WILLIAM ANDREW McKAY

WILLIAM ANDREW McKAY

So we started following the line of Clara Zadie McKay....her father was Benjamin Harvey McKay then his father William Franklin McKay and the DNA (103) has led us to William Andrew McKay.

William McKay came to America from Ireland and married Jane, she was from South Carolina. He was born in 1788. There is a William Mason that shows up in 1820 in Petersburg, Virginia on the ship “Tobacco Plant”. I would love to know the story on how he landed in Virginia, met and married a Jane in South Carolina and by the 1841 shows up in Itawamba, Mississipi. He wasn't even in the oil field like so many of our family but sure got around....esp. back in that day and age!!1850 Census was in Itawamba County, Mississippi ---1853 still in Mississippi --the 1860 census gives us the most information showing he is 71 and Jane is 66. He is a farmer with a Real Estate value of $160.

Children listed are: Hugh Jackson 1820, William Franklin 1821, Michael 1823, Samuel 1823, Nancy 1827, John 1835 and Mary 1835. Hmm, is that two sets of twins?

You find as you go far enough back in genealogy the information is harder to come by and yet there are more folks studying this line who are willing to share information. Such is the case with the following information....Michael married Mahala Ables, Samuel A married Permelia Caroline Ables, Hugh Jackson married Matilda Reese Hugh rode a mule home from the civil war. The mule had a silver bell around it's neck that is supposedly still in the family

John A married Margaret Montgomery, Nancy married John Haney (Speculation-Leightoninoregon states she was not on the census-Pat Nickols gave her the name.

Mary Lucinda married Joseph E. Farrar Do not know what happened to Mary Lucinda after Civil war. Family history says tha Mary Lucinda McKay and her two children (all except her daughter Mary) died of yellow fever sometime after the war in Memphis leaving young Mary an orphan) That daughter also named Mary Lucinda, married Robert David Tolar (son of Matthiah Houston Tolar and Rebecca Louisa Cochran) on 11/4/1869 in Alcorn County Ms.

William's date of death is unknown, as is his place of burial. It is presumed he died after 1860 in Itawamba County, Mississippi.

I have conflicting information on the parents of William.....some say his father is William and some say Thomas. Hopefully as the years continue more light will be shed on correct information.