Eliza S. McKinney
5 September 1853 - 1 July 1895
w/o Jno. W. McKinney
John W. McKinney
1849 - 1935
Van
Alstyne Leader
Thursday
7 February 1935
JOHN
W. McKINNEY, LAST GRANDSON OF COLLIN McKINNEY
PASSES AWAY FRIDAY
Was Tax Collector
and Prison Farm Manager For State
John
W.
McKinney, 85, died at his home south of Van
Alstyne Friday afternoon
at 3:20 p.m. He was the last of the
grandsons of the famous
Collin County pioneer, Collin McKinney, for
whom the county and its
county seat were named. He was county
tax collector for four
years, 1890 through '94, and was manager of
the state prison system for
two years under Gov. O. B. Colquitt, the
position now held by Lee
Simmons of Sherman.
Funeral
services
were held Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at the local
Christian church
with the Rev. Leo Johnston, pastor of the Oak
Cliff Christian church,
and the Rev. Lloyd Mottley, local pastor,
officiating. Interment
was in Van Alstyne cemetery with Billey
McKinney, Lawson Edwards, Jim
and John Bryant of Anna, Robert Cox and Roy
McKinney of Dallas, as
pallbearers.
Mr.
McKinney was born June 22, 1849, three and a
half miles north of Anna,
the son of W. C. and Peggy McKinney. He
was educated in the
public schools and in business school.
He was chairman of the
democratic precinct for a number of
years. He joined the Mantua
Christian church at the age of 17 and later
the Anna church. He
lived all his life on a farm within a half
mile of the Collin McKinney
homestead.
Mr.
McKinney married Miss Eliza Matthews in 1873
in Wise County, and to
them were born the following children:
W. E. McKinney, E. M.
McKinney, Newt McKinney, Mrs. J. F. Cox, all
of Anna, J. K. McKinney,
Van Alstyne, Dick McKinney, Estes Park, Colo.,
J. W. McKinney and Mrs.
Guy Stinnett, McKinney, Texas. There are
17 grandchildren, and 19
great grandchildren. A son, 7 and a
daughter, 18, preceded him in
death.
He
was married a second time, to Miss Mollie
Moore of Houston, Feb. 7, 1896, who survives.
Mollie D. McKinney
1863 -
1936
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