Samuel Keefer and Lydia Fortney

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Husband Samuel Keefer ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 22 Oct 1820 - Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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           Died: 3 Dec 1887 1
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         Father: Benjamin Keefer (      -      ) 1 5
         Mother: Magdalena Baker (      -      ) 1 5

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       Marriage: 15 Nov 1849 1

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Wife Lydia Fortney ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 12 Jun 1830 - Mt. Pleasant Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: George Fortney (      -      ) 1 2 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Reighard (      -      ) 2 3

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Children

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1 F Lydia Delnora Keefer ⁴

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            AKA: Della L. Keefer 1
           Born: 26 Sep 1867 - Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: John Franklin Boyd (1861-1935) 6
           Marr: 12 Apr 1888 - Madison, Westmoreland Co, PA 4

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2 F Sarah Elizabeth Keefer ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: William Hasson Bowers (      -      ) 4

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3 M John Sansom Keefer ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: Olivia Smith Lewis (      -      ) 1 4

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4 M George Clarkson Keefer ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: Mary Jane "Jennie" Hoffer (      -      ) 1 4

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5 F Emma Rebecca Keefer ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 F Minerva Jane "Jennie" Keefer ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: John Adam Long (      -      ) 1 4

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7 F Anna Luella Keefer ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: Cyrus Bitner Freed (      -      ) 1 4

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Keefer

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Madison, Westmoreland Co, PA

He was reared on his father's farm and received his education in the old log school houses and under the subscription school system of that day. He always followed farming in Sewickley township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he owned the valuable grain and mineral farm on which his widow and part of his family later resided.
He was a republican, served his township as tax collector and school director and was a trustee and class-leader of Madison Methodist church, of which he was a member for many years.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 604.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 11, 225.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 966.

4 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 115.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 23.

6 Scott Lee Boyd, The Boyd Family (Santa Barbara, CA: Self-published, 1935), Pg 293.