See Robert & Patience's family record.

Located on U.S. 522 South near Cedarville, Warren Co. Va., it was built by Robert Mackay Jr. and was passed down in the family for several generations before finally being sold out of family hands.

The succession of the estate goes as follows:

1. Robert Mackay/McKay Jr. built the house @1731 and he gift the portion to this son Jacob McKay Sr.
2. Jacob McKay Sr. received the land in 1765 from his father and he gift the portion with the house in 5 Sep 1809 then 340a,3 roods to his son Jacob Jr., before he removed to Ohio.
3. Jacob McKay Jr. received the land from his father in 1809 and I (Dee Ann Buck) can't find any record showing that he removed from the property, still need to find a land transfer to next Jacob III. Some of these records could be also filed in Shenandoah Co. VA.
4. Jacob McKay III, the one married to Elizabeth Antram, both buried in Nineveh Cemetery, his will mentioned that the land purchased from his brother Jesse. Still need to find out what happened to his brother. In his will he gifted his dwelling house to his youngest son Oscar C. McKay.
5. Oscar C. McKay, he removed to MO and he sold it to his brother-in-law & cousin 1856 Robert S. McKay (I have just seen the index) need to read the actual land deed.

This ends the direct from father to son McKay line @122 years

6. Robert S. McKay his will directed 1862 his lands divided among his wife and children. According to the article on Michael's site, the portion including the old house was taken up by his son Robert McKay (who married his cousin Lucy B. Buck).
7. Robert McKay married 1880 to Lucy B. Buck they lived in the house until his death 1915 (according to the article posted on Michael's site), both buried in Nineveh Cemetery, VA. The last two members of our family to be born in this house were Isabelle L. & Aurelia M. McKay, children of Charles Robert McKay & Mary E. Heflybower and grandchildren of Robert & Lucy (Buck) McKay.

I think this ends the possession of the house in the hands of McKay family about 181 years

8. The estate of Robert McKay (according to Warren Co. VA Land Deed index) sold the property to H.G. Megeath in 1917.

The property continued to be bought and sold over the next several years until being jointly purchased by Warren County and the town of Front Royal.

The property caught fire on Sunday 31 May 2009 and was destroyed. Only the stone portion remains and it is partially crumbled.