Shelby County, KY - Bios:  McKee, Joshua
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Joshua McKEE 3927, Shelby Co. 

Surname: McKee, Ashbrook, Buckner, Anderson, Vandyke, Coats, Groves, Gibson

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Shelby Co.

JOSHUA McKEE, farmer, was born in Clark County, Ky., August 2, 1829, a son of Joshua 
and Rebecca (Ashbrook) McKee. His father was born in Virginia, a son of Joseph McKee. 
His mother was born in Kentucky, a daughter of Levi Ashbrook. Our subject was taken to 
Shelby County when he was four years old. He received his education at the common schools 
and has engaged in farming. June 3, 1884, he married Lula Anderson of Shelby County, 
daughter of Arch and Carrie (Buckner) Anderson. Mrs. McKee had three brothers and two 
sisters, Robert B., who married Laura Vandyke and had three children: Love, Claude and 
Willie; William H., a lawyer in Taylorsville, Ky., married Jennie Coats of Owensboro and 
had one child, Arch; Alice B., who married B. B. Groves and had one child, Roy B.; 
Merriwether L., who married Annie Gibson and had two children, Alice and Eddie; Archie, 
who was born in Louisville, Ky., and still single. To Mr. and Mrs. McKee on child, 
Charlie M., has been born. Mr. McKee owns 102 acres of land.