Placerville CA, but before I knew what our relationship was.

In 1991, Omer McGee helped compile a book on the descendants of Amos Kilburn and Henry McGee. This book is no longer in print.  It does include the court documents when the McGee clan tried to gain membership in the Cherokee nation.

Omer's Find-a-Grave entry discusses his experiences during World War II.  His wife's [Elinor Cole McGee] obituary has more details about their life together including pioneering the McGee Christmas Tree farm. She has her individual accomplishments, including graduating from UC Berkley at age 17,  at that time [1930], the youngest person ever to receive a degree from Cal Berkeley. 

Family History picture

Shadow of Lloyd Ross McGee photographing the headstone for his father, Ross Solon McGee in St. George Utah.

Even from the shadow, I can see who it is.

Graduation announcement

I just connected to the website MyHeritage via the free access available through Family Search.  Lots of nice original material.  Here is one, the Graduates at the University of Utah printed 31 Aug 1957.

I'm pretty sure we weren't still in Utah for this date even though the address is listed as Midvale. We lived in a basement room at Grandma Maynes for about three months  while Dad finished his PhD before moving to Delaware. We moved onto his new job at DuPont as soon as possible, He probably just asked them to mail his diploma to Grandma's home in Midvale. By the time.of the graduation ceremony,  Jimmy was on the way in time to be born in Jan 1958 in Delaware.

From the announcement, co-graduates of Dad's, Bruce Barton was also at DuPont and maybe even moved to Thiokol at the same time.  David Grant became a professor at the University of Utah and was there when I was an undergraduate.