Clarissa Magee was the daughter of John Magee (born abt. 1760) & Bethany Scott. She married her cousin John "Jackey" Magee (son of Jacob Magee & Mary Scott) about 1816 in southwest Mississippi during the Territorial period. "John Magee (Clarissa's father) removed from Sampson County, North Carolina to Marion County, Mississippi, where he is next door to his brothers Jacob and Phillip Magee on The 1810 Census of Amite County (in the area that would become Marion County in 1811). He would move just west into Pike County, Mississippi. According to the early Pike County, Mississippi tax lists, John Magee is living on Magee's Creek. I should point out that the area in which John Magee settled is about ten miles or less from where Jacob Magee settled in the old Waterholes Community. The well-known Magee researcher of years gone by, Lottie Magee Miller, insisted (correctly) that John Magee owned most of the land on which the town of Tylertown, Mississippi now sits. It seems that this John Magee was a soldier of the Revolutionary War." -- taken from pages 11 & 12 of "Magee Histories: The Progenitors and Descendants of Jacob Magee and Mary Scott" by Bevin J. Creel, ©2004. For more on the Magee family consult this excellent resource of 1056 pages. This volume entails a century of Magee research put together in excellent form and fashion by Mr. Bevin J. Creel of Franklinton, Louisiana citing his sources every step of the way.
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There are nine known children born to Jackey & Clarissa Magee:
1. B. Lentford Magee,
2. Elisha,
3. Catherine,
4. Martha Permelia,
5. Sarah Jane,
6. Bethany,
7. John,
8. Rebecca,
9. Clarissa.

After Clarissa's death Jackey married a second time to Anna Eliza Tynes & they had 7 children.