Descendants of
Alverda MCKNEW

2. MCKNEW was born about 1818 in MD. He died after 1842 in MD.

1910 Census records for William Selby show both of McKnews were born in Maryland.

Three Business Failures (From Frank Robinson) "Found Themselves Involved in Debt at the End of the Year", Washington Post, Jan 4, 1893

Three business men began the new year in bankruptcy and made assignments yesterday to satisfy their creditors. They were James W. Selby, a dealer in clothing and general merchandise, at 1901 PA Ave; Danile Schiller, dealer in dry goods and furnishing goods at 3037 M. St, and Walter J. Boyce, a pharmacist at Standiford's old place, 938 F St.

J. W. Selby assigned to George J. Johnson. His preferred creditors are five notes for $400 each, payable to the order of George J. Johnson and held by the Farmers and Mechanics', the Metropolitan, and the West End Banks; a similar note for $350 held by the West End Bank; a promissory note for $250, held by Caleb M. Clark; promissary notes for $300 held by G. J. Johnson ; $200 due ***W. F. MCKNEW, $95 due Dr. Robert Reyburn and $100 due G. W. R. George & Co.

Guesses and research to find Alverda's father: Database: Washington, D.C. City Directory, 1890
View Record Name Location 1 Location 2 Occupation
View Record Frank W McKnew 1841 K northwest grocer
View Record Thomas W McKnew 1113 C northwest 2424 14th northwest feed
View Record Thomas W McKnew 1113 C northwest 2424 14th northwest feed

Database: District of Columbia Census, 1800-90 April 12, 2006
7:27 PM
View Record Name State County Township Year
View Record FREDERIC MCKNEW DC District of Columbia 5 W. Washington 1860
View Record N. C. MCKNEW DC District of Columbia 5 W. Washington 1860
View Record DILLA L. MCKNEW DC District of Columbia Corcoran 1890
View Record ELIZABETH M. MCKNEW DC District of Columbia Corcoran 1890
View Record GOLDSBOROUGH E. MCKNEW DC District of Columbia Corcoran 1890
View Record MARGARET A. MCKNEW DC District of Columbia Corcoran 1890
View Record THOMAS G. MCKNEW DC District of Columbia Corcoran 1890

U.S. Public Records Index Recordinfo
about Lenore W McKnew
Name: Lenore W McKnew
Birth Date: 15 Apr 1906
Street Address: 1775 Pennsylvania Ave NW, 1100
City: Washington
County: District Of Columbia
State: District Of Columbia
Zip Code: 20006
Phone Number: 999
Household Members:
Name Est. Age Birth Year
Lenore W McKnew 100 1906

1860 United States Federal Census Record info
about Emma Mcknew
Name: Emma Mcknew
Age in 1860: 17
Birth Year: abt 1843
Birthplace: Maryland
Home in 1860: Washington Ward 4, Washington, District of Columbia
Gender: Female
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
Mary A Chubb 61
Wm H Chubb 21
Sarah Chubb 17
Nelly Hayes 78
Jane Taylor 40
A A Sloan 40
Isabella Sloan 30
Maria Sloan 8
Charles Sloan 3
Susanna Mcknew 23 All Mcnews born in MD
Emma Mcknew 17
Sallie Mcknew 15

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [MCNEW] Which William? d. 1850, Franklin Co, PA
Date: 12 Oct 2006 15:10:46 -0600
From: nmcvicker@hotmail.com
Reply-To: mcnew@rootsweb.com
To: MCNEW-L@rootsweb.com
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
Surnames: McNEW, SELLERS Classification: Query
Message Board URL:http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3F0.2ACEB/331
Something new hit my radar. Ancestry dot com offered up a copy of the US Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index for 1850.
Listed as having died within the past 12 months was one William McNew, Engineer, age 42, who died February 1850, in Franklin Co, PA. He was listed as having been born in MD.
(Cause of death was "Erysipelas", which he suffered for 8 days)
Is this the William McNew who was married to Sarah Sellers? Some of his descendants have been trying to find the date of his death, which was between 1845 (when youngest child was born) and 1850, when the Census shows his wife and family living in Franklin Co. Does anyone have any info at all on this William?

1820 In the U.S., James Monroe was president. He would be re-elected later that year, winning 231 electoral votes, to James Quincy Adams one electoral vote. The country was growing; the previous year, Missouri Territory had sought to become a state. With eleven free states and eleven slave states, the prospect drew heated debate. The Missouri Compromise was reached and as part of the agreement, Maine, previously part of Massachusetts would become the 23rd state on 15 March 1820, and Missouri would be admitted as a slave state (21 August 1821), there by maintaining the balance. In addition a line was drawn through the Louisiana Territory which would make future states north of the line in that territory free states, and future states in the territory south of the line, slave states. As evidenced by the need for a balance of free and slave states, abolition was already a hot-button issue. In New York, eighty-six free black emigrants set sail from New York City on the ship Elizabeth to Freetown in the British colony of Sierra Leone. The British had abolished the slave trade in 1807. It was the romantic period of Byron, Shelley, and Jane Austen.

1853 In the U.S., Franklin Pierce took the oath of office, succeeding Millard Fillmore. Railroads were connecting the country and making it easier to move westward. Southerners hoped for a transcontinental railroad that would take a southern route and at the end of 1853, the Gadsden Purchase was signed defining the U.S./Mexican border west of El Paso, Texas. While the transcontinental railroad took a more northerly route, the purchase for the sum of $10 million dollars did add more than 29,000 square miles in what is now southern New Mexico and Arizona.

In Cincinnati, Ohio, progress was being made in the field of firefighting. Prior to April o f 1853, firefighting crews mainly consisted of volunteers. As they began receiving payments from insurance companies and private parties, competition heightened. That changed on 1 April, when the Cincinnati Fire Department became the first full-time professional fire department in the country.

In New Orleans, Louisiana, that year "Yellow Jack," or yellow fever, wreaked havoc killing more than 7,800 people.In other parts of the world, tension over holy sites in Palestine erupted into the Crimean War. By the end of 1853, France, Britain, and Turkey had formed an alliance that pitted them against the Russians in a war that would last until the Treaty of Paris in 1856.

1 i. Alverda MCKNEW.

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