Checked the marriage index Patricia, the only resource I have at the moment for Edgar County and find only three McKinney men married and 7 McKinney women, but it looks like at least two of the women are the same one. No listings for that name back as far as you would need, but we may be looking at cousins here if you want to save them for future reference GROOM BRIDE CNTY DATE VOL/PAGE LIC MCKINNEY,JOHN-EDWARDS,SARAH I EDGAR 05/16/1868 B/82 MCKINNEY,LOUIS B-PITCHER,SUSAN E EDGAR 09/29/1859 B/31 MCKINNEY,WILLIAM-JARED,MARY E EDGAR 03/28/1867 B/73 SHORT,JOHN A-MCKINNEY,LOCKEY EDGAR 01/01/1868 B/79 CAMPBELL,GEORGE-MCKINNEY,MARANDA EDGAR 02/19/1857 B/16 SA 3061 HARRIS,JOHN-MCKINNEY, MARGARET EDGAR 07/26/1854 B/4 SA 2236 PADDOCK,THOMAS-MCKINNEY, PERLINA (WOODS) EDGAR 12/04/1900 0II/0218 LONG,EMANUEL-MCKINNEY, SARAH E EDGAR 01/01/1868 B/79 HUBERT,OLIVER B (SEE HERBERT)-MCKINNEY,SARAH E EDGAR 10/02/1869 B/93 HERBERT,OLIVER B (SEE HUBERT)-MCKINNEY, SARAH E EDGAR 10/02/1869 B/93 --- Patricia Burnett <[email protected]> wrote: > Posted on: Edgar Co., IL Queries > Reply Here: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Edgar/389 > > Surname: McKinney > ------------------------- > > My great-great grandfather, Thomas Jefferson > McKinney listed his birth > place on his Civil War enlistment papers as Edgar > County, IL. He was born > in 1839 and lived most of his life in Kansas. I have > been told that his > father, Jesse J. McKinney, was the postmaster of > Clinton, KS in 1868. I > would appreciate any information on either > gentleman. Thanks. > ===== Jim Williamson Researching: Williamson, Marth, Kinsella, Case, Pace, Hall, Straub, Fox, and McCurdy (the last until I can prove/disprove a link to the Williamson line) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/