Wade & Webb Family History

Martha Holland Willingham1824–1913

Oglethorpe · Chambers · Socapatoy

Born in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, in 1824, Martha Holland Willingham married Harris McKinney in Chambers County, Alabama, in 1844. The couple lived in Chambers County and then in Coosa County, where she died in 1913, and the tree gives them ten children.

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

Birth

  1. 15 Jun 1824 Oglethorpe, Georgia 1, 3

Marriages

  1. 12 Sep 1844 Eli Harris McKinney Sr., at Chambers, Alabama 4
  2. 12 Sep 1844 Eli Harris McKinney Sr., at Chambers, Alabama 4

Death and burial

  1. 23 Jun 1913 Death: Coosa, Alabama 16
  2. Date unknown Burial: , Coosa, Alabama

Family

Parents
Alban W. Willingham 1791–1858
Bedia Herring 1800–1840
Spouse, 12 Sep 1844
Eli Harris McKinney Sr. 1824–1908
Children
Ella Frances Mckinney 1862–1941
Emma Louise McKinney 1854–1923
John Albert McKinney 1849–1916
Sarah McKinney 1847–?
Martha Valli McKinney 1866–1936
Beadie M. McKinney 1857–1930
J P McKinney 1864–?
Iter J McKinney 1860–?

Line of descent Webb line

  1. Martha Holland Willingham
  2. Emma Louise McKinney, daughter
  3. Lila Walden, daughter
  4. Hilda Webb, daughter
  5. William Albert Webb Wade, son

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

Life

Martha Holland Willingham was born on 15 June 1824 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, a daughter of Alban W. Willingham and Bedia Herring, according to the FamilySearch tree, which cites no source for the date.1 Her middle name is confirmed by the Texas death record of her daughter Mary Ann Bryant, which in 1936 named the mother as Martha Holland Willingham.2 The tree also gives her parents a daughter Martha Dollin Willingham, born on the same day, for whom no source of any kind is attached.3 Inference The two profiles probably describe one woman, "Dollin" being a misreading of "Holland".3

She married Harris McKinney in Chambers County, Alabama, in September 1844.4 The county marriage indexes give the date both as 11 and as 12 September 1844, and one of the entries dated 11 September also names her father, Albon Willingham.4 Inference The two dates may be those of the licence and of the ceremony; the tree records the marriage, twice, on 12 September.4 Her husband, Eli Harris McKinney, was born in 1824 and is called Harris in nearly every record; which McKinney couple were his parents is an open question.5

The federal census of 1850 recorded the couple in Chambers County, indexed as Harris and Martha "McKinny".6 By 1860 they had moved to Coosa County, where the census listed them in the 2nd Subdivision.7 In 1870 they were at Socapatoy, Coosa County, where the index gives the head of the household as "N McKinney" and lists both Martha and an "E H McKinney" in it.8 Inference The tree attaches both entries to her husband, so the "N" is probably a misreading of "H", for Harris.8 The tree, without a source, records his Confederate service in Company A of the 8th Alabama Infantry, dated August 1864, in Virginia.9 In 1900 the census listed Martha McKinney in the household of Harris McKinney, at Crews in Coosa County.10

The tree names ten children: Eli Harris Jr. (born 1844), Sarah (1847), John Albert (1849), Mary Ann Rebecca (1852), Emma Louise (1854), Beadie M. (1857), Iter J. (1860), Ella Frances (1862), J. P. (1864) and Martha Valli (1866).11 Emma Louise married William Walker Walden, the son of Westley D. Walden and Eliza Robbins, in Coosa County on 14 July 1875.12 The death records of three of the children name their mother: Beadie McKinney, who died in Alabama on 22 February 1930; Mary Ann Bryant, in Texas on 1 March 1936; and Ella Francis McDearmid, in Alabama on 11 April 1941.13 The youngest, Martha Vallie, died in Texas on 3 November 1936 as Martha Vallie Walden.14

Harris McKinney died at Crews on 10 June 1908.15 Martha McKinney died in Coosa County on 23 June 1913, according to the tree, which gives no source for the date and no burial place more exact than the county.16 A Find a Grave memorial to Martha Holland Willingham McKinney is indexed.16 Inference Her husband is buried in the Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery in Coosa County, which may be her burial place too, but the index citation does not show it.17

Documents

  1. 7 April 2022 Find a Grave memorial: Martha Holland Willingham McKinney Find a Grave · memorial

Places

  1. 1824Oglethorpe
  2. 1844–1850Chambers
  3. 1860–1913Coosa
  4. 1870Socapatoy

Timeline

  1. 15 Jun 1824BirthOglethorpe, Georgia
  2. 12 Sep 1844Marriage, Eli Harris McKinney Sr.Chambers, Alabama
  3. 12 Sep 1844Marriage, Eli Harris McKinney Sr.Chambers, Alabama
  4. 1850ResidenceChambers, Alabama
  5. 1860Residence2nd Subdivision, Coosa, Alabama
  6. 1870ResidenceSocapatoy, Coosa, Alabama
  7. 23 Jun 1913DeathCoosa, Alabama

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-09Find a Grave search: Martha Willingham, b. 1824 ±3, d. 1913 ±3: 0 results; Martha McKinney, b. 1824 ±3, d. 1913 ±3: 1 resultsbest: [Martha Holland Willingham McKinney (15 Jun 1824 – 23 Jun 1913), Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery, Coosa County, Alabama](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/238593769/martha-holland-mckinney); score 17 (high, before review)
  2. 2026-11-09Find a Grave memorial recorded[memorial 238593769](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/238593769), high confidence: [record](../documents/findagrave/238593769-martha-holland-willingham-mckinney.md); 2 headstone photo(s)
  3. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Martha Holland Willingham", Alabamano matches
  4. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Martha Willingham", Alabama84 pages; first: [1963 Woodlawn High School Yearbook, 1963, p. ](https://archive.org/details/classmates-yearbook-41236-1963-woodlawn-high-school?q=%22Martha%20Willingham%22); [Woodlog, 1927, p. ](https://archive.org/details/woodlog1964birm?q=%22Martha%20Willingham%22); [1964 Woodlawn High School Yearbook, 1964, p. ](https://archive.org/details/classmates-yearbook-38750-1964-woodlawn-high-school?q=%22Martha%20Willingham%22)
  5. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Willingham", inside histcoosacobrew2 pages; first: [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 183](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n183/mode/1up?q=Willingham); [History of Coosa County, 1942, p. 187](https://archive.org/details/histcoosacobrew/page/n187/mode/1up?q=Willingham); 0 with the given name (Martha, Holland)
  6. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Willingham", inside memorialrecordof00tayl1 page; 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. 107](https://archive.org/details/memorialrecordof00tayl/page/n107/mode/1up?q=Willingham); 0 with the given name (Martha, Holland)
  7. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Willingham", inside northernalabamah00birm1 page; first: [Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.., 1888, p. 144](https://archive.org/details/northernalabamah00birm/page/n144/mode/1up?q=Willingham); 0 with the given name (Martha, Holland)
  8. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Willingham", inside historyofalabama01owen5 pages; first: [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 56](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n56/mode/1up?q=Willingham); [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 547](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n547/mode/1up?q=Willingham); [History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, 1921, p. 547](https://archive.org/details/historyofalabama01owen/page/n547/mode/1up?q=Willingham); 0 with the given name (Martha, Holland)
  9. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Willingham", inside surveyofcemeteri0002milf_h9x0not searchable: surveyofcemeteri0002milf_h9x0 (A survey of cemeteries in Chambers County, Alabama ) is a lending-library book: borrow it on archive.org and search it in a browser
  10. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Willingham", inside housingofogletho0000rodgnot searchable: housingofogletho0000rodg (The housing of Oglethorpe County, Georgia, 1790-1860 ) is a lending-library book: borrow it on archive.org and search it in a browser
  11. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Martha Willingham", Alabama (84 pages); "Martha Holland Willingham" (none)Not her: modern Woodlawn High School yearbooks, Martha Willingham who married Lewis Moon in Columbia County, Ga., in 1806 (Moon family histories), a Shelby County marriage list.
  12. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: *Hagan Family File* (found by her husband's and father-in-law's searches)Match (high): "a Harris McKinney who married a woman named Willingham … Coosa county" is her husband, Eli Harris McKinney Sr. No facts about her beyond the surname. [Hagan file record](../documents/undated-hagan-family-file-harris-mckinney-willingham.md).
  13. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Willingham" inside the Coosa history (p. 89 "Robert Willingham and his father"; p. 91 Isaac Willingham), Owen, *Memorial Record*, *Northern Alabama*See her father's log: "Robert Willingham and his father" (p. 89) is possibly her brother Robberson and her father Alban; not proved. Others are namesakes.
  14. 2026-11-09Internet Archive hits assessed: 8 searches (Chambers cemetery survey not searchable)One match through her husband's search (Hagan file).
  15. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Martha Holland Willingham"no matches
  16. 2026-11-09DPLA: "Martha Willingham", Alabamano matches
  17. 2026-11-09DPLA hits assessed: 2 searchesNo hits; nothing to assess.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZG4-LQW: birth 15 Jun 1824, Oglethorpe, Georgia, no source attached; parents Alban W. Willingham and Bedia Herring back to the text
  2. "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977", FamilySearch, Martha Holland Willingham in entry for Mary Ann Bryant, 1 March 1936. Record: Martha Holland Willingham in entry for Mary Ann Bryant, 1 March 1936 back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile L2Y9-YDM (their page): Martha Dollin Willingham, born 15 Jun 1824, Georgia, no sources attached back to the text
  4. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Harris McKinney and Martha H Willingham, 12 Sep 1844. Record: Harris McKinney and Martha H Willingham, 12 Sep 1844 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Harris Mc Kinney and Martha H Willingham, 11 Sep 1844. Record: Harris Mc Kinney and Martha H Willingham, 11 Sep 1844 "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, Albon Willingham in entry for Harris Mc Kinney and Martha H Willingham, 11 Sep 1844. Record: Albon Willingham in entry for Harris Mc Kinney and Martha H Willingham, 11 Sep 1844 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZG4-LQW: marriage 12 Sep 1844, Chambers, Alabama, recorded twice back to the text
  5. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MPLT-6SB (their page): Eli Harris McKinney Sr., born 1824, also named Harris Mc Kinney Research log (their page): open question: who were Eli's parents? back to the text
  6. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Martha Mc Kinny in entry for Harris McKinny, 1850. Record: Martha Mc Kinny in entry for Harris McKinny, 1850 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZG4-LQW: residence 1850, Chambers, Alabama back to the text
  7. "United States, Census, 1860", FamilySearch, Martha Mc Kiney in entry for Harris Mc Kiney, 1860. Record: Martha Mc Kiney in entry for Harris Mc Kiney, 1860 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZG4-LQW: residence 1860, 2nd Subdivision, Coosa back to the text
  8. "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, Martha McKinney in entry for N McKinney, 1870. Record: Martha McKinney in entry for N McKinney, 1870 "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, E H McKinney in entry for N McKinney, 1870. Record: E H McKinney in entry for N McKinney, 1870 "United States, Census, 1870", FamilySearch, N McKinney, 1870. Record: N McKinney, 1870, attached to Eli Harris McKinney FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZG4-LQW: residence 1870, Socapatoy, Coosa back to the text
  9. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MPLT-6SB (their page): military service Aug 1864, Virginia: Company A 8th Alabama Infantry CSA; no source attached back to the text
  10. "United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch, Martha McKinney in entry for Harris McKinney, 1900. Record: Martha McKinney in entry for Harris McKinney, 1900 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MPLT-6SB (their page): residence 1900, Precincts 16-17 Crews, Coosa back to the text
  11. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZG4-LQW: children of Eli Harris McKinney Sr. and Martha Holland Willingham back to the text
  12. "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992", FamilySearch, W. W. Walden and E. L. Mckinney, 14 Jul 1875. Record: W. W. Walden and E. L. Mckinney, 14 Jul 1875 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LY38-58X (their page): son of Westley D Walden and Eliza Robbins; marriage 14 Jul 1875, Coosa back to the text
  13. "Alabama, Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952", FamilySearch, Martha Willingham in entry for Beadie McKinney, 22 February 1930. Record: Martha Willingham in entry for Beadie McKinney, 22 February 1930 "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977", FamilySearch, Martha Holland Willingham in entry for Mary Ann Bryant, 1 March 1936. Record: Martha Holland Willingham in entry for Mary Ann Bryant, 1 March 1936 "Alabama, Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952", FamilySearch, Martha Willingham in entry for Ella Francis McDearmid, 11 April 1941. Record: Martha Willingham in entry for Ella Francis McDearmid, 11 April 1941 back to the text
  14. "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977", FamilySearch, Marthia Vallie McKinney in entry for Marthia Vallie Walden, 3 November 1936. Record: Marthia Vallie McKinney in entry for Marthia Vallie Walden, 3 November 1936 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile G7S9-DBF (their page): Martha Valli McKinney, 1866–1936 back to the text
  15. "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974", FamilySearch, Harris McKinney, 10 Jun 1908. Record: Harris McKinney, 10 Jun 1908 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MPLT-6SB (their page): death 10 Jun 1908, Crews, Coosa, Alabama back to the text
  16. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LZG4-LQW: death 23 Jun 1913, Coosa, Alabama, no source attached; burial Coosa, Alabama, no cemetery "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Martha Holland Willingham McKinney. Record: Martha Holland Willingham McKinney, Find a Grave Index back to the text
  17. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile MPLT-6SB (their page): burial Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery, Coosa, Alabama "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch, Martha Holland Willingham McKinney. Record back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Martha Holland Willingham (34)
  1. 11 Sep 1844Martha H Wellingham, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  2. 11 Sep 1844Martha H Willingham, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  3. 12 Sep 1844Martha H Willingham, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  4. 12 Sep 1844Martha H Willingham, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  5. 12 Sep 1844Martha H Willingham, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
  6. 1844Martha H. Willingham in entry for Harris Mc Kinney, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  7. 12 Sep 1844Martha H. Willingham, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"
  8. 12 Sep 1844Martha H. Willingham, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
  9. 1850Martha Mc Kinny, "United States, Census, 1850"
  10. 1860Martha Mc Kiney, "United States, Census, 1860"
  11. 1870Martha McKinney, "United States, Census, 1870"
  12. 1900Martha McKinney, "United States, Census, 1900"
  13. 22 February 1930Martha Willingham, "Alabama, Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952"
  14. 1930Martha Willingham, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  15. 1 March 1936Martha Holland Willingham, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977"
  16. 3 November 1936Marthia Vallie McKinney, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1977"
  17. 11 April 1941Martha Willingham, "Alabama, Deaths and Burials, 1881-1952"
  18. 1941Martha Willingham, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
  19. Alabama Civil War Soldiers 1860-1864
  20. Alabama Compiled Marriages from Selected Counties 1809-1920
  21. Alabama County Marriage Records 1805-1967
  22. Alabama County Marriage Records 1805-1967 #2
  23. Alabama County Marriage Records 1805-1967 #3
  24. Alabama County Marriage Records 1805-1967 #4
  25. Alabama County Marriage Records 1805-1967 #5
  26. Alabama County Marriage Records 1805-1967 #6
  27. Alabama County Marriage Records 1805-1967 #7
  28. Alabama County Marriage Records 1805-1967 #8
  29. Alabama Marriage Index 1800-1969
  30. Alabama Marriage Indexes 1814-1935
  31. Alabama Select Marriage Indexes 1816-1942
  32. Alabama Select Marriage Indexes 1816-1942 #2
  33. Martha Holland Willingham McKinney, "Find a Grave Index"
  34. 12 Sep 1844Harris McKinney, "Alabama County Marriages, 1711-1992"