Atlanta Grade School Friends has a lot to look forward to in the school’s restoration, with 3-D mapping underway and an imminent Texas Historical Commission conference where they will present the school’s historical significance.
How can I say thanks for the things You have done for me. Things so undeserved, yet You gave to prove Your love for me. The voices of a million angels could not express my gratitude. All that I am and ever hope to be, I owe it all to Thee.
Lemuel Meridy McKinney was born 25 August 1848 to Daniel and Dorothy Adeline Ferris McKinney probably in Titus County, Texas, in the area that is now Franklin County. Lemuel married 2 July 1874 at Sardis in Cass County, Texas, Mary Ann Duck who was born 8 November 1857 to Eliza J. Booker and John S. Duck in Mississippi. Lemuel and Mary Ann first lived in the Union Hill Community between Hughes Springs and Linden, then near Hughes Springs for a time and later in the Turkey Creek Community. Last they lived in the Pruitt Lake Community. Lemuel and Mary Ann had eleven children, all born in Cass County, Texas: 1. James Taylor McKinney born 19 May 1875, died 17 May 1970, Cass County, Texas. Married first in 1904 Effie Lula Stalnecker, born 17 May 1879, died 19 September 1930, Cass County, Texas. Together they had four children: 1.1 Willard McKinney, born 5 February 1905, died 8 December 1998. Willard married first in 1929 to Flora Amox, born 1912, died 1964. Willard and Flora had two daughters: 1.1.1 Helen Joyce who married James Ross, an attorney in Longview, Texas. They have three children, David, Donna, and Linda.
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