Genealogy of Jim McKinney - Grace McKinney

Grace McKinney

F, (February 1883 - after 1975)

Father*

William McKinney (bt 1838 - 1840 - bt 1885 - 1886)

Mother*

Serena Catherine Breeden (10 Feb 1846 - 1928)

Grace McKinney|b. Feb 1883\nd. a 1975|p2739.htm|William McKinney|b. bt 1838 - 1840\nd. bt 1885 - 1886|p2729.htm|Serena Catherine Breeden|b. 10 Feb 1846\nd. 1928|p2730.htm|||||||Russell Breeden|b. 10 Jul 1807\nd. 20 Sep 1876|p2743.htm|Delaney Brooks|b. 15 Jan 1812\nd. 2 May 1890|p2744.htm|

Relationship

Great-grandaunt of James Jay McKinney.

Last Edited

8 Feb 2006

Reference

MMMMMC.7

Researcher

Unrelated

Note*

Grace was born during February, 1883. She had a sad and troubled life. About 1901 she married a neighbor, Erdie Marney, a man much disliked by the McKinney family. At the time, Serena was so poor that the only gift she could give them was a sack of potatoes. They seem to have just drifted about in -a covered wagon. Grace supported her husband while he went to a veterinarian’s school. She is said to have had a kidney removed while living in the wagon, “probably by a veterinarian!”

Erdie then seems to have abandoned her and their two children. James Turley, Grace’s brother-in-law, eventually located her and the children, living in terrible conditions in Chicago, and brought them back to Kansas. For a while, Grace lived with Serena in rooms they rented in Baxter Springs, and walked to a country School outside the town, where she had been engaged to teach. Eventually she lived in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, where she died in the late 1970s., Witness=Serena Catherine Breeden¹

Birth*

February 1883

Cherokee Co., KS²

Married Name

circa 1901

Marney¹

Marriage*

circa 1901

Principal=Erdie Marney¹

Death*

after 1975

San Antonio, Bexar Co., TX¹

Family

Erdie Marney

Marriage*

circa 1901

Principal=Erdie Marney¹

Child

Iola Marney¹ (c 1901 - 1960)

Citations

[S73] Paul McGowen, Breeden/Hurst Family (n.p.: n.pub., 1983), Probably from Margaret Hunt.
[S4] 1900 US Federal Census: Garden Township,Cherokee Co. KS Supervisor Dist. 3,Enum. Dist. 23, Sheet 7, Lines 98-100, Sheet 8, Lines 1-2. Family 154. Page 70.