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William Delmas McGee (b. 1924, d. October 2002)

William Delmas McGee (son of Walter Brian McGee and Viola Martin) was born 1924 in Humphreys Co. Tennessee, and died October 2002 in Humphreys Co. Tennessee. He married Maggie Mae Story.

Notes for William Delmas McGee:
Delmas and Madie McGee were walking to school one morning, when Delmas slipped off the foot log and fell in the creek. His clothes frozen, and he could hardly walk. Sister Madie dragged him on to school. Mrs. Alese saw them at a distance, and ran out to help them. She took him inside, stripped off his clothes, and wrapped him in the boys' extra sweaters and coats.

The wood-burning stove had a circular fire guard around the door. Mrs. Alese hung Delmas' clothes on this guard to dry. One important piece of his clothing, long handles, caught on fire and the whole knee burned out of them. Mrs. Alese just knew that she was in trouble, what should she do?

She decided to pin a piece of cloth over the hole in the undergarment and wrote his mother an explanation. Mrs. Ola answered her letter, thanking her for taking care of her son, and said, "It's all right, I can patch the hole at home."