Descriptive Summary
Title: McKinney Family Collection
Span Dates: 1870-1978
Bulk Dates:
ID No: Ms2023-032
Creator: Hettie McKinney Rinehart, Monica Rinehart Winter
Extent: 2 legal size flip-top boxes
Language: English
Repository: West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV
Conditions on Use and Access: N/A
Copyright: Copyright restrictions may apply.
Abstract:
Administrative Information
Donor: This collection was donated to West Virginia Archives and History at The Cultural Center in May 2023 by Monica Rinehart Winter.
Transfers:
Preferred Citation: [item, collection number], McKinney Family Collection, West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV.
Processor: Processed by Bethany Arbaugh, June 2023
Historical Note: The photographs and documents of this collection were inherited by the donor, Monica Rinehart Winter, through her grandmother, Hettie McKinney Rinehart. Hettie acquired the photographs from her parents, William Blackburn McKinney and Nancy Elizabeth "Bets" McKinney.
William Blackburn McKinney (1872-1966) and Nancy Elizabeth "Bets" McKinney (1876-1967) married in 1890 and settled in Basin, Wyoming County, West Virginia. They had twelve children: Edward McKinney (1891-1976), Charles McKinney (1894-1987), Ada McKinney-Wood (1896-1978), Bertha McKinney (1898-1898), Wiley McKinney (1899-1970), Archie McKinney (1902-1954), Ralph McKinney (1904-1993), Frederic "Fred" McKinney (1906-1984), Hettie McKinney-Rinehart (1910-1994), Milburn McKinney (1913-1978), Velmer McKinney (1915-1995), Dewey L. McKinney (1919-2006.)
Contents List:
Box 1
1:1 Hettie McKinney's school assignments, 1927-1929
1:2 Hettie McKinney’s school practice books, 1927-1929
1:3 Pete and Milburn McKinney's school workbooks, 1930-1932
1:4 Hettie McKinney's graduation announcement from Mullens High School, 1931
1:5 Letter from Philadelphia General Hospital Nurses’ Training School to Hattie McKinney, 1932
1:6 Hettie McKinney Rinehart letter about life after high school graduation, 1978
1:7 List of Mullens High School graduates, 1931-1938
1:8 Photos sent to Hettie McKinney from an unknown man in Fort Crisp, Hawaii, 1925 (9 prints)
1:9 Photographs of unknown residents of Wyoming County, circa 1800s-1950s (8 prints)
1:10 Photographs of unknown residents of Wyoming County, circa 1800s-1950s (60 prints)
Box 2
2:1 Photographs of unknown residents of Wyoming County, circa 1800s-1950s (10 prints)
2:2 Postcard to Hettie McKinney from Charles McKinney, 1918
2:3 Postcard to Ada McKinney from Charles McKinney, circa 1918
2:4 Panoramic photograph of Supply 315 F. A., Verneil-le-Chetif, France, 1919 (1 print)