I didn't recognize any of the McKee entries until this one. Joseph Clark--Abigail Earnest I've got all sorts of data on in my family tree. Amazing what a small world it is. I can be contacted at yukpa1@outdrs.net or on this message tree. Julie Russell suehoward wrote: >I know I'm butting in on your conversation, but I, too, am interested in the >McKee's of Neshoba County, Mississippi. You've probably seen messages from >me or queries from me about the McKee's there. My great, great grandmother >was an Elizabeth McKee, born in 1798 in either York or Chester Co., SC. I'm >not positive which one. I know that she married my gg grandfather, John >Clark, in about 1814, in either York or Chester Co., SC. They left York Co. >with John Clark's parents, James and Mary (Cowan) Clark, to go to Tennessee, >and arrived in Lincoln Co., TN before 1820. After John Clark's death in >1837, Elizabeth (McKee) Clark left Lincoln Co., TN and went south to Neshoba >Co. I have wondered for a long time why she went there. It seems likely to >me that she had relatives there, doesn't it to you? I believe one son, Hugh >Clark, may have already been down in that area - Kemper Co., maybe. >Elizabeth took her minor children with her, of course, and I believe left >some grown children in Lincoln Co. Her youngest child, Ebenezer Samuel >(Sam) Clark, born in Lincoln Co. in 1835, was my great grandfather. Another >child that I know of who went with Elizabeth, was Joseph Clark (who had >married an Abigail Earnest). These two Clarks - Sam and Joseph had large >families and many descendants (maybe still some living there - but I'm not >sure). My great grandfather was in the Civil War and then came out to be a >Baptist minister and was the first minister for White Oaks Baptist Church, I >understand. He married Elizabeth Winfield and one of their daughters was my >grandmother - Louisa Frances (Fanny) Clark, born in about 1864. > >Fanny later married my grandfather, John Randal Johnson, who was born in >Neshoba Co. in 1859 and their oldest son was my father - Walter I. Johnson, >born in 1885 (I was born in 1936, myself, when my father was almost 51 years >of age!). So now, you pretty much have my history in Neshoba Co. I hope >that somebody will be able to tell me one way or the other if Elizabeth >McKee Clark was a sister to one of their McKees, since they came from the >same general area of South Carolina. Thanks for your response. > >Sue (Johnson) Howard > > > > > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > >

Well, I decided to write back to you on this "message tree" as you called it because you never know how it might help someone else. So are we cousins, Julie?!! Do you descend from Joseph Clark and Abigail Earnest? I assume that you are. I am really interested in finding out something - anything - on my great, great grandmother, Elizabeth McKee Clark who died in Neshoba County in 1861, and who was the wife of John Clark, and mother of Sam and Joseph Clark. I have a copy of her will, but it really doesn't tell anything about her - just who and what she left land, property and other items to. Hope to hear from you again on this. Sue (Johnson) Howard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie Russell" <yukpa1@outdrs.net> To: <MSNESHOB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 3:06 PM Subject: Re: [MSNESHOB] McKees of Neshoba Co., MS early 1800's > I didn't recognize any of the McKee entries until this one. Joseph > Clark--Abigail Earnest I've got all sorts of data on in my family tree. > Amazing what a small world it is. I can be contacted at > yukpa1@outdrs.net or on this message tree. > Julie Russell > > suehoward wrote: > > >I know I'm butting in on your conversation, but I, too, am interested in the > >McKee's of Neshoba County, Mississippi. You've probably seen messages from > >me or queries from me about the McKee's there. My great, great grandmother > >was an Elizabeth McKee, born in 1798 in either York or Chester Co., SC. I'm > >not positive which one. I know that she married my gg grandfather, John > >Clark, in about 1814, in either York or Chester Co., SC. They left York Co. > >with John Clark's parents, James and Mary (Cowan) Clark, to go to Tennessee, > >and arrived in Lincoln Co., TN before 1820. After John Clark's death in > >1837, Elizabeth (McKee) Clark left Lincoln Co., TN and went south to Neshoba > >Co. I have wondered for a long time why she went there. It seems likely to > >me that she had relatives there, doesn't it to you? I believe one son, Hugh > >Clark, may have already been down in that area - Kemper Co., maybe. > >Elizabeth took her minor children with her, of course, and I believe left > >some grown children in Lincoln Co. Her youngest child, Ebenezer Samuel > >(Sam) Clark, born in Lincoln Co. in 1835, was my great grandfather. Another > >child that I know of who went with Elizabeth, was Joseph Clark (who had > >married an Abigail Earnest). These two Clarks - Sam and Joseph had large > >families and many descendants (maybe still some living there - but I'm not > >sure). My great grandfather was in the Civil War and then came out to be a > >Baptist minister and was the first minister for White Oaks Baptist Church, I > >understand. He married Elizabeth Winfield and one of their daughters was my > >grandmother - Louisa Frances (Fanny) Clark, born in about 1864. > > > >Fanny later married my grandfather, John Randal Johnson, who was born in > >Neshoba Co. in 1859 and their oldest son was my father - Walter I. Johnson, > >born in 1885 (I was born in 1936, myself, when my father was almost 51 years > >of age!). So now, you pretty much have my history in Neshoba Co. I hope > >that somebody will be able to tell me one way or the other if Elizabeth > >McKee Clark was a sister to one of their McKees, since they came from the > >same general area of South Carolina. Thanks for your response. > > > >Sue (Johnson) Howard > > > > > > > > > > > > > >============================== > >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237