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Facts and Events
Dallas Morning News (16 Mar 1907), p. 13:
DEATH OF A PIONEER.
Rev. Y. S. McKinney Dies at Van Alstyne, Aged Eighty-Seven. - Van Alstyne, Tex., March 15. - Rev. Y. S. McKinney died here this afternoon. Uncle Scott, as he was familiarly called by the people, was in his eighty-eighth year, and had lived here for many years. Born in Kentucky in 1820, he came to Texas with his parents when he was five years old. They settled in what is now Bowie County. His father was Collin McKinney, one of the signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence and for whom Collin County and its capital were named. Uncle Scott enlisted in the war for Texas independence, but did not engage in any battle. He came to what is now Collin County in 1849 and later removed to Grayson County, where he has since resided. In his younger days he was a surveyor and did much of the surveying for this section of the State, and even up to his death he evinced a great interest in these old surveys. There are few men that played a more important part in the building up of a country than has this pioneer in the building up of this section of the State. For many miles his name has been for a generation a household word. He has been a licensed preacher in the Methodist Church, South, for nearly sixty years, filling several posts as a supply[?], but never as a member of the conference. His friends of long ago never tired of telling of his power as a preacher of the gospel, and the uniformly godly life which he lived has been a source of pleasure to his friends and acquaintances and a comfort to his family. Many of the leading ministers of that church throughout North Texas are familiar with the services he has rendered the church and State in the line of work. He became a Mason in Bonham fifty-seven years ago and was the last charter member of Mantua Lodge No. 209 of Van Alstyne.
References
- ↑ Clark, Pat B. The History of Clarksville and Old Red River County. (Dallas: Mathis, Van Nort & Co., 1937)
p. 221. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Grave marker, Van Alstyne Cemetery, Van Alstyne, Grayson, Texas, United States.
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