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- See notes for his wife, Nancy A. In addition to owning the Robert McKay, Jr. home, Robert S. Lived in a "fine stone house" which once stood on the west side of the highway a short distance north of Cedarville. Through his three marriages he too had 11 children. The house in which he lived had begun as a one-room structure and had been enlarged twice by additions to the front, or east side. It was built entirely of stone except for a clapboard addition which raised the stone kitchen to a two-story height. It became known in the community as the Bierer family home. It caught fire and burned in 1928. -- Rebecca H. Good. The McKays...In Warren....
Robert's will is on file in Front Royal and was probated October 20, 1862. He had three sons by his first wife, but they did not marry. There were 9 children by his second marriage, of whom 6 married and had children. There were no children from his third marriage; however, Mrs Wells had six children by her first husband, one of these being Max Wells, the father of Antonia and Hallie [?] Wells. The latter married Col. Joseph E. Willard, one-time Lt. Gov. of Virginia and Ambassador to Spain during Wilson's Administration, and whose daughter, in turn, married Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt.
Robert S's parents and siblings were members of the pioneer movement to Ohio, and he alone remained at Cedarville, Va. in the McKay homestead.
"Robert S. McKay was one of the most prosperous farmers of the county. His estate being valued at $60,000 in 1860 and was held in high esteem for his integrity and industry. His son's forces and those of Gen Banks during the retreat of the latter from Front Royal to Winchester between the 23rd and 25th of May 1863, and during this engagement at Cedarville, this home as well as that of Thomas B. McKay, a short distance up the pike was used as a first aid station for wounded soldiers.
"Robert S. was buried in the private family burying plot, that was formerly located across the Pike and almost directly opposite the house, but when this burial plot was abandoned, he was reinterred in the McKay lot at Nineveh. However, as far as Hubert McKay and myself [?] could determine when examining the graves in the latter place some years ago, there is no marker at his grave....
"In the will of Robert S. MacKay, he mentions his former and second wife, as Nancy A, and his them present wife as Jane R., to whom he gave among other possessions all the slaves she possessed at the time of their marriage and what she had since inherited. Children: William F (Henry Clay and Robert P being dead at time of will; by second wife-- Ann Elizabeth, James E., Jesse C., Kathleen, Jacob F. and Robert. Benj. F. Hicks was a son-in-law [but who was his wife?] Witnesses: W. W. Eastham and Tho. B. McKay.
"W.W. Eastham and Thomas B. McKay qualified at the proving of the will, but Jesse C. Was absent. Probated Oct 20, 1862." -- Preliminary Draft of McKay Genealogy... pp. 636-637.
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Taylor Family Genealogy
1795 - 1862 (66 years)
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