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Tymochtee Cemetery (AKA Shriver Cemetery) is located west of Marseilles, Wyandot Co, Ohio. Traveling SW from Marseilles on State Rte 67, turn left after approximately 1-2 miles onto Township Road 94. Tymochtee Cemetery is on the left a short distance down the road with a lane going back to it
Author: LCdr John Woodward Patterson III
CAPTAIN JOHN MCKINLEY was born 10 Oct 1744 and died 11 Jun 1782 at Sandusky, Ohio, bur. Lymochtee Creek Cemetery, Wyandot, Ohio while captive of the Indians having been captured on Col. Crawford’s Expedition. He married Mary Connelly on 17 Oct 1763 in Cork, Ireland. John received land for his service from the Commonwealth of Virginia, the original land grant on which the present City of Wheeling now stands.
John McKinley served as a Sergeant in Col. John Gibson's 13th Virginia Regiment and was promoted to Lieutenant in Capt. Stephen Ashby’s Company and then to Captain. He was wounded at Germantown. He resigned after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis in 1781 (1788). Later he was second on command on the ill-fated Crawford Expedition with Col. William Crawford and was captured and burned at the stake in 1782.
Citations:
PHistorical Register of Officer's in the Continental Army 1775-1785 E.225 & 445, p. 372.
PMcKinley Clan C.S.71 - M1276, 13 Families VII
Peterson, Known Military Dead during the Revolutionary War, p. 116.
NARA, M881, Comp Mil Service Recs, Rolls #1076, #1079; Va Rev War Bounty Land Applications, Roll #16; Pa Arch, 6th Series, Vol 2, p. 368
Author: Thomas F. Menzel
Captain John McKinley was a sergeant and second lieutenant in the 13rd Virginia Regiment. He was sergeant and second lieutenant in the 3rd Virginia regiment from March to December 1776 and second lieutenant in the 13th Virginia regiment April 16, 1777. He resigned in February 1776 to be assigned with Captain Crawford’s expedition against the Indians in 1781. He was killed during the action.
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ACN has date of birth s 1740 and place of death as Boonesboro / / KY
Was beheaded at Blue Liah Springs, Boonesboro, KY 10 Jun 1782