Edna Rising Sun "Yellow Britches"

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Thomas McKee, whose family name has been preserved in McKee’s Rocks, was the father of Alexander McKee (1725-1799) probably best known for his defection from the patriot cause to the British and their Indian allies during the American Revolution. As a result of his defection, all of his lands were confiscated by the Americans. McKee went on to gain a villainous reputation with Simon Girty and his brothers among the settlers on the Pennsylvania frontier for organizing and instigating deadly Indian attacks against them. Sometime following the end of the war, Colonel Alexander McKee moved to Canada where he died of lockjaw and was buried on his farm on the Thames River, Ontario, Canada in 1799. In 1769 he is believed to have married Edna Yellow Britches Rising Sun (1732-1793) and by this marriage became related to the Shawnee war chief, Blue Jacket. His known children were William, Alexander, Thomas, Elizabeth and Catherine, however, Thomas McKee had many Indian wives and children.

A Man of Distinction among Them

"ALEXANDER McKEE and the Ohio Country Frontier 1754-1799" by Larry L. Nelson The Kent State University Press Kent, Ohio, and London , c1999.

Chapter Two From the Susquehanna to the Ohio, 1735-1763

pg. 63 "...During the late 1760s and early 1770s, McKEE also entered the fur trade as a private trader, joining in a profitable partnership with another Pittsburgh resident, Alexander Ross. He used the proceeds to develop his property north of Pittsburgh, where he built a large and imposing estate, Fairview, that overlooked the Ohio River. Prosperous by frontier standards and highly visible as a result of his continuing association with Croghan, McKEE became active in local politics as well, accepting the position of justice of the peace for newly formed Bedford County in 1771. Despite his increasingly strong links to white society,

McKEE married a woman living in the Lower Shawnee Town, and in 1769 or 1770, she bore his first child, THOMAS.

Little is known of McKEE'S wife. John Johnston, a United States Indian agent at Piqua, Ohio, in the early nineteenth century, understood that she was an Indian, and by his marriage McKEE became related to the Shawnee war chief, Blue Jacket.

An un-attributed marginal note in the McKEE Family Genealogical file at Fort Malden suggests that her name was CHARLOTTE BROWN, raising the possibility that, like his mother, she may have been a white captive raised among the tribe. McKEE'S wife and child continued to live among the Indians in the Scioto Valley, while ALEXANDER divided his time between Pittsburgh and the central Ohio backwoods..."

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Birth also given as 1740 in Pennsylvania, Somerset, Pennsylvania

conden Family Tree

• Public Member Tree 1 source
• Name: Edna Yellow Britches Rising Sun
• Birth: 1732 - Somerset, United States
• Death: 1793 - Adams, OH (Ohio)
• Marriage: 1769 - Pennsylvania
• Parents: Shawnee Kispoko Warrior Shawnee, Rising Sun Morning Star Shawnee Kishpoko
• Spouse: Alexander White Elk McKee

Gregory Family Tree

• Public Member Tree 2 sources
• Name: Edna Yellow Britches Rising Sun
• Birth: 1732 - Somerset, United States
• Death: 1793 - Adams, Ohio, United States
• Marriage: Unknown - Pennsylvania, United States
• Parents: Shawnee Kispoko Warrior Shawnee f END, Techacha Rising Sun Morning Star Kishpoko
• Spouse: Col Alexander(White Elk) McKee