Maria H. McKenney

Maria was a maid woman who was of the out doors type, a great person of the outdoors who loved to fish. She was the last to live in the old McKenney place in the woods, known in her time as "Maria's place". In her last years, she lived with her brother, John Frank McKenney in the Hurd place, so called because it was located on the site of the Delmont Estes home. The Hurd place burned the day of Priscilla McKenney's wedding reception. It was from her brother's place, the John Frank place, that Maria left with flowers to place on the grave of her ancestor, James McKenney, a Revolutionary soldier. James and his great grandson, George Washington McKenney (Maud's brother) were buried next to each other on a high bank over looking Jackson Flat's and the Davis Brook. Maria had died and was found 5 months later.