The 1830 census lists the following in the Ralph Runkle household:
Males of 20 and under 30 = 1,
Females of 20 and under 30 = 2.The 1840 census lists the following in the Ralph E. Runkle household:
Males under 5 = 2,
Males 30 and under 40 = 1,
Females 5 and under 10 = 1.Also included in the 1850 Runkle household was Elizabeth Young, 21, Ohio and Elisha Parker, 24, laborer, Ohio. In the 1860 Runkle household was Allice Flagan, 40, servant, Ireland. The 1870 Runkle household also included the following people: Dalia Seig, 20, F, W, Domestic Servant, Ohio; Charles Andy, 15, M, B, Domestic Servant, Ohio; Burr Saners, 30, M, W, Farm Laborer, Virginia.
MARRIAGE:Miller, Lois N.;Marriage books A-B-C 1845-1871, Washington County,
Arkansas;Fayetteville, Ark;Author;1982;Call# US/CAN 976.714 V2m.In 1850, his age is listed as "47" & birthplace as "NC;" in 1870, his age is
listed as "80" & birthplace as "Tenn."MARRIAGE:Miller, Lois N.;Marriage books A-B-C 1845-1871, Washington County, Arkansas;Fayetteville, Ark;Author;1982;Call# US/CAN 976.714 V2m.
In 1850, his age is listed as "47" & birth location as "NC;" in 1870, his age is listed as "80" & birth location as "Tenn."
Sources:
Other : GEDCOM supplied by Sharolynne Pyeatt 2 Dec 1993
BIRTH-DEATH:Maxwell, Nancy;Pyeatts & Finleys oif Rowan & Guilford Counties,
NC;Guilford Genealogist;Greensboro, NC;Guilford Co. Genealogical Soc.;vol. 16,
no. 3 (whole no. 45, Spring 1989).MARRIAGE:Miller, Lois N.;Marriage books A-B-C 1845-1871, Washington County,
Arkansas;Fayetteville, Ark;Author;1982;Call# US/CAN 976.714 V2m.
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"The McKinneys.--The Nutters, as above stated, were only squatters at the mouth of Addis' run, and, in 1818, they were dispossessed by William McKinney, who purchased a tract of three thousand nine hundred twenty acres in this section, of Mathias Mattenly, for the small sum of eight thousand forty dollars. He afterwards bought another tract of one thousand eighty acres, and after giving each one of his children a large farm, he sold the remainder to a colony of Scotch settlers, who came later.
Mr. McKinney came from the "Keystone state," with his wife and large family of children, and founded his home where his late grandson, Jacob McKinney, resided until his death. He figured prominently in the early history of the county, both in church and state affairs; and for a number of years after his coming, this was known as the "McKinney settlement," the former name "Egypt," being gradually dropped.
"William McKinney was born of English parentage in Lyconing county, Eastern Pennsylvania, on September 4, 1760. He was the son of William and Hannah McKinney, and was next to the youngest member of a family of six children (viz., Sarah, who married a Mr. Haggetty, Jemima, Jacob, John and Cathrine). Though so young, he served as an American soldier during the latter part of the Revolution; and on July 14, 1789, he was married to Miss Frances Piatt, and from this time until he came to Ritchie county, his home was at White Deer valley, on the Susquehannah river.
"Mr. McKinney was the first mill-owner in this section. He was a Presbyterian in religious faith, and was a man of a strong influential character. He passed to his reward on June 24, 1848, on the first anniversary of the death of his wife. (She died on June 24, 1847.) Both sleep in the Egypt cemetery."
From The History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther.
"Mrs. McKinney was of French descent. She was the daughter Of John and Jane Williamson Piatt, and the granddaughter of John Piatt, of France; and at historic old Trenton, she was born, on March 7, 1770, when the bugle notes of the Revolution were being sounded, but her parents later removed to White Deer valley, Pennsylvania, where she met and married Mr. McKinney.
In 1789, when General Washington was enroute from Mt. Vernon to New York city, for his first inauguration to the Presidency, when he reached the old bridge at Trenton over which he had retreated before Lord Cornwallis' army, a few years before, a beautiful triumphal arch under which he was to pass, greeted his eye. This arch had been prepared by the ladies of the town in honor of the occasion, and was supported by thirteen pillars, wreathed with flowers and evergreen, and it bore the inscription, "The Defender of the Mothers will be the Preserver of the Daughters."
"Beneath the arch stood a party of thirteen loyal young ladies, laden with baskets of flowers, and as the hero of the Revolution approached, they showered the flowers in his pathways singing as they did so, the following ode, which had been composed for the occasion:
"Welcome mighty Chief once more,
"Welcome to this grateful shore;
"Now no mercenary foe
"Aims again, the fatal blow,
"Aims at thee, the fatal blow.
"Virgins fair, and matrons grave,
"Those thy conquering arm did save,
"Build for thee, triumphal bowers,
"Strew ye fair, his way with flowers,
"Strew your hero's way with flowers.
"Frances Piatt was one of this number, and in the presence of the writer, in later years, she sang this little ode, reviving the feeling of her youth and her loyalty to her Chieftain.
"Mrs. McKinney was a woman of strong mind and of a cheerful, happy disposition, and her husband being ever kind and generous, "the world went well with them." When they first came to this wild country the younger members of the family were very much dissatisfied, and they would say, "Oh, dear, mother, you have brought us to a wilderness!" But with her characteristic cheerfulness, she would reply, "O children, you will see railroads running through your farms, yet, some day." At the absurdity of such a prediction all would break into a laugh, thus dispersing the shadow occasioned by their undesirable surroundings. And though the dear old mother never lived to see it, the prophesy has long since been fulfilled. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad runs through what was at that time the "McKinney estates" for miles, and the busy town of Cairo stands on the farm that once belonged to their daughter, Kathrine McKinney McGregor."
From The History of Ritchie County by Minnie Kendall Lowther.
twin with David McKinney