robertmackayclan

I hope you can answer my two questions or forward them to someone who
might be able to.

1. I believe the oldest graves in the Crooked Run Cemetery are along the
stone fence at the back of the graveyard. Is that correct? My
understanding is there is no indication of who was buried there before
any tombstones were erected. I was there in Nov to take pictures.

2. On the east side of US 522 just south of Nineveh there is a stone
house known as Fairview that according to the memorial belonged to
Thomas MacKay, I presume at the time of the Battle there on his land.
Do you know when the original stone structure was built? Do you have
any more information on it other than what was on the memorial marker?

I am not a MacKay. I am descended from the Alexander Oglesby (a
disowned Friend) whose land was adjacent to John Painter (one of his
daughters married one of Alexander's sons) and behind the Meeting House
and cemetery.

Any help you could provide would be very much appreciated.

Thank You for you time.
Ann Newsom
Columbus, Ohio

I can post your question on our discussion forum but what I can say is, there were some unmarked graves at Crooked Run because in those days Quakers didn't mark graves. It's presumed that Robert Mackay Sr. or Jr.'s graves are unmarked and possibly Robert Jr. is buried there.

Fairview was also known as the LeHew Cabel house and Thomas Buck McKay and Ann Elizabeth LeHew lived there during Civil War times. There were battles near there and one of the reasons my great (3x) grandfather Thomas temporarily left the service and hired a substitute is because of shelling activity near Fairview. One was so close to where my great-great-grandfather William Buck McKay was playing that it caused concern for his mother.

I haven't read what is on the marker recently but I do know that at one time some of the info. was inaccurate because it made it seem like Thomas Buck McKay was older than he really was. He was born in 1831.

I'm familiar with Oglesbee both in Virginia and Ohio. They intermarried with McKays.

I don't know if you are familiar with the Collett-McKay Picnic. You can see more at:

http://www.robertmackayclan.com/rmc/collmc/