William Alexander Keys and Macie Ellen Vandevort

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Husband William Alexander Keys ¹

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           Born: 9 Oct 1874 - Snyder Twp, Jefferson Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Keys (1831-1907) 2
         Mother: Matilda Patterson (1836-1912) 2

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       Marriage: 10 Aug 1897 - Brockwayville, Jefferson Co, PA 2

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Wife Macie Ellen Vandevort ²

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         Father: John Vandevort (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Ella Bower (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Marian Keys ²

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2 M J. Clifford Keys ²

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3 M William Glen Keys ²

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4 M James Van Keys ²

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General Notes: Husband - William Alexander Keys

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He was born on the home farm in Snyder township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, overlooking the borough of Brockwayville. There he passed his boyhood and youth, attending the Frost and Miller schools in the home neighborhood, and later the Brockwayville school, where he continued his studies until sixteen years old. The terms usually consisted of three months in the winter season. Like most farmers' sons he was thoroughly trained in home duties, and he remained at home until his marriage, at which time he located in Brockwayville, though he continued to help on the farm. It was about this time also that he first became constable of Snyder township, which office he has filled for almost twenty years consecutively. When his father died he returned to the home place, which had been left to him. In the spring of 1917 he purchased the Curry property on Main street in Brockwayville, which was earlier known as the Dr. Hoey homestead. Mr. Keys was an enterprising business man, and during the construction of the Shawmut railroad he operated twelve or fifteen teams in the making of the roadbed. For years he operated coal mines, more or less, but later greatly extended his interests in this line, having large investments. Mr. Keys had thirty-five teams engaged in hauling coal from his various operations to the railroad. From the 1st of February, 1917, for several weeks, the hauling was made particularly easy because of the fine sledding, and the various team owners have been contesting for the honor of making the largest total haul. One of Mr. Keys' teams won, hauling 24,585 pounds, a record which it was thought would never be excelled, at any rate in that part of the state. Though not especially active in public affairs directly, Mr. Keys was a strong Republican all his life and always a zealous party worker. Like his father, he held membership in Cicerone Lodge, No. 897, I. O. O. F., and was a past grand of that organization. In church connection he was a Methodist, being a prominent worker in the Brockwayville congregation, which he joined in June, 1915. Mr. Keys became superintendent of the Sunday school.

1 Editor, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 440.

2 Editor, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 441.