Joshua C. McKay Biographical Sketch from Beers History of Warren County, Ohio
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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 6 May 2005

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part V. Biographical Sketches
Wayne Township
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)
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The Robert Mackay Clan by Michael McKay who writes,
" Robert Mackay Sr. is the pioneer of this family. One of his great-grandsons, Moses McKay, settled in Warren County, Ohio, near Waynesville where his home still stands on New Burlington Rd. There are three other McKay related biographies as well:

  • One is on Rhoda (Whitacre) Hollingsworth
  • Another is on William J. Collett
  • and the third one I'm aware of is on Joseph Hollingsworth. He descends from Hannah McKay & George Hollingsworth. Hannah is a daughter of Robert Mackay Sr. Joseph came up from South Carolina. After Hannah's death, George remarried and removed with all but one of his children to South Carolina. Because of their opposition to slavery many of them left South Carolina, some of whom came to Ohio."

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JOSHUA. C. McKAY, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born on the place where he now lives, Jan. 21, 1837; is a son of Jonas T. and Matilda (Ferguson) McKay, natives of Virginia. The paternal grandfather, Moses McKay, was a native of Virginia, and married a Miss Shinn; they emigrated to Ohio in 1818; they came by wagons to Wheeling, Va.; thence by flat-boat to Cincinnati; thence by their wagons to Warren County, and to Wayne Township, and located on the place where Joshua now lives, residing here till their death. They raised a family of twelve children, six sons and six daughters, all of whom came to Ohio, but the eldest son, who remained in Virginia, and lived and died there. When Mr. McKay came to Ohio, he brought twenty or more slaves. with him, who of course were all set free. The maternal grandfather, Samuel Ferguson, was a native of Virginia, and married Mildred Garrison, and emigrated to Greene Co., Ohio, about 1824; he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, for which services he obtained a land warrant, and drew a pension. The ancestors of both the McKay and Ferguson families, were of Scotch descent. James T. the father of our subject was five years of age when brought to this county, and here grew to manhood under the sturdy influences of pioneer life; was married and became the father of seven children—Emma; Sarah C., now widow Allen; Joshua C.; Harriet E., now Mrs. O'Neall; M Horace; Eusebia, now Mrs. Welch, and Letitia. His wife died June 1, 1855. On May 24, 1864, he married Matilda Brown; by her he has two daughters—Lida and Belle. The second son, M. Horace, was in the war of the rebellion; enlisted in the 79th O. V. I., and served about two and one-half years, until discharged for disability, and has since drawn a pension. Mr. McKay has been actively engaged in business most of his life; he dealt extensively in stock and also in pork, and was in the mercantile trade in Waynesville for a considerable time. Our subject was brought up to the honest occupation of farming; was married Sept 11, 1861, to Victoria, daughter of Henry and Ann (Antrim) Clark, he a native of South Carolina, and she of Virginia. The Clark ancestors were of English.

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descent, and we trace their genealogy to Henry Clark, born in England in 1715, and he was a son of Jonathan Clark Henry is supposed to have emigrated to America and located in Pennsylvania, where his son John was born and raised to manhood, and married Mary Campbell, and in an early day emigrated with his family to South Carolina, where they lived and died. Their son Henry was about 2 years of age when taken to South Carolina by his parents, and there grew to manhood and married Elizabeth Alexander, who was born in South Carolina, and whose father was killed in the war of the Revolution. After their marriage they resided in that State till 1805, when he with his family emigrated to Ohio and located on the same tract of land where Frank Clark now lives, opening out his farm right from the woods, and here they lived till their death. They had four children, who grew to maturity—Jonathan, Henry, Cornelius and Elizabeth; the latter now Widow Antrim, is the only one now surviving. Henry was born in South Carolina Nov. 14, 1800; hence was about five years of age when he came with his parents to Warren County, and here was raised to manhood, accustomed to the scenes and trials of pioneer life; was married to Ann, daughter of Daniel and Jane Antrim, natives of Virginia, but who came among the early settlers of this county, locating here in 1804. Mr. Clark and wife had four children who grew to maturity—Franklin, Eliza, Hannah and Victoria. Mr. Clark located and remained through life upon the old home place of his father; was a man of firm principles and undoubted integrity; a representative of a type of independence of character, yet kind, social and genial in his nature, and was a citizen highly esteemed in his community, and one in whom the people placed implicit confidence; he served as Township Trustee many years; he raised a very interesting family of one son and three daughters, and their loving family circle remained entire and unbroken for over half a century; when on May 14, 1880 the grim messenger death suddenly and almost without warning snatched in his cold embrace, her who had been his companion and support for fifty-three years; and in less than twelve months, on May 5, 1881, death again visited their family circle in a like sudden manner, and deprived him of his beloved daughter Eliza. This double affliction so sudden and unexpected, was more than his aged and shattered frame could endure, and in just nine days after the death of his daughter his spirit took its flight to that realm where sorrows and death never enter; he died May 17, 1881. But the remaining members of his family, in the midst of these afflictions, have the consolation that theirs was a life well spent, their reward sure, and their lives and good deeds will long be cherished by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Mr. McKay and wife have three children— Henry C., born June 21, 1864; Anna Cora, born Oct. 20, 1868, and Robert C., born June 26,1876. Mr. McKay after his marriage located upon the old home place upon which his grandfather located, and lived, and died and here has resided up to the present time; has a fine farm of 261 acres, with good improvements constituting a pleasant home and residence.

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