Henry McKeever and Florinda Patton Shields

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Husband Henry McKeever ^{1 2}

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           Born: 11 Jul 1827 - Penn Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Henry McKeever (1783-1870) 1
         Mother: Sarah Naly (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Lizzie Hughes (      -      ) 3 - Nov 1873 3

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Wife Florinda Patton Shields ^{2 3 4}

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           Born: 3 Oct 1831 4
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           Died: 5 Dec 1865 4
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         Father: Robert Shields (1803-1894) 4 5 6
         Mother: Mary Borland (Abt 1801-1861) 4 5

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Henry McKeever

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He was the sixth of his father's seven children and was educated in the common or subscription schools and at the Greensburg academy and the academy at Dayton, Pennsylvania. After teaching for six years he followed farming for eleven years and then embarked in the drug business at Delmont, in which he remained two years, meanwhile dealing in wool and live-stock. He was first lieutenant of a company of Pennsylvania militia at the breaking out of the war, was postmaster at Manor. He was identified with the Presbyterian church, the Republican party and was a member of Philanthropy Lodge, No. 225, A. Y. M., Urania Chapter, No. 192, H. R. A. M. and Kedron Commandery, No. 18, Knights Templar.

He and his second wife had three children; only one was still living in 1890.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 370.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 245.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 371.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 630.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 245, 645.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 913.