History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 712. [Harrison County] [Rutland Precinct] LORENZO McKENNEY, farmer, he was a native of Harrison County where he was born Oct. 28, 1842. His grandfather, Traverse McKenney, of Virginia, was one of the early settlers of Harrison County. Pollard McKenney, father of our subject, was twelve years of age when he accompanied his father, Traverse, to the then unsettled wilds of Kentucky. A quarter of a century ago he was familiarly known in Scott, Harrison and Owen counties, where he carried on an extensive and lucrative trade in cattle and hogs; he died in 1876, aged sixty-eight. Lorenzo McKenney, his son, and the subject of this sketch, spent his early life upon his father's farm. On the 3d of Sept. 1863, he married Louisa, eldest daughter of William P. and Jane (Faulconer) Crosthwait, of Harrison County, who has borne him seven children, the dates of whose births are as follows: Martha E., Dec. 24, 1875; Louisa, Oct. 11, 1867; Wm. P., Aug. 2, 1869; Thos. N., Sept. 28, 1871; Mary E., June 13, 1874; Richard F., April 26, 1877; Maggie E., April 17, 1880. For several years both himself and wife have been in communion with the Methodist Church, South, holding their membership at Boyer's Chapel. In politics Mr. McKenney has always identified himself with the Democratic party. McKenney Faulconer Crosthwait = Scott-KY Owen-KY VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/harrison/mckenney.l.txt