Brief Life History of Martha Patsey
When Martha Patsey McKinney was born on 27 August 1805, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Edmund McKinney, was 40 and her mother, Elizabeth Thompson, was 37. She married James H Knight on 15 April 1824, in Christian, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Huntsville, Schuyler, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Pea Ridge Township, Brown, Illinois, United States in 1870. She died on 17 May 1892, in Brown, Illinois, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Knight Cemetery, Brown, Illinois, United States.
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- Martha Night, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Martha Patsey McKinney - birth: about 1805; Lancaster, South Carolina, United States
- Martha Knight, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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World Events (8)
1812 · Kentucky Bend Created
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
1818
Illinois is the 21st state.
1830 · Louisville and Portland Canal Opens
The Louisville and Portland canal opened in 1830. It was a 2 mile canal. It helped with the barrier caused by the Falls of the Ohio River at Louisville by making a route around them.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cionaodha or Mac Cionaoith ‘son of ç’, an early Gaelic personal name popular from the ninth century and possibly derived from Pictish.
Irish (northern): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinnigh ‘son of Coinneach’, an Old Irish personal name, borne by a Christian saint and Anglicized in Ireland as Canice, which was treated in Scotland as equivalent to Kenneth . This surname was usually Anglicized in Scotland as McKenzie , but is otherwise hard to distinguish from sense 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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