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About Joseph Madsen McKinney
Sadly, little Joseph Madsen McKinney passed away about a week after his sister, Gladys Violet McKinney, was born in April of 1904. He was the third child of Joseph Thomas McKinney and his wife Dortha Madsen Rollins McKinney's fifth child. I'm not sure what caused his death, but Dortha wrote about him briefly in her diary which she started writing in about 1940 when she was 71 years old. She mentions him not by name in her diary, but as her "dear lost little boy". Dortha's first husband, John Henry Rollins, Jr., passed away at the very young age of 24 years old on Christmas Day, 1889. Family lore says that he fell from a wagon in which he was riding and the wagon wheels crushed his head. He left Dortha with two small children to raise on her own, a daughter, Dorthea Evelyn Rollins Eubank, born in 1886, and a son, John Delbert Rollins, born in 1888. Dortha did not marry again until 1897 when she married Joseph Thomas McKinney in Arizona. He had been an Arizona Sheriff and was also a rancher. They had Dan Carroll McKinney, then Thelma Josephine, McKinney, then baby Joseph, and his sister Gladys. Then a few years later, they separated, and in 1920, Dortha was living in Bakersfield, California, with her three children with Mr. McKinney. In 1930 she was living in Los Angeles, and in 1940 in Santa Susanna in the Simi Valley of Southern California with her daughter Thelma and Thelma's husband Stephan Riess. I don't know if Dortha returned to Arizona before her death in 1953, but she was buried in Safford, Arizona, probably with her little boy, Joseph.
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Joseph Madsen McKinney's Timeline
| 1901 |
July 14, 1901
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Safford, Graham County, Arizona, United States
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| 1904 |
April 23, 1904
Age 2
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Safford, Graham County, Arizona, United States
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Stafford City Cemetery, Safford, Graham County, Arizona, United States
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