History of Coosa County: the McKinney family (Harris McKinney and his children)

Citation: George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly 4, nos. 1–2 (Spring and Summer 1942): 247–248 (the McKinney family), with mentions at 86, 89, 94, 161, 194 and 221; scanned as History of Coosa County (Internet Archive item histcoosacobrew), scans n501 and n503, https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n501/mode/1up?q=McKinney.

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Transcribed from the archive.org text layer, checked against the sense of the page. Pages 247–248 (a blank plate falls between them in the scan):

The McKinney family were prominent and influential in the county. It originated here from Harris McKinney, a native of Virginia, but who moved to Georgia, and from there to Jefferson County, Ala. He came to Coosa at an early period, settling in the eastern part. The McKinneys were of Scotch origin, and were Baptists. Harris McKinney was uneducated, but a man of superior mind and judgment, and succeeded in accumulating a good property by farming. He had a son, Patrick McKinney, who lived between Sockapatoy and Bradford, having a handsome home, a fine orchard and a good farm cultivated by a good negro force. There was another son, Jasper McKinney, who married a daughter of Nathan Bozeman, Sr., who also owned a good farm and slave property in the upper part of Coosa. But he went to Texas about 1852. Patrick McKinney had a son, William, who married a daughter of Reuben Maxwell, and still lives near Alexander City. His two daughters by his first marriage were married, one to Lewis Maxwell, and the other to Richard Slaughter. Harris McKinney had a daughter, Emily, who married Robert McAdory, and was the mother of P. Jasper McAdory, Mary J., widow of Dr. Neil Baker, and Celia, wife of John N. Slaughter, of Goodwater. Dr. Baker and Slaughter have been men of influence, prominence, and property in Coosa. Jasper McAdory is still a citizen of Coosa, and is among the few who have lived longest in the county. […] His wife was Miss Eliza Saddler of Jefferson. They have had no children of their own, but have taken and raised others.

Page 221 (scan n449), on Rev. Bright Skipper's church at Elkahatchie, about 1849:

This was, perhaps, the church representing at that time more wealth than any church in the county, having in its membership Reuben Maxwell and his sons, Allen, Frank, and Willis Maxwell; Isaac Smith, Mr. Moon, Seaborn Dread, and William Thomas, Harris McKinney and some of his sons, Lennard Marbry, and others besides them of wealth.

Page 86 (scan n177), settlers north and east of Nixburg: "Later was Dr. James Kelley, … Lennard Marberry, a wealthy planter, and his son, Thomas, Harris McKinney, Reuben, Allen and Frank Maxwell (also men of wealth and prominense) …"

Other McKinney mentions: p. 89 (Patrick McKinney among the early settlers near Sockapatoy and Bradford's), p. 94 (Patrick McKinney of Sockapatoy, a son-in-law of Evan Calfee, "a wealthy farmer," robbed by Rousseau's raid), p. 161 (Patrick McKinney among the last members of Friendship church, dissolved 1870), p. 194 (a sister of Dr. Nathan Bozeman married Jasper McKinney). The book names no Eli McKinney anywhere.