"He owned and lived on a farm of three hundred acres near Shepherdstown, Va. He was blind for some years prior to his death. He had one daughter Lucy, who married James W. Strider, and to them were born two children who died in infancy. Lucy Quigley Strider inherited the farm from her father, who left a horse to his nephew John Quigley, and twenty dollars apiece to his nieces, 'the McKinney girls.' [It's unclear whether he means the girls of his sister Eleanor Quigley McKinney or Dinah Quigley McKinney, or both]. Lucy died in 1850, and a short time afterwards, her husband was thrown from his horse and killed. Her will bequethed the half of her farm to her husband, the other half to the heirs of her father's brother Joseph [1783-1868], silver spoons and two silver cake baskets valued at sixty dollars apiece to her cousin Mrs. Agnes Quigley Orr [1825-1898]. The farm was sold after the war, and the heirs to one half were cheated out of twenty one dollars. Mr. Strider was married twice, and his share of the estate probably descended to the children of his first wife. Mrs. Orr did not receive her legacy. She and her father visited her uncle in Virginia in 1847. He bore the title of Captain. It may have been his by actual service, but we have no proof of his claim or record of his military career. He and his wife died at their home near Shepherdstown, and are buried int he cemetery at that place." From History of the Families of McKinney-Brady-Quigley, by Belle McKInney Hays Swope (1905).
"He owned and lived on a farm of three hundred acres near Shepherdstown, Va. He was blind for some years prior to his death. He had one daughter Lucy, who married James W. Strider, and to them were born two children who died in infancy. Lucy Quigley Strider inherited the farm from her father, who left a horse to his nephew John Quigley, and twenty dollars apiece to his nieces, 'the McKinney girls.' [It's unclear whether he means the girls of his sister Eleanor Quigley McKinney or Dinah Quigley McKinney, or both]. Lucy died in 1850, and a short time afterwards, her husband was thrown from his horse and killed. Her will bequethed the half of her farm to her husband, the other half to the heirs of her father's brother Joseph [1783-1868], silver spoons and two silver cake baskets valued at sixty dollars apiece to her cousin Mrs. Agnes Quigley Orr [1825-1898]. The farm was sold after the war, and the heirs to one half were cheated out of twenty one dollars. Mr. Strider was married twice, and his share of the estate probably descended to the children of his first wife. Mrs. Orr did not receive her legacy. She and her father visited her uncle in Virginia in 1847. He bore the title of Captain. It may have been his by actual service, but we have no proof of his claim or record of his military career. He and his wife died at their home near Shepherdstown, and are buried int he cemetery at that place." From History of the Families of McKinney-Brady-Quigley, by Belle McKInney Hays Swope (1905).
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