John MacKenzie
b.1837. Christened 29 May 1837. m.10 June 1874. d.17 September 1886. John was the eldest son of Rodrick and Katherine MacKenzie. He was born in Scotland, raised on the MacKenzie Settlement at Little Branch, and was a farmer, like his father Rodrick. He was not listed in the 1871 Northumberland Census. Also missing was his half-brother, Alexander. I am led to believe that they may have been traveling in the U.S.A., or in another part of the Dominion.
John fell from the loft of a barn and broke his back in the early 1880�s. He laid in bed for four or more years, as their were few doctors at the time. Apparently his broken back was never set, and he died in bed in 1886, leaving his wife with three young children.