Brittan Green

There's a Brittan Green listed in the 1867 Voter Registration at the AL Archives. B. is registered in Precinct 2 of Bibb County. He is colored.

http://www.archives.alabama.gov/voterreg/books/bibbcountyvol1.pdf

Wow....

Wonder if there's a connection?

The children of John P. & Mary Ann Green/e McKinney

I don't promise that this list is completely accurate, but it reflects my best guess about the children of John P. and Mary Ann Green/e. 


John P. McKinney and Mary Ann Green/Greene were married on Thursday, April 8, 1941, in Shelby County AL. (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alshelby/MarriageIndex1.html) John McKinney was listed in the tax poll list of Bibb County in 1848. By 1850 the McKinneys were back living in Shelby County. The likelihood is that most of their children were born in Bibb or Shelby County. 


In the most likely order of their births, the children are:

• Martha Isabelor McKinney, born November 5, 1842, probably in Shelby County; died November 7, 1911. married John Daily and Jasper Newton Lawley

• Mary Julia McKinney, born February 17, 1843, in Shelby County; died May 12, 1923 in Calera, Shelby County; married W. H. H. Whatley  (from her death and burial information at FamilySearch.org: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDLW-8WY

• Nancy Jain McKinney, born 1846/1847; died after 1880; married William Goodwin??? and Shadrack Pearson

• Josephine, born February 1846 (from the 1900 Census); died after 1918 in MS??; married John Newton Lyles/Liles and J. D. Humphry

• Early Abraham (or Abraham Early), born about 1848/1849; died after 1876; married Rachel Savannah (?) Davis 

• Benjamin ?, born about June 1848; died February 1849 of croup after a sickness of one day (Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~alshelby/mortality1850.html)

• John McKinney, born about 1852; died after 1860

• Sarah Ellen McKinney, born about 1855; died 1885 - 1889 in MS; married James Pinckney Lemley

• Susan McKinney, born September 1856 (from the 1900 Census); died after 1900; married William Buchanan/Buckhannan

• Mahala J. Armetta/Antoinette, born about 1858; died after 1880; married John Quillan

There are a few surprises for some people. I hope to blog about each child soon. 

Ain't no Mary Jane in this McKinney family, with digressions

Several family trees on the web have listed Mary J. McKinney, the daughter of John P. and Mary Ann Green McKinney as Mary Jane McKinney who married Squire Clark Johnson.


Ain't no such person in this McKinney family.


First of all, the McKinney's second daughter is Mary JULIA McKinney who married W. H. H. Whatley as proved by her death and burial notice here:


https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDLW-8WY




Second:


The trees with M.J. married to Squire Clark Johnson have her moving to Mississippi to marry SCJ, then returning to AL to be enumerated as Mary J. McKinney in Bibb in 1860, then having children with SCJ starting in 1861 in Mississippi. Possible, but not logical.


(FYI—The J. P. McKinneys did eventually move to MS in the late 1870's, but without Mary Julia, who stayed with husband W. H. H. Whatley in AL until their deaths.)


More illogically, Iquire (Squire) Johnson is enumerated with wife Mary in 1860 in Fayette County, AL, while at the same time Mary McKinney is enumerated with her parents in Bibb County. Compare these two census listings:


For Squire Johnson and his Mary:


http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7667&iid=4211182_00520&fn=Iquine&ln=Johnson&st=r&ssrc=pt_t5408701_p796435088_kpidz0q3d796435088z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgPLz0q3dpid&pid=17543192


and for Mary McKinney:

http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=7163&path=Alabama.Bibb.Randolph.6&fn=Jno&ln=McKinney&st=d&pid=13217689&rc=&zp=75


Clearly two different Marys. 


(Yes, I have seen the same person listed twice in a census, but it's always been clear who that person was from the other family members consistently surrounding him or her. Here MJM is surrounded by people who were in her household in 1850. There's no such context for Squire Johnson's Mary.)

Third:


The McKinneys did have a daughter with the middle name "Jane," but it was Nancy Jane and not Mary Julia. Nancy's middle name is proved by a note signed by her father J. P. McKinney. You'll find that note here:


https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-9819-38900-56?cc=1743384


The middle name looks like "Lain," but if you notice compare the other letters, you'll see that it's plainly "Jain" and not "Lain."


(While I have seen families in which different children have the same middle name, I've not found it to be the case in this family.)




Lastly:


Nancy Jane for sure married Shadrack H. Pearson on November 14, 1872, in Bibb County, as proved by the citation above. The Pearsons followed John P. McKinney and family to LeFlore, MS, by 1880, after the death (?) of Mary Ann Green McKinney. They are listed in the 1880 US Census for Leflore County. After that I have lost track of them and their three children Mary, Thomas, and Jonathon.


(Oh, boy! More research needed! Yay!)

Mary Julia McKinney Whatley

The life of Mary Julia McKinney is pretty straightforward.


Mary Julia McKinney was born February 17, 1843, the second daughter of John P. and Mary Ann (Polly) McKinney. She was probably born in Shelby County, AL, as her parents married in Shelby County in 1841 and were still there in the 1850 U.S. Census. One assumes that her parents gave her the same first name as her mother, but the origin of her middle name is a mystery. Confirmation of her name and parentage comes from FamilySearch.org's AL Death and Burial Index:


https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDLW-8WY


In the 1850 US Census for AL Mary McKinnie, 8, born AL, is living in Shelby County with her parents John and Mary McKinnie.


In the 1860 U.S. Census for AL, Mary McKinney is living in Bibb County with her parents, J.P. and Mary McKinney. She attended school within the year.


On February 10, 1861, Mary J. McKinney married W(illiam) H(enry) H(arrison) Whatley in Shelby County. Minister of the Gospel William Rogers performed the ceremony. The groom was the son of Mavring (Maben or Marvin) A. and Mary Ann Dowis Whatley.


The Whatleys had at least three children who survived childhood, all born AL: Robert Lee Whatley, born about 1867; Daisy Bell Whatley, m. William Henry Pilgreen, born 1876; and Myrtle Bain Whatley m. W. A. Maynard, born about 1888.

In the 1870 US Census for AL, William H. Watley is living in Calera in Shelby County, AL. He is 27, a laborer, born AL, $150. Also in the household is Mary J, 25, born AL, Robt Lee, 3, and Henry Elliott, 19, laborer, born AL. Neighbors include Pilgreen, Harris, Thos Watley, Jasper Green a few pages over, Crim, etc.


http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=7163&iid=4257737_00348&fn=Henry&ln=Elliott&st=d&ssrc=&pid=12419738

In the 1880 US Census for AL, Wm  H. H. Whatley is living in Calera in Shelby County. He is 36, born AL, a carpenter, father born GA, mother born SC. Also in the household are Mary J., 30, keeping house, mother born AL, father born AL, Robert E., 14,  at school, born AL, and Daisy V., 5, born AL. Next door seems to be his mother Mary A. Whatley, 54, widowed, keeping house, born SC, father born GA, mother born SC. In her household is a Green A., farmer, and daughter Susan Oldham, 20.

In the 1900 US Census for AL, William H. H. Whatley is living in Precinct 3 of Calera, Shelby County, AL. He is 57, born April 1843, married 37 years, born AL, parents born GA, a carpenter, owns, speaks, reads and writes English. Also in the household is wife Mary J., born Feb. 1845, 55 years, married 37 years, seven children, three now living, born AL, parents born SC, can read, write, speak English; daughter Myrtle (Daisy), 16, born AL in Aug. 1883, parents born AL, attending school; and B. Lee, grandson, born Jul. 1897, 2, born AL, parents born AL.

William Harrison died on 11 August 1909, leaving Mary a widow. 

In the 1910 US Census for AL, Mary Whatley is living in Precinct 3, District 105, Calera, Shelby County, AL. She is 67, widowed, born AL, rents, three children, two still living. She is living in the household of Arch Maynard and daughter Mirtle Manard. Also in household is Lee Bryon (Bryan Lee) Whatley, 12, nephew of Arch.

In the 1920 US Census for AL, Mary Watley is 77 and living in the household of her son-in-law W. A. Maynard and his wife Mirtle in Shelby County.


Mary Julia died on May 12, 1923, and is buried the Salem Cemetery, Calera, Shelby County, AL, with husband W. H. H. Whatley. 


We know her death date from the census of the New Salem Cemetery in Calera, AL; the URL is located here:


http://files.usgwarchives.org/al/shelby/cemeteries/salem.txt


And from Findagrave.com here:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JDLW-8WY

Nice of her to leave so much easily found information. If only we could say the same about her aunt Britta Ann Green.   ;-)

Britta's obituary

Britta's obituary in the Birmingham News as found by a descendant of Maggie Flynn:

Date-November 5,1919

"IRONDALE WOMAN, AGE 85, SURVIVED

BY 104 LIVING RELATIVES

Mrs. B.A.Flynn, 85, who died at the residence of her daughter at

Irondale Tuesday afternoon, is survived by 104 living decendents,

exclusive of members of her immediate family, while 17 of her kin are

dead.

She was a native Alabamian and was the widow of the late (B.A.?) Flynn,

of Gate City.  Mrs. Flynn had spent practically all of her life in the

state in the vicinity of Irondale and Gate City, and was very well

known in that region.  Immediate survivors are Dr. D. M. McGuire  of

Pelham, two daughters, Mrs. H.J.Reinier, and Mrs. S.A. Edins of

Irondale.

Funeral services will be conducted at Pleasant Valley Thursday morning

at 11 O'clock with burial there.  (?)Wendin is in charge of the service."

His additional comments:

"It was a separate article and not in the regular obits.  There were

several words that I could not read well.  The B.A.Flynn as the late

husband is also an error.  Should have been Mike....Note:  The B.A. does confirm the name as Britta Ann and not Brittania."

Thanks, J. 

Marriage date for Mary Drucilla McGuire and Simmin Aaron Edins

During my recent trip to AL, my fragrant cousin (who makes wonderful soap) and I made a genealogical beeline for the Bibb County Courthouse. The object of our desire was the marriage license of Mary Drucilla McGuire and Simmin/Simeon/Simon Aaron Edins/Eddins.


The results of our trip are here:


http://alroots2.blogspot.com/2012/06/found-marriage-license-for-simmin-mary.html