Tag: george washington mckenney line
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Lloyd McKenney as Child
A beautiful photo from 1909-1910 that shows ancestor Lloyd Clinton McKenney as a child, and a happy one at that. The photo would have been likely taken in Chautauqua County, Kansas, where the family lived. Lloyd was the son of James Albert McKenney and Vera Crockett.
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Chautauqua School, Chautauqua, Kansas, circa 1907-1908
The photo is from “History of Chautauqua County” and is said to be the fifth and sixth grade classes at Chautauqua (Springs) School “probably about 1910”. The identification of the pupils isn’t in order, and lists them as being 6th grade: Opal McKenzie, Cassie McKenney, Russel Jack, Lee Callahan, Lou Anderson, Ed Hessert, Ducan McFarlain,…
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Freethoughter G. W. McKinney
Samuel Porter Putnam’s “400 Years of Freethought”, published by The Truth Seeker Company in 1894, appears to have been a subscription periodical as the rear of the book lists subscribers from all the states. In the list of subscribers we see, in “Indian Territory”, one subscriber, a G. W. McKinney. Perhaps I’m assuming too much,…
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The Race of Gray Eagle
NOTE: The story concerns W. W. Baker who was married to Isabel Frances “Fanny” Hackney, daughter of William Hackney and Sarah Shannon. Unfortunately, the below article does not reveal the Sac Indian with whom W. W. Baker had formed a partnership in the training of the horse, Gray Eagle, for a run against the Fox.…
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FROM 1923 TO WAR YEARS AND EARLY RADIO
FROM 1923 TO WAR YEARS AND EARLY RADIO Recollections of Lloyd McKENNEY 29 January 1979 …I had graduated from high school…had to stay in Sedan the first two years…no high school closer…my grandparents (CROCKETTS) had moved there to take care of children of a son whose wife had died (George CROCKETT). I stayed with them.…
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4 Generations of McKenneys in 1946
Four generations of McKenneys. Front: George Washington McKenney Jr. b. 1861, J. R. McKenney b. 1934, Dorothy Noyes McKenney. Rear: Jim McKenney b. 1930, unknown, Ada Brunger Sanborn McKenney, James Albert McKenney b. 1884, Lloyd McKenney b. 1909 A Christmas photo. I’m guessing this was taken in Chautauqua County, Kansas where both George W. Jr.…
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Lucinda McKenney Hughes Schalburg
Lucinda, Jurdy, Jurdy’s wife Elizabeth, and daughter Alpha and her child. Thomas D. Reynolds was born 1925 so the picture can be dated 1925 and would likely have been taken in Oakland, Alameda, California. Image courtesy Larry McCombs Retouched Lucinda W. McKenney, the daughter of George Washington McKenney Sr. and Isabella Love, was born 1855…
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Photo of Mary Elizabeth Sparks McCormick Tripp with step-daughter
A photo of Mary Elizabeth Sparks McCormick Tripp, daughter of James E. Sparks and Carrie Burch, from Francis Partch. She has guessed that the girl with her is perhaps her step-daughter Nannie Tripp (b. 1886) or Dessie Mae Tripp (b. 1887) , daughters of James Preston Tripp and Jennie McWhirt. I’ve wondered if instead, based…
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Photo of Ida Rae Tripp Thomas and daughter Martha Thomas
From Francis Partch, this is a photo of Martha Thomas (left) with her mother Ida Rae Tripp Thomas standing beside her. Ida Rae Tripp was the daughter of James Preston Tripp and Jennie M. McWhirt. Her step-mother was Mary Elizabeth Sparks McCormick Tripp, a sister of Belle Sparks McKenney and Martha Catherine Sparks who married…
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Family of Elmer T. Conner and Amanda Emelia McCormick Conner West
The family shown is Elmer T. Conner and Amanda Emelia McCormick Conner with children. Francis Partch writes: Elmer T. Conner and Amanda Emelia McCormick Conner with children. The youngest child is Dollie Irene Conner, born 7/8/1913. The young boy is my dad, Sylvester Elmer Conner, born 6/15/1905. The other two girls would be Marie Conner…