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SOVE BRIEF DATA ON THE MCKEE FAMILY: NO.CAROLINA-TENN.-MISS.-TEXAS
FROM THE ORIGINAL NOTES DICTATED BY THOMAS MCKEE TO HIS NIECE AMZINA ERWIN WADE
SUBMITTED BY MISS VERNON LAUGHTER
THOMAS MCKEE WAS BORN FEB. 23, 1790; DIED JULY 28, 1866.
FRANCIS MCKEE WAS BORN JAN. 2, 1792; DIED FEB. 8, 1863.
ALEXANDER MCKEE, FATHER OF THOMAS MCKEE, WAS SCOTCH IRISH BY BIRTH,
MARRIED A MISS BEAN, PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH. EMIGRATED FROM NORTH CAROLINA, A.D. 1795.
SETTLED IN SUMNER CO., TENN. HE HAD SIX SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS- MARY, NANCY,-_,
ALEXANDER MARRIED A MISS BRAIDEN, LIVED AND DIED IN MAURY COUNTY, TENN.
JOHN AND WIFE LIVED AND DIED IN BEDFORD COUNTY, TENN. DIED OF CHOLERA.
JACOB AND WIFE LIVED AND DIED I N MIDDLE TENN.
THOMAS MCKEE WAS BORN IN NORTH CAROLINA AND HIS FATHER EMIGRATED TO
MIDDLE TENN. AND SETTLED IN SUMNER COUNTY WHEN THOMAS WAS FIVE YEARS OLD.
SAMUEL MCKEE MARRIED A MISS PAUL AND THEY LIVED AND DIED IN MAURY CO.,
TENN., AND ARE BURIED AT SALEM CEMETERY.
JAMES MCKEE WAS BORN IN SUMNER Co., TENN., AND MARRIED MISS MARY PARKS,
EMIGRATED TO ARKANSAS AND THENCE TO MISSOURI, WHERE HE LIVED AND DIED.
THOMAS MCKEE MARRIED MiSS FRANCES STONE OF VIRGINIA, ENGLISH BIRTH. HER
FATHER AND ALSO THE FATHER OF THOMAS MCKEE BOTH SERVED AS SOLDIERS IN THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR. THEY HAD NINE CHILDREN, FIVE SONS AND FOUR DAUGHTERS -- WILLIAM
ALEXANDER, THOMAS NEWTON, SAMUEL LESSENBURY, JAMES HARVEY, JESSE FRANKLIN, AND
DAUGHTERS--SARAH REBECCA, FRANCES OLIVIA, MARY ALMIRA, ELIZABETH JERUSHA.
WI LLI AM ALEXANDER, OLDEST SON OF THOMAS AND FRANCES MCKEE, WAS BORN
FEB. 23,, 1816. MARRIED MiSS BELI NDA MCKEE, LIVED AND DIED I N COAHOMA COUNTY,MI SS.
THOMAS NEWTON WAS BORN APRIL 6, 1818. MARRIED Miss LOUISA ELIOT, WHO
DIED IN HILL COUNTY, TEXAS, BURIED IN AQUILLA CEMETERY. HE WAS A MINISTER OF THE
GOSPEL IN THE CUMBERLAND CHURCH.
SAMUEL LESSENBURY MCKEE WAS BORN JUNE 10, 1819. MARRIED MiSS LOCKIE
MOORE. LIVED AND DIED IN CHEROKEE COUNTY, TEXAS, AND BURIED AT LARISSA CEMETERY.
JAMES HARVEY MCKEE WAS BORN MAY 10, 1821. MARRIED Miss LOUISA ORR, IN
TENN., EMIGRATED TO TEXAS AND DIED AT TEHUACANA AND IS BURIED THERE.
SARAH REBECCA MCKEE WAS BORN AUG. 31, 1822, WAS MARRIED IN MAURY CO., TENN.,
TO ROBERT ERWIN, A MINISTER I N THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. HE LIVED AND
DIED IN MAURY Co., TENN., AND IS BURIED AT SALEM CEMETERY. REBECCA, HIS WIFE,
EMIGRATED TO TEXAS IN 1846 WITH HER FATHER AND LIVED AND DIED IN CHEROKEE Co.,
TEXAS--LARISSA CEMETERY.
FRANCES OLI VI A MCKEE WAS BORN JULY 11, 1824, WAS MARRIED TO MR. W. W.
FAIN. SHE LIVED AND DIED IN CHEROKEE Co., TEXAS, BURIED AT LARISSA CEMETERY.
MARY ALMIRA MCKEE WAS BORN JULY 13, 1828. MARRIED GEORGE A. NEWTON.
SHE DIED OCT. 20, 1901.
ELIZABETH JERUSHA MCKEE MARRIED COL. SAMUEL A. ERWIN. BOTH OF THEM DIED
AND WERE BURIED AT TEHUACANA, LIMESTONE CO., TEXAS.
JESSE FRANKLIN MCKEE WAS BORN JULY 13, 1828, A TWIN.
ALL CORRESPONDENCE; MANUSCRIPTS, SUGGESTIONS AND DATA INTENDED FOR QUARTERLY BULLETIN
SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO EDITOR: MR. JOHN D. THORNTON, 3209 MOCKINGBIRD LANE, DALLAS,5
TEXAS.
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