Ancestors,
Descendants, and Other Relatives of
Neva Jean "Jean" Keeney Hatfield |
SOURCES:
1. My first source came this week (10 Jun 2022) when I got my weekly email from Ancestry.com DNA saying that a fellow Ancestry member was a DNA-proven relative of mine, this one at the 2nd or 3rd cousin level. Her name is "Neva Hatfield", they said, and I should contact her and encourage her to build a family tree so we could see how she and I are related. So I emailed her, expecting to hear the usual nothing. But VOILA! The next day I got a newsy response from Cousin Jean Hatfield (she goes by her middle name, Jean), and her maiden name was Keeney, the same as my mother's! Long story short, however, our correspondence turned up no connection, nor has any further research on her or my part so far. So I built this page as a clearinghouse for information we were gathering. (The generation numbers I'm using below are all but sure to be incorrect; I'll fix those when we finally make the connection to my line.)
2. Ancestry.com has been a helpful resource.
3. Facebook.com has also proven to be of assistance.
4. FindAGrave.com has produced much data.
5. But Mom's first cousin Roscoe Keeney's book, long the authority on Keeney relationships in West Virginia (if not the entire country), was silent on every one of Jean's known kin.
GENERATIONAL CONNECTIONS:
1. Some years ago I was getting more and more confused as I would try to see how I was related to people in my various lines. Finally I decided that I would re-number the generations, with me being the same number in each line. I arbitrarily selected generation 28 to be my own in every line, with my parents being generation 27, my children being gen. 29, and so on. And that has worked just fine until this page.
2. Ancestry.com DNA tells me that Jean and I are cousins at the second- or third-cousin level
23.00--Keeney,
24.00--Keeney,
25.00--Keeney,
26.00--Keeney,27.00--Keeney,
Looking for William's parents in 1850 and 1860:
1850: John Keeny (sic), 57, VA, lvg. in Vernon, Scioto Co., OH on 10 Oct 1850 with the following family:
1860 John Keeney 67 VASarah A., 45 OH
Francis E 23 VA
Moses 22 VA
John 20 VA
Irena 18 VA
Catharine 16 VA
Lucy A 14 VA
William 13 VA
George W. 11 VA
David 9 VA
Alfred 1 OH
Sarah Ann 54 OH
William 20 OH
George 18 OH
Daniel 16 OH
Alfred 11 OH
28.01--William Keeney, b. Jan 1842 in VA; d. between 1920 and 1926 (see dates below); bd. unk.; m1. 11 Mar 1863 in Greenup Co., KY to Mary Ann Cunningham (an estimated eight ch. by Mary Ann at least sixteen total;); m2. 18 Apr 1885 in Greenup Co., KY to Samantha Pruett (b. ca. 1861; d. unk.; bd. unk.); at least eight ch. by Samantha of an estimated 16 total;
[POSSIBLY OURS in 1860: listed as William Keeney, farm manager, 20, in the 8 Aug 1860 census of Washington Twp., Lawrence Co., OH (right across the river from Huntington, WV), and lvg. w/his parents, John (67) and Sarah Ann (54) Keeney, and William's three younger brothers: George (18), Daniel (16), and Alfred (11)]
[listed as William Keeney, 29, teamster, b. WV (sic--should be VA, now WV), in the 6 Jul 1870 census of Old Town P.O., Greenup Co., KY]
[listed as William Keeney, 40, b. VA/VA/OH, in the Jun 1880 census of Old Town P.O., Greenup Co., KY]
[listed as William Kenney (sic), 58, b. Jan 1842 in VA/VA/OH, m2. for 13 yrs in the 16 Feb 1900 census of Riverton, Greenup Co., KY]
[listed as William Keeney of WV/VA/OH, m2. for 27 yrs on the 16 Feb 1910 census of Greenup Co., KY, and lvg. w/his wife, Samantha, and three ch., Henry, Eve, and Charlie]
[listed as William Keeney, 78, b. WV/VA/OH, in the 19 Jan 1920 census of Riverton, Greenup Co., KY, and lvg. w/his wife, Samantha, 56, and son Charlie, 17]
[listed as Mary Keeney, 29, b. PA/PA/PA, in the 6 Jul 1870 census of Old Town P.O., Greenup Co., KY]
[listed as Mary A. Keeney, 40, b. PA/PA/PA, in the Jun 1880 census of Old Town P.O., Greenup Co., KY]
[listed as Samantha Pruett who married on 18 Apr 1885 in Greenup Co., KY to William Keeney in the Kentucky Compiled Marriages, 1851-1900]
[listed as Samantha Kenney (sic), 38, b. May 1862 in KY/KY/KY, m. for 13 yrs. w/3 of 7 ch. lvg. in the 16 Feb 1900 census of Riverton, Greenup Co., KY]
[listed as Samantha Keeney of KY/KY/KY, m1. for 27 yr. w/4 of 8 ch. lvg., on the 16 Feb 1910 census of Greenup Co., KY, and lvg. w/her husb., William, and three ch., Henry, Eve, and Charlie]
[listed as Samancy Keeney, 56, b. KY/KY/KY, in the 19 Jan 1920 census of Riverton, Greenup Co., KY, and lvg. w/her husb. William, 78, and son Charlie, 17]
[listed as Samantha Keeney (wid Wm), h 5409 Winchester av, S'ville, in the 1926 City Directory of Portsmouth, OH, and lvg. w/son Charles, same address]
[John M. Gwin Note--15 Jan 2022: We know from the 1900 census that 28.00--William Keeney was born in Jan. 1842. I assume that he served in the Civil War, and so I estimate he was first married just after the war at approx. age 23. I believe this first wife is Mary Ann Cunningham of Pennsylvania. If he and Mary Ann had children about every 2-3 years until she died for unknown reasons, he would've then married Samantha soon after Mary's death because he would've needed help raising the children. We know he married Samantha about 13 years before 1900 or about 1887, and since son 29.09--John Keeney was born in March of 1888, that would make him the first of Samantha's eight kids.]
29.01--George Keeney, b. est. ca. 1865 in OH; d. unk.; bd. unk.; m. unk.; unk. ch.;
29.02--James Howard Keeney, b. 14 Oct 1869 in Ironton, Lawrence Co., OH; d. 7 Aug 1922 of pulmonary tuberculosis in Avery Creek Twp., Buncombe Co., NC; bd. Avery Creek Free Will Bapt. Ch. Cem., Arden, Buncombe Co., NC--FAG#225991952; m. Iris "Shineiver" "Shinlider" West (several different possible (mis)transcriptions of the cursive middle name have been seen) (b. unk.; d. unk.; bd. unk.); at least two ch.;[listed as George Keeney, 5, b. OH, in the 6 Jul 1870 census of Old Town P.O., Greenup Co., KY]
[listed as William Keeney, 15, b. OH/VA/PA, in the Jun 1880 census of Old Town P.O., Greenup Co., KY]
[listed as James Keeney, 2, b. OH, in the 6 Jul 1870 census of Old Town P.O., Greenup Co., KY]
[listed as James Keeney, 12, b. OH/VA/PA, in the Jun 1880 census of Old Town P.O., Greenup Co., KY]
[listed as James Howard Keeney, electric engineer of Hendersonville, Buncombe Co., NC, on his 13 Aug 1922 Death Certificate, b. 14 Oct 1869 in Ironton, OH to William Keeney and Mary Cunningham, that he died 7 Aug 1922 of pulmonary tuberculosis, and that he was buried in Avery Creek Cem.; info by Iris Shereliver Keeney, widow of deceased.]
BIO from James H. Keeney's FAG MemorialSon of William Keeney and Mary Ann Cunningham. They married on 11 Mar 1863, Greenup Co., KY.
Married: (1) Nora Darby; (2) Elizabeth Greene; (3) Iris Shinliver
1870 Census: (Oldtown, Greenup Co., OH); William Keeney 29; Mary Keeney 29; George Keeney 5; James Keeney 2
1880 Census (Oldtown, Greenup Co., OH); William Keeney 40 Self (Head); Mary A. Keeney 40 Wife; George Keeney 15 Son; James Keeney 12 Son OH; William Keeney 6 Son
James Howard Keeney of Oliver Springs. Tenn., and Hendersonville, N. C.. died at Hendersonville. N. C.. Monday night. Funeral services were conducted from the home of F. W. Young, Arden, N. C., Wednesday at 2 o'clock with burial at Avery cemetery. Surviving are the widow, a son and daughter. Mrs. Keeney was before her marriage Miss Iris Shineiver West, of Oliver Springs. Tenn.
OBITUARY
30.01--son Keeney, b. est. ca. 1892;29.03--Keeney, b. est. ca. 1870;
30.012--dau. Keeney, b. est. ca. 1894;
29.04--Keeney, b. est. ca. 1872;
29.05--William Keeney, (Jr.?), b. ca. 1874 in OH; d. unk.; bd. unk.; m. unk.; unk. ch.;
29.06--John Keeney, b. Feb 1875[listed as William Keeney, 6, b. OH/VA/PA, in the Jun 1880 census of Old Town P.O., Greenup Co., KY]
[listed as William Keeney and spouse, Mary A. Cunningham, and child, William Keeney in an undated (in or after 1874 Social Security Applications and Claims Index entry on Ancestry.com]