Virgil Desalles Sr. McKenzie

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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

Virgil married Mary Elizabeth Flynn on 31 Dec 1946 in Cumberland, Allegany Co., Maryland. Mary (daughter of Daniel J. Flynn and Elizabeth E. Adams) was born on 1 Jan 1926 in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland; died on 21 Apr 2004 in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ira married Clarissa Marie Footen in Private. Clarissa (daughter of Joseph A. Footen and Clarissa I. Meese) was born on 27 Aug 1945 in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland; died on 24 Jul 2010 in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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VIRGIL D. "BUDDY" MCKENZIE JR.
SPRINGFIELD, W.Va. - Virgil DeSalles "Buddy" McKenzie Jr., 49, of Springfield, died Thursday, Jan. 8, 1998, at his residence.

Born Dec. 1, 1948, in Cumberland, he was the son of Virgil DeSalles McKenzie Sr. and Mary E. (Flynn) McKenzie, of Cumberland, Md.

Mr. McKenzie was in the U.S. Army for three years, where he held the rank of sergeant. He served two tours of duty in Vietnam and was the recipient of two Purple Hearts, a Combat Infantry Badge, a Rifle Expert Medal for Marksmanship, an Army Commendation Medal, and a Good Conduct Medal. He loved fishing and hunting.

Surviving in addition to his parents are his wife, Sheila (Oster) McKenzie; four daughters, Tammy McKenzie and Pamela McKenzie, both of Romney, Alyssa McKenzie and Kayla Marie McKenzie, both at home; two sons, Jeremiah McKenzie and Shawn McKenzie, both at home; one sister, Mary T. (McKenzie) Rogers, Winchester, Va.; and six brothers, Ira McKenzie, Patrick McKenzie, John McKenzie, Brian McKenzie, Kevin McKenzie and Mark McKenzie, all of Cumberland.

Friends will be received at the Scarpelli Funeral Home, P.A., 108 Virginia Ave., Cumberland, on Monday from noon to 1 p.m.

Services will be conducted at the funeral home on Monday at 1 p.m. with the Rev. Jerry A. Eisenhour officiating. Interment will be in the Springfield Hill Cemetery.

Military honors will be accorded by the Vietnam Veterans Honor Guard.

Virgil married Sheila Oster in Private. Sheila (daughter of Linford Ray Oester) was born in Private. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children: 11. Tammy McKenzie   was born in Private. 12. Kayla Marie McKenzie   was born in Private. 13. Pamela McKenzie   was born in Private. 14. Jeremiah McKenzie   was born in Private. 15. Alyssa May McKenzie   was born in Private. 16. Shawn McKenzie   was born in Private.

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Requiem mass for Michael F. McKenzie, 16, of Miltenberger Road, Ridgeley, who drowned Thursday in a farm pond at Seymour Bottom, will be celebrated Monday at 9 a. m. at SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Authorities said Michael was in the pond with a neighborhood friend, 12-year-old Michael Smith. The McKenzie boy, who had been floating on a rubber raft, was standing near the bank of the pond, detaching a pillow-like device from the raft, when a breeze caused the raft to float toward deeper water. It was reported the youth tried to retrieve it and stepped into deep water and drowned. The Smith youth made an attempt to save him, but was unsuccessful. Time of the drowning was near 6:30 p. m. and rescue units from Ridgeley Volunteer Fire Department, Cumberland Fire Department and the Cumberland Auxiliary Police recovered the body approximately an hour later. The farm pond, on the property of M. E. Heiskell, is described as being oblong and about 100 feet in length and half as wide. The body was found near the middle of the pond. West Virginia State Police from the Keyser detachment, Cpl. J. R. Potts and Trooper R. L. Johnson, said the McKenzie youth's brothers, Patrick and John, and sister, Mary, were playing near the pond when the drowning occurred. A coroner's jury of six men reported to Justice of the Peace Rozelle Presnell, acting coroner, at an inquest in Ridgeley, Thursday night, that the McKenzie youth died of "accidental drowning." The jury consisted of Donald Walters, foreman, and Donald Jewell, Randolph Lantz Jr., William Schoonover, James E. Weakley and Ronald McFadden. The body is at the George Funeral Home where friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p. m. The rosary will be recited there tomorrow at 8 p. m. Pallbearers will be James Van Meter, William Van Meter, Edward Fisher, Daniel McKenzie, Larry McKenzie and Larry Messick. The Cumberland News, June 10, 1967 [Michael was the son of Virgil DeSalles and Mary Elizabeth (Flynn) McKenzie].

Is buried in the St. Pater & Paul Catholic Cemetery, Cumberland, Maryland.

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Cumberland,Maryland --- Patrick Joseph McKenzie, 53, of Queen City Towers, died Saturday, Jan. 8, 2005, at Sacred Heart Hospital.

Born Oct. 21, 1951, in Cumberland, he was the son of Virgil DeSalles McKenzie Sr., Cumberland and the late Mary E. (Flynn) McKenzie. He was also preceded in death by two brothers, Virgil D. "Buddy" McKenzie Jr. and Michael McKenzie.

Patrick grew up at the Cumberland Fairgrounds. He graduated from SS. Peter and Paul Catholic School and was a former employee of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, where he worked in the shipping department. Patrick loved to hunt and fish and dearly loved his dog "Laddy".

In addition to his father, surviving are one sister, Mary T. Shade, Martinsburg, W.Va.; five brothers, Ira McKenzie, John McKenzie, Brian McKenzie, Kevin McKenzie and Mark McKenzie, all of Cumberland; and several nieces and nephews.

Friends will be received at the Scarpelli Funeral Home, P.A., 108 Virginia Ave., Cumberland, on Monday from 7 to 9 p.m.

A Christian Wake will be held at the funeral home on Monday at 8:30 p.m.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at SS. Peter Paul Catholic Church on Tuesday at 10 a.m. with Father James Kurtz, O.F.M., Cap., as celebrant.

Interment will be in SS Peter and Paul Cemetery.

Condolences may be sent to the family at http://www.scarpellifh.com.

Burial:
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery
Cumberland
Allegany County
Maryland

Created by: Joe Mckenzie
Record added: Dec 26, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 32405717

Cumberland - Patrick Joseph McKenzie, 53, of Queen City Towers, died Saturday, Jan. 8, 2005, at Sacred Heart Hospital. Born Oct. 21, 1951, in Cumberland, he was the son of Virgil DeSalles McKenzie Sr., Cumberland, and the late Mary E. (Flynn) McKenzie. He was also preceded in death by two brothers, Virgil D. "Buddy" McKenzie Jr. and Michael McKenzie. Patrick grew up at the Cumberland Fairgrounds. He graduated from SS. Peter and Paul Catholic School and was a former employee of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Company, where he worked in the shipping department. Patrick loved to hunt and fish and dearly loved his dog "Laddy". In addition to his father, surviving are one sister, Mary T. Shade, Martinsburg, W.Va.; five brothers, Ira McKenzie, John McKenzie, Brian McKenzie, Kevin McKenzie and Mark McKenzie, all of Cumberland; and several nieces and nephews. Friends will be received at the Scarpelli Funeral Home, P.A., 108 Virginia Ave., Cumberland, on Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. A Christian Wake will be held at the funeral home on Monday at 8:30 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at SS. Peter Paul Catholic Church on Tuesday at 10 a.m. with Father James Kurtz, O.F.M., Cap., as celebrant. Interment will be in SS Peter and Paul Cemetery. Cumberland Times-News, January 11, 2005.

Mary married Something Shade in Private. Something was born in Private. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Lynford Ray Oster in Private. Lynford was born in Private. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Wanda Lee Kirk in Private. Wanda (daughter of Edgar K. Kirk and Anna M. Wolfe) was born in Private. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alyssa married Daniel Wilson in Private. Daniel was born in Private. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Something Ramsey in Private. Something was born in Private. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

April married Something Rich in Private. Something was born in Private. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Carol Ruth MCKENZIE was born on 27 Mar 1985 in Cumberland, Allegany Co., Maryland. She died on 27 May 2011 in Caldwell, Greenbrier Co., West Virginia.

RONCEVERTE, W.Va. - Carol Ruth McKenzie, 26, of Ronceverte, formerly of Keyser, W.Va., died Friday, May 27, 2011, in Caldwell, W.Va. Born March 27, 1985 in Cumberland, she was the daughter of Wanda Kirk, Keyser, and John F. McKenzie, Cumberland. She was a graduate of Keyser High School and had earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from Davis & Elkins College. Currently, Carol was pursuing a Master's Degree from Ashford University. While in college, Carol was a member of the Women's Cross Country team. She also enjoyed painting and drawing. Carol was employed at The Greenbrier Academy for Girls. In addition to her parents, she is survived by four siblings, Kirk M. McKenzie, French Creek, W.Va., Elizabeth A. Ramsey, Lincolnton, N.C., April M. Rich, Elkins, W.Va., and William C. Paul, USN, Gulfport, Miss.; and her maternal grandmother, Anna M. Kirk, Wiley Ford, W.Va. Carol was preceded in death by a sister, Pauline W. McKenzie; her maternal grandfather, Edgar K. Kirk Jr.; and her paternal grandparents, Virgil and Mary McKenzie. Friends will be received at the Upchurch Funeral Home, Inc., Route 28, Fort Ashby, (1-888-724-2251) on Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. and Friday from 11 a.m. until noon. The funeral service will follow at noon in the funeral home with Fr. Benedict Kapa officiating. Interment will be in SS. Peter & Paul Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Davis & Elkins College, Men's and Women's Cross Country teams, 100 Campus Drive, Elkins, WV 26241. Condolences to the family may be posted after Carol's obituary at www.upchurchfh. com . Cumberland Times-News, June 1, 2011

She was buried on 2 Jun 2011 in SS Peter and Paul Cemetery, Cumberland, Allegany Co., Maryland.