Betty Victoria Cutter b. 8 Aug 1929 Midlothian, Allegany County, Maryland d. 1 Nov 2003 Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland: The McKenzies of Early Maryland

1929 - 2003 (74 years)

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Name	Betty Victoria Cutter
Birth	8 Aug 1929	Midlothian, Allegany County, Maryland
Gender	Female
Death	1 Nov 2003	Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland
Notes	Betty CUTTER (daughter of George P. CUTTER Sr. and Rhoda V. MCKENZIE) was born on 8 Aug 1929 in Midlothian, Allegany Co., Maryland. She died on 1 Nov 2003 in Frostburg, Allegany Co., Maryland. She was buried on 3 Nov 2003 in Rest Lawn Memorial Gardens, LaVale, Allegany Co., Maryland. She died on 1 Nov 2003 at the age of 74 in Frostburg, Allegany Co., Maryland. FROSTBURG - Betty V. Raley, 74, of New Hope Road, Frostburg, died Saturday, November 1, 2003 at her home. Born August 8, 1929 in Midlothian, she was the daughter of the late George P. And Rhoda (McKenzie) Cutter. She was preceded in death by her husband, Albert Raley, Sr. Mrs. Raley was a member of the Frostburg Seventh Day Adventist Church. Surviving are four sons: John Cutter and wife, Kathy, Frostburg; Albert Raley and wife, Darlene, Cumberland; Donald Raley and wife Michelle, Frostburg; and Mark Raley and wife, Michelle, Ft. Ashby, WV; two daughters: Betty McKenzie and husband, Raymond, Oldtown, and Ann Gomer and husband, Roger, Frostburg; 21 grandchildren; and 12 great grandchildren; and one brother, Robert Cutter and wife, Bessie, Klondike. Friends will be received at the Sowers Funeral Home, P.A., 60 W. Main St., Frostburg on Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p. m. Services will be conducted at the funeral home on Monday at 11:00 a. m. with Pastor Harold Wightman officiating, assisted by Mrs. Raley's uncle, Leonard Cutter, Sr. Interment will be in Rest Lawn Memorial Gardens. Courtesy of Sowers Funeral Home, Frostburg, Maryland The following was provided to the author by Sheryl Kelso in March 2018. No research has been done to confirm the accuracy. Frostburg soldiers met Indian brides Together, they carved out a farm BETTY (CUTTER) SANTOS Frostburg My mother told me once that I have 25 percent Indian blood in me. My mother’s maiden name was Rhoda Victoria McKenzie. She married my father, George Cutter of Midlothian. My two great-grandmothers were Indians from the Pamunkey Reservation between the James and Pamunkey rivers in Virginia. They were descendants of the Powhatan Tribe, whose chief was the father of Pocahontas, 10 generations away. My two great-grandfathers were Jacob Minick, a German, and Jacob Patrick McKenzie, a Scot, both from the Frostburg area. The were timbermen, working in the forest around Avilton and Finzel in the 1850s. When the Civil War broke out, my two great-grandfathers joined the Union Army and fought in Virginia. They participated in the capture of Richmond in 1865. When the war ended they visited the Pamunkey Reservation on their time off and saw that the Indians, who remained neutral during the fighting, had suffered a great deal and were fed and clothed by the Northern soldiers. There, the two Frostburg area troopers met their future brides. Their names were Anna Rainer, an Indian princess, and Fannie Ann Christner, a squaw. Both couples moved to the Frostburg area in 1866, coming here by rail from Richmond on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, and to Washington to Baltimore to Cumberland on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. In Cumberland they bought two covered wagons, two teams of horses and supplies and headed for Avilton, then known as McKenzie’s Settlement. The two men each received 50 acres of land for their Army service. They carved out a farm by cutting down trees and building a log cabin. Both couples were married March 12, 1866, at St. Michael’s Church in Frostburg by Pastor William O’Connor. Jacob Minick and Anna (Rainer) Minick had 16 children, while Jacob Patrick McKenzie and Fannie Ann (Christner) McKenzie had 12 children. Both Jacob Minick and Jacob McKenzie helped build St. Ann Catholic church in Avilton in 1874. They and their wives are buried at the St. Ann Cemetery. One of the Minick children, Mary Ellen Minick, a half-breed, and one of the McKenzie children, John William, were both born the same year, 1886, in McKenzie’s Settlement. They grew up together and eventually married at the same church in Frostburg in 1905. They had nine children, one of whom, Rhoda Victoria McKenzie, later became my mother. At the age of 18, she married George Cutter of Midlothian. They had three children, of which I was one. I married Albert L. Raley Sr. and had five children. When Albert died, I married Tony Santos Sr., my next-door friend. Published in the Cumberland Times-News on March 31, 1998
Person ID	I07451	McKenzie Genealogy
Last Modified	29 Oct 2021

Father	George Princeton Sr. Cutter, b. Abt 1903, Carlos, Allegany County, Maryland d. 21 Apr 1986, Midlothian, Allegany County, Maryland (Age ~ 83 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Rhoda Victoria McKenzie, b. 27 Apr 1907, Consul, Allegany County, Maryland d. 27 Nov 1980, Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland (Age 73 years)
Relationship	natural
Marriage	11 Jul 1925	Allegany County, Maryland
Family ID	F04044	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1	Tony Santos, b. Private
Marriage	Private
Family ID	F04043	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	29 Oct 2021

Family 2 Albert Lee Sr. Raley, b. 23 Sep 1925, Finzel, Garrett County, Maryland d. 13 Mar 1987, Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland (Age 61 years)

Marriage 4 Aug 1951

Children

	1. John Raley, b. Private [Father: private] [Mother: private]
	2. Betty Elaine Raley, b. Private [Father: private] [Mother: private]
	3. Albert Lee Jr. Raley, b. Private [Father: private] [Mother: private]
	4. Donald Paul Raley, b. Private [Father: private] [Mother: private]
	5. Elizabeth Ann Raley, b. Private [Father: private] [Mother: private]
	6. Mark Samuel Raley, b. Private [Father: private] [Mother: private]

Family ID F01496 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 29 Oct 2021