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!)