Margaret (Wallace) McKinney (1767 - 1852)

Born 1767 in Virginia

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Margaret Wallace was born in 1767, in Staunton, Augusta county, Colonial Virginia, a daughter of James Wallace and Elizabeth Campbell. On September 26, 1785, in Augusta County, Virginia, Margaret married David McKenney. ^[1]

Margaret's husband died in 1822, in his late sixties in Orange county, Indiana. At age 84, Margaret is found in the household of John Scanland Scanland-1 and his wife, Hannah Scott. Further research is required to determine whether there is a bloodline between Margaret and John, but the connection may be that John knew her husband through his connection to David, who was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War, as was Hannah's father. They were both from Virginia and migrated to Indiana, perhaps, together. ^[2]

Margaret died in 1852, and is buried in Trimble Cemetery, in Orange county Indiana, with her husband. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XR73-T55 : 29 January 2020), Margaret Wallace in entry for David McKenny, 1785
2. ↑ https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A077595
3. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26530624/margaret-mckinney