Jacob Marion Keefer and Elizabeth Hays

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Husband Jacob Marion Keefer ^{1 2}

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           Born: 19 Feb 1844 - Lineville, Venango Co, PA 2 3
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           Died: 26 Oct 1928 2
         Buried:  - Clarion Cemetery, Clarion, Clarion Co, PA

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         Father: Benjamin Keefer (1810-1850) 4 5
         Mother: Margaret Keefer (1815-1881) 4 5

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       Marriage: Nov 1872 - Venango Co, PA (Divorced) 2

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   Other Spouse: Nancy Jane Wiant (1858-1940) 2 3 - 23 Nov 1882 3

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Wife Elizabeth Hays ²

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Marion Keefer

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When he was six years of age his father died, and afterwards he worked on farms among the neighbors for his board and clothes. When he was 18 years old he enlisted in August 1862 at Venus, Pennsylvania, as Private in Company F. 121st Regiment PA Volunteers. He was in the hard fought battles of Fredericksburg and soon afterwards was stricken with a serious illness, and on recovery was honorably discharged for disability. He remained at home until in 1864, when he again enlisted, joining Company G, 155th Regiment PA Volunteer Infantry, and fought with the Army of the Potomac during all its battles to Appomattox, and marched with that tattered but triumphant army in the Grand Review before President Johnson. He received his honorable discharge on June 5, 1865. He returned to Clarion County and worked in the lumber woods as a saw hand. He was in the lumber business until 1902 in both Clarion and Forest Counties. In 1902 he settled in Clarion, where he lived a retired life. He and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church. In politics he was a Republican.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 296, 1112.

2 Estella B. Keefer, The Keefer Family: Jacob & Catharina 1791 - 1976 (Franklin, PA: Privately Published, 1976), Pg 3.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 296.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 295, 1112.

5 Estella B. Keefer, The Keefer Family: Jacob & Catharina 1791 - 1976 (Franklin, PA: Privately Published, 1976), Pg 2.