John Keese and Elizabeth Willetts

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Husband John Keese ¹

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           Born: 24 Nov 1805 1
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           Died: 30 May 1856 1
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         Father: William Keese, Esq. (1780-1819) 2
         Mother: Rebecca Linn (      -1825) 2

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       Marriage: Jul 1832 1

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Wife Elizabeth Willetts ¹

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Children

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1 M Jonathan L. Keese ¹

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           Born: 8 Aug 1833 1
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           Died: 9 May 1861 1
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2 M William L. Keese ¹

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           Born: 25 Feb 1835 1
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         Spouse: Helen K. Thorne (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 2 Oct 1864 1

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3 F Charlotte W. Keese ¹

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           Born: 5 Nov 1839 1
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         Spouse: John A. Sherer (      -      ) 1

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4 M Charles Hoffman Keese ¹

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           Born: 26 Jul 1842 1
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         Spouse: Emily Scriven (      -      ) 1

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5 M John Keese ¹

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           Born: 20 Mar 1844 1
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6 F Mary W. Keese ¹

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           Born: 5 Nov 1846 1
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         Spouse: William Fitzhugh (      -      ) 1

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7 M Benton Keese ¹

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           Born: 5 May 1854 1
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General Notes: Husband - John Keese

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He was the John Keese of most excellent book-selling memory, an extraordinary man in the humorous handling of books and of an audience, &c. (See Keese-ana, by E. A. Duyckinck, Maga. of Am. Hist. vol. i, (1877), page 497; also ibid., 734, Keese-ana continued by his son, Wm. L. Keese ; see, also, "John Keese, Wit, Litterateur, and Macsenas, by Henry Morford, June and July numbers, New Monthly Magazine, N. Y., 1880, accompanied by portrait.)

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 370.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 369.