Wade & Webb Family History

Melinda McKinney1810–1881

Warren · Alabama · Socapatoy · Socapatoy Cemetery

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Documents (1)
  4. Places
  5. Timeline
  6. Open questions
  7. Notes

Birth

  1. 5 Jun 1810 Warren, Georgia 1, 3

Marriages

  1. 19 Aug 1824 Etheldred Watson Thomas, at Tuscaloosa, Alabama 6

Death and burial

  1. 1881 Burial: Socapatoy Cemetery, Coosa, Alabama
  2. 9 Dec 1881 Death: Socapatoy, Coosa, Alabama 10

Family

Parents
Harris McKinney 1784–1864
Jane Ivey McKinney 1797–1851
Spouse, 19 Aug 1824
Etheldred Watson Thomas 1799–1877
Children
Charlott Sears 1833–?
Seaborn Jones Thomas 1848–1926
Houston Thomas 1841–1857
Amanda S Thomas 1837–1916
Frances Amelia Thomas 1835–1870
Mary Jane Thomas 1850–?
Etheldred Watson Thomas Jr 1847–1910
William Horton Thomas 1830–1862
Patrick Thomas 1834–1865
Elverena "Ellen" Thomas 1840–?
Julius C Thomas 1845–?
Mary Jane Thomas 1827–1885

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Melinda McKinney
  2. Sister of Eli Harris McKinney Sr.
  3. Emma Louise McKinney, daughter
  4. Lila Walden, daughter
  5. Hilda Webb, daughter
  6. William Albert Webb Wade, son

2nd great-grandaunt of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Melinda McKinney was born in Warren County, Georgia, on 5 June 1810, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no source for the date.1 The tree makes her the eldest child of Harris McKinney and Jane Ivey, whose marriage on 17 May 1810 in Warren County is indexed under the names Harris McKinney and Jency Ivy.2 Annie Norman's compiled genealogy Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia (1956), a secondary source, also calls her a daughter of Harris and Jane (Ivey) McKinney, but gives her birth as 5 June 1811, the same day a year later, and her mother's as 4 March 1797, the tree's date.3 Norman names her first among Harris and Jane's five children, Verlinda, Patrick, Mary (who married Billy Chappell), Emily and Jasper.4 Inference By the tree's date her birth falls less than three weeks after her parents' marriage, and Jane would have been thirteen at the birth (fourteen by Norman's 1811), so either the 1810 date is wrong, as Norman's 1811 would suggest, or Melinda was the child of an earlier marriage of Harris McKinney, which no source mentions; neither the tree nor the book cites a record for the year, and the question is unresolved.3

Harris McKinney had moved to Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, "before the admission of the state" in 1819, according to the Memorial Record of Alabama (1893).5 On 19 August 1824 she married Etheldred Watson Thomas in Tuscaloosa County, according to the tree; the Alabama marriage index entry attached for 1824 has the names withheld, and Norman gives the year of the marriage as 1825.6 The federal censuses of 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 list her in her husband's household (the people living together at one address, as the census-taker recorded them) in Coosa County, Alabama, in 1880 at Socapatoy, and the indexes spell her name four ways: Malina, Virlinda, Balinda and Melinda.7 The tree names twelve children, born between 1827 and 1850: Mary Jane (1827), William Horton (1830), Charlott (1833), Patrick (1834), Frances Amelia (1835), Amanda S. (1837), Elverena, known as Ellen (1840), Houston (1841), Julius C. (1845), Etheldred Watson Jr. (1847), Seaborn Jones (1848) and a second Mary Jane (1850).8

Her husband died at Socapatoy on 19 July 1877.9 She died there on 9 December 1881 and was buried in Socapatoy Cemetery, Coosa County; Norman gives the same date of death, and the Find a Grave index has two entries for her, as Melinda McKinney Thomas and as Verlinda Thomas.10 Inference The repeated "Verlinda" and "Virlinda", and Norman's use of Verlinda throughout, suggest that this, rather than Melinda, may have been her given name.11

Documents

  1. 1956 Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia: the McKinney, Moore and Thomas allied families (Harris McKinney and Jane Ivey) Annie Norman, Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia and His Descendants, with a Number of Allied Families (Macon, Georgia: J. W. Burke Co., 1956) · book

Places

  1. 1810Warren
  2. 1824Tuscaloosa
  3. 1850–1860Coosa
  4. 1880–1881Socapatoy
  5. 1881Socapatoy Cemetery

Timeline

  1. 5 Jun 1810BirthWarren, Georgia
  2. 19 Aug 1824Marriage, Etheldred Watson ThomasTuscaloosa, Alabama
  3. 1850ResidenceCoosa, Alabama
  4. 1860Residence2nd Subdivision, Coosa, Alabama
  5. 1870ResidenceAlabama
  6. 1880ResidenceSocapatoy, Coosa, Alabama
  7. 1881BurialSocapatoy Cemetery, Coosa, Alabama
  8. 9 Dec 1881DeathSocapatoy, Coosa, Alabama

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LHBP-LVV: birth 5 Jun 1810, Warren, Georgia, no source attached back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LHBP-LVV: parents Harris McKinney and Jane Ivey McKinney FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LR8F-RG8 (their page): marriage 17 May 1810, Warren, Georgia "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950", FamilySearch, Harris McKinney and Jency Ivy, 17 May 1810. Record: Harris McKinney and Jency Ivy, 17 May 1810 back to the text
  3. Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia: the McKinney, Moore and Thomas allied families (Harris McKinney and Jane Ivey), Annie Norman, Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia and His Descendants, with a Number of Allied Families (Macon, Georgia: J. W. Burke Co., 1956): p. 407: Married Verlinda McKinney, 1825. Born June 5, 1811; died Dec. 9, 1881. Daughter of Harris and Jane (Ivey) McKinney; pp. 389–390: He married May 17, 1810 Jency Ivey … She was born March 4, 1797 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 2S4L-W35 (their page): birth 4 Mar 1797 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LHBP-LVV: birth 5 Jun 1810, no source attached back to the text
  4. Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia: the McKinney, Moore and Thomas allied families (Harris McKinney and Jane Ivey), Annie Norman, Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia and His Descendants, with a Number of Allied Families (Macon, Georgia: J. W. Burke Co., 1956): pp. 389–390: Their children were: Verlinda, who married Etheldred Thomas; Patrick …; Mary, who married Billy Chappell; Emily …; jasper back to the text
  5. 1893-memorial-record-mcadory-slaughter-harris-mckinney: pp. 740–741: He then emigrated to Tuscaloosa county, Ala., before the admission of the state, afterward to Coosa back to the text
  6. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LHBP-LVV: marriage 19 Aug 1824, Tuscaloosa, Alabama "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", database, FamilySearch, [name withheld by request], 1824. Record: [name withheld by request], Alabama Marriages, 1824 Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia: the McKinney, Moore and Thomas allied families (Harris McKinney and Jane Ivey), Annie Norman, Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia and His Descendants, with a Number of Allied Families (Macon, Georgia: J. W. Burke Co., 1956): p. 407: Married Verlinda McKinney, 1825 back to the text
  7. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Malina Thomas in entry for Etheldred Thomas, 1850. Record: Malina Thomas in entry for Etheldred Thomas, 1850 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Virlinda Thomas in entry for Etheldred Thomas, 1860. Record: Virlinda Thomas in entry for Etheldred Thomas, 1860 "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, Balinda Thomas in entry for E W Thomas, 1870. Record: Balinda Thomas in entry for E W Thomas, 1870 "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Melinda Thomas in entry for Erv Thomas, 1880. Record: Melinda Thomas in entry for Erv Thomas, 1880 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LHBP-LVV: residences 1850 Coosa; 1860 2nd Subdivision, Coosa; 1870 Alabama; 1880 Socapatoy, Coosa back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LHBP-LVV: children Mary Jane (1827–1885), William Horton (1830–1862), Charlott Sears (1833), Patrick (1834–1865), Frances Amelia (1835–1870), Amanda S (1837–1916), Elverena Ellen (1840), Houston (1841–1857), Julius C (1845), Etheldred Watson Jr (1847–1910), Seaborn Jones (1848–1926), Mary Jane (1850) back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LHBT-H8H (their page): death 19 Jul 1877, Socapatoy, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  10. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LHBP-LVV: death 9 Dec 1881, Socapatoy; burial Socapatoy Cemetery, Coosa Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia: the McKinney, Moore and Thomas allied families (Harris McKinney and Jane Ivey), Annie Norman, Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia and His Descendants, with a Number of Allied Families (Macon, Georgia: J. W. Burke Co., 1956): p. 407: died Dec. 9, 1881 "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Melinda McKinney Thomas, 1881. Record: Melinda McKinney Thomas, Find a Grave Index, 1881 "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Verlinda Thomas, 1881. Record: Verlinda Thomas, Find a Grave Index, 1881 "BillionGraves Index", FamilySearch, Verlinda Thomas. Record: Verlinda Thomas, BillionGraves Index back to the text
  11. "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Verlinda Thomas, 1881. Record: Verlinda Thomas "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Virlinda Thomas in entry for Etheldred Thomas, 1860. Record: Virlinda Thomas, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LHBP-LVV: other names Verlinda, Virlinda Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia: the McKinney, Moore and Thomas allied families (Harris McKinney and Jane Ivey), Annie Norman, Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia and His Descendants, with a Number of Allied Families (Macon, Georgia: J. W. Burke Co., 1956): p. 389: Verlinda, who married Etheldred Thomas; p. 407: Verlinda McKinney back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Melinda McKinney (8)
  1. 1824Melinda McKinney in entry for Etheldred W. Thomas, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  2. 1850Malina Thomas, "United States, Census, 1850"
  3. 1860Virlinda Thomas, "United States, Census, 1860"
  4. 1870Balinda Thomas, "United States, Census, 1870"
  5. 1880Melinda Thomas, "United States, Census, 1880"
  6. 1881Melinda McKinney Thomas, "Find a Grave Index"
  7. 1881Verlinda Thomas, "Find a Grave Index"
  8. Verlinda Thomas, "BillionGraves Index"