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- Y.O.B. Abt. 1782 in IGI; 1779 according to Myra Compton Allnutt
Myra Compton Allnutt Records
"Margaret McKay (Aunt Peggy) was the second daughter of Jeremiah McKay, Sr., and his wife, Lydia Watson [Whitson]. She never married.
"The latter years of her life were spent in the home of her niece, Mrs. Julia Ann Gatewood McKay-Stinson at 'Walnut Hill,' Warren Co. Va., and she died in June 1882, at the ripe old age of 103 years.
"She used often to talk about her Uncle Abram McKay who came up from Tennessee to visit them all. He gave her a large brass shawl pin--the first one she had ever seen, which she in turn gave to my father, W.A. Compton.
"I, Myra Compton Alnutt, who lived in the same house with 'Aunt Peggy' from my birth, 1869 till her death in 1882, well remember hearing her tell of the Indians around them, and of the kindly feeling the Indians always showed toward her people.
"She spoke of their passing her home on their trips Spring and Fall toward and back from their winter camps in the South, always stopping by and trading venison, etc., for food they had in their home.
"She said when the squaws grew too old or helpless to make these trips, they were always abandoned.
"One cold morning, after the members of a tribe had passed by the night before, on their way southward, Aunt Peggy's father found a poor old sick squaw huddled in their chimney corner, nearly frozen. She was taken into their home, doctored and taken care of by the family. In the Spring when the tribe returned from winter quarters, they stopped as usual. On finding the old squaw still living and hale and hearty, they took her on with them, showing the greatest evidence of good will toward the family.
"I have in my possession, as gifts to me from Aunt Peggy, the large toddy glass used by her father, Col. Jeremiah McKay, at the sessions of Court held in his home -- also a pewter tablespoon and two ten [tin? or tea?] spoons used on their table, also a cream pitcher.
She also gave me a blue and white quilt and a blue and white woolen counterpane, both made in her girlhood days. Laura Allnutt Darby now owns the blue and white quilt, and Natalie Allnutt Gouldin has the coverlet or counterpane.
"From another forgotten source: 'Aunt Peggy, daugh. of Col. Jeremiah McKay, often spoke of Rev. James Ireland living near them, and of having visited at his home on the McKay land, and hearing him preach. Mr Ireland moved there about 1782 and lived there until about 1790 when he moved back to Frederick County, near Opequon.'"
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Taylor Family Genealogy
1787 - 1882 (95 years)
, d. Abt 1827, Shenandoah Co., Va