McKee Family Papers
Scope and Contents
Recollections, letters, photographs, and other papers generated by the family of Taylor McKee, who grew up southeast of Atlanta in what is now DeKalb County, Georgia, before and during the Civil War. His older brothers, Samuel Payne, William Martin, and Madison Church McKee, served in the 18th and 22nd Georgia Regiments of the Confederacy.
Dates
- Majority of material found in 1847 - 1923 and no date
Creator
- McKee, John Zachary Taylor (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Taylor McKee was the son of Mary Ann Wilson and Martin Capel McKee who married in 1835 and reared ten children on their farm. Taylor married Cornelia Ozmer in 1880 and continued to live in DeKalb County, Georgia.
Extent
.25 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Existence and Location of Originals
The McKee letters, 1859-1880, Second edition: correspondence of a Georgia farm family during the Civil War and reconstruction / edited by Hugh McKee. Milledgeville, GA: Boyd Publishing Company, 2001.
- Title
- McKee Family Papers
- Author
- Georgia Archives
- Date
- 2024 January
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Georgia Archives Manuscript Collections Repository
5800 Jonesboro Rd
Morrow GA 30260 United States