Gee House

Gee House - Front

Gee House - Back

Outbuildings

Corn Crib

"Edward Walker grew up living in Safe Retreat, and he had a photo of his mother sitting on the porch." --Alvin Gee

This sketch shows the house as he remembered it.

The Gee house was located at the end of route #638, Mecklenburg County. It was known as "Safe Retreat." 36° 44' 46"N, 78° 02' 19"W

At the time of the 1850 census, it was the home of schoolmaster Jesse Q. Gee and his family. [1850 census Mecklenburg County, #348]

A plat was drawn in 1918 showing the estate division; Safe Retreat is noted on tract #7. [MPB 3:59; MDB 91:36] See Section 8 of the 1870 map.

The Gee house was demolished about 1980.

"In 1864 I went to school in the old Providence Methodist Episcopal Church. My teacher was Mr. James Northington, who lived at Forksville. The next year I went to school near Forksville to Virginius Q. Gee at the house of his father J. Q. Gee. In 1866 and 1867 I went to school to Mr. Jesse Q. Gee at his house, Safe Retreat, and this was the last of my going to school, except for the four or five months in 1874 when I went to Maj. W. C. Drake in Oakville, North Carolina, for a review of studies in order to teach." --Source: The Journals of William Emmanuel Bugg 1848-1935, compiled June Banks Evans: Bryn Ffyliaid Publications, page 7.

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Contributed 2003 Aug 08 by June Banks Evans

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