The McKinney Maze

 

Vol VI  #3

Fall  1987

 

ISSN 0736-2420

 

Newsletter of the McKinney Family Association

 

 

CONTENTS

 

Springfield

From The Editor's Notes

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa

Library News & Reviews

Questions, Questions

Miscellaneous This & That

Harrison Co., Iowa - The Samuel McKinney Family

Butler County, PA - Extractions

 

 

 

The McKinney Family Association & Library was founded September 1981 as a non-profit, educational association and library, dedicated to researching, preserving and collecting historical and family history and data, not necessarily all of lineal or legal families, but all those interested in the McKinney surname and variants and to assist and instruct in genealogical research and to publish private and public records and educational articles.  Bylaws and Constitution adopted October 1981 and granted non profit, incorporation 3 May 1983 by the State of Oklahoma.  Trustees are Barbara Pannage Stanfield, E. Neil Stanfield and Richard A. Kipf.

 

 

Officers:                     

Barbara Pannaqe Stanfield, Coordinator

Peter Campbell McKinney, Registrar – Treasurer

Patricia McKinney Kirkwood, Editor - Librarian

Wilma C. Cook, Indexing

                                   

                                   

The Editor is not responsible for the errors of submitted materials, and all such material is placed in the Association Library.  Books received for review are placed in the library and are available for loan to members.

 

Indexed in Genealogical Periodical Annual Index, Laird C. Towle, Editor, Bowie, MD

 

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Springfield

 

Member, Dr. William Gist, has sent pictures and reproductions of newspaper articles describing Springfield, the boyhood home of President Zachary Taylor, and the home of the Gist family.  Because the interest in preserving historical landmarks has been escalating in recent years, and because few of us are privileged to live in a home of such importance, the following material is printed in its entirety.  I am sure that our membership will be as interested as I was.

 

 

Welcome to Springfield . .

 

A Tour of the Home prepared by Dr. and Mrs. Gist for the benefit of visitors and tourists.

 

One hundred and forty years ago, the little boy who grew up in this very house was in all the news.  He and his American troops were winning upset victories in the War with Mexico.  'Old Rough and Ready', as he was affectionately called by his troops, went from a 40 year career in the Army to the White House as our 12th President, serving from 1849 to 1850.  Although unknown in the 20th Century, he was much admired and respected in his day, eulogized after a sudden death by no less than his fellow Kentuckian and Whig, Abraham Lincoln.

 

Another important 19th Century personality who was part of Zachary Taylor's life was Jefferson Davis.  In June 1835, here in Louisville, at Beechland, Zachary's sister's home, the young lieutenant who had served with Lincoln under Taylor, married Sarah Knox Taylor, Zachary's second daughter, a vivacious and attractive girl of twenty one.  The story that they eloped out the library window at Springfield because Zachary opposed the marriage is, alas, just a story.  Tragically, just three months after their wedding, Knox died at their Mississippi plantation of malaria.  Otherwise, she would have been the First Lady of the Confederacy.

 

Learning about the lives of people such as Lincoln, Taylor and Davis (the three Kentucky Presidents) is part of the pleasure of living in a landmark.  We enjoy also meeting visitors such as you.  We meet others from the past too, through the paintings, prints, and furniture we have acquired.  We have tried to add to the historic feeling of Springfield by using American and English antiques and Centennial pieces and reproductions.

 

The Taylors, prominent Virginians who moved to the little village of Louisville (only one hundred inhabitants then) following the American Revolution would be so delighted to have you here admiring the home they worked so hard to produce in the middle of the Kentucky wilderness.  Built in two stages (1785 – 90) and (1810 – 1820), Springfield has a different look in its old and its new sides.  The older has the lovely walnut in its natural stain whereas the new has painted and reeded woodwork with bull's eye corner blocks.  Throughout the house are the original ash floors, English Carpenter locks, and some rippled glass panes.  It is amazing to realize that these have survived numerous little Taylors, a damaging 19th Century fire, and the April 3rd tornado which directly hit the house in 1974.

 

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As you wander the house, please note that the entrance ways to rooms have varying threshold sizes. You may have to step up slightly or step down slightly.  Those wishing to go to the second floor will find the front hall steps easier to negotiate than the back or kitchen steps which are fairly steep.  (wonderful exercise for the Gists, wanting to shed some calories – definitely aerobic!).

 

The first floor consists of an entrance hall, library and parlor, dining room and kitchen.  One of our favorite pieces hangs on the hall wall.  The portrait of Susannah Shelby Grigsby, affectionately referred to as 'Miss Piggy' by the antique dealer from whom we bought her, shows us a lovely young Kentucky girl, one of the grand daughters of our first Governor, Isaac Shelby, a friend of Richard Taylor, Zachary's father.

 

Another Kennedy girl is seen in the portrait in the parlor, Nannie Hite Clark, a daughter in law of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition (which began 'next door' at Locust Grove, home of Clark's older brother, George Rogers Clark) was the first portrait we bought.  Hanging her turned into an all day affair, drilling holes into solid brick, plastered walls is quite a task!

 

In the parlor, you will also see two period prints of Zachary Taylor, one of which is signed by him.  School children think 'Your obedient servant' is a wonderful way to end a letter or autograph a print.  On the Pembroke table in the parlor is a Kentucky coin silver spoon (circa 1800) found in the yard when we were planting bulbs in the Fall of 1982.  We were ready to tear up the entire yard after this discovery!  Other artifacts are in a box on the secretary, part of the chest on chest, also in the parlor.  Included are coins, china pieces, animal teeth, etc.

 

In the library, the handsome American secretary was a piece we bought from a previous owner.  It has the usual secret compartment for concealing important family papers, coins, jewelry, etc.  We will open it for you to show you the Gists' non-exciting contents.  On one library bookshelf wall is a leather ladder, a copy of one used by Thomas Jefferson in his library.  'Great for climbing up on elephants, too', a tourist once remarked to us.  On this same wall is our collection of out of print books on Zachary Taylor and his career and family.  If you should ever find or hear about Taylor items, please do contact us at our home.  We are eager to locate, for example, other prints of Zachary, books, and other antique pieces appropriate for the house.

 

One piece of furniture is original to this house and given to us in 1981.  It is the simple poplar rocking chair in the kitchen, the room requiring the most restoration after the tornado.  The fireplace there does work as do all the other fireplaces in the house, (one in each room, including the basement rooms as well).  It was in the kitchen and dining room on the old side of the house, that we were most busy in 1984, preparing the food for Zachary's 200th birthday which we celebrated on November 24th that year.  It was a festive affair attended by Taylor descendants from Virginia and elsewhere, and for which we received a commendation letter from President Reagan, which is framed and hanging in the hall.

 

Across from the Reagan letter in the downstairs hall is an American 18th Century clock of cherry, pine and walnut, made probably in Pennsylvania.  It actually runs, sometimes, and has its own 'doctor' who makes occasional house calls to fix it.

 

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Family pieces add to our enjoyment of Springfield.  In the kitchen are Tennessee milk jugs, converted to lamps, and Tennessee wooden mixing bowls, gifts from our mothers, both natives of that state.  Both are named Dorothy, and in their honor, we decided to name the unknown lady in the library portrait, 'Dorothy'.  Also in the library is a one hundred year old working music box, a gift from my great grandfather to my paternal grandmother when she was a young girl.

 

The dining room with its lovely walnut fireplace wall and wainscoting has provided beauty and pleasure for numerous visitors during the last two hundred years.  We can only imagine the grand dinner served here when Zachary Taylor visited in 1849 on his way to Washington to be sworn in as the twelfth president in March that year.  The portrait of him looking down on us now, was one we commissioned in 1982.

 

Running up the back steps to the upstairs, you will find the 'traveler's' chamber, or room we believe that Zachary and his two older brothers used as their bedroom.  Carved into the mantle are initials and burned into the floor is a shape resembling an iron.  Lift the heavy iron on the hearth and you will bless your modern steam iron!  The walnut bed, with its navy and white woven coverlet, matches the walnut wall just as we had hoped it would.  Alongside the bed are steps, not only for climbing into bed, but also for holding a chamber pot.  'You mean this house had no bathrooms, Mrs. Gist?', exclaim school children, 'how gross!'.

 

The campaign chest of mahogany in Zachary's room was typical of the chest military officers carried to war, to hold dress swords, etc.  It is not unlike those that his own son, nephews and brother may have had in the Civil War.  Like so many Kentucky families, the Taylor loyalties were divided.  The men left their plantations and took up arms.

 

Richard Taylor, Zachary's only son and a brilliant Yale graduate, became a general in Mississippi during the Civil War.  Two of his nephews, also born in this house, chose to ride with John Hunt Morgan and his raiders.  His beloved younger brother, Joseph, however, sided with the Union and died in 1864.  Zachary's son in law became Surgeon-General for the Union as well.  They undoubtedly felt he would have chosen to defend the Union as he fought to head off the coming conflict even brewing during his presidency.  He had lived and fought in many of the states and felt a loyalty to the whole nation, not just the South he loved.  He was spared seeing the tragedy.  He died July, 1850, and in November of that year they brought him home to Springfield.

 

Thank you for coming today, please sign the guest book, and have fun!

 

                                                                                    Elizabeth Smith Gist

 

 

Presidential Homes:  A Guide

Town & Country Magazine, June, 1985

 

Zachary Taylor – Springfields.  Taylor's boyhood home, in which he was married, still stands.  It is privately owned by Dr. and Mrs. William C. Gist, Jr., who have opened it on occasion for house tours.  The President's two-and-a-half story brick Georgian house is similar in style to the Virginia plantation homes.  Dr. Gist is President of the Kentucky Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, which celebrated Taylor's two-hundredth birthday in 1984 with events at the house, 5608 Apache Road, Louisville, Kentucky.

 

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Living In A National Landmark, Owners of Taylor home get used to drop-in company by Delma J. Francis, Staff Writer, The Louisville Times & the Courier-Journal, June 23-24, 1982.

 

When Bill Gist bought the big old house on Apache Road a year ago as a wedding present for his wife Betty, he bought her a guarantee that she'd never be lonely.  Folks are always stopping by the house near Zachary Taylor National Cemetery in eastern Jefferson County, and frequently they're strangers.

 

Company is something you come to expect when you live in a former president's home, say the Gists, who live at Springfield, the boyhood home of Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States.  It's the only privately owned home in Jefferson County that's been designated a National Landmark.  The only other local National Landmarks are the Louisville Water Tower and the Actors Theatre Building.

 

A lot of people think the house is open for tours, lke Locust Grove, just down the road, said Gist, a dentist.  Sometimes tourists will come right up to the door and ask to see the house, Mrs. Gist said.  And she usually obliges.  'If they look nice, I usually take them through,' she said.  'I figure if they've come all the way out here, and want to see it, I'll let them.  So far, there hasn't been a problem.'  In fact, an impromptu tour led to a friendship with one many, Mrs. Gist said.

 

'Last summer, when we'd been here a month or two, I looked out the window, and here was this little man walking down the driveway,' she said.  'It turned out that he's a native Louisvillian who lives in Chicago now.  I took him all through the house, and he decided he liked us.  Now about once a week, we get letters from him telling us where to find antique rugs and furniture,' she said.

 

Since moving to Springfield a year ago, the Gists have become history bugs and regularly go on historic house tours around the state.  But their favorite subject is their own house, where Zachary Taylor lived from infancy to age 23.  The Gists say that they're always making new discoveries about the house.  'Look at this,' Gist said, pointing to the letters'A' and 'T' scratched in the limestone stoop outside the front of the house, just below the bronze landmark placque.  'Those same letters are scratched in the mantel up in Zachary's room', he said.  They stand for Ann Taylor, one of Zachary's daughters, who probably carved it in boredom during a visit to her grandparents.

 

'When Zachary lived here as a boy, this was the front of the house,' said Mrs. Gist, standing in the back yard and pointing to the stately 12 room house in the classic Georgian style, with porches across the first and second floors.  Set on a rise, the house was a good vantage point during an Indian attack or when company was expected, Gist said.  Built sometime between 1785 and 1790, Springfield was the main house of a 450 acre working plantation.  The Taylor's nearest neighbors were Lucy and William Croghan at Locust Grove, the sister and brother-in-law of George Rogers Clark.

 

The right wing was added in the 1820's and the house stayed in the Taylor family until 1867.  The back yard is cool and shady, with trees towering above the house.  But only one of the trees has been on the site since Zachary Taylor's time, the huge old cypress tree he brought back to his boyhood home as a sapling from his Louisiana plantation.  The rest of the trees were brought in after the 1974 tornado leveled the old trees and tore the roof off the house.

 

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Inside, the house looks much as it did during the early days, with its polished walnut paneling, white-washed walls and wide-planed ash wood floors.  A tall antique secretary graces the hallway, near the front door.  A guestbook lies open on the desk surface.  Gist reached into the secretary and pulled out one of his collectibles – a Boston Courier newspaper, dated Dec. 27, 1849, and containing Zachary Taylor's state of the union address.  It was his only state of the union address – he died after serving only 16 months.  'It's one thing about having an old house,' said Gist.  "Once you get it, everybody's got something to sell – maps, autographs, newspapers, you get on all the collector's lists,' he said.  "And that's not all,' said Mrs. Gist.  "Now our families are all caught up in it.  The trouble is, everybody wants to give you whatever they've got up in the attic that's old, whether it fits or not,' she said.  There are other disadvantages to living in an old house, they say.  The house has to always be neat because they never know when they'll have visitors.

 

'And as the maid here, I'll tell you, that's a lot of work,' said Mrs. Gist.  Keeping the big old house in order is a full time job, she said, and some days are tougher than others – like the day the woman from the Historic trust in Washington, D. C. came to call.  'We were going to have our first fire in the kitchen fireplace, and whip up some homemade chili right there over the fire,' Mrs. Gist said.  'Well, Bill pulled the damper and the whole thing came out, and there was soot all over the floor, and down in between the planks.  Just about that time, Penny Jones, executive director of the Jefferson County office of Historic Preservation and Archives, called and asked if she could bring the woman over in two hours.'  'You should have seen us working, but when she got there, we opened the door and showed her around graciously – looking as if we'd been sitting on the porch all afternoon,' she said with a chuckle.  Despite the drawbacks, the Gists say they love their house.

 

'I have a wonderful sense of continuity,' Mrs. Gist said.  'I come down here in the mornings and watch the sun shining through the kitchen window, and I wonder how many other women have started their day here.'  'Always before when I had a house, I felt like, 'this is mine', Gist said.  But with this house, I feel like we're just passing through, we're fortunate caretakers.'  The Gists were married in the parlor of the house last June 27. 

 

 

 

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Dr. William C. Gist, Jr. is a descendant of Rozannah Maude McKinney, who married Churchwell B. Tucker, and a daughter of Jesse McKinney of Surry County, NC.  Dr. Gist is also the Past National Trustee from Kentucky, SAR; National President of the SAR Centennial Observances Committee; member of the National Douglas G. High Oration Contest Committee, SAR; State President, Society of the War of 1812; Deputy Governor General and Surgeon General, Sons of American Colonists; Board of Directors, Civil War Roundtable; Commander, Johnson Chapter, Military Order of Stars and Bars; as well as many other civic and academic organizations.  Mrs. Elizabeth Burks Gist is a member of the John Marshal Chapter, DAR; active in the SAR in many capabilities and owner of the Executive Shopping Service.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Gist have received DAR History Award Metals, SAR Silver Good Citizenship Medals as well as many other awards and commendations in conjunction with the Zachary Taylor home.

 

More than 4,000 people have been welcomed to Springfield by the Gists since 1981.  Correspondence is answered for requests on information regarding the home, as well as genealogical queries, requests from school children and other matters.  There has also been an on-going correspondence with interested Taylor descendants including the silent movie star, Lillian Gish.  The Gists have also established a Zachary Taylor library, composed of out-of-print books on the president.

 

 

From The Editor's Notes

 

Past years have seen an election of officers, according to our bylaws, at this time of year; however, it has been decided by the Executive offers of the association, to forego the annual election.  It was a decision based upon the results of our last election – only three ballots of the approximately 160 sent, were returned, only one of which were other choices for officers indicated.  I would like to suggest, however, that the association needs participation from more of our membership, particularly in the preparation of our quarterly, the McKinney Maze.  Ye editor will have finished seven years of publication with the Winter issue, Volume 7, and it is time that we had, perhaps, a new perspective.  No organization can long survive without commitment from its members, and seven years is a very long time for one editor to write each issue of the magazine.  The infirmities of age, the pressure of personal and family business, all have taken their toll over the seven years of publication.  The organization needs a new Editor, or at least, an associate editor to help in the quarterly production.  If any of our members would like to assist, or to take over the production of our magazine, communication to the editor would be appreciated.  We have a successful family association publication – let's keep it going into the next century!

 

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Illinois, Indiana, Iowa

Continued, Spring, 1987

 

McKinneys in the Illinois IGI (LDS Library)                                 Mrs. Pauline McKinney

 

John C.                        Almina V. Dubbs                    3 Dec 1857                  Pike County

 

John C.                        Mary Elizabeth Hall                23 Dec 1868-9            Pike County

 

George T.                    Eliza Ward                               11 Oct 1855                Pike County

 

John G.                       Margaret Boule                       23 Jan 1856                 Pike County

 

Kate S.                        Peter F. Hooper                       30 Dec 1869                Pike County

 

Lena                            R. W. Kenady             16 Aug 1880               Pike County

 

Margaret                      William Peterson                     24 Jan 1821                 Pike County

 

Mary                           David F. Pine              4 Jan 1872                   Pike County

 

Nancy                          John ?innville              20 Apr 1864                Pike County

 

Nancy                          William McLaughlin   9 Feb 1865                  Pike County

 

Nelson             Elizabeth Ross             13 Jan 1870                 Pike County

 

Samuel                        Sarah Latham              1 Dec 1842                  Pike County

 

Thomas                       Martha E. Cochran                  11 Nov 1858               Pike County

 

Thomas J.                    Nancy J. Tibbitt                       11 Mar 1872               Pike County

 

Catherine Shinn           Peter Frazee Hooper    15 Jan 1869                 Pike County

 

Charles F.                    Kezziah Pine                           5 Mar 1866                 Pike County

 

Elizabeth B.                 Jesse Plunkett              27 Sep 1869                Brown County

 

Eliza                            George W. Williams                12 Aug 1862               Pike County

 

Elizabeth                      John T. Williams                     21 Dec 1843                Pike County

 

Elizabeth D.                 John t. Jeffers                          10 Apr 1849                Pike County

 

George C.                    Elizabeth Burkhead                 18 Jul 1844                 Pike County

 

Georga (George)         Edith Hedger               12 Feb 1857                Pike County

 

George W.                   Mary Potter                             13 Sep 1853                Pike County

 

James A.                     Martha Elizabeth Laird            1 Aug 1852                 Pike County

 

James D.                     Mary Ann Jeffers                    1 Jul 1858                   Pike County

 

Jane W.                       Joseph ? Laird             18 Apr 1856                Pike County

 

John                            Jane Barnes                             12 Apr 1863                Pike County

 

Birth:

William Claude            To James McAllister McKinney and Martha E. Laird, 24 Jul 1870, Pike County

 

 

 

Index to Revolutionary Soldiers in Indiana, Barbara Shull Wolfe, Logansport, 1977

 

McKinney, Collin:  b ca 1735, Somerset, NJ, d ca 1811 Pulaski Co., KY, m ca 1766, Rebecca, as a Civil Officer as follows:  Washington Co. VA Court, 18 May 1781.  A jury sworn to try the cause between Thomas Jenkins and Christopher Achlin, jury, Collin McKinney, Foreman.  Washington Co. VA Court, 21 Mar 1781.  A jury sworn to try the cause between Edward Bend and Peter Turney, among the jurors, Collin McKinney.  Children:  Mary, b 7 July 1768, mar Henry Burke; John, b 1771; Archibald, b 1772, Washington Co., KY, mar ca 1800, Anna Crow, d 1840-5 KY.  Descendant, Zella Davidson, No. 482771.

 

McKinney, David:  b 1755, Augusta Co., VA, d 7 May 1822, Orange Co., IN, mar (1) Mary Stuart, (2) 25 Sept 1785, Augusta Co., VA, Margaret Wallace, b 1767, Rockbridge Co., VA, d 24 Nov, 1852, Washington Co., IN.

 

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Service:  Private, militia of Augusta Co. and Rockbridge Co., VA.  Private in Capt. McKittrick's Company.  Wounded at Battle of Cowpens.  Margaret, his widow, filed claim for pension 28 May 1851 but died before claim allowed.  R6766.  Children:  James, b 14 Aug 1786, m (1) 28 Feb 1810, Esther McKinney,  (2) 10 Oct 1818, Eunice Orchard; Esther, b 28 Jan 1788, mar Alexander McPheeters; Elizabeth, b 30 Apr 1790, mar 4 Jan 1816, Havey Finley; Margaret, b 22 Mar 1792; John, b 14 Sep 1794, VA, d 7 Jul 1800, Decatur Co., IN, mar 30 May 1821, Martha Van Cleve, b 2 May 1802, d 11 May 1894, Decatur; Robert, b 14 Jul 1796, mar 24 Jan 1822, Rachel Marts; Alexander, b 1 Mar 1798, mar 27 Jan 1825, Rebecca Hutchison; Mary, b 30 May 1801, mar 28 Nov 1822, George McCoy; Thomas, b 18 Dec 1803, mar 2 Aug 1827, Jane McGrew; David C., b 2 Nov 1806, m (1) 4 Jan 1831, Lavinah Wright, (2) 10 Feb 1874, Rebecca Ruth Lynd; William, b 17 Dec 1809, mar (1) 12 Apr 1833, Letitia Loyd (2) 14 Apr 1836, Lydia Cummins, (3) 6 June 1866, name unknown; Cynthia A., b 26 Sep 1811, d 15 May 1814.  Desc., Margaret Dowden Dillinger, No. 324881.

 

McKinney, John:  b 17 Dec 1759, PA, d 25 Nov. 1833, Newport, KY, mar Sarah Taliaferro, d 1815, Alexandria, VA.  Service:  He was a member of the Order of Cincinnati Documents, signed by George Washington, H. Knox, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson and in the possession of the family, testifying to valuable services rendered his country, also certificate of membership to said order mention (25 Apr 1812, he was appointed Deputy Commissioner, Purchases, USA.  In 1805 was appointed Lt. Col., Commandant of the State Militia of the District of Columbia).  Children:  John Taliaferro, b 18 Mar 1796, mar Augusta Mayo; Agnes, mar Talor (Taylor) Berry; Sallie Bankhead, b 1800, mar Francis Taliaferro Helm; Mary, mar John Taliaferro.  Descendant, Juliet Spink, No. 261682.

 

McKinney, Joseph Robert:  b 10 June 1748, Hunterdon Co., Colony of New Jersey, d 1838, Fairview, Randolph Co., IN, mar Bedford Co., VA, Susan McVey, b Bedford d Newport, Campbell Co., KY.  Service:  He enlisted in the Continental Army of the American Revolution, served as a private in Capt. Harry Terrell's Company, 5th Regt. of Foot under Col. Josiah Parker.  He fought at Bunker Hill and the Battle of Brandywine.  Children:  Anthony Wayne, War of 1812; Solomon; Hiram; Robert; Jane Reader.  Descendant, Roberta Fager Meeks, No. 521957.

 

 

Indiana Cemeteries

 

James McKinney, Old McKinney Cemetery, north of Freetown, Brown County, State Road #135:

 

James A. McKinney, b 1791, d 1866

Elizabeth McKinney (wife), b 1790, d 1855

James A., Beck (son of D. and J. J. Beck), d 21 Sep 1870, 6 years

William F. Beck (son of D. and E. Beck), d 13 Oct 1862, age 21 years

David Beck, b 18 June 1786, d 3 May 1856

Elizabeth Beck, b 15 Mar 1802, d 14 Mar 1876

Serene E. Beck (dau, D. and M. Beck), b 11 Jan 1856, d 5 Feb 1874

 

Some of the stones are practically buried in the ground, and some have fallen face down, and are too heavy to be set up.  Many unmarked graves.

 

New McKinney Cemetery, maintained by Charles McKinney, Freetown, Indiana:

 

Bruce McKinney, Sr.

Hazel McCoy McKinney (Wife of Bruce), d 19 Sep 1972

Dora Ithera Lutes McKinney (Wife of Robert) b 18 Jan 1871, d 19 Feb 1922, m 18 Jun 1899

Robert Eugene McKinney, d 15 Aug 1952

 

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History of Lawrence, Orange, Washington Counties, Indiana:

 

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Lawrence Co., Pleasant Run Township, land entry, 1816, David McKinney Land entry, 1817, George W. Mullis, Isaac and Benjamin Newkirk

 

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Beaford Presbyterian Church, 1831, first members:  Samuel Henderson and family (elder), Jonathan Henderson, Jane Henderson, Samuel and Rhoda Henderson, Alexander and Rebecca McKinney. 

 

Minister, Independent Presbyterian Church, Preston McKinney

 

Orange County:

Land entry, 1815, James Henderson.  Orleans Township, voter, August 1819, Robert, Alexander McKinney.

 

Settlement of northeast township, 1812-1820, David McKinney, 1814; Alexander McKinney, 1818.

 

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Township officer and viewer of road, Daniel McKinney

 

1853, member of Agriculture Society, Griffen McKinney

 

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Patron of school, 1817, Lost River, Osborns, Glovers, Reeds, McKinneys

 

Washington County:

Justice of Peace, Jul 25, 1814, James McKinney, ibid, 1832

 

County Commissioners, 1837, James McKinney; James McKinney, 1846-47

 

Surveyor, 1818, James McKinney

 

Coroner, 1818, Archibald McKinney; Samuel Henderson, 1822

 

Juror, 1829, James McKinney

 

Salem Merchants, 1884:  Dry goods, Collin McKinney; Livery stable, Chapman and McKinney; Saloonkeeper, John D. McKinney.

 

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Livonia, town laid off by James and David McKinney on February 25, 1819, contained 63 lots.  Thirty more lots were added Aug 31, 1835 by --- and John McKinney.  Previous to the laying off of the town there were already built three or four log dwelling houses and a store erected by James McKinney in 1815.  Livonia Lodge, F& AM #206, established May 26, 1857 included Asa McKinney.  Robert R. McKinney and James McKinney in Mexican War muster roll, 1846.

 

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Presbyterian Church, Livonia, organized at the residence of Alexander McKinney in Madison Township, one mile south of Livonia, February, 1816.

 

Carr Township, Jackson County, Indiana – Leesville, now Lawrence County, was for a time, part of Washington County, John McKinney settled in the eastern part of this township in the early days, 1814-1818.

 

 

Washington County IN Deaths:

 

Mary Scott, b 1 Feb 1796, d 1 Jan 1827, dau of Alexander McKinney

 

George McKinney, d Salem, 26 Oct 1934, age 69, b 6 Jun 1865, husband of Alice L., son of Isaac and Mary Baker McKinney

 

Sam McKinney, d Salem, 5 Jun 1928, age 75 years 29 days, b 6 May 1863, widowed son of Isaac and Mary Baker McKinney.

 

Francis Marion, d Salem, 28 Jan 1942, age 79 years 8 mos 23 days, b 6 May 1863, husband of Mary Susan, son of Isaac and Mary Elizabeth Baker McKinney.

 

Margaret McKinney, 5 mos, b Salem, d 9 Sep 1917, dau of Jason and Helen Hitt McKinney, Jason, son of Samuel, above.