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Squire James M. McKinzie

Squire James M. McKinzie. From this brief and incomplete view of the life record of Mr. McKinzie, it will be seen that his life from earliest youth up has not been uselessly or idly spent. He has always been familiar with the details of planting, and as he has made this his life occupation, he has accumulated a fair share of this world's goods.

He was born in Limestone County, Louisiana, in 1825, being one of the following family of children: David, Andrew, Lacy, Nicholas A., John T., James M., Sarah, Levina and Mary E. Their father, Alexander S. McKinzie, was a Kentuckian, born about 1799, to David McKinzie. James M. McKinzie received a common school education in Tennessee, where his parents had moved when he was an infant, and here he attained man's estate and was married in 1846, to Miss Isabella M. McCann, a daughter of Thomas McCann. To them a family of ten children has been born, eight of whom grew to maturity: Alexander B., Mary E. (wife of S. S. Taylor), Sarah M. (wife of James A. Aubrey), Thomas D., Martha J. (wife of 0. J. Kinder), Anna G. (wife of J. A. Lowe), Leona J. find George It. An infant and James A. are deceased.

Mr. McKinzie came to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, in 1850, and has since devoted his attention to agriculture, being now the owner of a good plantation of about 500 acres. He is a Democrat, politically, has held the office of justice of the peace for about fourteen years, and for the past six years has been a member of the police jury. Socially he has been a member of the A. P. & A. M. since 1858. He is an active member of the Christian Church, and since 1855 has been an elder in the same. Among his acquaintances and friends the respect shown him is in full keeping with his well established reputation for hospitality and sincere cordiality. To know him is to have a high admiration for him, for he is possessed of those sterling characteristics which make a true man, and in his intercourse with those around him he has won a host of warm friends.

Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, Southern Publishing Company, 1890