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man‎Leslie A McKinney‏‎
Born ‎Feb 1871 Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, died ‎1926 Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana Event Description: Resurrection Cemetery‎, age 54 or 55 years
His middle initial may have been "A," "W," or "F." It's "A" on his gravestone.

Married ‎18 Oct 1893 Helena, Lewis And Clarke, Montana, age 22 years (married 32 or 33 years) to:

womanMary Ann Killeen‏, age by marriage 33 years, daughter of Patrick Bunam "Bunam Patrick" Killeen and Catherine E "Catharine on gravestone" Rooney‏.
Born ‎9 Feb 1860 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died ‎12 Dec 1935 Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana‎, age 75 years, 1st marriage to: Michael "FLAVIN" Flavin, ‎2nd marriage to: Leslie A McKinney
Mary Ann Killeen came to the U.S. from Canada in 1868. She was married to Michael Flavin [Flahaven] in 1879 at 19 years of age. They had 5 children. Michael Flavin was a heavy drinker and died young. Mary Ann left Minnesota and went to Helena, MT and opened a boarding house to support herself and the children.

Leslie McKinney, from the same town in Minnesota, also came to Helena shortly there after and, just by chance, went to her boarding house. She had known him back east and had taught his sister in a little one room school house where she taught before getting married. There was 10 years difference in their ages, and they eventually married on October 19, 1893. She was 32 and he, 22. They had four children: Lucy, George L [Leslie], Leonard, and perhaps a Mary Ann but I can't find her in the records.

Mary Ann and Leslie ran a dairy farm or ranch in Prickly Pear, MT and they furnished the Northern Pacific Railroad and East Helena with milk. Leslie was a very mechanically minded person and had rigged a plumbing system into the house giving them running water and had the dairy running by steam.

At one time, they owned 23 houses in Helena. The houses sold for $2000 and less. The dairy was burned out twice and they lost heavily in buildings and livestock.

Leslie died from a stroke at age 55. Mary Ann made her home in her later years with her daughter, Grace, in Helena. Mary Ann died in her sleep, while visiting overnight, at the home of her son, Leonard, in Helena, MT.

Children:

1.
womanLucy M McKinney‏
Born ‎6 Nov 1895 Lewis And Clark County, Montana, died ‎20 Jan 1977 Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California‎, age 81 years
Lucy married William Smith of Rolla, MT in Helena, MT in October 1917. She met him when she went into the shoe store where he worked in Helena, MT. Apparently, it was love at first sight because she quickly invited him out to the ranch. They moved to Boise, ID after their marriage and he worked in a shoe store there. Their first daughter, Mary Lou was born there. They then moved to Pocatello, ID where he managed a shoe store for the same people he worked for in Boise. The other three children were born there. William eventually owned two shoe stores at different times in Pocatello. In 1952, they moved to Long Beach. Both are buried in All Souls cemetery in Pocatello..

2.
manGeorge Leslie "Leslie" McKinney‏
Born ‎22 Mar 1899 Lewis And Clark County, Montana, died ‎6 Nov 1929 Livingston, Park County, Montana Event Description: Resurrection Cemetery‎, age 30 years, buried Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana
George died in St. Peter's Hospital in Livingston of typhoid fever, with pneumonia contributing.

3.
manLeonard Harris McKinney‏
Born ‎1905 Lewis And Clark, Montana, USA, died ‎18 Jun 1945 Missoula, Missoula County, Montana‎, age 39 or 40 years, buried Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana
According to his marriage certificate, Leonard senior's middle name is Harris. According to his son's marriage certificate, Leonard senior's middle name is Howard. He was a rancher and died in Northern Pacific Hospital in Missoula where he was taken after suddenly becoming ill . The death notice has his middle name as Howard, as do most online family trees.