John L. McKee
To trace the ancestors of the McKees we go to Ireland, but the date of their emigration to America is not delinitely known, but perhaps during the last half of the eighteenth century. They first located in Pennsylvania. It was here that James McKee was born in the year 1803. About the year 1825 he came to Shelby County, where in 1833 he married Sarah McKnight, and raised a family of five children. John L. is the youngest of this family; he was born in 1845. He lived on the home place in Orange Township until he grew up to manhood. In 1868 he married Miss Mariah Diltz, but still remained on the homestead until, in the spring of 1881, he bought a stock of goods at Kirkwood, and has been engaged in trade since that time. They have a family of four children, whose names and date of birth are as follows: James E., 1869; Albertes L., 1872; Willie F., 1874; and J. Clifford, 1876.
History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883