Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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James A. McKeown and Eliza J. "Lizzie" Craig




Husband James A. McKeown 1

           Born: 9 Jan 1851 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 


         Father: James McKeown (Abt 1823-1850) 2
         Mother: Nancy C. Adams (1829-      ) 2


       Marriage: Autumn, 1877 3

   Other Spouse: Ethilind "Ethie" Brimner (      -      ) 4 - 29 Aug 1888 3



Wife Eliza J. "Lizzie" Craig 5

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Dec 1884 5
         Buried: 


         Father: Hon. Alexander K. Craig (1828-1892) 6 7
         Mother: Sarah F. McLain (1830-Aft 1882) 8 9




Children

General Notes: Husband - James A. McKeown


He was a teacher in the public schools for eighteen winters.
He successfully managed his mother's farm, which consisted of 100 acres of good land lying south of the National pike, in Buffalo township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, as well as eighty acres of his own in East Finley township, two miles south of the home farm, and also devoted much attention to stock raising. Politically, he was a straight Republican, and served multiple terms as county auditor.

He had three children with his first wife; all were deceased before 1893.

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Sources


1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 70, 453, 1069.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1069.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1070.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 453, 1070.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 70, 1070.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 70.

7 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 906.

8 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 761.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 70, 211.


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