Tom McGehee, Museum Director,
Bellingrath Gardens and Home,
“Magnolia Cemetery: Mobile’s City of the Dead”
Tom McGehee has served as Museum Director for Bellingrath Gardens
and Home for 26 years, overseeing the Bellingrath Home and its
collections and archives.
For more than 15 years he has been a regular contributor to Mobile
Bay Magazine with his column “Ask McGehee.”
He serves as President of the Rotary Club of Mobile and is the
immediate past president of the Friends of Magnolia Cemetery. He is
also a member of the boards of the Historic Restoration Society, the
Historic Mobile Preservation Society, and the Friends of the Alabama
Governor’s Mansion and has served as both a Deacon and Elder in the
Government Street Presbyterian Church.
Tom is married to the former Ceil Smith of Monroeville and has a
daughter, Megan, who lives in Athens, Greece.