>From the Kentucky Genealogy Biographical Sketches Vol. 1, Pg. 27 "Dr. McKee was married in Sept. 1842 to Mary Ashby, daughter of Dr. M.Q. Ashby of Richmond, Ky. They had six children: Samuel, Ashby, George, Logan, Alexander and Margaret McKee. George R. died in infancy and Ashby, a young man of rare promise, died in the twenty-seventh year of his age in Louisville. Mrs. McKee's family (the Ashby's), were also very prominent and bore a conspicuous part in the early history of Virginia and Kentucky. Mrs. McKee's father, Dr. M.Q. Ashby of Mt. Sterling, Ky., was a prominent physician for many years at Richmond and Lexington, Ky and was one of the wealthiest and most influential men of central Kentucky. Her grandfather, Capt. Nathaniel Ashby, was a Captain in the Revolutionary War and also in the War of 1812, serving under Gen. Morgan throughout the War of the Revolution and was at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Her great-grandfather, Capt. John Ashby, was an aid on George Washington's staff at Braddock's defeat in 1754, and was also an officer in the Revolutionary War with his son, Capt. Nathaniel Ashby. Ashby's Gap, in Virginia is named for Capt. John Ashby. General Turner Ashby of "Black Horse" cavalry fame, is one of the same family, being a second cousin of Mrs. McKee."