History of Texas: Hon. James M. McKinney (Jasper McKinney and Martha Bozeman of Milam County)

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Page 692 (checked against the page image) and page 693 (archive.org text layer, OCR slips corrected):

Hon. James M. McKinney, Senator from the Eleventh Senatorial district, composed of the counties of Milam, Falls and McLennan, is a native of Coosa county, Alabama, where he was born October 5, 1841. His parents were Jasper and Martha (Bozeman) McKinney, both of whom were also natives of Alabama. Jasper McKinney was a son of Harris and Jennie (Ivy) McKinney, and Martha Bozeman was a daughter of Nathan and Harriet Bozeman. In the sketch of W. E. Bozeman, which appears elsewhere in this volume, will be found a historical review of the Bozeman family. The McKinneys, Ivys and Bozemans were all early immigrants to America, coming originally from Scotland, England and Germany respectively […] The McKinneys and Bozemans are known from the records to have been early settlers both in Georgia and Alabama […] The parents of James M. McKinney were born, the father in 1821, and the mother in 1823. They were married in 1840, and twelve years later, in 1852, moved to Texas, settling in Milam county, where the mother still resides, the father dying here in 1880. The father was a plain farmer, but possessed ample means and passed his years on earth in peace and comparative ease. On his removal to this State he came overland, bringing, in the patriarchal manner common in those days, his flocks, herds, servants and household effects, with which he immediately resumed his chosen calling, that of farming and stock-raising, in his new home. He freed his slaves, however, not long after arriving in the State, being opposed to the institution. The office of Justice of the Peace, which he held both in Alabama and Texas, was the only elective position to which he was ever called […] In politics he was a Democrat and for twenty-five years an active and earnest member of the Baptist Church. His wife was an industrious woman, devoted to her household affairs and a zealous Christian. They were the parents of eleven children, four sons and seven daughters: Mary F. is the widow of James Pool and resides at Marlin, Falls county; Jennie is the wife of J. W. Porter, of Burleson county; Hattie is the wife of John Carlton, of Milam county; Ann is the wife of A. M. Vandivere, of Milam county; Nathan B. is a resident of Marlin, Falls county; Florence, the wife of Rev. C. P. Lumpkin, of Hill county, now deceased; Patrick H. lives in Milam county; Mattie is the wife of J. E. Cosby, of Abilene; Alice is the wife of J. A. Smith, of Milam county; Adoniram J. is a resident of Milam county, and Emma died in infancy.

James M. McKinney was in his tenth year when his parents moved to Texas. He was reared in Milam county […] In August 1861 […] he joined the confederate army, enlisting in Company G, Captain J. S. Rogers, Fifth Texas Infantry […] Marrying in 1866, Mr. McKinney settled on a farm on Jones' Prairie […] On the 5th day of October, 1866, Mr. McKinney married Roxy, the daughter of Major T. A. Goodwin. […] The wife and mother died in 1874 and a year later he married Mrs. Sarah J. Chappell, widow of Robert H. Chappell and daughter of James and Harriet McIntyre. […] The religious connection of the family is with the Baptist Church, in which Mr. McKinney has for some years been Deacon […]

From the sketch of W. E. Bozeman (part 2, scan n102): "Nathan Bozeman was born October 7, 1785, and November 1, 1807, married Miss Harriet Knotts, of Burke county, Georgia, near Waynesboro. […] In 1819 Nathan Bozeman moved to Covington county, Alabama, and six years later removed to Butler county, near Greenville, and finally moved, in 1838, to Coosa county, where he died ten years later, October 11, 1848. […] His family consisted of eleven children […]"

From the sketch of J. A. Smith (part 1, scan n824): "December 15, 1880, Mr. Smith married Miss Alice McKinney, a daughter of Jasper McKinney, of Milam county, and sister of Hon. J. M. McKinney […]"

Citation: "Hon. James M. McKinney," in History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1893), 692–693; Internet Archive item historyoftexasto02unse (part 2, Allen County Public Library), scans n602–n604, https://archive.org/details/historyoftexasto02unse/page/n602/mode/1up?q=McKinney. Also the sketch of W. E. Bozeman in the same part (scan n102) and of J. A. Smith in part 1 (item historyoftexasto01unse, scan n824).