Hey family! You've reached the website for the McGee-McCrea-Bradley family. Here you'll be able to find any information you'll need regarding the upcoming reunion, planning in progress, etc.
Do you know where you fit in to the family? Below is the story of how our family came to be.
The saga of the families begin with Mother Elvira and her four children -- Grace, Hampton, Rhina, and Rosena. The story, as passed down through oral history, is that our matriarch Mother Elvira came from the Ashanti tribe of Ghana, West Africa. Once in the U.S., she and her family of 5 were enslaved by Lawrence Porcher Hext of Barnwell, South Carolina. On Saturday, June 20th, 1857, they were then sold to his daughter Mary Brisbane Hext and her husband John Thomas McConnell of Nesmith, South Carolina as a wedding gift. Get this, though -- the entire family was sold for only $5.00.
Mother Elvira and her four children (all under the age of 8) arrived at the plantation on the Burnett Swamp in Nesmith, South Carolina