James Francis McKee

McKee Family Tales of Pioneer Days in Kentucky.

"My father, James McKee, was the son of James McKee and Sarah Wilkerson of Montgomery County, Kentucky. He was born June 14, 1846. His father died when he was sixteen years old. When he was twenty he married my mother, Elizabeth Hensley, daughter of James Hensley of Kiddville, Clark County, Kentucky"….

"My mother was a girl of sixteen when she first went to live with the McKees as a bride. She had been raised in a little country community but not on a farm, so she had many hard lessons to learn about farm life. She admitted that at first she shed many tears, but soon learned to love Grandmother McKee because of her sterling qualities, including courage and good sense. Mother said she was never idle a minute. She wore large pockets in her long black dresses, and in them she always carried some work to be done for sitting-down periods. Even when preparing a dinner over the open fire she would take out her knitting and go to work. She taught her children how to knit and my father taught my mother how to knit sox for him". Beth K

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