Bio: Squire James M. McKinzie, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Squire James M. McKinzie.  From this brief and incomplete view of the life 
record of Mr. McKinzie, it will be seen that his life from earliest youth 
up has not been uselessly of idly spent.  He has always been familiar with 
the details of planting, and as he has made this his life occupation, he 
has accumulated a fair share of this world's goods.  He was born in Limestone 
County, Ala., in 1825, being on of the following family of children: David, 
Andrew, Lacy, Nicholas A., John T., James M., Sarah, Levina and Mary E.  Their 
father, Alexander S. McKinzie, was a Kentuckian, born about 1799, to David 
McKinzie.  James M. McKinzie received a common-school education in Tennessee, 
where his parents had moved when he was an infant, and here he attained man's 
estate and was married in 1846, to Miss Isabella M. McCann, a daughter of 
Thomas McCann.  To them a family of ten children has been born, eight of whom 
grew to maturity: Alexander B., Mary E. (wife of S. S. Taylor), Sarah m. (wife 
of James A. Awbrey), Thomas D., Martha J. (wife of C. J. Kinder), Anna G. (wife 
of J A. Lowe), Leona J. and George R.  An infant and James A. Are deceased.  
Mr. McKinzie came to Claiborne Parish, La., in 1850, and has since devoted his 
attention to agriculture, being now the owner of a good plantation of about 500 
acres.  He is a Democrat, politically, has held the office of justice of the peace 
for about fourteen years, and for the past six years has been a member of the police 
jury.  Socially he has been a member of the A. F. & A. M since 1858.  He is an active 
member of the Christian Church, and since 1855 has been an elder in the same.  
Among his acquaintances and friends the respect shown him is in full keeping with 
his well established reputation of hospitality and sincere cordiality.  To know him 
is to have a high admiration for him, for he is possessed of those sterling 
characteristics which make a true man, and in his intercourse with those around him 
he has won a host of warm friends.

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