WILLIAM J. MCKINNEY                 GRAVESTONE PHOTO                      

The Star and Kansan, Friday, February 10, 1893:

            Wm. McKinney, an old soldier, about 70 years of age, living six miles west of this city, near the Quaker school house, died yesterday morning of pneumonia,  He had lately received $3000 arrears of pension.

Contributed by Mrs. Maryann Johnson a Civil war researcher and a volunteer in the Kansas Room of the Independence Public Library, Independence, Kansas.