On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 19:43:33 -0800 (PST) SKS962@aol.com wrote: > >Samuel Mckee Married Sarah Katherine? They had 10 children >Sanmuel Ira Mckee b. Springfield ILL. 1867/76 >John b. Cass co , MO. 1867/69 >Laura b. KS 1869 >Emily b. TX 1874/75 > >Samuel Ira McKee, born 01 Jan 1867 in Springfield, Illinois; died abt. 1909. >He was the son of Sarah Katherine or Sara Catherine from Ma &Samuel Mckee. >Samuel Ira married Eliza Lee Hunter abt.1890. > > Eliza Lee Hunter, born May 1873 in TX; died 31 Aug 1923 in Ranger, >Eastland, TX. Burial: Palo Pinto, TX Cemetery. > She was the daughter of William Peter Hunter and Elizabeth Jane Beaty. > > >Notes for Samuel Ira McKee: >Eldest son of ten children. His father was killed in an ambush over a horse. >After the father's death, the mother, Sarah Katherine, moved the children to >Palo Pinto County, TX (some say by way of Oklahoma first some where around >the Bad lands). Samuel was about 10 years old? > >In abt.1909 Samuel was severely injured internally when a wagon overturned on >him. He died several months later. He was buried near Mineral Wells. No one >today knows where his unmarked grave is. > > >Children of Samuel McKee and Eliza Hunter are: > i. Eula Lee McKee, born 24 Dec 1891 TX; died 24 Nov 1966 in Bakersfield, >CA; Burial Greenlawn memorial park. Bakersfield Ca. married (1) Robert W. >"Blackie " Sherwood; married (2) Charlie Burleson Abt. 1910. >Children: Edwin T. Hall, John S. Burleson, Bertha L. Burleson, Raymond >Burleson, ILa B. Burleson, Robert W. Sherwood > > ii. Samuel Harvey McKee, born 28 Feb 1894 in Parker CO, TX; died 7 Jun. >1922 Palo Pint Co., TX. Married Nida Dell "Tellie" Rouse on 20 Jan. 1917 in >Palo Pinto Co., TX. >Children; Webster L. McKee, Evelyn D. McKee > >iii. Pansy Viola McKee, born 29 Aug 1896 TX; died 16 Feb 1940 in Pampa, TX; >married (1) Wallace Stephens; married (2) Everet Leedy; married (3) Bud Tate. >Child: Lillian N. Stephens > >iv. Joseph Ira McKee, born 26 Feb 1899 TX; died 08 Jan 1932 in Huntsville, >TX; married Lillie Mae Williams. >Children: Callie M. "Pauline" McKee, James Ira Lee Newton "Lil Ira" McKee > > v. Jesse Oscar McKee, born 15 Jul 1901 Brook, TX; died 23 Mar 1930 in >Pampa, TX. Burial: Palo Pinto Co., TX. Never married. > > vi. Charlie William McKee, born 14 Feb 1904 Lyra, TX; died 1 July 1958 >Olive View, CA; Burial: GreenLawn memorial park. Bakersfield, Ca. married >Edith Pearl Aldred 08 Aug 1928 in Auburn California. Left Texas around 1926. >Charlie came to California and assumed a new identity, Robert Earl Freeman. >(The name he is Buried under.) >Children: Evelyn C. Freeman, Luella V. Freeman > > vii. Nell Blye McKee, born 26 Feb 1906 in Lyra., TX; died 18 March. 1989 >in Stephenville, TX; married (1) Percy Glen Johnson; married (2) Elmer >Pannell. >Child: Marjorie Blye Johnson > >If you are related to my Mckee's you would surely have herd of them. 3 of >Samuel' & Eliza boys got in trouble with the law. See below. > > iv. Joseph Ira McKee, born 26 Feb 1899; died 08 Jan 1932 in Huntsville, >TX; married Lillie Williams. Ira Killed a man. Sentence to death in the >electric chair. > v. Jesse Oscar McKee, born 15 Jul 1901; died 23 Mar 1930 in Pampa, TX. > Notes for Jesse Oscar McKee: >Shot to death by jealous former-boyfriend of Jesse's girlfriend. Was an >oilfield worker at the time. > > vi. Charlie William McKee, born 14 Feb 1904; died in Bakersfield, CA; >married Edith Pearl Aldred 08 Aug 1928 in California. > Notes for Charlie William McKee: >Fled Texas around 1926 after an altercation on the road to Mingus, TX, with a >bootlegger from Ranger, Texas. The man's skull was crushed with a tire tool. >Charlie made it to California and assumed a new identity, Robert Earl >Freeman. > > >