William Baker McMahan LAST NAME: McMahan FIRST NAME: William MIDDLE NAME: Baker NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE: Mr. GENDER: M MILITARY:  BORN: 1830 DIED: Feb 1881 BURIED: 26 Feb 1881 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Cigar store operator BIRTH PLACE:  Meigs Co., Ohio DEATH PLACE: Salem, Polk Co., Oregon NOTES:  William Baker McMahan was blind. His father was William McMahan of Virginia and mother was Leticia McBain, also of Virginia; Note from Dean Byrd Oct. 8, 2001: "Uncle Mac (Leonard H. McMahan) told me that his father William went blind. His father then had Leonard read aloud from newspapers and many books. Uncle Mac said these readings were the real basis of his own education." BIOGRAPHICAL: SMALLPOX - Mr. McMahon was taken with this prevailing disease yesterday. He had his family and a protion of his furniture removed to another house. Oregon Statesman 20 Dec 1870 OBITUARY:  INSCRIPTION:  SOURCES:  LR CONTACTS:  LOT: 275 SPACE:  LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: