P. H. McKinnie, M.D., is one of the prominent physicians of Hickory Valley, a native of the same county where he resides, born February 3, 1844, a son of Rev. Arthur and H. D. (Lee) McKinnie, who were natives of North Carolina. The father is a native of Wayne County, born in 1811; was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church and rendered that church much valuable service. He was also a farmer, at which he was very successful. His death occurred in Hardeman County. The mother was born in Rockingham County in 1810 and died in Hickory Valley in 1886. They were married in Hardeman County. P. H. McKinnie is the youngest of seven children born to his parents and received a good collegiate education. In the fall of 1862, he entered the Confederate States Army and enlisted as a private of volunteers in Company E, Seventh Tennessee Regular Cavalry, and was received in Gen. Forrest’s command under Brig.-Gen. James R. Chalmers. He participated in the battles of Hernando, Miss., Moscow, Tenn., Harrisburg, Miss., Union City, Tenn., Nashville and Franklin; returned home in 1865 and took the oath of allegiance at La Grange, and soon after entered the school at New Castle. He attended one year and then entered the college at Georgetown, Ky., and having chosen the medical profession went in the fall of 1873 to the medical college at Louisville, Ky., where he duly received his diploma in 1880. He then returned to Hardeman County, and located in Hickory Valley, where he soon built up a large practice and has since been a popular and successful physician. February 29, 1876, he married Miss Susan M. Scott, born February 27, 1861, in Hardeman County, and to them has been born the following family: Claude S., born October 24, 1877; Arthur S., born April 28, 1882, and William H., born April 13, 1884. Dr. McKinnie is a Democrat in politics and a consistent member of the Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. McKinnie is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Source: “The Goodspeed Publishing Co., History of Tennessee, 1886”