SEVENTH GENERATION

120. * John P. MCKISSICK ^{(184) (185)} was born on 15 Oct 1785 in 96th District, Union County, SC. ⁽¹⁸⁶⁾ Believe that John was born in Old Ninety-six district of South Carolina; Union County today. From there moved to Bedford county, Tennessee the then to Clay county, Missouri. He died about 23 Aug 1866 in Missouri. ⁽¹⁸⁷⁾ Found a John McKissick in 1810, Beaufort, N.C. Census Index. Also found a John in the 1812, Warren County, Tenn. Census Index along with a Isham Chaney. John established the family in Kentucky, whence he removed to a tract of land in the Platte Purchase in Missouri. He is on the 1822 tax list on file at the Library of the Missouri Historical Society.
John and Martha moved to Bedford County, Tennessee about 1812. They moved to Howard County, Missouri in 1817 and to Clay County, Missouri about 1824. He was married to * Martha "Patsy" KENT in 1806 in Buncombe County, NC. ⁽¹⁸⁸⁾ Also had the year 1808 as a marriage date.

121. * Martha "Patsy" KENT⁽¹⁸⁹⁾ was born in 1788 in North Carolina.⁽¹⁹⁰⁾ She died between 1830 and 1835 in Clay County, MO. She was one of the first members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, in Clay County, Missouri, 1826. Children were:

i. Jane Ann MCKISSICK was born in 1809 in Buncombe County, NC. ⁽¹⁹¹⁾ She died on 6 Dec 1844.⁽¹⁹²⁾ Also got her death date as 12 Jun 1844 from information received from Eileen Moteith (deceased)
ii. Jacob "Jake" MCKISSICK^{(193) (194)(195)} was born on 17 Mar 1811 in Buncombe County, NC. ⁽¹⁹⁶⁾ He was a Farmer in 1850 in Fremont County, IA. He died on 22 Sep 1900 in Reno, Washoe, NV.^{(197) (198)} He died while he was on a business trip in Reno, Nevada. In the last few days he was listed as insane & incompetent . When quite small Jacob moved to Tennessee, where he remained until 1817, when he moved to Saline county, Missouri, remaining until 1830. He then went to Clinton county and then to Platt county, but came to Fremont county, Iowa in 1840. In the spring of 1854 he went to California & Nevada. He was the first justice of the peace in Fremont county, having been elected in 1841. He owned a large amount of land there and in Missouri, and was a heavy dealer in cattle on the Pacific coast. He built the first building in Hamburg, Iowa. He built the McKissick House Hotel, which later was renamed the Loyal Hotel. He settled in Long Valley, Lassen, California. Jacob ran a sawmill at McKissick Grove. He commissioned the first building and plated the town of what is now Hamburg. The post office in Sacramento City was in the store of J.T. Davis and he served as postmaster. The mail was carried from the town of Farmer's Station, across the line in Iowa. The packing house was similar to the one in Sonora. The hogs were killed and dressed and the meat was packed in barrels of salt and shipped down river. The business was discontinued during the hot summer months because of the loss of meat. The packing house was owned and operated by Jacob. When the town decayed the plant was move to Hamburg, Iowa. In the book "The First One Hundred Year" 1858-1958, it was written on page 15. the following: In the first settlement of McKissick's grove, the McKissick brothers claimed a large part of the grove. John W. Allen settled on a part of the land claimed by the McKissicks, and built him a cabin thereon. The first night the cabin was occupied a rifle ball was shot through the cabin window. Allen concluded that the ball was intended for him. He imagined that Jacob McKissick was the would-be assassin, and so loading his rifle he started in search of him. Allen met his intended victim, who, wholly unexpecting such a visit, was unarmed and helpless. Allen called out to McKissick to prepare for death, telling him why he was about to kill him. McKissick realized his position, and approached Allen saying: "Mr. Allen, you may shoot me, but I won't die with a lie in my mouth. I am not that kind of man." Something in McKissick's manner and conduct convinced Allen, that he (McKissick) was speaking the truth, and the two men were soon clasping hands in firm friendship and talking it over. Mr. Allen died in Arkansas in the Civil War and was buried in the McKissick's grove graveyard. Jacob was said to have lived in Lassen County, California about 1868. He appears to have traveled back and forth from Iowa to California. This could have be to move cattle to and from market. Although he was in California June 8, 1880, at which time he bought land there. On June 8, 1880 he sold some of his land in Fremont County, Iowa, to Geo. and Herbert Slaughter, for the some of $550.00. Because he was living in California it was signed by Jacob relinquishes his rights on May, 14, 1880 but the deed was not filed till June 8. At the time of his death he worth as about $100,000.00.
iii. Mary Catherine "Polly" MCKISSICK was born in 1814 in Shelbyville, Bedford, TN.⁽¹⁹⁹⁾ She died on 3 Jan 1853 in Saline County, MO.
60 iv. * Cornelius Washington "Corneil" MCKISSICK.
v. Daniel MCKISSICK^{(200) (201)} was born on 23 Nov 1818 in Howard County, MO. He was a Farmer in 1850 in Fremont County, IA.⁽²⁰²⁾ He died on 26 Jun 1895 in Secret Valley, Lassen, CA. ⁽²⁰³⁾ He was a Silversmith. Daniel for a time engaged in operating a sawmill in the southwestern part of Iowa on a small island that to this day bears the name of McKissick Island. Daniel was a man of considerable genius and Mechanical ability, he was well qualified for the Milling Business and for all work requiring expertness with tools and machinery. In 1859 Daniel decided to sell out and move to California. So 1860 he brought his family across the plains to Long Valley, California, where his brother, Jacob had settled many years before. After a time he removed to Elsworth, Nevada and took up the Teaming Business. In the year 1870 he returned to California and settled in Secret Valley, 23 miles N.E. of Susanville, California. Daniel was the first man to take a wagon into Secret Valley and on his ranch of nine hundred acres he lived out his life on which he was laid to rest, his wife also laid to rest on the ranch.
vi. William Kent MCKISSICK^{(204) (205)(206)} was born on 15 Oct 1822 in Clay County, MO. He was a Farmer between 1844 and 1850 in Fremont County, IA. He was a Ferry operator in 1850. William ran a ferry across the Missouri River from Hamburg to Nebraska City. He was a Sheriff in 1860 in Sidney, Fremont, IA. He died on 21 May 1876 in Nebraska City, Otoe, NE.⁽²⁰⁷⁾ He was buried in Wyuka Cemetery, Otoe County, NE.⁽⁹⁰⁾ Not sure when he moved but he moved to Oakland, Douglas, Oregon. Found where he bought land from Mathew Pratt on September 27, 1869 filed in Fremont county, Iowa. It is believed that he had a goverment contract to haul supplies to Fort Crogham.
vii. John "Pink" Pinckeny MCKISSICK was born on 20 Sep 1825 in Clay County, MO. He died on 2 Sep 1901 in Fremont County, IA. ⁽²⁰⁸⁾ Also have his death as Long Vally, California. Pink got his nickname from his true name of John Pinckney McKissick. He had taken up 160 acres in Secret Valley about 1870, but by 1874, he was spending a lot of time on the Plains helping take care of the McKissick Madeline Ranch. He had two children; a daughter named Genetta Delilah and a son who was two years younger, that they called Howard. John was living with James Franklin McKissick in 1895 along with his mother. He was a widower at that time.
John was descirbed as 5' 8", dark complexion, with dark eyes & black hair.
viii. Elizabeth Ann MCKISSICK^{(209) (197)} was born on 17 Jun 1828 in Howard County, MO. She died on 7 Sep 1877 in Fremont County, IA. She was buried in Mount Olive Cemetery, Fremont County, IA.⁽²¹⁰⁾ Townson settled in Fremont County, Iowa in 1847. He and Eliza almost lost their lives while defending their cabin. They were attacked be jayhawkers - early-day gangsters. The first intimation Mr. Fugitt had of presence of the jayhawkers was the bursting in of his door. Springing from his bed he saw the room filled with desperate looking men. The fire on the hearth made the room quite light and the men began helping themselves to the contents of a clothes-press telling him they intended to raid him. Mr. Fugitt grabbed a heavy double-barreled shotgun and started to shoot. In the melee that followed he was badly wounded, being shot four times in the head, neck, shoulder and hand. His wife then took the gun and they left the house but took Mr. Fugitt's horses. An alarm was given and Gilles Cowles and Cornelius McKissick followed them and recovered the stolen property.