Thomas County GaArchives Biographies.....McKinnon, Philip T. 1851 - living in 1913
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   PHILIP T. McKINNON. Reared to the free and independent occupation of an
agriculturist, Philip T. McKinnon has found his early training and experience of
much value to him in his chosen work, which he is carrying on with unquestioned
success, his farm, pleasantly located in the Grooverville district, being
largely under cultivation, with improvements of a good, practical, and
substantial character. He was born, October 19, 1851, in Thomas county, Georgia,
a son of Angus B. McKinnon.

   His grandfather, Peter McKinnon, a Scotchman by birth, was but an infant when
left motherless, and very soon after he was brought to America by his father,
who settled in North Carolina, where he again married, and reared a family.
Brought up in his new home, Peter McKinnon began his active career as a North
Carolina farmer, operating his land with slave labor. Late in life he migrated
to South Georgia, bringing with him his family, live stock, and slaves, and
locating in Thomas county, where he spent the remainder of his days.

   One of a family of seven children, three sons and four daughters, Angus B.
McKinnon was born in Rockingham county, North Carolina, where he acquired a good
education for his times. Adopting a profession, he taught school as a young man
in southwest Georgia for a few terms, and was so impressed with the future
possibilities of this section of the country that he went back to his old home
and induced his father and the family to return with him to this state. He
bought land in Thomas county, which was then on the frontier, wild beasts and
game of kinds abounding in the dense forests, which the Indians still claimed as
their hunting grounds. Energetic and enterprising, he bought several different
tracts of land in Thomas county, each of which, after he had partly improved it,
and had erected a fair set of buildings, he sold at an advance. At the outbreak
of the war between the states, he was too old for military duty, but during the
last year of the conflict he joined the Georgia Reserves, a corps made up of
boys and old men, and went to the relief of Atlanta. For a number of years after
coming to Georgia to live, he taught school a part of each year, devoting the
remainder of time to the care of his land. Disposing of his Thomas county land
in 1866, he moved to Brooks county, where his death occurred when but sixty-five
years of age.

   Angus B. McKinnon was twice married. He married first Nancy McMullen, who
died in early life, leaving him with two children, William and Patrick, both of
whom served in the Confederate army, Patrick losing his life while in service.
He married for his second wife Lucina Deakle, who was born in Emanuel county,
Georgia, a daughter of Thomas and Wealthy (Cannon) Deakle, pioneers of Thomas
county, where they settled when she was a child of four years. At her death she
left several children, namely: Thomas P., Wealthy Ann, Duncan B., Philip T.,
Leon, Daniel J., and Henry Clay.

   As a boy and youth Philip T. McKinnon attended the district schools, and on
the family homestead acquired an excellent knowledge of the art of farming.
Taking unto himself a wife, he left home, and bought land in Dixie district, and
for four years was busily employed in improving his property. Selling out then,
he bought another tract in the same district, where he lived another four years.
Coming then to the Grooverville district, Mr. McKinnon purchased the farm which
he now owns and occupies, and has since devoted his time and attention to
general farming and stock-raising, pleasant and profitable branches of
agriculture. His farm contains two hundred and eighty-six acres of land, on
which he has made improvements of note, including a comfortable and conveniently
arranged set of buildings, which are well located on high ground.

   Mr. McKinnon married, October 6, 1875, Julia D. Beasley, who was born in
Thomas county, Georgia, a daughter of James and Sarah A. (Ramsey) Beasley, and
sister of David A. Beasley, in whose sketch, which appears elsewhere in this
volume, further parental and ancestral history may be found. Into the home of
Mr. and Mrs. McKinnon five children have made their advent, namely: James A.,
Ellis L., Sally E., Annie L., and Ida May. James married Rosa Groover, and they
have three children, Esther, Ruth, and Ander. Ellis L. married Lois Rountree.
Sally, wife of Felix Jarrett, has two children, Farris L. and Edna. Annie is the
wife of Frank Groover. Politically Mr. McKinnon is an adherent of the Democratic
party, and religiously both he and his wife belong to the Missionary Baptist
Church.



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From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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