My Genealogy Hound

R. R. McKINZEE, farmer and blacksmith, P. O. New Hope, is a son of George Wesley and Barbara (Coon) McKinzee, natives of Virginia. He was born in Virginia December 25, 1810, and received but a limited education. He was reared on a farm, and at an early age learned blacksmithing, at which he still works in connection with his farm labor. At the age of twenty years, he married Azula Babbins, a native of the village of New Hope, by whom he has had eighteen children. They have one hundred and sixty-three descendants — children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren living. Mrs. McKinzee, in her youth, was deprived of the educational advantages offered by the superior schools of today, but she readily acquired a knowledge of house-keeping and such other domestic duties as were then thought more important than book knowledge. She is a tidy and industrious house-wife, and as active and strong as when twenty years of age. Mr. McKinzee is a Democrat, and for twenty years was Assessor of his township. He is also hale and hearty for one of his years.