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Subject: Re: McKenzie
Date: 3 Mar 2005 17:44:16 -0700


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Surnames: McKenzie/Nicholson
Classification: Query

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My grandmother was Lucy Elizabeth McKenzie, who married my grandfather, Charles Thomas McKenzie, in southwestern Alabama in the latter part of the 1800s. My grandfather and his parents/family were from Choctaw County, and I understand that my grandmother and her family (father, Lewis McKenzie, mother ?) had moved to that area from nearby in Southeastern Mississippi. I have a cousin, David McKenzie, who is a retired pharmacist, who has been gathering information on my McKenzie ancestors. He lives in Biloxi, MS. As it so happens, I believe his mother's maiden name was also McKenzie, but she married one, who may or may not have be related, so he kept the family name from his mother's side. I think that family has traced their line from the 1700s back in North Carolina. Some of his family also lives in Mississippi. One story I have heard is that one of the McKenzie offspring, an unmarried woman named either Fannie or Belle, was murdered in Louisiana by someone who set her!
boarding house on fire then shot the occupants as they tried to escape. My cousin in Biloxi confirmed the basic facts of this story.

Lewis McKenzie (My father, Charles Louis Nicholson, was named after him, but his parents changed the spelling from the German form to the French because of anti-German sentiment at the time), was a Civil War veteran who was captured at Vicksburg.

Does this help your search for the McKenzie line?

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