William Keck and Harriett Asberry Sheriff

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Husband William Keck ^{1 2}

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           Born: 29 Feb 1808 - Mercer Co, PA 1
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           Died: 27 Apr 1871 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 1
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         Father: Joseph Keck (      -1854) 2 3
         Mother: Catharine Klingensmith (      -1847) 3

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       Marriage: 3 Apr 1839 1

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Wife Harriett Asberry Sheriff ¹

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           Born:  - Zanesville, Muskingum Co, OH
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Children

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1 M Lewis L. Keck ^{2 4 5}

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           Born: 30 Jan 1840 - Harmony, Jackson Twp, Butler Co, PA 2 6
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         Spouse: Felicia Loutzenhiser (      -Aft 1888) 5 7
           Marr: 5 Jun 1866 6

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2 M William A. Keck ¹

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3 F Ella S. Keck ¹

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         Spouse: James Morgan (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - William Keck

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He obtained the usual advantages of a common-school edu­cation, and grew to manhood upon the old homestead near Greenville, Mercer County, PA. In early days he learned the fuller's and carder's trade, but did not follow that business very long. He then entered the dry goods store of the late Robert Cochran, a pioneer merchant of New Castle, PA. He was there married, and soon afterward opened a dry goods store at Old Harmony, Butler County, PA, in partnership with a Mr. Ziegler. He afterward returned to New Castle, thence removed to Sheakleyville, where he established and carried on a mercantile business about four years, when he located in Greenville and followed clerk­ing. In 1861 he was appointed by President Lincoln postmaster of the borough, and after serving his full term of four years was reappointed by Lincoln, and again by Grant, and continued in office until his death. He was succeeded by his daughter, Ella S., who was ap­pointed and served four years. He was first a Whig and afterward a Republican. [HMC 1888, 803]

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 803.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 398.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 605.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 804, 812.

5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 137.

6 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 804.

7 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 812.