When Arvilla Kitchen was born on 24 October 1856, in Windham, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada, her father, Joseph Kitchen, was 40 and her mother, Janet Thayne, was 34. She married Washington Irving McKee on 17 November 1886, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Clinton Township, Douglas, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Wakarusa Township, Douglas, Kansas, United States for about 15 years. She died on 9 March 1939, in DeRidder, Beauregard, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, DeRidder, Beauregard, Louisiana, United States.
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English: from Middle English kichene ‘kitchen’ (Old English cycene), hence an occupational name for someone who worked in or was in charge of a kitchen.
Scottish: adopted, on account of phonetic resemblance, as an Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Uisdein, see McCutcheon .
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