Mrs. Rachael McKinney, aged 96 years, and one of the first settlers of Venango county, died at her home in Salem, near Oil City, last Friday night. By marriage she was the aunt of Mrs. John Turney, of Sligo, Clarion county, and was thus related to a large number of residents in this county, being a great aunt to some of them and a great great aunt to others of them. The Oil City Derrick says that Mrs. McKinney was noted for her kind heart and pure Christian character. She was the mother of twelve children. Her husband, who was born in 1786, and who died in 1871, received a silver medal for conspicuous gallantry in Perry’s victory on Lake Erie in the war of 1812.
~ Clarion Democrat, 07-Mar-1895
You can visit the memorial page for Rachel McKinney.
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