Yesterday I published the biography of Henry and Adelia A. Cox. Today I have information concerning the wills of the couple. Henry’s will, written May 5, 1866, gives everything to his wife, Adelia. July 29, 1880, a codicil was added – a child was born to the couple […]
Hugh McKee is Ritchey’s fifth great-grandfather. He lived at McKee’s Half Falls, Pennsylvania. He was a liasion between George Washington and the Shawnee Nation. Hugh was the son of Captain Thomas McKee and possibly one of the daughters of an Indian chief. Hugh married Mary Nesbitt. Nine children […]
Know all men by these presents that we, Alexander McKee and James McKee, are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency, the Governor of Kentucky, in the sum of fifty pounds current money to the payment of which well and truly to be made to the said governor […]
William McKee was born 232 years ago – January 11, 1782 – in Hardin County, Kentucky. William was the son of James McKee and Agnes Dickson. He married Cassandra Frakes and together they had 12 children: Hannah, Cassandra, James, Nancy Agnes, William, dorcas, Mary, Elizabeth, Henry T., Joel, […]
Hannah Frakes and Thomas McKee married 212 years ago – April 16, 1801 – in Hardin County, Kentucky. Hannah was the daughter of Henry Frakes and Hannah Dougherty. Thomas was the son of James McKee and Agnes Dickson. I have no information about children. Hannah’s sister, Cassandra Frakes, […]
Family Group Sheet for William McKee Husband: William McKee Birth: 11 Jan 1782 in Hardin Co., KY Death: 11 Jun 1851 in Schuyler County, IL Marriage: 27 Sep 1804 in Hardin County, KY Mother: Agnes Dickson Father: James McKee Wife: Cassandra Frakes Birth: 30 May 1784 in Pennsylvania […]
Joel McKee was born 189 years ago – August 18, 1823 – in Crawford County, Indiana. Joel was the son of William McKee and Cassandra Frakes; and the grandson of James McKee and Agnes Dickson, and Henry Frakes and Hannah Dougherty. The family moved to Schuyler County, Illinois. […]
Cassandra McKee was born 205 years ago – February 11, 1807 – in Hardin County, Kentucky. Cassandra was the daughter of William McKee and Cassandra Frakes. After Cassandra’s birth the family moved first to Crawford County, Indiana, then on to Schuyler County, Illinois. Cassandra’s siblings were Hannah, James, […]
William McKee was born 230 years ago – January 11, 1782 – in Hardin County, Kentucky. William was the son of the James McKee and Agnes Dickson who moved their family from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, when the state was actually still part of Virginia. William married Cassandra Frakes […]
from Biographical Review of Cass, Schuyler and Brown Counties Schuyler County, Illinois William McKee, one of the oldest and most prominent citizens of Schuyler County, was born in Crawford County, Indiana, January 22, 1813, a son of William McKee, who was a native of Kentucky. The paternal grandfather, […]
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