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MCKINNEY of Roane County, TN

Some time ago Dennis Aslinger, a McKinney descendant, contributed information on the ancestors of this pioneer family to me.  It now appears that other researchers have published extensive information on the old lines, and I have decided to confine this site to just the Roane County folks.  The sources are Roane County records, and Dennis' personal knowledge.    

There were other McKinney families in early Roane County.  We don't know their connection, if any, to John McKinney, below.  The surname appears as McKinny, McKinney, McKinna, McKiney and perhaps other spellings.  Additionally, there were McKamy/McKamey folks too.          Pat Mc

JOHN MCKINNEY (1776-1821)

Son of Daniel MCKINNEY (Donald MCINNISH, Jr.) & Sarah WEATHERS,   he was born 18 Feb 1776 in Sussex Co., VA and died 22 Oct 1821 in Roane Co., TN. Listed as head of household in the 1790 census at Rockingham, North Carolina. The census listed 2 white males over 60 years, 1 white male under 60 years, 5 white females and 1 slave. His father, Daniel, was probably one of the over-60 males. 

Married to Nancy HORN b. ca 1781/1790 Edgecombe Co., NC d. 22 Mar 1833 Roane Co., TN (dau. of Abisha HORN & Ann RICKS). Between 1790 and 1800, moved to Roane County, TN and settled on a point known as Indian Bottom, across the Clinch River from the present-day Oak Ridge K-25 Plant. Buried in McKinney Cemetery (AEC No. 13A) in Roane Co., TN on the Indian Bottom farm, now the Boeing property. Purchased 250 acres known as "Indian Bottoms" for $550 from Jeremiah MCCLAIN on the south side of the Clinch River on 2 Apr 1802.[1] On 9 Feb 1821 John paid $700 to John HILL for 200A south of the Clinch River, below the mouth of the 1st branch above the mouth of Gap Creek, alias Caney Creek.[2] This land had previously belonged to Stockley DONELSON (original grant), who sold it to Charles MCCLUNG, who sold it to Julius HACKER, who sold it to John HILL. John's sons Ananais and James sold this property to Brashear Roberts on 20 Dec 1832.[3]

John was listed in the 1802 Militia of Roane Co., TN with Captain Hugh FRANCIS' Company.[4 John MACKINEY signed a petition in 1801 to form Roane Co., TN.[5]

John's wife Nancy rode over the mountains on an old gray horse, carrying their few household goods wrapped in a homespun sheet. 

1]Roane Co., TN Deed Book A, pg 64  [2]Roane Co., TN Deed Book E1, pg 510 [3]Roane Co., TN Deed Book F1, pg 793[4]Partially from "We'll Call It Wheat" by Dorathy Sellars MONEYMAKER  [5]Pioneers of Roane County, Tennessee, 1801-1830", Mabel Harvey THORNTON

CHILDREN OF JOHN MCKINNEY

1. ANANIAS MCKINNEY b. 1 Dec 1805 d. 31 DEC 1882 m. Jul 1832  Elizabeth HOWARD b. 14 FEB. 1811 d. 8 SEP. 1892  Notes and descendants

2. James MCKINNEY b. 1809 m. Jincy ___. Went to KS.

3. Jesse MCKINNEY b. 1808 m. 24 Feb 1829 Roane Co., TN Matilda HARVEY. Jesse was illiterate. Matilda had a sister, Basheba (Bosheba, Bersheba) who married an Edmund MCKINNEY probably in Hamilton Co., TN. Basheba was from Roane Co., TN and her parents moved to Hamilton Co. ca. 1840. Basheba possibly married a MAPLES before she married Edmund.

4. Elisha MCKINNEY b. 5 Aug 1810 Roane Co., TN d. 25 Sep 1857 Roane Co., TN m. Mary HOWARD b. 8 Nov 1810 d. 23 SEP. 1857 Both died in a typhoid epidemic and are both buried at  MCKINNEY Cemetery (AEC No. 13A) in Roane County, TN on the south side of the Clinch River. Elisha lived on the north side of the Clinch River. He was illiterate.

Children of Elisha and Mary:

  1. John M. MCKINNEY b. 8 Sep 1831 d. 1904 m. Sarah ADKINSON.    Confederate soldier?

  2. Lucinda MCKINNEY b. 18 Sep 1832 m. George JONES. Lucinda & George raised the minor orphaned MCKINNEY children after the death of her parents. George JONES was from  Virginia, an abolitionist Baptist preacher who "preached more about slavery than he did about salvation"[6] and  who tried to cheat Elisha MCKINNEY's heirs out of their inheritance. George was the son of James Jones and Nancy Butler Jones.  
     [6]"The Story of the McKinney - Stallings Families of South Sebastian County, Greenwood, Arkansas", Oscar M. Stallings, 1970

  3. James A. MCKINNEY b. 18 May 1834 m. Margaret BRADLEY. Moved to KS.  Children:  Walker, Will, Bassett McKinney. 

  4. Rebecca MCKINNEY b. 14 Sep 1836 m. 1st Bazzel HESTER, m. 2nd David BAKER 

  5. Nancy MCKINNEY b. 18 May 1838 d. 17 Dec 1839

  6. Caswell W. MCKINNEY b. 6 Mar 1840 d. 2 Mar 1910 m. Margaret C. HACKER b. 7 AUG. 1843 d. 31 DEC 1916

  7. Ananais MCKINNEY b. 27 Mar 1842 d. 6 Nov 1920 m. 18 Dec 1865 Roane Co. Phoebe SEIBER b. 2 Sep 1844 d. 15 Feb 1921 (dau of  Rev. John SEIBER and Alvina KINCAID). Both are buried at East Fork Baptist Church Cem. (AEC No. 21) in Oak Ridge, TN.

  8.  Martha Jane MCKINNEY b. 28 Jan 1844 m. ___ HENDRICKSON

  9. Lewis Benjamin MCKINNEY b. 3 Mar 1845 Roane Co., TN d. 16 Mar 1930 Sebastian Co., AR m. 14 Dec 1865 Roane Co., TN Matilda FIELDS b. 22 Nov 1848 Knox Co., TN d. 25 Feb 1920 Greenwood, AR. Lewis served in the Union Cavalry in the Civil War under Gen. BURNSIDE.

  10. George W. MCKINNEY b. 6 Aug. 1848

  11. Isaac Newton  MCKINNEY b. 6 Jun 1852 m. Amanda Melissa JONES
    Note from Sheri Kennehan  skenneha@yahoo.com  a direct descendant
    "Amanda was the daughter of Henry Jackson Jones and Jane K. (Watson) Jones.  It is important to note that Isaac was raised mostly by his eldest sister, Lucinda, and her husband, Rev. George Jones.  I was recently sent information confirming that Rev. George Jones was the brother of Henry Jackson Jones."

  12. Amos F. MCKINNEY b. 6 Jan 1855

  13. Efflet MCKINNEY??

 

5. Dicy  MCKINNEY b. 1809 m. 14 Feb 1827 Roane Co., TN Henry TODD b. 11 Sep 1802 Greene Co., AR

6. Rebeccah MCKINNEY b. 23 Oct 1812 d. 2 Jul 1885 m. 24 Aug 1830 Roane Co., TN James ERVIN/IRWIN b. 18 MAR. 1809 d. 31 MAR. 1887 (son of Patrick ERVIN/ERWIN/IRVIN b. 1770 NC & Mary)    Children of this couple

7. Nancy  MCKINNEY b. 1815 m. 1 Nov 1836 Roane Co., TN Henry MONGER (m. John Wood FRANCIS 31 Dec 1835 Roane Co., TN?). Nancy was illiterate.  

8. Sarah Ann MCKINNEY b. 1817 m. 27 Sep 1832 Roane Co., TN James FRANCIS

WILL

John McKinney's will dated 17 Jul 1821 probated 22 Oct 1821 was witnessed by Basil BRASHEAR and Carter BARNET. Brashear Roberts of Sugar Grove Valley and William CROWDER were executors. John left the following:

To wife Nancy, the plantation on which she now lives, a Negro boy named Jessy(?) and a Negro woman named Kizo (On 22 Mar 1833 the heirs of John sold to Tandy SENTER for $800 three Negroes, Bowman, a man about 35 years, Kizza his wife, about 42 years, and a boy child Columbus, aged 2 years.)Roane Co., TN Deed Book F1, pg 792

To his two eldest sons James & Ananais,  the HACKER Plantation, to be divided evenly and to James a Negro boy named Jerry (Terry?) and to Ananais a Negro boy named Isa__. (Ananais and James sold this property to Brashear Roberts for $455 on 20 Dec 1832.

To his 3rd & 4th sons, Jesse and Elisha, the Poplar Creek Plantation to be divided evenly and to Jesse the Negro boy named Nelson and to Elisha the next child born to the woman Kizo. If Kizo bore no more children, Elisha was to receive $300 from the remainder of the estate.

To his four daughters, several items of personal property and the following:

To Dicy, the Negro girl named Jany

To Rebecca, the Negro girl named Sophia

To Nancy, the Negro girl named Katy

To Sarah, the Negro girl named Ester

In addition to John MCKINNEY and descendants listed here, there were contemporaries who may have been John's kin. The following are listed in Roane County, TN Marriages

John  MCKINNEY m. Mary CLEMMONS on 20 Sep 1802, Surety given by William MCKINNEY & William CALDWELL (from bond, license missing)
Thomas MCKINNEY m. Jean/Joan SHARP on 23 Jul 1804
Alexander MCKINNEY m. Priscilla LYLES on 5 Sep 1808
Priscella MCKINNIE m. John HANKINS on 10 Mar 1816 (Betsy OLIVER bond to John HANKINS 30 Dec 1819)
Reuben MCKINNIE m. Jenny LYLES on 6 Sep 1811
Synthi Ann MCKINNEY m. Henry W. BREZEALE on 3 Jul 1828

There is a Mary  MCKINNEY b. 8 Nov 1810 d. SEP. 23, 1857 buried at  McKinney Cem., Roane Co., TN.

An AUGUST MCKINEY/MCCANNY signed a 1799 petition to form Roane County, TN; AUGUST MCKENNY, John MACKINEY, Roland MCKENNY, Rolin MCCINNEY, James MCCINNEY and James MAKENY signed an 1801 petition to form Roane County, TN; and a Thomas  MCKINNEY signed a petition in Roane Co., TN in MAR. 1817.  
"Pioneers of Roane County, Tennessee 1801-1830", Mable Harvey Thornton, 1965

Two of John's sisters were in Roane -no other information:  

Sarah (Sally) MCKINNEY  d. Roane Co., TN m. 28 May 1801 Mecklenburg Co., NC Richard HORN

Nancy MCKINNEY . d. Hamilton Co., TN m. Roane Co., TN William CROWDER

1830 Roane Census, page 59,

William Crowder        1001001-1111001, slaves 0-02
Nancy McKinney        00011-0021001,     slaves 101-1101  (widow of John)
Nancy Roberts            00011-00001001  (widow of Zaccheus)