Harvey Adam McKEE - (13 Jul 1811-30 Mar 1880)
HARVEY ADAM McKEE was the youngest known child by MICHAEL Sr's first marriage. He would have been the son aged 15-20 in MICHAEL Sr's household on the 1830 Census. Jefferson County marriage records (pg.2 of 1838-49 volume) show the marriage of HARVEY McKEE to MARTHA McKEE (his brother's widow) on 20 May 1838. On the 1840 census, we find "HARVAY" listed on the same page with MICHAEL Sr & MICHAEL Jr (pg.196), although separated by several households. The enumeration listed his age as 20-30 and his wife's as 30-40. His brother's four children are accounted for in the household plus there is an "extra" girl under age 5 (boy 10-15, 2 girls 5-10 and 2 girls under 5). From the 1850 census, we can identify this fourth girl as SARH who would have been born during 1838-9 to H.A. and MARTHA.
On the 1850 census HARVEY A. McKEE headed Household #50 not far from BENJAMIN (Household #40), MICHAEL Jr (Household #41) and MICHAEL III (Household #41).
Name
Age
From
Harvey A. McKEE 39 SC
Heasther 40 MO
Margaret 16 MO
Sara 11 MO
Emily 5 MO
Unless MARTHA died and H.A. remarried, it appears that her middle name must have been "Heaster" and that EMILY was the second child born of their marriage.
His estate file included a receipt for his tombstone (now sunken/illegible?) and helps us to fill in a few other details concerning him.
Estate #1447 - Harvey McKEE (James McMULLIN, Executor)
HARVEY McKEE [full name was ADAM HARVEY McKEE per tombstone referred to in file; son of Michael McKEE, Sr] - Bill for tombstone (cost $35) shows he was born July 13th, 1811 and died March 30, 1880. The executor was James McMULLEN and on 30 Mar 1880, HARVEY willed to James C. McMULLEN his land (40 acres SE SW qtr. Sec.3, Twp.40, Rng.3E), 2 horses, 1 cow, 3 hogs & all the household furniture...all the corn now gathered & all the wheat growing on said farm. Except for purchases at the sale by DOC McKEE there is no mention of McKEEs in the folder. The residence was on Dry Creek and burial was at Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery.