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Mrs. Rachael McKinney Will Soon Reach the 97th Mile Stone. Mrs. Rachel McKinney who is making her home with her grand daughter, Mrs Thompson Scott, west of town, has a record which we believe cannot be beaten by any one in the county and per haps not any one in the state. She was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, July 7, 1505, being now in her 97th year. When she was 5 or 6 years old her father came to Lawrence county but soon moved back to Kentucky because of the hostility of the Indians, all of which she remem bers well. Two years later they again moved north of the Ohio and settled where New Albany where now stands, and she saw the erection of the first house ever built in that now prosperous city. They afterwards moved to Washington county where she met and married Robert McKin ney after which she with her hus band settled in Sullivan county. She is a great grandchild of John McClelland who was a com mander in the Revoluionary War, he being her mother’s mother’s father. She has seen and re members eight generations of her own family, having seen suc cessively her great-grandfather, grandfather, father, brothers and sisters, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great great-grandchildren. She is the mother 11 children, the three old est of which, Cynthia Hutf, age 79, Gill township: Harvey Mce- Kinney, 77, Fairbanks and Mrs. Reuben Thompson, 75, Fairbanks township, are still living. She has over 100 great-great grand children, and as one of them is over 15 years old it is not im probable that she will yet live to take her great-great-great-grand child upon her knee.—Farmers burg Bee. Mrs. RACHEAL MCHRINNEY.
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Sullivan Monday Bulletin
Sullivan, Indiana, US
Mon, May 05, 1902
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