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CHARLES CARSON McKINLEY
Surnames: McKINLEY, WALLACE, BROWN, McDANIEL, WILLIAMS, AYERS, SPRINGFIELD,
GENTRY, PAYNE, PASCHALL, PERSON, COONE, CLARK, BRYAN, BURDETTE, DURHAM, ERSKINE,
SNIPES, WALLACE.
Charles Carson McKinley, b October 12, 1797, in North Carolina, d November
13, 1860, at Mustang Prairie, Falls County, Texas and buried in Eutaw Cemetery
in Limestone County, Texas -- was married ca 1822 to Nancy Wallace, b November
23, 1800, in North Carolina, d March 3, 1879, and buried by her husband in Eutaw
Cemetery. Charles Carson and Nancy moved to Georgia about 1827, where he was a
successful farmer. In 1849, he sold his property in Georgia and headed west
with his wife, children, a son-in-law, some grandchildren, and his slaves. In
1850, they reached Kosciusko, Mississippi, where Charles rented land for a year
and made a crop. Leaving Mississippi in the fall of 1850, the large family
migrated to Texas -- crossing the Mississippi River by Ferry at Vicksburg, and
arriving in Limestone County in the spring of 1851 with their ox wagon caravan.
Charles leased a farm, and then purchased several hundred acres of
timberland in the Mustang Prairie Comminity of Falls County -- near the Eutaw
Community of Limestone County.
Two of his sons and three sons-in-law served in the Civil War, in the
Confederate States Army, and one son was killed in that service.
Charles Carson and Nancy (Wallace) McKinley were the parents of nine
children:
Harriett Virginia McKinley, b December 17, 1824, in North Carolina, d July
25, 1900, at Mustang Prairie and buried in Eutaw Cemetery -- married in Georgia
to Waller L. Brown.
Jane McKinley, b April 27, 1828, in Georgia, date of death unknown -- but
before 1896 -- married in 1850 to John W. McDaniel, b 1825 in Georgia, d October
22, 1896. The burial place of Jane and John McDaniel has not been found. They
had four children: Ophelia McDaniel, b February 11, 1854, married Zachary Taylor
Williams; Charles A. McDaniel -- died young; John McDaniel -- no information;
and Augusta Jane McDaniel, b June 14, 1863, d February 21, 1903, married Rodney
Ferrell Ayers, b 1854 in Mississippi.
Emily D. McKinley, b January 15, 1830, in Georgia, d August 22, 1860,
married ca 1849 to Augustus H. McDaniel, b April 13, 1829, d April 26, 1864, and
both buried in Eutaw Cemetery. They had four children: Caledonia Eugenia
McDaniel, Emma McDaniel, Louisa McDaniel, and William A. McDaniel.
Crecidus C. McKinley (name spelled on different documents as "Cresida,"
"Crecidas," and "Cressida"), b August 30, 1831 in Georgia, d April 1, 1913 in
Limestone County, Texas and buried in the Kosse Cemetery -- married first on May
27, 1855 in Falls County, Texas to James Madison Springfield, b December 4,
1812, d November 14, 1870 -- whose first wife was Susan Gentry -- daughter of
Samuel and Emeline (Payne) Gentry. James Atwood Springfield, b 1858, d 1876;
Aaron Lee Springfield, Emma Springfield, and Eula Springfield. Crecidus married
second and became the third wife of her former brother-in-law, Captain James P.
Brown, b March 5, 1829, d July 23, 1897, and buried in the Brown Family Cemetery
(Located north of Kosse, Limestone, County, Texas on Highway 14). Captain Brown
and Crecidus had two daughters: Lillie Adaline Brown, d March 18, 1875, and
Nancy Matilda Brown, b April 14, 1874, d May 5, 1875, and both buried in the
Brown Family Cemetery by their father and his first two wives.
Edward McKinley, b April 1, 1833, in Georgia, d 1860 -- was not married.
James Franklin McKinley, b December 13, 1834, in Georgia, d July 17, 1863,
in Arkansas while in the Confederate States Army during the Civil war -- married
Mary Frances Amelia Paschall.
Charles Wesley McKinley, b November 3, 1836, in Georgia, d January 26, 1910,
was buried in Mart, Texas. He enlisted in Company K, 12th Cavalry, Parson's
Texas Brigade of the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. On September
5, 1867, he married Susan Anna Person, d December 30, 1896. They were in
Marlin, Texas, with Justice of the Peace J. P. Bernard Coone officiating.
Charles Wesley and Susan Anna (Person) McKinley had nine children, and they
resided in Limestone and McLennan Counties, Texas.
Caroline Albina McKinley (called "Carrie"), b May 29, 1840, in Georgia, d
April 10, 1868, and buried in the Brown Family Cemetery in Limestone County,
Texas -- married first to Thomas Henry Clark. She married second, and was the
second wife of Captain James P. Brown, b March 5, 1829, d July 23, 1897, whose
first wife was Mary Ann Bryan, b June 30, 1830, d April 26, 1865, and buried in
the Brown Family Cemetery; and whose third wife was his former sister-in-law,
Crecidus C. (McKinley) Springfield. Captain Brown -- a son of Ervin and Matilda
(Burdette) Brown -- was commander of a company of Limestone County Volunteers in
the Confederate States Army during the Civil War.
Adeline McKinley, b December 24, 1842, in Upson County, Georgia, d September
9, 1898, and buried in Eutaw Cemetery -- married Allen Wilson McDaniel, b August
2, 1835, d June 3, 1915, and buried by his wife in Eutaw Cemetery. They had
twelve children: Emily McDaniel, Lillie McDaniel, James Wesley McDaniel, Allen
Burris McDaniel, Henry McDaniel, Albert Carl McDaniel, b July 29, 1869, d
November 29, 1962 in Marlin, Texas who married August 11, 1895 in Falls County,
Texas to Lydia Clare Durham -- b October 3, 1876 in Falls County, d November 29,
1962 in Marlin, Texas and buried in Calvary Cemetery in Marlin, Texas; Icie
Levicia McDaniel; Zachary Taylor McDaniel; Annie McDaniel; Preston holly
McDaniel; William McDaniel; and Tommie McDaniel who married Edward M. Erskine --
son of John W. and Sarah Jane (Snipes) Erskine.
The family lines of descendants of Charles Carson and Nancy (Wallace)
McKinley cross innumerable families still in Falls County, Texas.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of
these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 292 column 2, page 293 column 1 and 2. Member of Falls County
Historical Commission.
