Helen McKenzie

John + Bessie Johnson. Bessie was born on 11 Jan 1896; died on 30 Jan 1978. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"THE HISTORY OF THE GABRIEL McKENZIE AND RACHEL BLUBAUGH FAMILY OF MARYLAND AND OHIO" by Father Homer Blubaugh:

In 1883 Gabe and Laura took their two firstborn, Gus and the baby, Sarah, to Kansas in a wagon train. The
purpose was to link up with other McKenzie cousins already there, but not finding a good job, they returned the next year. Sarah was a frail child and rode on a pillow on the wagon bed. Gus, as a young boy, remembers the return trip with an¬ other wagon train a year later and sitting around the campfire watching the fire gleaming off the red eyes of wolves at night. Gabriel was struck by a car while crossing West Broad Street to visit his son, Alonzo. He lived several days and died June 21,1927, at Mt. Carmel Hospital. Laura died Nov. 9, 1945, in Marion, and is buried beside Gabe in Saint Joseph Cemetery, Columbus, in the Saint Joseph Section. "Gabe" and Laura are the parents of eight: Gus, Sarah Simmons, James, Thomas, Anna and Mary (twins), John and Alonza/Alonzo.

Joseph married Laura Mathes on 18 Nov 1880 in Ross County, Ohio. Laura died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Most all of the information for this McKenzie branch came from "THE HISTORY OF THE GABRIEL McKENZIE AND RACHEL BLUBAUGH FAMILY OF MARYLAND AND OHIO" by Father Homer Blubaugh, and from the Ancestry.com web site of Wayne William Ward. Wayne was one of the first researchers to debunk the junk research permeating the Internet that John MacKinzie (b. 1687) (the first known ancestor of the McKenzies of Early Maryland) did not descend from Collen MacKenzie and John MacKenzie as had been represented by researchers who came before him. For more about this topic, see Chapter 5 of my book attached to the home page of the McKenzies of Early Maryland website "Why Collen MacKenzie is Not Part of This Maryland McKenzie Genealogy (i.e. the descendants of John MacKInzie (b. 1687).

NAMED AFTER A LOCAL PRIEST, FATHER James REDMOND OF CUMBERLand, MD. CATHERINE MCKENSEY AS GODMOTHER.

THE FAMILY MOVED TO Jackson TWP, PICKAWAY CO, IN 1876. HE MOVED FROM THERE TO Franklin CO WHERE THEY BOUGHT A FARM and SET UP A FAMILY MILK DELIVERY BUSINESS. THE HORSE-DRAWN MILKWAGON WAS PAINTED Black WITH THE LETTERING "J.R.MCKENZIE" PAINTED ON THE SIDE. MILK WAS CARRIED IN A LARGE CONTAINER TO THE WAGON and PEOPLE CAME TO THE WAGON WITH THEIR OWN CONTAINERS TO GET MILK. ABOUT 1893, THE MCKENZIE DAIRY BARN BURNED TO THE GROUND, THE FIRE SET BY THE CHILDREN WHO "WAS REFUSED A HORSE TO RIDE INTO TOWN". THIS WAS A TRAGIC SETBACK FOR THE FAMILY and J.R. WAS NEVER THE SAME AFTER THIS TERRIBLE FINANCIAL REVERSAL. THE MILK COWS, HORSES and MILKWAGON WERE SAVED. JIM and SARAH HAD 13 CHILDREN.

Birth recorded in Western Maryland Catholics, Koch and Davidson, page 84.

Other information in the record of James R. Mckenzie
from Ohio, County Death Records
Name:James R. Mckenzie
Event Type:Death
Event Date:01 Aug 1905
Event Place:Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States
Address:Fairview Ave.
Gender:Male
Age:81
Marital Status:Widowed
Race (Original):white
Occupation:farmer
Birth Year (Estimated):1824
Birthplace:Maryland
Burial Date:04 Aug 1905
Cemetery:Mt. Calvary
Father's Name:Gabriel Mckenzie
Father's Birthplace:Maryland
Mother's Name:Rachel Blivebaugh
Mother's Birthplace:Maryland
Reference ID: 1905 v 4 fn 285 , GS Film Number: 2032442 , Digital Folder Number: 004258054 , Image Number: 1750
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"Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F6VT-KXN : accessed 15 April 2015), Gabriel Mckenzie in entry for James R. Mckenzie, 01 Aug 1905; citing Death, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, source ID 1905 v 4 fn 285, County courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 2,032,442.

James married Sarah Ellen McKenzie on 3 Nov 1846 in Ross County, Ohio. Sarah (daughter of Caleb Sr. McKenzie and Margaret Magers) was born on 8 Oct 1831 in Knox County, Ohio; died on 24 Jul 1899 in Galena, Delaware County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"THE HISTORY OF THE GABRIEL McKENZIE AND RACHEL BLUBAUGH FAMILY OF MARYLAND AND OHIO" by Father Homer Blubaugh:

James married Sarah Ellen McKenzie on Nov.3,1846, in Ross Co. Sarah's parents were Caleb and Margaret(Magers/Majors) McKenzie. Born October 8, 1831, on March11, 1833, She was baptized in Knox Co., Ohio, probably at Saint Luke, Danville, where her father is listed on March 26,1831.

Sarah was an invalid for two years before her death of "paralysis on July24, 1899.She lived in Marion Township,
Delaware County. Her funeral was at Saint Peter's, Columbus."

The Ward Family Bible provided full names and birthdates of the McKenzie offspring: Joseph, Thomas, Francis, John, Agnes Welsh, James, Margaret Ward, Edward, Sarah (Sister Mary Alonso CSC), Samuel, Ignatius, Caleb and Mary Stecher.