Magee, Percy
Biography
Percy Magee was twenty-one years old in 1918 when he completed his World War I Selective Service System draft registration. At that time he lived and worked in Isabel, Louisiana, a small town about forty miles south of Lexie, Mississippi where he was born. He listed “Sam Magee,” his father, as his closest geographic relative who was then living in Lexie. The draft registration card described Percy as tall and slender with black eyes and black hair. Percy must have entered the military after completing his registration because his mother Ardella described him as a veteran of the “world war” on his death certificate in 1937. [1]
Percy was the third child and second son of Ardella and Samuel Magee. When Percy was twelve years old Elder Ernest Koepsel, a German born immigrant, baptized and confirmed him a member of the LDS faith on June 28, 1909 in a creek near Tylertown, Mississippi. His brother Wilkie Flanders and his two sisters, Vander and Freda were baptized at the same time. [2]
Percy married a woman named Bessie and worked for twenty-five years at a sawmill in Louisiana. He died in September 1937 at Elizabeth Sullivan Memorial Hospital in Bogalusa, Louisiana of “anesthetic death” from “ether.” His mother Ardella arranged for his body to be taken to Tylertown, Mississippi for burial. [3]
By W. Paul Reeve
Primary Sources
Beaulieu, Freda Lucretia Magee. Address, 1982 January 16. MS 6938. Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members Collection. CR 375 8, box 4256, folder 1, images 246 and 451. Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Magee, Percy. Certificate of Death. Louisiana State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics. File No. 128, Registered No. 12486. Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Magee, Percy. United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington Parish, Louisiana. Washington D. C.: National Archives and Records Administration. Family History Library, microfilm 1,685,027. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.
United States Census, 1900, 1910. Pike County and Walthall County, Mississippi.
[1] Percy Magee, United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918; Washington Parish, Louisiana (Washington D. C.: National Archives and Records Administration), Family History Library, microfilm 1,685,027, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah; Percy Magee, Certificate of Death, Louisiana State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No. 128, Registered No. 12486, Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
[2] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members Collection, CR 375 8, box 4256, folder 1, image 246 and 451, Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah; United States Census, 1910, Pike County, Mississippi; Freda Lucretia Magee Beaulieu, address, 1982 January 16, p. 2, MS 6938, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah; Ernest Koepsel, Early Mormon Missionaries database, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
[3] Percy Magee, Certificate of Death, Louisiana State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, File No. 128, Registered No. 12486, Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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