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Five children we1·e born of this maniage: Andrew Todd McKinney; Margaret Todd McKinney, who married Albert Edwin Davis; Ele~nor Louise McKinney, who married Benton Randolph; Elizabeth Cornelia McKinney, who married Thaddeus C. Bell, and after his death married Sherwood Smedes. Thaddeus C. Bell was a descendant of Josiah H. Bell, Stephen F. Austin's friend and able assistant in settling the first Anglo-Ame1·ican colony in Texas. He and Cornelia McKinney had one son, John Randolph Bell, who now lives in Salida, Colorado. Dr. Samuel McKinney's youngest child was Robert Alexander McKinney. Mrs. Samuel McKinney died, September 10, 1858, while the family lived in New River, Ascension Parish, Louisiana. As might be supposed, Dr. Samuel McKinney was deeply interested in giv- ing his own children a thorough education; and they were all graduated from· the best institutions of the country. His eldest son, A. T. :McKinney, practiced law in the town of Huntsville, Texas, for more than fifty years. At the time of his death in 1931 (age 93 years) he was the last surviving mem- ber of the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1876, and the oldest Jiving graduate of Princeton University. The other children of Samuel McKin- ney's family had as interesting, if not as long lived careers. Dr. Samuel McKinney died at Huntsville, Texas, and is buried there in sight of the building in which Austin College was established, the institution that he served and kept alive during the trying times of disunion and reconstruction of the nation. For the greater part of this information on Dr. Samuel McKinney thanks are due to Miss Cornelia McKinney, daughter of Hon. A. T. McKinney, and granddaughter of Dr. Samuel McKinney. See also Percy Everett Wallace, "Austin College, Sherman, Texas." This is a master's thesis to be found in The University of Texas Library; also Tke P1·esbyterian Vie111- 11oint, May 29, 1924.
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To HENDERSON YoAKuM 1
Huntsville, 1st Sept. 1851. Dear Colo. There is no news. Doctor McKinney:? & I disagree about the fodder of the corn. I insist on one third of the p1·oduce of the land. We have agreed to leave it to you. You can be ready to say what was your understanding when it was rented. By pulling the fodder when he did, I suppose he injured the crop one fifth. Say just what you think right, but make your decision before you leave for Montgomery. I hope to see you on your way. No news from Cuba; this promises well for the revolutionists. I fear the worst. I have seen much of such expeditions, and I always found my worst fears realized! -I hope it may not be the
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