Anderson County, KY - Bios:  McKee, Thomas L.
Posted by Sandi Gorin on Tue, 06 Apr 1999

Thomas L. McKEE 3016, Anderson Co. 

Surname: McKee, Wilson, Wash, Mundy, Cole, Ellison

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Anderson Co.

THOMAS L. McKEE. Mrs. Phoebe McKee, widow of a Revolutionary soldier, emigrated from Virginia 
in 1808, settled in Anderson County, then Franklin, located on Salt River, about three miles 
west of Lawrenceburg, and engaged in farming. She had two sons; John and Henry, and three 
daughters, one of whom married Larry Wilson, of Woodford County. Henry, the father of Thomas 
L. McKee, was born in Virginia in 1791, and married Pemelia Wash, of Anderson County. He was 
a soldier in the war of 1812, and served under Capt. Ellison, of Anderson County. He died in 
1852; his widow died in 1879. They had twelve children: Benjamin (deceased), John A., Allen S., 
William, James C. (deceased), Martha (Mrs. Thomas Wilson), Henry, Thomas L., Virgil (deceased), 
Walker (deceased), Miles and Robert. Thomas L. McKee was born October 23, 1829, reared in 
Anderson County, and received his education in the common schools. At twenty-one he engaged in 
dealing horses and mules, with his headquarters at Clifton, La., continuing in that business 
until 1882, and was also engaged in Anderson County in general farming on 1,000 acres and in 
raising all kinds of stock for the Southern business. Mr. McKee's farm was located at that time 
on Salt River, about one mile from his present home, to which he removed in 1882, where he 
permanently settled in Anderson County about two miles and a half from Lawrenceburg, and where 
he is engaged in general farming on 800 acres. He married, in May, 1886, Mrs. Lou (Mundy) Cole, 
daughter of Squire William Mundy, of Anderson County.