When Abraham McKinney was born on 14 December 1775, in Essex, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Charles Clinton McKinney, was 38 and his mother, Marianne Chastain, was 37. He married Eleanor Louisa “Nelly” Prather on 5 July 1796, in Mercer, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 11 November 1825, in Moberly, Randolph, Missouri, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Anderson Cemetery, Prairie Township, Randolph, Missouri, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
George Washington elected first president of United States.
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.
Possible Related NamesMissouri State Archives, Howard County Deeds Vol. I-J, page 558-559, reel C2785 State of Missouri, County of Howard} In the Howard County Court, November Term 1827 McKinneys Heirs to J. S. Hughes, …
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