Cynthia McKinney

Female27 July 1832–14 December 1861

Brief Life History of Cynthia

When Cynthia McKinney was born on 27 July 1832, in Litchfield, Litchfield Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, David McKinney, was 31 and her mother, Jane Bush, was 35. She lived in Litchfield Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. She died on 14 December 1861, in Litchfield, Litchfield Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Tioga Point Cemetery, Athens, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

David McKinney
1800–1878
Jane Bush
1797–1865
Rebecca McKinney
1825–1858
Joseph H McKinney
1827–1918
Hannah Jane McKinney
1829–
Cynthia McKinney
1832–1861
Mary McKinney
1834–1909

Sources (3)

  • Cynthia Mc Kinney in household of Davis Mc Kinney, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Cynthia McKinney, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Cynthia Mckenney in household of David Mckenney, "United States Census, 1850"

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World Events (2)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Age 4

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1846

Age 14

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

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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