Garrard-Boyle County KyArchives Biographies.....McKee, Samuel  November 10 1832 - December 31 1862
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Author: Centre College Alumni
Garrarad Co, 1853 graduate. Samuel McKee. Son of James and Mary (Cleland)
McKee, the former a native of Rockbridge county, VA, and the latter of
Garrard county, KY. Born November 10, 1832, in Garrard county, KY. Prepared
for college at Danville, and went from the preparatory department to
college in 1849. In 1859 he commenced the practice of the law (having
studied at the Louisville Law School), and lived at Keokuk, Iowa, and
Memphis, MO. At the beginning of the war he espoused the Federal side and
entered the Third Kentucky Infantry as Captain, and took part in the battle
of Shiloh. During the campaign in Kentucky, in 1862, he was present at the
fight of Munfordsville as Lieutenant-Colonel of his regiment. Leading his
command as Colonel at the battle of Stone River, he was killed December 31,
1862. Colonel McKee married September 30, 1862, Sarah F. Campbell, of
Chent, KY, now living in Danville, KY.


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