Adair County Pioneers Progress
First Families of Adair County

Rane C. McKinney and Jane Jessee
Contributed by Roberta J Dooley
Rane C. McKinney is my ggg grandfather (grandpa's side)

RANE C. MCKINNEY  was born Abt. 1794 in Mercer Co., KY, and died November 23, 1868 in Dirigo, Adair Co., KY.  He married JANE JESSEE March 21, 1816 in Columbia, Adair Co., KY, daughter of LAZARUS JESSEE and SARAH SPARKS.  She was born Abt. 1803 in Adair Co., KY, and died 1874 in Adair Co., KY. Burial: McKinney Cemetery Harrods Fork Creek, Adair Co., KY.

Children of RANE MCKINNEY and JANE JESSEE are:
 i. MARY ANN MCKINNEY, b. June 20, 1817, Breeding, Adair Co., KY; d. June 20, 1898, Breeding, Adair Co., KY.
 ii. ELIZABETH C. MCKINNEY, b. 1820, Adair Co., KY; d. Adair Co., KY; m. WILLIAM ESTES, Adair Co., KY.

Notes for WILLIAM ESTES:
I have in some of my notes that his name was William Edwards and then others William Estes... ????

 iii. WILLIAM W. MCKINNEY, b. Abt. 1826, Adair Co., KY; d. Abt. 1866, Adair Co., KY.
 iv. AMANDA J. MCKINNEY, b. 1830; d. Adair Co., KY; m. HENRY ROSS, November 07, 1852, Adair Co., KY.
 v. CHARLES WESLEY MCKINNEY, b. September 01, 1832, Dirigo, Adair Co., KY; d. March 09, 1908, Dirigo, Adair Co., KY.
 vi. SUSAN C. MCKINNEY, b. 1835, Adair Co., KY; d. Adair Co., KY; m. MARSHALL STEWART, Adair Co., KY.
 vii. JAMES MCKINNEY, b. 1837, Adair Co., KY; d. 1895, Madison Co., IA.
 viii. JOHN LEVI MCKINNEY, b. 1841, Dirigo, Adair Co. KY; d. Dirigo, Adair Co. KY.
 ix. GEORGE ALFRED MCKINNEY, b. August 12, 1843, Adair Co., KY; d. September 16, 1922, Moody, McLennan Co., TX.
 x. JOSEPH MCKINNEY, b. Abt. 1828, Adair Co., KY; d. Adair Co., KY.