History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 671.
[Harrison County]   [Cynthiana City and Precinct]

JAMES W. McKEE, farmer, P. O. Cynthiana, is a native of Harrison County,
and son of John and Eliza (Wilson) McKee.  He was born March 26, 1836,
and in 1856 married Miss Jane M. Turney, a native of Illinois and daughter
of William Turney, of Bourbon County, Ky.  By this union they have had
eleven children, ten of whom are now living, viz: William T., now living
in Bourbon County; Eliza W., wife of Joseph A. Thorn, of Bourbon County;
Chas., Julia, Alice, Lizzie, George, Frank, Jesse and Turney living at
home.  His wife died in 1879, aged thirty-eight years; she was a member
of the Presbyterian Church at Cynthiana.  Mr. McKee attended the common
schools of Bourbon until he was seventeen years of age, when he attended
the Farmers' College on College Hill, near Cincinnati, Ohio, remaining
there three years.  In 1856 he began farming and trading, which he has
since followed, now having 580 acres of land upon which he makes the
breeding and raising of sheep and mules a specialty.  He is a member of
the Presbyterian Church at Cynthiana.  He is a Democrat.

McKee Wilson Turney Thorn
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Bourbon-KY Cincinnati-Hamilton-OH IL

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