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J. M. McKamy, Sr. of California - [BIO 029]

Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, Tulare, and Kern, California. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company.

Page 588
J. M. McKamy, Sr., is a pioneer of California, and is dated as a Forty-niner. He is a native of Tennessee, born March 9, 1822, a son of James McKamy, a merchant of Athens, Tennessee, who later lived in Grayson County, Texas. He came North in 1812, as a soldier, and fought at old Fort Sandusky, Ohio, under Colonel Cranghen, then a Lieutenant commanding a company of cavalry from Roane County, Tennessee, and served in all of General Jackson’s campaign in the South. He died at Athens, McMinn County, Tennessee, in 1826. He was a native of the “Old Dominion” (State of Virginia), born at Augusta, and was reared in Rockbridge. He died when the subject of this sketch was about four years of age. Mr. McKamy’s mother was Mary Houston, a daughter of William B. Houston. She died when our subject was five years of age, leaving him with two sisters; one, Mrs. H. M. Early, is now living in Tennessee, and the second is deceased. Upon his arrival in California Mr. McKamy turned his attention to mining in Mariposa County, which he continued four years. He then entered stock and grain-raising in San Joaquin County, and also did some team freighting between Stockton and the mining towns. In 1873 he located in the Poco creek valley and engaged in sheep-raising, and in 1876 located on his present place at Glennsville, where he has since resided.

He married, March 4, 1852, Miss Eleanor E. Petty, a daughter of William Petty. Mrs. McKamy was born in Alabama, and came to California with relatives in 1849. She is the mother of eight children: Isabel, now Mrs. P. J. Garwood, of Poco creek; Mrs. Minerva Collies, now deceased; James, a resident of Bakersfield; John M., Jr., of Poco creek; Julian F., at home; Daniel, deceased; Virginia, wife of Alfred Harrell, of Bakersfield, county Superintendent of the Public Schools of Kern County; and Fannie, wife of Boghn Hughes. Mr. McKamy is a man of strong traits of character, well versed upon local matters, and has served eight years on the Board of Supervisors of Kern County.