https://mcginniscommawill.com/tags/creek-indian-wars/ Recent content in Creek-Indian-Wars on McGinnis, Will Hugo en-us Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mcginniscommawill.com/guides/mcginnis-family-history/04-georgia-and-the-frontier/ Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mcginniscommawill.com/guides/mcginnis-family-history/04-georgia-and-the-frontier/ <p>The new century brought new beginnings. In 1801, John McGinnis-son of Old Charles-married Elizabeth Smith in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Over the next two decades, they would raise eight children on Carolina soil. But John had inherited his father&rsquo;s restlessness. By 1826, he was selling everything and heading south.</p> <p>This chapter follows three generations of McGinnises through the first four decades of the 1800s: John&rsquo;s move to Georgia and rise to Justice of the Peace, his son Charles W.&rsquo;s service in the Creek Indian Wars, and the love letters that would lead to the next generation.</p>