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Title: Armstrong County, Pennsylvania : her people past and present, embracing a history of the county and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families. v.1
Author: J.H. Beers & Co.
Pg. 321
THOMAS NEWTON McKEE, M.D., an eminent physician and surgeon of Kittanning, belongs to old pioneer stock of Sugar Creek township, Armstrong county, where he was born Nov. 18, 1867, on his father’s farm, the old homestead place of his grandfather.
His parents were THOMAS VINCENT and MARY (CRAIG) McKEE, and on both sides he belongs to the hardy Scotch-Irish race which has done so much for Pennsylvania.
The Doctor is a great-grandson of ANDREW McKEE, who was born in 1747, in Ireland, and coming to America prior to the Revolution settled in Cumberland county, Pa., near Carlisle. He served in the Revolutionary war from the beginning to the close, in two regiments, in March, 1776, becoming a private in the company of Captain Adams, Colonel Irwin’s regiment, Pennsylvania troops, with which he served sixteen months. In June, 1780, he again enlisted, this time in Captain Zeigler’s company, Colonel Stewart’s regiment, and served till the end of the war.
Afterward he came to Allegheny county, Pa., settling at what is now McKeesport, named after another branch of this family. After several years’ residence there he moved to Armstrong county, first living in what is now East Franklin township, near where Montgomeryville now stands, and there building what was originally known as McKEE’s mill, later the Christman mills. He settled on a heptagonal tract of 403 acres, 136 perches, probably about 1797, and in 1805 and 1806 was assessed at $131, 400 acres, one horse and one cow. By virtue of his improvement, settlement and residence on that tract he had a joint interest in it with Francis Johnston, and in the partition between them McKEE took the southern part, most of which is now in East Franklin township. In the latter part of 1814, or early in 1815, McKEE and John Christman agreed to sell and purchase the former�s interest, and the latter built his gristmill on Limestone run, with which, 400 acres, one horse and one cow he was first assessed in the last mentioned year, at $307. He built his sawmill five years later. McKEE obtained the patent April 19, 1820, and conveyed to Christman 201 acres, 148 perches, June 27, for $1,100. Charles Campbell conveyed to Robert Orr, Sr., and John Patton 100 acres, 36 perches, which he had agreed to sell to James Fulton, in trust for the persons claiming under Fulton, which they conveyed to ANDREW McKEE, SR., Dec. 25, 1820, who had agreed to purchase, and had paid the purchase money for the same. It appears 140 acres of this tract was vested in John Brown, for he conveyed that quantity to ANDREW and THOMAS McKEE, Oct. 25, 1819, for $775, which became vested in the latter, who conveyed 115 acres to his son, THOMAS V. McKEE, July 17, 1855, for $800. ANDREW McKEE conveyed 100 acres, 36 perches, to Andrew Rodgers Dec. 27, 1830, for $800, which with another parcel, his heirs conveyed to Joseph and Samuel Rodgers, Nov. 17, 1849, for $1 "as well as other good considerations."
By his will, dated Dec. 11, 1860, and registered March 13, 1862, he divided his real estate equally to his daughters. The Johnston purport is chiefly in what is now Washington township. McKEE’S name appears in several land transactions in Sugar Creek township. From East Franklin township
ANDREW McKEE removed to West Franklin, settling where his grandson, James B. McKee, now lives (and which place is now owned by his great-grandson, JAMES H. McKEE) and where he died in 1835, when eighty-eight years of age. He held several local offices of trust...
His grave is decorated by the Sons of the American Revolution of the State of Pennsylvania; he was a gallant patriot. McKEE married MARY BLANFORD, who is buried beside him, and she was by act of Pennsylvania Assembly, December, 1838, granted a pension as the widow of a soldier of the Revolutionary and Indians wars.
Pg. 321, 322
They had children: (1) William, his eldest son, was the first man buried in the Union cemetery at Cowansville. His father, Andrew McKee, lies beside him; the former was accidentally killed at a barn raising. (2) John. (3) James (4) Joseph settled on a tract of over 400 acres lying principally in Washington township, partly in East Franklin township, and was assessed with 400 acres of it in 1804 at $80. He was later assessed with a smaller quantity, the last time in 1810, with 200 acres.
In Will Book II, page 15, of Armstrong county, may be found the will of Joseph McKee,
Title: Armstrong County, Pennsylvania : her people past and present, embracing a history of the county and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families. v.1
Author: J.H. Beers & Co.
Pg. 323
THOMAS VINCENT McKEE was born May 11, 1829 in Armstrong Co., Pa. He was a farmer in both Washington and West Franklin townships. His father died intestate and he became owner of the homestead in Sugar Creek Twp., which is still in the possession of the McKEE family. He married MARY CRAIG on March 9 (29) 1854 at the old CRAIG homestead. MARY was the daughter of JOHN and ELIZA (HUSTON) CRAIG. MARY was born Sept. 26, 1835 and died April 17, 1907. THOMAS died Jan. 3, 1899. Both were members of Worthington Presbyterian Church, and buried in the cemetery adjoining that church.
Ten children were born to this union, as follows:
1. EVA E., married GEORGE ROSS of Kittanning, and had: MAY VAN ANTWERP, deceased Nov. 13, 1906, who married MARCUS D. WAYMAN; CAPT. JAMES G., United States engineer at Memphis, Tenn.; ELIZABETH M.; THOMAS V. McKEE; WASHINGTON M., and HELEN JOSEPHINE.
(2) HARVEY C., died at the age of forty-two years in South Dakota, married MARY LEARD, and they had three children, NORA, AGATHA and HERBERT, who live, as does their mother, at Bonesteel, S. Dak.
(3) MARGARET I. married JAMES J. TITLEY, of Chicora, Pa., where he is engaged in the oil business. They have six children, BLANCH, ARTHUR, RALPH, WALTER, HELEN, and LEROY.
(4) ELLA M. married JAMES L. GARROWAY, a manufacturer, of Butler, PA, and they have six children, JESSIE, GRACE, BLANCH, LUCILLE, JAMES and RUTH.
(5) NANNIE L. married PRESTON SMITH, who is now deceased, and she resides at Leechburg, Pa. She has one son PAUL P.
Pg. 323, 324 (for number 6)
(6) DR. THOMAS NEWTON, married on Nov. 17, 1892, to MARY BLANCHE WAYMAN [of Ford City, daughter of M. D. and MARGARET (MONGAVIN) WAYMAN, now living at Tarentum], who was born in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 15, 1873, by REV. J. H. SOUTHERLAND, now chaplain in the U. S. army.
Children of DR. THOMAS NEWTON: MARCUS VINCENT, born Sept. 18, 1893, was accidentally drowned in the Mississippi river, near Caruthersville, Mo., Aug. 18, 1910; EARL W., born Aug. 24, 1895; MARGARET M., born Nov. 4, 1897; THOMAS CRAIG, born July 16, 1901; KENNETH N., born July 14, 1903.
Pg. 323
(7) JEAN M., wife of DR. H.R. KENNESTON, of Bonesteel, S. Dak., and they have one son, HAMPTON RAY, JR.
(8) JOHN WILBERT, D.D.S., the leading dentist of Butler, Pa., married MARY B. CLARK, and they have three children, GENEVIEVE, CLARK and EDGAR.
(9) ARTHUR VINCENT, attorney at law, of Butler, married LILA GRUBBS and they have two children, ARTHUR V. and MARY V.
(10) RAYMOND L., D.D.S., at present engaged in farming on his place near Worthington, married MARGARET HENRY, and they have five children, GERTRUDE, MILDRED, WILBUR, MARGARET, and THOMAS C.
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