Alethene (Barnum) McKee (1792 - 1863)

Born 23 Feb 1792 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Died 27 Aug 1863 at age 71 in Glen Wild, Sullivan, New York, United States

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Biography

This profile is part of the Barnum Name Study.

The History of the Starr Family calls her Alice Barnum, apparently in error. She appears in various sources as Alethene, Alethea, Althea and Alathea. Descendant Diane Rousseau notes that she was named Alethene at birth but Alethea became the way she spelled her name in later life. The latter spelling is used on the death certificate of her son Lewis Henry, in the Family Bible record, in various mortgage records on file in the Sullivan County Government Center, Monticello, New York and also on her tombstone. Alethea married (2nd) Joel W. McKee, before the 1850 Census, and is shown in the Town of Fallsburg, Sullivan County, New York (Nov 8, 1850): McKee, Joel W., 59, M, $700, b. CT; Alathea, 57, F, b. CT.

Alethea died at Glen Wild, Sullivan Co., New York. Source: Obituary published September 2, 1863, in the Monticello Republican Watchman & Jeffersonian Democrat, Pub. weekly Jas. E. Quinlan, Editor, Reel # 13, MNH 1032. Died. At, Glen Wild, on the 27th Mrs. Alethea McKee, formerly widow of Platt Barnum, aged 72. For over thirty years, she was a consistent communicant of Saint Johns Church, Monticello. [Note: Her exact age at death was 71 years, 6 months, 4 days; born Feb. 23, 1792].

Birth: Feb. 23, 1792, Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA; Death: Aug. 27, 1863, Glen Wild, Sullivan County, New York, USA. Wife of Platt Barnum; daughter of Abel Barnum and Annis Turner; mother of Grandison Miller, Lucia, Maria, Annis Minum, Abel, Lewis Henry, Albert Starr; widow also of Joel W. McKee

Burial

Grays Cemetery, Sullivan County, New York

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #21046874
• Barnum, Eben Lewis and Fr. Francis Barnum, SJ, Genealogical Record of the Barnum Family, Presenting a Conspectus of the Male Descendants of Thomas Barnum 1625-1695 (Gardner, MA: Meals Printing Co., 1912)
• White, Lorraine Cook. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Baltimore, Md: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1994
• Barnum, Noah G, The Barnum Family, 1350-1907 (Albion, NY: Privately Printed, 1907)
• Starr, Burgess Pratt, A History of the Starr Family (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co.)
• Barnum, Noah G, The Barnum Family, 1517-1904 (Albion, NY: Privately Printed, 1904)
• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994-2002) Vol. Danbury, Page 8
• Obituary published September 2, 1863 in the Republican Watchman & Jeffersonian Democrat, Monticello, New York