This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JhU.2ACEB/3269 Message Board Post: (Landon F. ELLIOTT and F. G. ELLIOTT were assoc. with the following G. W. MCKINNEY, and I'm trying to determine how and who they were.) In May 1872, a G. W. McKINNEY, a laborer working on the RR in Choctaw IT, killed a Nimrod SHAW with a blow from a shovel. (He later testified it was in self-defense and was eventually found innocent of murder but it is all very vague.) Upon SHAW's death, G. W. said he was fleeing the area for Colorado. He later turned up at Ft. Concho Texas where was living a Jonathan MILES who had been working over him on the RR. MILES, whose son had had some sort of disagreement with MCKINNEY and had shot him, notified Ft. Smith and a deputy AYERS was sent down to pick up G. W. MCKINNEY and bring him back to stand trial for murdering SHAW. I have the transcript of MILES' testimony and other names given as being present at the time were Isaac LIGHTLE (a teamster from Neosho Co. KS), a man named WARREN, J. BERRY, Orange FULLER, Bill COUCH, Ed LATHAM (perhaps), Elias JONES, a man named PECKWOOD, Hugh PALMER, Pete KELLY and Jim COUCH. In his defense, G. W. MCKINNEY had called as material witnesses B. F. HOGAN, George R. HIGHSMITH, Walter S. WILLIAMS, Thomas MCKINNEY, F. G. ELLIOTT and Landon F. ELLIOT. Court record gives them as traveling from Ray and Carroll Counties in the state of Missouri. G. W. MCKINNEY stated that Dr. George R. HIGHSMITH and Thomas B. MCKINNEY had known him most of his life. Have been attempting to determine who exactly this G. W. MCKINNEY was as the jacket with all the trial information I got from Ft. Worth says nothing about G. W. McKINNEY's age, nor where he was from, nor does it mention immediate family such as wife and children. My ancestor G. W. MCKINNEY was in Neosho Co. KS in 1870, (where LIGHTLE was apparently from), after which I'm unable to locate him for another 15 years, but as far as I know he has no connections with any Missouri McKINNEYS, being from Ohio>IA. If any of the above strikes a chord with anyone and they can give any further information illuminating this G. W. MCKINNEY, it would be appreciated. Thanks, Juli