Dr. Jarrett N. McKinney
M.D.
10 September 1845 - 20 April 1932
Lucy Jane McKinney
28 April 1849 - 29 September 1938
Collinsville Times
Collinsville, Texas
February 18, 1932
One of the two
surviving members of the
oldest family in this section of the country
and a descendant of the
late Collin McKinney, (illegible) of the
Declaration of Independence
and after whom Collin County and the town of
McKinney were named, Dr.
J.N. McKinney of Collinsville is the oldest
practicing physician in
this section of the country.
Dr. McKinney was born
September 10,
1864, in the Red River country. He moved to
Collin county at an early
age, and lived there until his marriage to
Lucy Leslie, March 19, 1867.
They then moved close the Collin-Grayson
county line and lived there on
a farm for about 12 years. With his wife, he
moved to Van Alstyne. Here
Dr. McKinney entered the drug business and was
associated with this
store for two years after his graduation from
the Louisville, Kentucky
Medical College. This was in 1877, and marked
the first year in which
Dr. McKinney practiced medicine.
He moved to
Collinsville in 1897, and for the past 35
years has practiced medicine in this place.
Mrs. McKinney was born
in Carthage, Lee
County, Mississippi April 28, 1849. Her father
moved to Texas and
located in North Collin County. She lived
there until her marriage to
Dr. McKinney in 1867.
Dr. and Mrs. McKinney
are the parents of
seven children, of which number only two
survive. They are: Dr. T.E.
McKinney of Gordonville, Texas and Clarence
McKinney of Clinton
Oklahoma.
Dr. and Mrs. McKinney
will celebrate
their 65th wedding anniversary March 19.
Both Dr. and Mrs.
McKinney are very active for their age.
Van Alstyne family
history files
Was Pioneer Physician
and Grandson of Collin McKinney; Burial
Thursday
Collinsville - Dr. J.N.
McKinney, 86,
practicing physician for 56 years, veteran of
the civil war and
grandson of Collin McKinney, founder of Collin
county, died after a
protracted illness at his home here Wednesday
at 7:25 a.m. He was
known over North Texas as a pioneer resident
and physician and had made
his home in this section almost all his life.
Dr. McKinney is
survived by his sons,
Dr. T.E. McKinney of Gordonville and C.V.
McKinney of Clinton, Okla.;
as well as by his wife, who has also been
quite ill. There are
fifteen grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren. He is survived
by his brother, John McKinney of Anna, who,
with J.D.L. McKinney of Van
Alstyne, a cousin, are the only remaining
immediate relatives of the
patriarch, Collin McKinney.
Dr. McKinney was born
in Bowie county,
Sept. 10, 1846, and married Miss Lucy J.
Leslie of Van Alstyne, March
19, 1869. The community was then known
as Mantua. To them
seven children were born. Dr. McKinney
was a member of Ross'
brigade of the southern confederacy during the
war between the
states. On his return his family made
their home in the
Collinsville vicinity for the remainder of his
life with the exception
of a short time when they were in Sherman.
With his wife they
reared their own
children and then the children of his son,
Frank, who died. These
children, now adults, were Frank Jr., Lulline
and Robinson
McKinney. He was a member of the
Christian church from early
boyhood.
Funeral services,
arrangements for which
were not quite complete Wednesday noon, will
be held Thursday at 2 p.m.
at the Christian Church at Van Alstyne, with
burial in the Van Alstyne
cemetery.
Collinsville
- A member of one of the pioneer families of
North Texas, Mrs. Lucy
Jane McKinney, 89, died at the home of her
grandson, Robert McKinney,
Thursday at 8:25 p.m. She had been ill
for three years.
Funeral services are to
be held at 3
p.m. Saturday at the Methodist church in Van
Alstyne with Rev. W.D.
Craig of Whitesboro officiating. Burial
will be in the Van
Alstyne cemetery directed by Talley of
Sherman.
Surviving are a son,
C.V. McKinney of
Clinton, Okla., and a brother, W.L. Leslie of
Sherman; 11 grandchildren
and nine great-grandchildren.
Mrs. McKinney was born
at Carthage,
Miss., the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. James L.
Leslie, and came to Texas
at the age of one year with her parents,
settling in Lamar county where
the family lived three years. Later they
moved to Mantua.
She joined the
Methodist church at the age of 12 and was a
faithful worker in the church as long as her
health permitted.
When only four or five
years old, Lucy
Jane met Jarrett N. McKinney, the grandson of
Collin McKinney, early
settler of North Texas for whom the county of
Collin and the city of
McKinney were named. They went to school
and to church together,
and soon after the civil war, in which he was
a Confederate soldier,
they were married.
Mrs. McKinney's father
practiced
medicine within a radius of from 20 to 30
miles of his home for many
years. Her husband owned a drug store
for years at Van
Alstyne. He also practiced medicine
there and at Higgins,
Gordonville, Sherman, Luella and
Collinsville. Her son, the late
Dr. T.E. McKinney of Gordonville, practiced
medicine for more than 20
years.
Death took four of Mrs.
McKinney's
relatives within a period of 12 months.
Her son, Frank McKinney
died in 1931 and her husband, Dr. J.N.
McKinney, and two other sons,
Marvin McKinney and Dr. T.E. McKinney all died
in 1932. Three
succumbed to illness and Marvin McKinney was
killed in an automobile
accident at Dallas. The late J. Perry
Leslie, who was a Sherman
lawyer, and the late A. Turner Leslie, who was
a Van Alstyne newspaper
man, were her brothers.
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