From the Oct 23 1878 issue of the Newberry Herald:

"Mr Wm McKee of Cleburne County, Alabama, dropped in on us suddenly on the 16th as if from the clouds. He is visiting relatives in this County. He brought with him some fine specimens of copper ore picked up on a plantation adjoining his; he says his has lots of the ore on it."

I wonder who he was visiting in Newberry County SC. He is son of Robert McKee of Ireland and wife Mary UNK buried in Newberry Co SC. Sibs were Joseph, James, Margaret, Elizabeth and Samuel. Eleanor