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The following was published by my great great grandmother in 1901. I have no idea whether it is correct.
The following is from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XXV, p. 141 (1901):
McKINLEY.—On October 10, 1763, in the city of Cork, Ireland, Mary Connolly and John McKinley were married by " Parson Paul Parish." It was an elopement. Mary Connolly was the youngest daughter of Sir William Connolly, of Castletown, County Kildare, and Anne, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, third Earl of Strafford.
The eldest daughter, Anne, married George Byng, Viscount Torrington, Frances married Sir William Howe, Caroline became the second wife of the Earl of Buckinghamshire, and the only son, Thomas, married Louisa Augusta Lenox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond.
Eugene Kelly, Jr., of New York, has recently purchased the old Connolly estate of Castletown. John McKinley and his wife came to this country in 1769 and settled at Mount Royal Forge, Frederick County, Maryland. About the year 1772 they moved to the Northwestern frontier in West Virginia. They had five children. The first, Elizabeth, was born at Gravel Walks, Dublin, in 1767 ; married Newman. The second, Thomas, was born at Mount Royal Forge, Maryland, 1769, and married Sarah Stewart, of "Stewart's Crossing," West Virginia. The third, Harriet, born at Mount Royal Forge in 1771, married Randall Gibson, of Washington, Mississippi. They were the grandparents of Randall Gibson, who represented the State of Louisiana in the national Congress for seventeen years, and was senior Senator from that State when he died in 1892. Frances was born in 1773 at the " Mouth of Wheeling Creek," West Virginia ; married David Gibson, of Mississippi, brother of Randall Gibson, Sr. John was born at the " Mouth of Wheeling Creek" in 1776. He probably died young.
John McKinley served through the war of the Revolution until the surrender of Cornwallis. In 1782 he went with Crawford on his expedition against Sandusky, was taken prisoner with him, and was one of the five tomahawked in the presence of Colonel Crawford only a short time previous to the latter's terrible torture and death.
He was in the Thirteenth Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel John Gibson, until the battle of Germantown, when he was wounded in the neck, and afterwards transferred to the Ninth Virginia.
This is all I know of Captain John McKinley. I do not know where or when he was born, the names of his parents, brothers, and sisters, or his occupation and home previous to his marriage.
Will be grateful to any one who will give me this information or any information concerning him.
Mrs. S. G. Humphreys, Gibson Station, Southern Pacific Railroad, Louisiana
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