Re: McKillip, John b:1836PA & Melissa b:1850IL..PA>KS>TX>OK-Are you Related??
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McKillip, John b:1836PA & Melissa b:1850IL..PA>KS>TX>OK-Are you Related??
J Richards 10/27/06
Hello.
I am a direct descendant of
John McKillip (1836) and Ruthie Rice McKillip Manus,
who had just one son together, named James Edward McKillip, born near Azle, Texas.
Subsequently John decided to leave Texas and Ruthie's mother
intervened to keep Ruthie and baby James Edward behind in TX
John McKillip, James's father, came to Texas 1870 from Ohio; a widower with 4 children:Mattie, Alice, John Elmer and Archie.
James Edward was born 10-5-1872 and married Eula Aurora Gresham McKillip on 12-22-1898 at her parent's home near Ardmore, Ok.
Their firstborn, on 12-20-1899, a girl named Grace lived only 13 days, having weighed 3 lbs at birth. On 1-8-1901 their
son Noble Edward McKillip was born.
I was born (5-25-1949)and raised in Fort Worth, TX, living in my grandfather NE McKillip's house during my early childhood, and visiting my great-grandmother daily at the end of the same block.Great-grandma Eula Aurora Gresham McKillip wrote down her memoirs in 1939, of which I have a copy, and recounts as best she could, the family history til then.Eula Aurora & James Edw McK went on to have 4 daughters after Noble Edward was born, and 3 survived to old age, and I knew them well as my great-aunts.
You are welcome to email comments or questions to me at
[email protected] Hope Quinn, age 61