 1922 - 2006 (84 years)
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| Name |
Virgil Desalles Sr. McKenzie |
| Birth |
19 Jan 1922 |
Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
19 Sep 2006 |
Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland |
| Notes |
- Virgil D. McKenzie Sr. (Cumberland)
September 20, 2006 09:46 am
CUMBERLAND - Virgil DeSalles McKenzie Sr., 84, of Cumberland, died Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006, at his home.
Born Jan. 19, 1922, in Cumberland, he was the son of the late Galltzian L. and Helen Marie (Goldsworthy) McKenzie. He also was preceded in death by his wife, Mary E. (Flynn) McKenzie; three sons Virgil D. McKenzie Jr., Michael F. McKenzie and Patrick J. McKenzie; and two brothers.
Mr. McKenzie was retired from the Kelly Springfield Tire Co. After leaving high school and serving with the U.S. Army during World War II, Virgil was awarded his honorary high school diploma from Allegany High School on Nov. 11, 1999. He was a member of SS. Peter & Paul Catholic Church; American Legion, Fort Cumberland Post 13; Catholic War Veterans, Victor Trambillo Post 1712; Henry Hart Post 1411; and Secular Order of St. Francis. Surviving are one daughter, Mary Shade, Cumberland; five sons, Ira V. McKenzie, John F. McKenzie, Brian C. McKenzie, Kevin J. McKenzie and Mark L. McKenzie, all of Cumberland; one brother, George V. McKenzie, Cumberland; 14 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Friends will be received at Scarpelli Funeral Home, P.A., 108 Virginia Ave., Cumberland, (scarpellifh.com) Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m. The Rosary will be recited Thursday at 4:15 p.m. at the funeral home. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at SS. Peter & Paul Catholic Church Friday at 10 a.m. with Father James Kurtz, OFM, Cap., as celebrant. Interment will be in SS. Peter & Paul Cemetery.
Graveside military honors will be accorded by the Combined Veterans Honor Guard.
Virgil wrote a 110 page book on the History of the McKenzies. Michael A. McKenzie intends to post it on the McKenzies of Early Maryland web site so that everyone will have an opportunity to review it.
On August 22, 2013, Frank McKenzie sent the following email to Michael A. McKenzie:
Attached is a list of the old forts with Fort McKenzie that Virgil talks about in his book (page 6).
NAMES, LOCATIONS, & DATE OF ESTABLISHMENT OF FORTS IN WEST VIRGINIA
From: MYERS' HISTORY OF WEST VIRGINIA, Volume 1, Chapter XII, pages
159-181. Compiled by S. Myers, 1915. Published by The Wheeling
News Lithograph Company
MAMc cut and pasted the information pertaining to Fort McKenzie:
-FORT MCKENZIE-
This fort was located on the South Branch of the Potomac. Exact location not known. Probably erected by Captain Robert McKenzie some time prior to the year 1757.
From Sheryl Kelso: July, 2014: CUMBERLAND (AP) — Virgil McKenzie digs the past. The Cresaptown native has spent the past 30 years unearthing remnants of the region's Native American civilization and of settlers who were heading west. With help from family members. Mr. McKenzie began exhuming arrowheads, tools and other Indian artifacts hidden beneath the earth of a Seymour Bottom, W.Va., farm he owned in 1968. Mr. McKenzie said his former home served as an Indian camp through the late 1700s. One of the family's first discoveries there was a bust of an Indian warrior or chief. The facial features are still distinguishable on the reddish clay sculpture, which stands about six inches high. Mr. McKenzie's son, Mark, then only 9, found the bust in a pile of rocks on the property. "I wasn't sure what it was, but I thought it was something valuable," Mark McKenzie said. Over the next four years, Mr. McKenzie found more than 20 arrowheads, several tomahawk heads and tools used to clean animal skins and prepare the pelts used for clothing. His centuries-old discoveries adorn a second-floor room of his Maryland Avenue residence and are detailed in a book he published a few years ago. Three rounded stones sit on his desk. In a prior life, the smooth, egg-size rocks served as ammunition for a leather sling, a common weapon used against other tribes and white settlers. The most bizarre item in his collection is a denture plate chiseled from stone. It follows the curvature of the jawbone and appears to have been worn as a set of dentures. These ersatz teeth gave their wearer a stone edge with which to gnaw food. Mr. McKenzie's collection includes more than American Indian artifacts. Years ago Mr. McKenzie and his wife, Mary, were newlyweds living east of Cumberland. While chopping wood one day McKenzie's ax blade struck a ball from a muzzleloader embedded deep in a tree. He believes the ball to be at least 100 years old. His most recent discovery is what the McKenzies believe may be a button from a British soldier who fought in the Revolutionary War. At first glance he and his son thought they'd found a coin. Mr. McKenzie said the insignia on the button hints it may have decorated the coat of one of King George Ill's men. The Frederick News Post, August 18, 1997
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| Person ID |
I03608 |
McKenzie Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
29 Oct 2021 |
| Father |
Gallitzen Leo McKenzie, b. 4 Jun 1893, Cresaptown, Allegany, Maryland d. 9 Jun 1960, Fairgo, Allegany County, Maryland (Age 67 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Marie Helen Goldsworthy, b. 3 Nov 1900, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland d. 20 Mar 1967, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland (Age 66 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
15 Nov 1920 |
Cresaptown, Allegany County, Maryland |
| Family ID |
F02131 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Mary Elizabeth Flynn, b. 1 Jan 1926, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland d. 21 Apr 2004, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland (Age 78 years) |
| Marriage |
31 Dec 1946 |
Cumberland, Allegany Co., Maryland |
| Children |
| | 1. Ira Vincent McKenzie, b. Private [Father: private] [Mother: private] |
| | 2. Virgil Desalles Jr. McKenzie, b. 1 Dec 1948, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland d. 8 Jan 1998, Springfield, Hampshire County, West Virginia (Age 49 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 3. Michael Frederick McKenzie, b. 20 Oct 1950, Fairgo, Allegany County, Maryland d. 10 Jun 1967, Ridgeley, Mineral County, West Virginia (Age 16 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 4. Patrick Joseph McKenzie, b. 21 Oct 1951, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland d. 8 Jan 2005, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland (Age 53 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 5. Mary Theresa McKenzie, b. Private [Father: private] [Mother: private] |
| | 6. John Frances McKenzie, b. Private [Father: private] [Mother: private] |
| | 7. Brian Christopher McKenzie, b. Private [Father: private] [Mother: private] |
| | 8. Kevin James McKenzie, b. Private [Father: private] [Mother: private] |
| | 9. Mark Leo McKenzie, b. Private [Father: private] [Mother: private] |
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| Family ID |
F00083 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
29 Oct 2021 |
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