OBIT: Edgar A. McKINNEY, 1962, Bellwood, Blair County, PA

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EDGAR A. McKINNEY:
Former National Guard Commander Dies, Was 85

  Edgar A. McKinney, 85, of 414 Main street, who served as commander of 
Sheridan Cavalry Troop, Tyrone, during the Spanish-American War and was 
a former burgess and squire of Bellwood, died at 7:45 a.m. on Saturday, 
in the Veterans Hospital, Altoona, where he had been a patient since 
last August.
  As a soldier, McKinney served in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-
American war and was captain of the Sheridan troop on the Mexican 
border. Later he advanced to major in command of New Castle, Tyrone, 
Bellefonte, and Punxsutawney troops of the Pennsylvania National Guard, 
a post he resigned in 1929.
  He entered the service of the P.R.R. as a foreman's helper in the 
Juniata shops in 1903 and was appointed captain of the police on the 
Bellwood division in 1913.
  He was named lieutenant of the police on the Cresson division upon 
the merger of the Bellwood and Cresson divisions in 1918, when the 
Pittsburgh and Cresson divisions merged, he was named sergeant of 
police.  He retired in 1938 with 34 years of service.  He served as 
justice of the peace from 1938 until 1947, when the family moved to 
Washington, D.C. for a time.  He also served as burgess for a period of 
eight years.
  He was born at Ironsville on Nov. 28, 1877, a son of James and 
Elizabeth (Sawyer) McKinney and was married to Goldie Mae Moore in 
1904, at Lewistown.
  Surviving are his wife, one son, Warren, of Parkersburg, a daughter, 
Mrs. Mabel Allen of Silver Springs, Md., and three grand children.  He 
was the last of his family.
  He was a member of the Methodist Church and was affiliated with the 
Masons and the V.F.W.
  Funeral services will be held on Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Johnson 
Mortuary by the Rev. Ardell G. Gould.  Interment in Logan Valley 
Cemetery.  Friends are being received at the Johnson Mortuary.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., May 28, 1962