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Born: Sept 9, 1790 Wythe Co, VA Died: Dec. 8, 1878 Nashville, TN Married: Louisa Grundy, daughter of Felix Grundy. Moved to Nashville in 1807, to attend Cumberland College. He worked for his uncle Randal, the then clerk of the Circuit Court. In 1813, he volunteered in the Creek War and was one of General Andrew Jackson's aides, but being disabled by a wound in the Battle of Enotochopco, January 24, 1814, he was honorably discharged.
He served as County, Circuit and United States Circuit Clerk, for half a century, occupying the last position at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. His wife, born at Bardstown, Kentucky, February 10, 1798 and died at Nashville, January 19, 1878, was the eldest daughter of Hon. Felix Grundy. His children. Randal William McGavock and Hugh Albert McGavock are in this collection.