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McDANIEL, WILLIAM, was born Oct. 20, 1786, in Clarke county, Ky. He was married there to Margaret McDonald. They had twelve living children in Clark and Harrison counties. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in Nov., 1833, and setlled near Mechanicsburg. Of their child- ren-
LUANNA, born March 22, ISog, in Clark county, Ky., married there May 15, IS28, to Thomas Sparks, and came with her parents to Sangamon county, in IS33. They had seven children-MARY E., born March S, IS29, in Kentucky, mar- ried in Sangamon county to Solomon Lanham. See his name. MARGA- RET A. married James Lawyer, and lives in Salisbury. CYNTHIA A. mar- risd George Bowers. EMILY W. mar- ried H. H. Clemons, and lives near Dover, Shawnee county, Kansas. JOHN W., born June 11, 1838, served three years as a Union soldier, from Illinois, abont one year in rebel prisons. He was married to Mrs. Sarah Myers, whose maiden name was Curry. They have two children, MARY C. and SARAII M., and live near . Dawson, Ill. MARTHA died, in 1865, aged twenty-two years. HARRIET B. married D. W. Walters, had one child, MATTIE E., and Mrs. Walters died, Feb. 2, 1872. Thomas Sparks died, Feb. 14, IS51, in Sangamon county, and Mrs. Luanna Sparks died, June 22, IS73, in Missouri, caused by an accident while rid- ing in a spring wagon.
SALLY, born Aug. 28, ISII, in Clark county, Ky., married there to Thomas Correll. See his name.
ELIZABETH, born in ISII, in Kentucky, married there to Frederick Sutcliffe, and came with her parents to Sangamon county, had three children,
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and Mr. S. died. The was twice married after, and died, leaving two children, in Iowa.
MARY A., born Aug. 4, 1813, in Clark county, Ky., married James Herrin. Sec his name.
DAVID S., born in Kentucky, mar- ried in Sangamon county to Matilda A. Shinkle. He died, and his widow married Aaron Morgan. See his name.
CLARK, born in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, in his twentieth year.
ROBERT P., born Sept. 4, 1819, in Harrison county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Jan. IS, 1844, to Eli- zabeth R. Correll. He died, Aug. 5, IS51, leaving two children-RUFUS died, aged eighteen years, and ROBERT W., aged two years. His widow married James H. McDaniel. See his name.
MARTHA, born in Kentucky, mar- ried in Sangamon county to Aaron Mc- Intire. They both died in Fulton county, Mo., leaving several children.
MARGARET, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Jacob Maxwell, and died, without children.
WILLIAM, born in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, aged nineteen years.
JAMES H., born May 12, 1827, in Harrison, county, Ky., married in Sanga- mon county, Nov. 3, 1853, to Mrs. Eliza- beth R. McDaniel, whose maiden name was Correll. They had three children- IRVIN died, aged four years. JENNIE and LIZZIE live with their parents, two miles south of Dawson, Sangamon county, Illinois.
JOSEPH, born in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, is unmarried, and lives at Farmington, Iowa.
William McDaniel died, January, 1852, and his widow died, Dec. 31, 1856, both in Sangamon county.
McDANIEL, JONATHAN, was born April S, 1796, in Clark county, Ky. He was married March 23, 1820, in Harrison county, Ky., to Elizabeth Cor- rell. They had five living children in the latter county, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1835, in what is now Mechanics- burg township, where they had two chil- dren. Of their children-
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LUANN, born Jan. 6, 1823, in Ken- tucky, married Jonathan Huckleberry. See his name. She died Jan. 2, 1855.
MARTHA, born August 1, 1825, m Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to John Langley. She died in IS50, and Mr. L. married Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, whose maiden name was Huckleberry.
ROBERT, born Oct. 30, 1827, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, Feb. 22, 1855.
ELIZABETH, born Sept. 23, 1834, in Harrison county, Ky., married in San- gamon county, April 9, 1861, to Jacob Myers, who was born Oct. 22, 1831, in Berks county, Pa. He has three children by a former marriage, WILLIAM, ELI and MARIA, and by the present wife, EDWIN, OLIVER and LENA. Mr. and Mrs. Myers reside three miles north of Illiopolis, Sangamon county, Illinois.
JAMES, born Sept. 22, 1837, in San- gamon county, died in his sixth year.
MARIA, born Nov. 26, 1838, in San- gamon county, married John W. North. See his name.
Jonathan McDaniel died Jan. 1868, in Sangamon county, and Mrs. Elizabeth McDaniel resides with her daughters, Mrs. Myers and Mrs. North .- 1876.
McDANIEL, JAMES, an elder brother to Robert, was born Sept. 2, 1781, in Pennsylvania. His father, Robert Mc- Daniel, was a Revolutionary soldier, served three years and six months, and was present when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Va. When James was a child the family moved to Stroude's sta- tion, Clark county, Ky. He was there married to Mary Matthews. They had one child there, and moved to Bracken county, where they had three living child- ren, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving, in IS3S, at Buffalo Hart Grove. Of their four children- SEPTHA, born in 1So6, in Clark county, Ky., married in Bracken county, and came to Sangamon county with his father in 1838. They had one child in Kentucky and seven in Sangamon county. ELIZABETH married Levi McDaniel. See his name. MARY married William Matthews, have five children and live in Buffalo Hart township. MARTHA married Oliver McDaniel. See his name. JOHN T., unmarried, is a teacher. Mrs. Sarah McDaniel died in 1852, and Jeptha
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MARY, born Dec. 16, 1820, in Ken- tucky, died in Sangamon county, in her twenty-seventh year.
McDaniel died in 1856, both in Sangamon county.
LUANN, born March, 1810, married Glover Matthews, and had eleven child- ren. He died August, 1855, and his wid- ow resides in Buffalo Hart township.
MARY, married Thomas Elliott, and both died.
WILLIAM married Nancy A. Smith, had two children, and he died. She mar- ried again, and is now a widow near Riv- erton.
Mrs. Mary McDaniel died in 1845, and James McDaniel died in 1861, both in Sangamon county.
McDANIEL, ROBERT, was born Feb. 14, 1799, in Clark county, Ky. He was married in Bracken county, March 25, 1825, to Jemima Correll. She was born July 10, 1799, in Montgomery county, Ky. They had five children in Bracken county, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1835, in Mechanicsburg township, and the next year to Buffalo Hart grove, where one child was born. Of their six children-
GEORGE, born June 9, 1826, in Bracken county, Ky., married Oct. 31, 1854, in Sangamon county, to Louisa J. Constant. They had two children, ED- WIN A. and ELMER W., and live three miles southeast of Buffalo Hart Station, Sangamon county, Illinois.
LEVI, born Dec. 3, 1827, in Ken- tucky, married Feb. 16, 1871, to Elizabeth McDaniel, and lives with his parents.
JOSEPH, born Dec. 12, 1830, in Kentucky, married Feb. 16, 1864, in San- gamon county, to Mary E. Furrow. She was born August 7, 1836, near Piqua, O. They live in Buffalo Hart township, San- gamon county, Illinois.
MARY H., born Jan. 24, 1833, mar- ried Nov. 26, 1856, to Nathaniel F. Mat- thews. See his name.
HARRISON, born June 2, 1835, in Bracken county, Ky., married in Sanga- mon county, Feb. 6, 1868, to Clarrissa M. Priest, who was born Oct. 20, 1846, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. They had three children, two of whom died in in- fancy. ROBERT F. resides with his parents, one mile east of Buffalo Hart Station, Sangamon county, Illinois.
OLIVER, born Dec. 27, 1837, in Sangamon county, married July 16, 1867, to Martha McDaniel. They have three living children, BERTHA MAY, GRACE LOU and JOSEPH A., and live in Buffalo Hart township, Sangamon county.
Robert McDaniel and his wife now- 1876-reside three miles east of Buffalo Hart Station, on the farm where they set- tled in 1836.
McDANNOLD, MRS. ELIZ- ABETH C., whose maiden name was Iles, a sister of Elijah and Washington Iles, was born Dec. 16, 1802, in Bath county, Ky., and married there Oct. 8, 1822, to John E. McDannold, who was born Nov. 7, 1795, in Kentucky. Mr. McDannold died Nov. 6, 1833, in Ken- tucky, leaving five children. Mrs. Mc- Dannold came with her family to Spring- field, III, in Oct., 1836. Her daughter-
PARTHENIA, born July 6, 1823, in Mount Sterling, Montgomery county, Ky., was married April 9, 1845, to Gen. James W. Singleton. They have two children, LOUISA E. and JAMES J., and live at Quincy, Illinois.
Mrs. E. C. McDannold married Strawbridge. See his name.
McELVAIN, SAMUEL, was born Feb. 22, 1794, in Augusta county, Va, Arriving at manhood, he went to Adair county, Ky. He enlisted in the army against Great Britain, and was in the bat- tle of New Orleans, Jan. 8, 1815. Rc- turning to Adair county, after the war, he was married Jan. 4, 1816, to Penclope Abell. They had five children, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Sept .. 1828, in what is now Auburn township. Of their children-
HARRIET N., born Oct. 23, '1816, in Kentucky, married May 4, 1844, in Sangamon county, to Harvey Walker, of Cass county, and died while on a visit to the old homestead, in Sangamon county, June 17, 1849, leaving three children, viz : SUSANNAH married a Mr. Wood, of Iowa. They have six children, and live at Indianola, Warren county, Iowa. WIL- LIAM studied law, and died in 186S. HARRIET N. finished a collegiate course, and died Sept., 1874.
MARGARET f., born Sept. 1, 1819, in Kentucky, married Feb. 1, 1844, in
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Sangamon county, to Mathew Patton. See his name.
WILLIAM A., born Dec. 1, 1822, in Kentucky, married Nov. 1, 1853, in Sangamon county, to Angeline A. Sowell. They have six children, namely: HOW- ARD A., SAMUEL S., JAMES W., NELLIE J., MARGARET A. and LIZZIE G. W. A. McElvain resides one and a half miles southwest of Auburn, Sangamon county, Ill., near where his father settled in 182S.
GAMES E., born Nov. 16, 1825, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Nancy Sowell, and moved to Missouri in Oct., 1857, and from there to Butler county, Neb., in March, 1871. They have eight children,-seven sons and one daughter. WILLIAM married Miss Richardson, of Missouri, in 1871, and re- sides near Hiawatha, Butler county, Neb. The other seven live with their parents, near Hiawatha, Butler county, Nebraska.
THERESA, M. H., born Nov. 7, 1827, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county Oct. 18, 1849, to B. M. White. They had eight children,-five sons and three daughters, and live at Fountain, Miami county, Kansas.
Samuel McElvain died April 1, 1848, and his widow died Sept. 28, 1855, both in Sangamon county. Mr. McElvain and his wife united with the First Pres- byterian church, Springfield, in 1829. It was then in charge of Rev. John G. Bergen. Dr. Bergen organized a Presby- terian church at the residence of Mr. Mc- Elvain, in 1830. It was composed of twelve members. Mr. McElvain was elected one of the Ruling. Elders, and continued to discharge the duties of his office to the end of his life.
MCGINNIS, DAVID, was born in 1798, in Mercer county, Ky. He was married Dec. 24, 1820, in Boone county, to Eliza Gibson, a native of that county. They had three children in Boone county, and Mr. McGinnis visited Sangamon county, in the fall of 1826, selected a loca- tion for a home, returned to Kentucky, and brought his family, accompanied by his brother, G. Dawson, arriving Nov. 18, 1827, in what is now Island Grove township, where six children were born. Of all his children-
MMARY Y., born Oct. 9, 1821, in Ken- tucky, married in Sangamon county to
Bernard A. Vanderen. See his name. She died, Aug. 5, 1842. Her only living child, JOHN D., is married, and reside in Labette county, Kansas.
WILLIAM, born July 7, 1823, in Boone county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, June 19, 1845, to Lorinda Dar- neille. They had three living children- ZACHARAY T. married, Nov., 1871, to Fannie Wright, daughter of Dr. N. Wright, have two children, JENNIE B. and a babe, and live in Chatham, III. EMMA was married, Dec. 24, 1874, to Jacob Staley. CHARLES lives with his parents, five miles southwest of Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.
MARTHA A., born Sept. 1, 1827, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Thomas J. Darneille. See his name. She died, Dec. 2, 1853.
ELIZABETH, born Oct. 25, 1829, in Sangamon county, married James A. Hall. See his name.
JOHN f., born Feb. 8, 1832, in Sangamon county, married, July 16, 1855, to Elizabeth Green, who was born Feb. 5, 1838, in Owen county, Ky. They had two living children, DAVID R. and WILLIAM, who reside with their mother. John J. McGinnis died Feb. 15, 1866. His widow and child reside where his father settled in 1827, in a brick house he built in 1836. It is four miles southwest of Curran, Sangamon county.
AMERICA died, at ten years of age.
MARGARET married R. R. Rob- erts, had one child, and mother and child died, at the family homestead.
DAVID S., born Dec. 15, 183S, died in 1860.
ELIZABETH ., born March 29, 1840, married April 2, 1867, to John J. Green, who was born Oct., 1842, in Owen county, Ky. They had two children, DAVID M. and JOHN M., and she died, Feb. 3, 1873. Mr. Green and the children live at the David McGinnis homestead.
Mrs. Elizabeth McGinnis died, Nov., 1844, and David McGinnis was married, in 1851, in Warsaw, Ky., to Mrs. Sally M. King, whose maiden name was Spen- cer. David McGinnis died, July 2, 1867, from the effects of being thrown from a buggy by a runaway horse. His widow
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resides at her old homestead, three miles southwest of Curran.
. David McGinnis stall fed about sixty head of cattle, in 1838, which was the first thing of the kind done in the county, so far as my informant knows. He drove them to St. Louis, and sold them for $18 per head. They averaged 1600 pounds each, so that they brought a little more than one dollar per hundred pounds. The money was brought home in silver, kept for months in an old business secretary, without locks on that or the house. The doors of the desk were often open so the money could be seen, and several hired men were ahout, and there never was a dollar stolen. The brick house built by David McGinnis, in 1836, in what is now Island Grove township, is in a good state of pre- servation. It was about the first, if not the first, brick house built in Sangamon county outside of Springfield.
William McGinnis remembers that his father, two hired men and himself, each put a sack of corn on a horse and rode to a water mill on Spring creek, eight miles distant. This required the labor of four men and four horses a whole day to get about ten bushels of grain ground. That was the prevailing custom. It was thought to be an almost unpardonable in- novation when a Yankee came in and would put more grain in his wagon, and with two horses and one man accomplish more easily what had required four men and four horses.
David and William McGinnis were the inventors of a device for guiding prairie plows by wheels and a lever. They put it in operation in the summer of 1829. It was adopted throughout the prairie coun- try, and might have made them a large amount of money, but it was never pat- ented.
MCGINNIS, GREENBER- RY DAWSON, brother to David and William. He was born Feb. 16, ISoo, in Mercer county, Ky. Sally Bark- ley was born August 7, 1806, in Bracken county, Ky. Her parents moved to Boone county. G. Dawson McGinnis and Sally Barkley were married in Boone county, Ky., Sept. 13, 1827. A few weeks later they moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Nov. 18, 1827, in what is now Island Grove township, and soon
after into Curran township. He prepared his logs and hauled them together to build a house. By that time all his money was gone except one quarter of a dollar. They did not like to part with their last cent, not knowing where the next was to come from, but it was the universal cus- tom to have whisky at their house raisings. The raising was delayed, hoping to find some way to obtain the whisky and save the money. The thought was entertained for a time of inviting their neighbors to assist without the accustomed stimulant. It was doubtful if they would come, but the husband and wife held a consultation, and decided that even though they re- sponded to the call and helped them, he would always be regarded as the stingiest man in the whole county, and that it would be better to part with his money than to have such a name. The whisky was purchased and the house raised. That house was less than one-fourth of a mile north of the Lick creek timber. His neighbors wondered at his going so far from timber, and assured him that he could never raise any except muley cattle, because the weather would be so cold out on the prairie that it would freeze the horns off. They had nine living children at that place, namely-
DAVID ERT'IN, born August 24, 1828, married August 1, 1850, to Matilda Miller. They had four children, PER - MELIA A., the third child, died in her eighth year. The other three, WIL- LIAM J., GREENBERRY D. and ROBERT E. live with their father. Mrs, Matilda McGinnis died May 3, 1858, and he was married Jan. 20, 1859, to Mrs. Ruth A. Forrest, whose maiden name was Greenwood. They have six children, SCOTT, THOMAS H., JE- ROME, CAROLINE, CLIFTON and a boy babe. David E. McGinnis resides in Loami township, three miles southeast of Bates, Sangamon county, Illinois.
W. WASHINGTON, born March 15, 1830, married April 2, 1857, to Char- lotte Jacobs. They have five living chil- dren, TABITHA, TEDORSIS, ULYS- SES GRANT, LUTHER and a babe. W. W. McGinnis lives at the family homestead, where he was born .- 1874.
ELIZABETH, born Sept. 2, 1831, died in her eleventh year.
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PEYTON M., born August 9, 1833, married Oct. 22, 1857, to Caroline Neal. She was born April IS, 1840. They re- side in the southwest corner of Curran township, Sangamon county, Illinois.
MARTHA A., born March 24, 1835, married April 2, 1857, to James Brawner. See his name ..
GREENBERRY D., Jun., born May 4, 1837, married Catharine Jacobs. They have seven children and live in Bates county, Mo.
SARAH, born August 5, 1839, mar- ried John E. Gibson. See his name.
ROBERT SMITH, born July 23, IS41, enlisted August 13, 1862, at Spring- field, for three years, in Co. B, 130th Ill. Inf., served full term, and was honorably discharged at Springfield, August 30, 1865. He was married Nov. 1, 1866, to Mary E. Bacon. a native of Ohio, and re- sides one and a half miles south of Bates, Sangamon county, Illinois.
MARY E., born August 12, 1849, lives at the family homestead.
Greenberry Dawson McGinnis died Jun. 29, 1869, of heart disease, and his widow resides with her son W. Washington Mc- Ginnis, at the homestead settled by her- self and husband in 1827. It is four miles southwest of Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois .- 1874.
MCGINNIS, WILLIAM S., was born March 30, IS10, in Mercer county, Ky .; came to Sangamon county, Ill., in 1827, with his brothers, David and G. Dawson. He was married the latter part of 1833 to Mary M. Kelly. They had one child.
JOHN G., born Dec. 4, 1834, in San- gamon county ; raised in Jasper county, Mo., and married there July 10, 1860, to Sarah F. Vestal, who was born Feb. 24. 1843, in Hardin county, Tenn. They had two children. LAURA E. died in in- fancy. DELILAH MAY lives with her parents in Chatham township, two miles east of Loami.
Mrs. Mary M. McGinnis died August, 1835, and W. S. McGinnis married Alta M. Kelly, a cousin to his first wife. They had one child in Sangamon county, and the family moved, in IS37, to what was Barry, but is now Jasper county, Mo., where five children were born. William S. McGinnis died Oct. 20, 1845, and his
widow and four children reside in, Jasper county, Missouri.
MCGINNIS, SMITH, born and married in Mercer county, Ky., came to Sangamon county, stopping a short time with his brothers, David, G. Dawson and William S., and moved to Adams county, Ill .; thence to Andrew county, Mo. His daughter is the wife of Dr. E. Artzman, of Springfield.
McGRAW, ABSALOM D., brother to Charles G., was born May 30, 1812, in Harrison county, Ky. At twenty- four years of age, he left his native county, and came to Springfield, Ill., arriving Nov. 28, 1836, just in time to encounter the "sudden change" of Dec. 20, 1836. He was married April 30, 1839, in Spring- field, to Rebecca Hunter, who was born July 17, 1815, in Hardin county, Ky. They had seven living children-
ORVILLE H., born Oct. 15, IS41, in Springfield, married March 4, 186S, to Annie Gourley. They had one child, MINNIE F., and Mrs. McGraw died Jan. 5, 1872. He was married July 3, 1873, to Abbie V. Mason, and lives in Decatur. He is so severely crippled as to lose the use of one arm, and nearly lose the use of one leg.
DALLAS f., born April 12, 1845, in Springfield. He was injured by a railroad accident March 31, 1871, and died April 9, 1871, at Brownsburg, fourteen miles west of Indianapolis, Indiana.
HELEN Y., born Sept. 27, 1847, in Springfield, married Oct. 14, 1868, to William Trimble. See his name.
AMBRO D., born Jan. 6, 1850; MARY E., born April 12, 1852; MA- RIA, born Jan. 19, 1855, and LIN- N.EUS, born Aug. 15, 1857 ;- the four latter live with their parents.
A. D. McGraw engaged in farming, March, 1848, and now resides five miles due south of Springfield.
McGRAW, CHARLES G., was horn Feb. 13, 1801, in Mason county, Ky., near Washington. His parents moved to Harrison county in 1810 or '11. He spent a few years, when a young man, in Nashville, Tenn., and St. Louis, Mo .; came to Springfield in March, 1836, and engaged in the mercantile trade, as a member of the firm of Hill & McGraw. C. G. McGraw was married April, 1839, to Vienna Adams, daughter of James
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Adams. See his nome. They had one child-
GAMES A., born March 8, 1840, in Springfield, Ill., is unmarried, and is a merchant in his native city.
Mrs. Vienna McGraw died Feb. 12, 1844. C. G. McGraw was married Dec. 15, 1848, to Almira Walker. They had two children-
ALIDA, born Feb. 26, 1850, in Spring- field, was married in Logan county, Ill., Sept. 8, 1869, to Alexander Downey. They had one child, RUSH V., who lives with his mother. Mr. Downey died in Pontiac, March 22, 1872, and his widow was married Jan. 6, 1875, to R. Fenwick, in Bloomington, Ill., where they now reside-1876.
FANNIE M., born May 5, 1852, in Springfield, is unmarried, and lives in Bloomington, Illinois.
Charles G. McGraw died Aug. 1, 1858, near McLean, and his widow died July 22, 1872, in Bloomington, Illinois.
McHENRY, JOSEPH, moved from Kentucky, and settled on Richland creek, among the earliest settlers. He brought seven children, and left one mar- ried in Kentucky. His son-
HENRY, lives in Petersburg.
MARTIN, lives in Menard county.
ELIZABETH married Matthias Yoakum, and lives in Menard county.
FRANCES married Uriel Greene, had six children, and Mr. Greene died in 1835; and the widow married Alex. Mc- Murphy, had two children, and he died; and she married Jesse Whitlow, and shc died March 2, 1870. Her daughter, Catharine Greene, married Ebenezer Preston, Jun. See his name.
McKEE, JOHN, was born Jan., 1802, in Harrison county, Ky., came to Sangamon county with his sister and bro- ther-in-law, Ivins Foster. He'was mar- ried in Sangamon county to Mary Brown- ing, who was born in Boone county, Ky. They had four children, namely-
WILLIAM D., born Sept. 14, 1836, in Sangamon county, married April 23, 1863, to Sophronia Sweet. They have two living children, ELIZABETH D., and MORRIS E., and live near Sweet Home, Nodaway county, Mo .- 1874.
REBECCA, born March 25, 1838, in Sangamon county, married August 5, 1862, to J. W. Woods, who was born
August 5, 1839, in Belmont county, Ohio. They have one child, WILLIAM W., and reside at Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois .- 1874.
GAMES, born in Sangamon county, married to Nancy J. Barbre, have two children, and live near Sweet Home, Nodaway county, Mo :- 1874.
JOHN, born Sept. 30, 1844, in San- gamon county, married Sept. 29, 1863, to Caroline Williams, have one child, MARTHA, and live in Loami, Illinois.
Mrs. Mary McKee died in 1846. Mr. M. is married again, and lives one and a half miles east of Loami, Illinois .- 1874.
McKEE, JAMES, brother to Mrs. Ivins Foster, came to Sangamon county in 1829, and settled on Lick creek, and now lives in Cooper township, San- gamon county, Illinois.
McKINNIE, LEWIS, was born Oct. II, 1767, in Virginia; it is believed that it
in was Cul- pepper county. His father was born on board a ship in the Atlantic ocean, while his parents were on the way from Scot- land to America. Nancy Saunders was born Oct. 12, 1771, in Loudon county, Va. Lewis McKinnie and Nancy Saun- ders were married in Fayette county, Ky. They had nine living children there. Some of their children married in Ken- tncky and preceded him to Sangamon county. He came to visit two of them in 1820, and moved his own family, arriving Nov. 15, 1826, near Springfield. He commenced at once to build a house, and moved into it Feb., 1827. It was four miles northwest of Springfield. Of their nine children-
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