Margaret McKinney
17 May 1811 - 18 January 1886
Aged 74Yrs. 8 Mos. 6Ds.
w/o Wm. C. McKinney |
William
C. McKinney
9
January 1806 - 15 November 1885
Aged
79Yrs. 10Ms. 6Ds
|
Sherman Daily Register
November 16, 1885
GATHERED IN
Uncle
Billie McKinney as he is known throughout the
Grayson and adjoining counties, passed
away from the cares of the earth, late
Saturday afternoon at his home in Van
Alstyne. At the time of his death and
for many years prior, he had been connected
with the Christian church as a minister.
He had lived to the rip old age
of 82 and retained clear mental faculties
until the last. He leaves a host of mourning
friends and relatives.
TRIBUTES OF RESPECT
TO WILLIAM C. AND MARGARET McKINNEY
As appeared in the Van Alstyne Enterprise,
Dec. 4th, 1885
and Feb. 5th 1886. Respectively.
Margaret McKinney, nee Dooley, better known by
her many loved ones as
Aunt Peggy, passed from physical trammels on
the 18th of January 1886.
She entered the world on the 17 day of May
1811 and on Dec. 13th 1827
Married W. C. McKinney at the age of 16. Was
baptized into the church,
Feb. 22d, 1842, at McKinney Landing, on Red
river. "He giveth his
beloved sheep," but not of oblivion except as
to the cares and
vexations of this life. It is the awaking
under a new sun whose glory
and brightness the redeemed who have laid
aside their earthly
vestments, may alone know. Love and
tenderness, her characteristics
could not long brook the death of her husband
with whom she had spent
59 years of happiness. For her death had no
sting, and when the silent
messenger called he had thrown aside his mask
of terror and gently
kissed the fleeting breath from the tired lips
of one who gladly waited
the Master's call; in her heart the shrine was
kept pure for the
Masters stay reflecting from him a general
love that won the hearts of
all who came within her influence so that on
her tomb can be inscribed,
"Beloved by all." Let those who mourn her loss
keep their lamps as well
filled and trimmed as hers, that when the
Bridegroom opens, as the door
will certainly open to all, they may be
welcomed, and join her in the
endless feast of love.
TRIBUTES OF
RESPECT
TO WILLIAM C. AND MARGARET McKINNEY
As appeared in the Van Alstyne Enterprise,
Dec. 4th, 1885
and Feb. 5th 1886. Respectively.
DIED; Eld. W. C. McKinney (Uncle Billy as he
is familiarly known) the
eldest son of Collin and Elizabeth McKinney,
was born in Lincoln
County, Ky., January the 9th 1806.
Consequently was in the 80th year of
his age. In youth, he was converted and became
a member of the
Christian Church at Elk Fork, Christian
County, Ky., in 1823, moving
with his family in 1824 to Texas. (then
Arkansaw) 6 miles east of the
present site of Texarkana. No neighbors in a
southern direction within
200 miles and no church organization near.
Being a fine singer, a good
exhorter and a devoted christian he often
worshiped with other
denominations. He was married to Miss Margaret
Dooley, December 13th,
1827, and settled at Elam's Prairie, where he
lived until 1831. when he
moved twenty miles west of his former home, to
a point on Red River,
where he lived till 1834 when he took and had
charge of his father's
farm, while his father was serving the
convention that made the
Republic of Texas. He was ordained Elder of a
Christian Church, which
was organized a while before by Elder-Yates,
by Elder-Moore, in 1840.
He with his father and families moved to
Collin county in 1847, settled
where he fell asleep in Jesus November 15th,
1885, having served the
church at Mantua as Elder until his death. He
left a widow, five sons,
two daughters, many grand children and some
great grand children, "who
mourn not as those who have no hope." Uncle
Billy was a willing worker
who never shirked his duty; when he gave
himself to the Lord, he did so
without reservation. He was pure in life and
abundant in labors. His
every day life, his private purity, official
fidelity, and his deep,
earnest, religious talks were witnesses of the
true spirit of the Lord
abounding in his heart. As a husband, no one
was kinder, as a father,
devoted to the welfare of his children, as a
friend, he was true and
generous to a fault. He could not do too much
for those he loved. No
needy ones were ever sent away that he could
assist, without giving to
their needs. "To Know him was but to love
him." He was not perfect, but
all with whom he but that he is now enjoying
"the fruits of victory,"
in the invisible world across the river of
death. No one that ever
lived was more beloved, than him. His
thousands of friends mourn his
loss but are glad to know that it is his
eternal gain. He was buried at
Van Alstyne Cemetery near the grave of his
father. We say with the
motto on his casket, "Rest in peace."
