This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YYB.2ACI/1226.3 Message Board Post: I monitor this list because my Mathenys came out of Adams Co. I have in my file sketchy information about a McKee family that traveled along with them from Hardin/Meade co KY, through southern INdiana to Illinois after the War of 1812. These McKees are said to be the descendants of James McKee b. c. 1750 Allegheny Co PA, said to be the son of Hugh McKee and Mary Nesbit. The Mathenys Shanks Grooms Satterfields, et. al, by the time of the Revolution were living on a 30,000 acre patch of Fairfax land called Shannondale, lying along the east side of the Senandoah river. Their next generations split into WV/PA, S. OH, and N. KY families. So far as I know, they met the McKees in KY, but it could have been Adams Oh. My Adams Co ancester, Daniel Matheny, was there before Statehood in 1803. In Hardin Co in 1801, Michael Matheny, at least 40, married Mary McKee Long, at least 30, widow of John Long. They both may have had earlier families. Mary's presumed brother William was also a part of this group moving on to Illinois. MIchael's, brother Isaiah was married to Rachel YOUNGER (not Young), daughter of Henry Younger and Rachel unk., and their son Joshua's first wife, married in Hardin Co., 1808, was Agnes "Nancy" McKee, younger sister of Mary McKee Long. Other families intermarried with along the way were Cooper, Fraikes, and Tullis. Some of this kin group were with the first wagon train to Oregon out of Platt Co MO in 1843. I love all these old pioneers, and wish I knew more about them. I send this on to alert McKee researchers to trhe possibility of more connections and relationships among these families. Christine Henderson Spfld, IL