William McKee

A glich on MyHertiage side when adding correct parents For Mary A. Marr / Britton ro Thomas Edwards & Lucy Wade) over wrote profiles for William McKee and Phoebe McKee (Snodgrass Baker)- think they are corrected back to where should be. William was listed aaaaas father of

• Mary Britton (Edwards)
• Gender: Female
• Birth: September 23, 1770
• Mecklenburg County, Virginia, United States
• Death: 1842 (71-72)
• Flovilla, Butts County, Georgia, United States
• Place of Burial: Flowvilla, Virginia
• Immediate Family:
• Daughter of Thomas Edwards and Lucy Edwards (Wade)

William McKee

• Born 1750 in Rockbridge County, Virginia
• Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
• [sibling%28s%29 unknown]
• Husband of Phoebe (Snodgrass) McKee — married 13 Apr 1788 in Montgomery, Virginia, United States
• DESCENDANTS descendants
• Father of Mary (McKee) Edwards, Betsy (McKee) Peyton, Henry McKee, Sarah McKee and John B McKee
• Died about 1810 in Kentucky

NOTE: .. During the war for Independence eight new counties arose in the Western District. Washington and Montgomery were formed in 1776 from a part of Fincastle.

Biography

Married Phoebe Snodgrass, widow of Martin Baker in Montgomery County, Virginia on 11 Apr 1789. The marriage is registered in Marriage Book A, p. 342, line 3.

Marriage is also listed in the book Marriages in the New River Valley, Virginia: Montgomery, Floyd, Pulaski and Giles Counties, by Therese A. Fisher, p 158. The entry reads: Mckee, William and Baker, Phebe (w/o?) 11 Apr 1788 MM.

Note the disparity in year of marriage between the two sources. The register shows the marriage listed between two other marriage both of which were in 1789. The year was noted with a "ditto".

Re. Phoebe McKee from Kentucky: A History of the State (Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887. Tells of her move from Virginia in 1808 to Anderson County, Kentucky with her sons John and Henry. There is no mention of William but the fact that she was the widow of a Revolutionary War soldier is mentioned.  see below

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Anderson Co. compiled by Lewis Witherspoon McKee

.THOMAS L. McKEE. <br/>
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Mrs. Phoebe McKee, widow of a Revolutionary soldier, emigrated from Virginia in 1808, settled in Anderson County, then Franklin, located on Salt River, about three miles west of Lawrenceburg, and engaged in farming.

She had two sons; John and Henry, and three daughters, one of whom married Larry Wilson, of Woodford County.
Henry, the father of Thomas L. McKee, was born in Virginia in 1791, and married Pemelia Wash, of Anderson County. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and served under Capt. Ellison, of Anderson County. He died in 1852; his widow died in 1879. They had twelve children: Benjamin (deceased), John A., Allen S., William, James C. (deceased), Martha (Mrs. Thomas Wilson), Henry, Thomas L., Virgil (deceased), Walker (deceased), Miles and Robert.
Thomas L. McKee was born October 23, 1829, reared in Anderson County, and received his education in the common schools. At twenty-one he engaged in dealing horses and mules, with his headquarters at Clifton, La., continuing in that business until 1882, and was also engaged in Anderson County in general farming on 1,000 acres and in raising all kinds of stock for the Southern business. Mr. McKee's farm was located at that time on Salt River, about one mile from his present home, to which he removed in 1882, where he permanently settled in Anderson County about two miles and a half from Lawrenceburg, and where he is engaged in general farming on 800 acres. He married, in May, 1886, Mrs. Lou (Mundy) Cole, daughter of Squire William Mundy, of Anderson County

William McKee b. circa 1750, Rockbridge County, Virginia; d. April 12, 1791, Virginia / Kentucky

m. April 11, 1789, Botetourt, Virginia, USA, Botetourt County, Virginia, United States Phoebe Snodgrass b. 1754, Staunton, Augusta, Virginia, Virginia, United States; d. after March 21, 1791, Kentucky, United States;.

Children:

1. Betsy Peyton (McKee) b. circa 1789, Virginia, United States; d. after 1827, Kentucky, United States
2. Henry Valentine McKee b. March 21, 1791, Evans Run, Marion Co., /Rockbridge Co. Virginia, Rockbridge County. Virginia, Rockbridge County, VA, United States, Rockbridge County, VA, United States; d. January 4, 1852, Anderson Co, Kentucky, Anderson County, Kentucky, United States, Anderson County, Kentucky, United States
3. Sarah Wilson (McKee) b. 1793, Tennessee, United States; d. August 13, 1858, Woodford, Kentucky, United States
4. John B McKee b. October 6, 1797, Franklin County, KY, United States; d. June 12, 1854, Newton, Buchanan County, Iowa, USA
5. Martha Wilson (McKee)

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