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Thomas Hudson McKee served in the 1st West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment (3 Year) in the American Civil War. He was an aide to Brigadier General Benjamin Franklin Kelley who is buried behind McKee. Born in Washington County, Pennsylvania and working as a farmer, he enlisted in the Army September 12, 1861 in Independence, Pennsylvania. He was promoted to Second Lieutenant on November 1, 1862. On September 11, 1863, he was captured by Confederate soldiers at Moorefield, West Virginia.
His wife, Nancy Matilda Funk was born in Washington County on January 14, 1851, and died in 1927. The couple married on October 14, 1868, in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania.
Next to the McKee grave is the gravesite of the McKees' daughter, Molly. She was not eligible to be buried at Arlington; however, Thomas McKee called on his friendship with President Theodore Roosevelt for special permission to bury Molly at the family plot.
Washington County, Pennsylvania Moorefield, West Virginia Benjamin Franklin Kelley Independence, Pennsylvania 1st West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment (3 Year) American Civil War Theodore Roosevelt Mifflintown, Pennsylvania