The children listed with them were.
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M.A. B: 1855 in Illinois is listed with the Rice family as a domestic Servent, she the only McKee listed in the County
other then John McKee. So it's Questionable if she is their child or not.
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Emily was not born until 1874, Shannon found them in the 1880 Montague County Census. There was a John Evens living
with them,he worked on a farm there.
In 1889 at the age of 25 Samuel married Eliza Lee Hunter, daughter of William Peter and
Elizabeth Jane (Beatty) Hunter. When they were found in the 1900 census they were living in the small town of Mineral Wells,Texas,with four of their children;
Eula Lee,Samuel Harvey,Pansy Viola, and Joseph Ira. Eliza older sister Lizzie Mahurin and her two small children were living with them
at the time.Samuel and Eliza proceeded to add three more children to the family after 1900 census. Jessie Oscar,Charlie William,and
Nellie Bly. Samuel's brother John and their mother Sarah was living
in Mineral Well at the same time.
Eula Lee,the oldest of Samuel and Eliza was strong willed and rebellious,and Samuel didn't spare the rod. She became Pregnant at 13, and the
baby's father Aaron Hall was 14,and they were too young to marry. She gave birth to a baby boy in April 1907,and named him Ted Hall his
fathers last name.
Later that year,Samuel received serious internal injuries when his wagon got stuck on a tree stump,and turned over on him. He died three weeks
later at the age of 42. He is in an unmarked grave, believed to be on the banks of Brazos River, near Mineral Wells, Texas. Many years later,
Nell his youngest daughter, tried to find his grave, but was unable to. It's believed to be in the general area of the Indian Creek Cemetery.
After Samuel's Death,tradgedy followed the McKee's. At only 35 Eliza had to raise her seven children and a new grandchild. Nellie her youngest
was two at the time. How she feed them heaven only knows,but it is very possible that she moved to her family,the Hunters,near Happy Hollows
a small community in Eastland County,Texas.
Eliza's brothers Joe and Will Hunter were considered well off for that period in time, and Joe's wife Melissa,died in 1901 leaving him to raise their
twelve children. Joe never remarried, so it's hightly probable that Eliza and her mother helped him raise the children. Eliza was not found in the
1910 Census for Palo Pinto Texas but Jessie and Nell were listed at the Tanner Public School in Eastland County in 1915.
Samuel Harvey, the oldest son married Tillie Rouse and had two children, Evelyn and Lester. On June 28th,1922
he died from lung cancer presumed to have been caused from working in the coal mines there in Thurber,Texas. That next year Eliza Lee died as a
result of blood poisoning from a abscessed tooth that was pulled. She was only 50 years old.
Joseph Ira, the second son, married Lillie Williams and they had two children, Callie Pauline
and James Ira. Ira ran a fast and hard life in his youth. He died January 8th, 1932 and is buried in Huntsville Texas. The McKee brothers had a
bad reputation.
Jessie Oscar The third son, was shot to death by his girlfriends's jealous husband in
Pampa, Texas two years earlier in 1930. He was twenty nine years of age. Jessie had never married.
Eliza Lee is buried between her sons,
Harvey and Jessie at the Palo Pinto Cemetery in Texas.
AMARILLO DAILY NEWS
Amarillo,Texas, Monday morning March 24th, 1930 Page 1
Pampa man shot to death in Alleged triangle, wife declares husband slew innocent man, woman escaped death, she say
when her mate's pistol jammed, was jealous, Avers Slayer quizzed both on affections for each other, asserts special to
the news.
Pampa. March 23, charged with the murder in connection with the fatal shooting here this afternoon of Jesse McKee,
alial Jack King, as action by the grand jury, which now in in session here. Mrs. King who was with the two men, escaped
death according to the sheriff, when Yale's pistol jammed as he pointed it at her and pulled the trigger "My husband killed
an innocent man, "Mrs. Yale declared after she had related a story of jealousy.
They have triple headstone that her grandson, 
Ted Hall, was proud to purchased for them.
Charlie William the fourth son, left Texas around
1927 after he and Viola's second husband, Evert Leedy,had an altercation with two men from Ranger,Texas. The altercaton
took place on the road to Mingus,Texas, and as a result, one man died from a broken neck. Leedy was caught and turned state's
witness. Charlie ran and made it to California and assumed the name R.E.Freeman. He later married Edith Pearl Aldered on
August 3, 1928. They had two daughters, Evelyn Colleen born 1929 and Louella Virginia, born in 1931.
Charlie (aka Bob) and Edie divorced after approximately ten years and he never remarried. He lived most of his life in and around
Bakersfield, California close to his sister and two daughters. On July 28th,1956 Charlie died of cancer and is buried in Greenlawn
Cemetery, Bakersfield, California, along with his niece Bea Under the assumed name.
Eula Leethe oldest daughter of Samuel married Charlie Burleson about 1910,
and had four children; John Samuel,Bertha Lee,Raymond,and Lla Beatrice. Eula's son was named after the father she never got along
with, odds are they were just alike. They divorced in 1921 and Eula married "Blackie"Sherwood around 1925. A son Robert Wayne
(Sonny) was born in 1925 in Breckinridge,Texas.
Leaving Texas Eula and her family lived in Arizona for five years, then moved to califorina in 1940 to a small area where her brother
(Little Charlie) lived to be close to him. She stayed close to her family in Texas and came home when her grandson Ira Ray Hall died
in 1960. Eula had buried her father, mother, four brothers sister and youngest daughter,Bea. All were tragic and untimely,deaths.
She then raised her granddaughter, Lana Lee, and proceeded to have several great grandchildren. Eula died on Novemer 24th, 1966
at the age of 75. Her first born son Ted, arrived from Texas, and considered it an honor to pay for his mothers funeral. Dama Bea,
another granddaughter, purchased a headstone and arranged to have Mamma Lulu inscribed on it. She is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery
in Bakersfield, California in the same Cemetery as her daughter lla Beatrice and her brother Charlie.
Pansy Violathe second daughter married Wallace Stevens, and they had
one daughter, Lilliam Nell, who was born in 1914. She was married to Evert Leedy in 1927 when he was sent to prison for the altercation
that led to a man's death. Viola then divorced him and married Bud Tate. Together they adopted a daughter, Evelyn born in 1933. When
Viola learned that she had uterine cancer, she sent a letter to her younger sister, Nell, and pleaded for her to come and stay with her. She
told Nell " that she wasn't afraid to die" but that she just wanted one of her sisters to be with her. Nell and daughter, Margie, left immediately
to be with viola during her illness. Eula was ill at the time and Viola's daughter, Lilliam, had married at the age of 14 and had two children to
care for. Neither of them could offer their assistance. Viola died in 1940 at the age of forty four in Pampa,Texas where her brother,
Jessie Oscar, had been killed ten years earlier.
Nellie Bly, the youngest and always considered the beauty of the family, was the last of the siblings. She married Percy Johnson, and they had
one daughter, Marjorie Bly, born in Breckinridge,Texas in 1925. After divorcing Percy, she later
married Elmer Pannell. He died in 1967 and was buried in Camanche,Texas.
Nell was two years older then her nephew, Ted Hall, and she trained him well. One day while Eliza was not home they
decided to make the kitchen pretty for her. They found some baking flour and proceeded to "paint" everything white! Eliza was surprised
alright!!. The two remained as close as brother and sister until Ted's death in 1979. In later years Nell conducted a lot of McKee genealogy
research. She made numerous attempts to locate a marriage certificate for her parents with out success.
Nell kept her looks and her sense of humor right up to her last days. In a letter sent to Otilla, Ted Hall's wife, she used her brother Charlie's
favorite expression " not on your ass!" According to Nell when Speaking of Rouse family, they were always referred to as "those damn Rouses!".
On March 18th, 1989 Nell the baby of the McKee family, died at the age of 83, and was buried in Stag Creek Cemetery,Comanche County,Texas.
After Nell's death her daughter Marjorie, and Little Charlie's daughter, Evelyn (Freeman) Karsten, along with Evelyn's granddaughter,Shannon
Sawyer, continued the McKee Family research project. Prior to Margies death in 1999, Margie told her cousin Carol Sue (Hall) Willis " That
marriage license is out there some place! the Hunter women are not ignorant about marriage, they insist on it! " She was referring to the marriage
license of Samuel and Eliza McKee that todate not been located. After considerable research, Shannon Sawyer, Charlie Mckee's great grand
daughter, was able to locate the death certificate and photo of samuel's mother, Sarah Catherin. Futher investigation by Shannon also finally
discovered the marriage license for Samuel and Eliza McKee, dated 24th,October 1889!.
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