Wade & Webb Family History

Harris McKinney1784–1864

Southampton · Socapatoy Cemetery · Socapatoy

Harris McKinney married Jency Ivy in Georgia in 1810, and by 1850 he was the head of a household in Coosa County, Alabama, where several of the children also lived. His wife died there in 1851; he died at Socapatoy in 1864 and is buried in Socapatoy Cemetery. Which of the children the tree gives him were his is not yet fully settled.

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

Birth

  1. 4 Mar 1784 Southampton, Virginia 1, 2

Marriages

  1. 17 May 1810 Jane Ivey McKinney, at Warren, Georgia 3

Death and burial

  1. 1864 Burial: Socapatoy Cemetery, Coosa, Alabama
  2. 12 May 1864 Death: Socapatoy, Coosa, Alabama 14

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse, 17 May 1810
Jane Ivey McKinney 1797–1851
Children
Jasper P McKinney 1821–1880
Minerva Mary McKinney 1845–1934
Patrick McKinney 1813–1890
Melinda McKinney 1810–1881

Line of descent Webb line

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

3rd great-grandfather of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Harris McKinney was born on 4 March 1784 in Southampton County, Virginia, according to the FamilySearch tree, which gives no source for the date or the place.1 Inference The tree gives his wife the same day and month of birth, 4 March, thirteen years later, which raises the possibility that one of the two dates was copied from the other; neither has a source.2

On 17 May 1810 he married Jency Ivy, whom the tree calls Jane Ivey; the marriage appears in two Georgia marriage indexes, and the tree places it in Warren County, Georgia.3 Also attached to his profile is the will of a Moses McKinney, recorded in the Warren County will book of 1798–1852 (image 78); the citation does not say whether or how Harris is named in it, and the will has not been transcribed for this project.4 Inference A will of a McKinney in the county where Harris married may well be a family document, but nothing in hand says how Moses McKinney and Harris were related.4

Between 1813 and 1821 the family moved from Georgia to Alabama: the tree gives the birthplace of the son Patrick in 1813 as Warren County, Georgia, and that of the son Jasper in 1821 as Alabama.5 On 1 October 1840 Jasper McKinney married Martha Bozeman in Coosa County, Alabama, in a record that names Harris McKinney; the three index entries for the marriage do not say in what capacity he appears, whether as father, as bondsman (the man who guaranteed the marriage bond) or as a witness.6 The federal census of 1850 lists Harris McKinny as head of a household in Coosa County, with Jane McKinny in it; that census did not record how the members of a household were related.7 His sons Patrick and Jasper and his daughter Melinda were also in Coosa County that year, according to the tree.8

The tree names six children of Harris and Jane McKinney: Melinda (born 1810), Patrick (1813), Emily R. (1814), Jasper P. (1821), Eli Harris (1824) and Minerva Mary (1845).9 Two of these links, those of Eli Harris and Minerva Mary, are doubtful.9 The Alabama death record of Eli Harris McKinney, who died on 10 June 1908, names his parents, as indexed, as Eli McKinney and Sarah McKinney; the tree also lists him as a son of Eli McKinney and Sarah Gresham, of Chambers County, Alabama, where he was living in 1850.10 Inference A death record is only as good as its informant's knowledge, but this one is the only record found that names Eli Harris's parents, and it does not support Harris McKinney as his father; the question is open in his research log.11 Minerva Mary was enumerated in 1850 and 1860 in the household of Patrick McKinney, and the tree also gives her as a daughter of Patrick McKinney and Minerva Moore.12 Inference She was more likely Harris's granddaughter than his daughter.12

Jane McKinney died in Coosa County on 20 April 1851, by the tree's account.13 Harris McKinney died at Socapatoy, Coosa County, on 12 May 1864, a date the tree gives without an attached source; he is buried at Socapatoy Cemetery, where memorials for him are indexed by both Find a Grave and BillionGraves.14

Documents

  1. 1893 Memorial Record of Alabama: P. J. McAdory and John N. Slaughter sketches (Harris McKinney and Jane Ivey) Memorial Record of Alabama, vol. 1 (Madison, Wisconsin: Brant & Fuller, 1893), Personal Memoirs, Coosa County · book
  2. 1942 History of Coosa County: the McKinney family (Harris McKinney and his children) George E. Brewer, "History of Coosa County, Alabama," The Alabama Historical Quarterly, vol. 4, nos. 1–2 (Montgomery, Alabama, Spring and Summer 1942) · book
  3. 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
  4. 10 May 2012 Find a Grave memorial: Harris McKinney Find a Grave · headstone photographed by cahfreitas

Places

  1. 1784Southampton
  2. 1810Warren
  3. 1850Coosa
  4. 1864Socapatoy Cemetery
  5. 1864Socapatoy

Timeline

  1. 4 Mar 1784BirthSouthampton, Virginia
  2. 17 May 1810Marriage, Jane Ivey McKinneyWarren, Georgia
  3. 1850ResidenceCoosa county, Coosa, Alabama
  4. 1864BurialSocapatoy Cemetery, Coosa, Alabama
  5. 12 May 1864DeathSocapatoy, Coosa, Alabama

Open questions

Which children were his? (raised 2026-11-09)

Memorial Record of Alabama (1893) says he "reared five children, two boys and three girls," and Annie Norman's Maxwell genealogy (1956) names them: Verlinda, Patrick, Mary (Mrs. Billy Chappell), Emily and Jasper. The tree has Melinda, Patrick, Emily, Jasper, Eli Harris and Minerva Mary. Mary (Mrs. Chappell) is missing from the tree; Eli Harris (see MPLT-6SB) and Minerva Mary (Patrick's daughter in the Maxwell book) are probably wrongly attached. Derivative sources; check against Harris's estate papers (Coosa County probate, 1864) before any change.

His parents (raised 2026-11-09)

Norman (1956) names his parents as Moses McKinney and Mary Harris, daughter of Amos Harris of Southampton County, Virginia; they moved to Warren County, Ga., in 1788, and Moses's will (Warren County, 3 Dec 1801) names a son Harris. Find the will and the Southampton deeds (D.B. 7, pp. 152–155; D.B. 8, p. 702) she cites.

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-09Find a Grave search: Harris McKinney, b. 1784 ±3, d. 1864 ±3: 1 resultsbest: [Harris McKinney (4 Mar 1784 – 12 May 1864), Socopatoy Cemetery, Goodwater, Coosa County, Alabama](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89899131/harris-mckinney); score 17 (high, before review)
  2. 2026-11-09Find a Grave memorial recorded[memorial 89899131](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89899131), high confidence: [record](../documents/findagrave/89899131-harris-mckinney.md); 1 headstone photo(s)
  3. 2026-11-09Find a Grave headstone photoheadstone photo 74920117 by cahfreitas chosen for the website (the memorial's only one)
  4. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Harris McKinney", Alabama184 pages; first: [The Alabama Historical Quarterly, volume 04, number 02, n.d., p. ](https://archive.org/details/alabama-historical-quarterly-v04n02?q=%22Harris%20McKinney%22); [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. ](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew?q=%22Harris%20McKinney%22); [The Freeman 1913-07-12: Vol 26 Iss 28, 1913, p. ](https://archive.org/details/sim_freeman_the-freeman_1913-07-12_26_28?q=%22Harris%20McKinney%22)
  5. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside histcoosacobrew16 pages; first: [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 177](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n177/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 449](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n449/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 501](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n501/mode/1up?q=McKinney); 5 with the given name (Harris)
  6. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside memorialrecordof00tayl4 pages; first: [Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, 1893, p. 748](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n748/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, 1893, p. 737](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n737/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [Memorial record of Alabama. A concise account of the state's political, military, professional and industrial progress, together with the personal memoirs of many of its people, 1893, p. 738](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n738/mode/1up?q=McKinney); 1 with the given name (Harris)
  7. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside northernalabamah00birm3 pages; first: [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 341](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n341/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 445](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n445/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 558](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n558/mode/1up?q=McKinney); 0 with the given name (Harris)
  8. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside historyofalabama01owen4 pages; first: [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 395](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n395/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 469](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n469/mode/1up?q=McKinney); [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 469](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n469/mode/1up?q=McKinney); 0 with the given name (Harris)
  9. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside marriagebondsofs00chapno matches; 0 with the given name (Harris)
  10. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside southamptoncount00rickno matches; 0 with the given name (Harris)
  11. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside historyofwarrenc0000mrswnot searchable: historyofwarrenc0000mrsw (HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY, GEORGIA, 1793-1974.) is a lending-library book: borrow it on archive.org and search it in a browser
  12. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "McKinney", inside dardensofwilliam00dardno matches; 0 with the given name (Harris)
  13. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Harris McKinney", Alabama (184 pages)Matches: *History of Coosa County* (two scans of the same text, AHQ 1942); Annie Norman, *Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia* (1956), McKinney allied family pp. 388–390. Not him: *Hagan Family File* (its "Harris McKinney who married a woman named Willingham" is Eli Harris McKinney, MPLT-6SB); *The Freeman* 1913 (Gainesville, Fla.); the *McKinney Democrat* (a Texas town); a North Carolina student Emma Harris McKinney.
  14. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "McKinney" inside *History of Coosa County*, pp. 247–248 and othersMatch (high): 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 … Baptists … uneducated, but a man of superior mind," sons Patrick and Jasper, daughter Emily (Mrs. Robert McAdory). No Eli. Derivative county history. [Coosa history record](../documents/1942-coosa-history-mckinney-family.md).
  15. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "McKinney" inside *Memorial Record of Alabama* (1893), vol. 1, pp. 729–730 and 740–741Match (high): born in Virginia, "emigrated to Warren county, Ga., and married Jane Ivey. He then emigrated to Tuscaloosa county, Ala., before the admission of the state, afterward to Coosa, where he died in 1864. He reared five children, two boys and three girls." Worth "over $100,000," Baptist. [Memorial Record record](../documents/1893-memorial-record-mcadory-slaughter-harris-mckinney.md).
  16. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: Norman, *Thomas Maxwell of Virginia and Georgia* (1956), pp. 388–390, 394, 407Match (high): born 4 March 1784 Southampton Co., Va., died 12 May 1864 Coosa; son of Moses McKinney and Mary Harris (Moses's will, Warren Co., Ga., 3 Dec 1801, names son Harris); married "Jency Ivey," daughter of Sampson Ivey, 17 May 1810; children Verlinda, Patrick, Mary (Mrs. Billy Chappell), Emily, Jasper. [Maxwell genealogy record](../documents/1956-thomas-maxwell-mckinney-ivey.md).
  17. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "McKinney" inside *Northern Alabama*, Owen vol. 1, Dardens, Southampton marriage bonds, Southampton County (all none or other McKinneys); Warren County history (lending library)Not him. The Warren County, Ga., history (1793–1974) is a lending-library book (to-do).
  18. 2026-11-09Internet Archive hits assessed: 9 searchesThree matches (records written); none names Eli Harris McKinney as his son, and two count his children as five (two sons).
  19. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Harris McKinney"12 pages; first: [Records related to Harris McKinney (National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual Reference), n.d., p. ](http://catalog.archives.gov/id/199267126); [Debt Collection, Jackson County, Harris & McKinney [Buckner Harris and Wilson McKinney] v. George Pettigrew (Hargrett Library), 1809-01-13, p. ](https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_68_002-002-009); [Debt Collection, Jackson County, Harris & McKinney [Bucker Harris and Wilson McKinney] v. William Wordlaw (Hargrett Library), 1809-04-19, p. ](https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_68_002-002-048)
  20. 2026-11-09DPLA assessment: "Harris McKinney": Confederate papers (NARA, RG 109, M347 *Unfiled Papers and Slips Belonging in Confederate Compiled Service Records*, roll 266, "Records related to Harris McKinney", [NAID 199267126](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/199267126), 3 images read)Not him: (1) a voucher, "The Confederate States, To Harris McKinney Dr.", for commutation of rations for two men on detached service as couriers, 29 August to 28 September 1863, received at Vernon, Mississippi, 5 October 1863, signed "H. McKinney", the commutation by order of a colonel commanding a brigade (read as Col. H. P. Mabry, uncertain; a Texas cavalry brigade); he was 79 and living in Coosa County. (2) a jacket "Copy of Parole of Harrison McKinney to be signed", referred by J. B. Kinkead, captain and acting adjutant, Military Prison at Alton, Illinois, to the commanding officer at Sandusky military prison: a prisoner of war, another man. Neither bears on Eli Harris McKinney's parentage (see MPLT-6SB).
  21. 2026-11-09DPLA assessment: "Harris McKinney": five Jackson County, Georgia, Superior Court debt cases, 1807–1809 (Hargrett Library), e.g. [Harris & McKinney v. George Pettigrew](https://dlg.usg.edu/record/guan_68_002-002-009)Not him: the plaintiff is a firm, "Harris & McKinney" (catalogued as Buckner Harris and Wilson McKinney, or in two cases Buckner Harris and William McKinney). No man named Harris McKinney; he was in Warren County (married there 1810). Catalogue entries only. Nothing shows the firm's McKinneys were his kin.
  22. 2026-11-09DPLA assessment: "Harris McKinney": four Dawes enrollment jackets, Chickasaw (NARA Fort Worth)Not him: a Harris McKinney enrolled as Chickasaw in Indian Territory, 1898–1914; he died in 1864. Not Eli Harris McKinney either (Coosa County, died 1908).
  23. 2026-11-09DPLA hits assessed: 1 search (12 items, 10 read)No match. The 2 items beyond the first page were not fetched (the search is not repeated).

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LR8F-RG8: birth 4 Mar 1784, Southampton, Virginia, no source attached back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LR8F-RG8: birth 4 Mar 1784 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 2S4L-W35 (their page): birth 4 Mar 1797, no source attached back to the text
  3. "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950", FamilySearch, Harris McKinney and Jency Ivy, 17 May 1810. Record: Harris McKinney and Jency Ivy, 17 May 1810, Georgia, County Marriages "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967", FamilySearch, Harris McKinney, 17 May 1810. Record: Harris McKinney, 17 May 1810, Georgia, Marriages FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LR8F-RG8: marriage 17 May 1810, Warren, Georgia back to the text
  4. "Georgia, Probate Records, 1742-1990," database with images, FamilySearch, Warren > Wills 1798-1852 > image 78 of 362; citing various county, district, and probate courts. Record: Moses McKinney Will, Georgia Probate Records, Warren > Wills 1798-1852 > image 78 of 362 back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L17F-HKQ (their page): birth 15 Dec 1813, Warren, Georgia FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZC1-NSW (their page): birth 15 Sep 1821, Alabama back to the text
  6. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Harris McKinney in entry for Jasper McKinney and Martha Bozeman, 01 Oct 1840. Record: Harris McKinney in entry for Jasper McKinney and Martha Bozeman, 01 Oct 1840 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", FamilySearch, Harris McKinney in entry for Jasper McKinney, 1 Oct 1840. Record: Harris McKinney in entry for Jasper McKinney, 1 Oct 1840 "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957", database, FamilySearch, Harris McKinney in entry for Jasper McKinney, 1840. Record: Harris McKinney in entry for Jasper McKinney, 1840 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZC1-NSW (their page): marriage 1 Oct 1840, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  7. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Harris McKinny, 1850. Record: Harris McKinny, 1850 "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Jane McKinny in entry for Harris McKinny, 1850. Record: Jane McKinny in entry for Harris McKinny, 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LR8F-RG8: residence 1850, Coosa county, Alabama back to the text
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L17F-HKQ (their page): residence 1850, Coosa FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZC1-NSW (their page): residence 1850, Coosa county FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LHBP-LVV (their page): residence 1850, Coosa back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LR8F-RG8: children of Harris McKinney and Jane Ivey McKinney back to the text
  10. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Eli McKinney in entry for Harris McKinney, 10 Jun 1908. Record: Eli McKinney in entry for Harris McKinney, 10 Jun 1908 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Sarah McKinney in entry for Harris McKinney, 10 Jun 1908. Record: Sarah McKinney in entry for Harris McKinney, 10 Jun 1908 "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Harris McKinney, 10 Jun 1908. Record: Harris McKinney, 10 Jun 1908 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MPLT-6SB (their page): parents also given as Eli McKinney and Sarah Gresham, residence 1850 Chambers back to the text
  11. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Eli McKinney in entry for Harris McKinney, 10 Jun 1908. Record Research log (their page): open question: who were Eli's parents? back to the text
  12. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Minerva McKinny in entry for Patrick McKinney, 1850. Record: Minerva McKinny in entry for Patrick McKinney, 1850 "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Manerva Mc Kiney in entry for Patrick Mc Kiney, 1860. Record: Manerva Mc Kiney in entry for Patrick Mc Kiney, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVP8-RLP (their page): parents also given as Patrick McKinney and Minerva Moore back to the text
  13. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile 2S4L-W35 (their page): death 20 Apr 1851, Coosa, Alabama, no source attached back to the text
  14. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LR8F-RG8: death 12 May 1864, Socapatoy, Coosa, Alabama; burial Socapatoy Cemetery "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Harris McKinney, 1864. Record: Harris McKinney, Find a Grave Index, 1864 "BillionGraves Index", FamilySearch, Harris McKinney. Record: Harris McKinney, BillionGraves Index back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Harris McKinney (9)
  1. 17 May 1810Harris McKinney, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
  2. 17 May 1810Harris McKinney, "Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967"
  3. 1840Harris McKinney in entry for Jasper McKinney, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  4. 01 Oct 1840Harris McKinney, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  5. 1 Oct 1840Harris McKinney, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  6. 1850Harris McKinny, "United States, Census, 1850"
  7. 1864Harris McKinney, "Find A Grave Index"
  8. Harris McKinney, "BillionGraves Index"
  9. Moses McKinney Will Georgia Probate Records, 1742-1990