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Descendants of Dempsey Key

Generation No. 1

1. DEMPSEY¹ KEY was born Bet. 1805 - 1809 in South Carolina, and died Bet. 1849 - 1907. He married MARY ANN ISOM 1835 in Shelby county, Tennessee, daughter of JONATHAN ISOM and MARTHA MILES. She was born December 11, 1820, and died 1857 in Iowa.

Notes for DEMPSEY KEY:
- - - - *****Notes Below Courtesy Nadine Friedrichs-3/23/1998*****- - - - - - - - -
He never owned land in Carroll Co., MO. but came there with his wife's
parents in 1840 from Shelby Co., TN. They had five sons in 1840. Demsey
KEY was a farm laborer for John STREET from 1841 to 1845. In 1845 he
was a charter member of "Our Little Flock" Baptist church in Leslie TWP,
east of Mandeville, MO. By 1856? he was in Ray Co., MO. -Demsey KEY
deserted his family before 1857 probably returned to TN. from Mo. In
1857 Mary Ann and 5 sons died of diphtheria within a two week time
period.
Dempsey Key may have went to Iowa when he deserted his family.
Have found land records of Dempsey Key in Carroll county, Missouri. (found-5-1-1998)
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
                        BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
                        WASHINGTON
Schedule 1.---Free Inhabitants in District No. 75 , in the County of Ray , State of Missouri .
enumerated by me, on the 26th day of Sept. , 1850. Geo I. Wasson Ass't Marshall

720      720      Key Dempsey            41      M            Laborer            S.C.
            Key Mary            29      F                        Ala
            Key William H.            14      M                        Ten
            Key Jonathan A.            13      M                        Ten
            Key Owen W.            12      M                        Ten
            Key Dorsey M.            10      M                        Ten
            Key James W.            10      M                        Ten
            Key John W.            7      M                        Ten
            Key Henry C.            5      M                        Mo
            Key Thomas W.            3      M                        Mo
            Key Edmund T.            2      M                        Mo
            Key Martha R.            9/12      F                        Mo
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More About DEMPSEY KEY:
Fact 2: Bef.
Fact 3: Bef.
Fact 4: Bef.
Fact 5: Bef.
Fact 6: Bef.
Fact 7: Bef.

Notes for MARY ANN ISOM:
- - - - *****Notes Below Courtesy Nadine Friedrichs-3/23/1998*****- - - - - - - - --
-Mary Ann ISOMKEYdiphtheria and lost 5 sons in 2 weeks from
Diptheria.
The Keys are listed in the 1840 Census, Shelby Co. Tenn.--5 sons under
5. in the 1850 census they were living in Ray Co. Mo.
Mary Ann and the five children were buried on the family plot- later a
new land owner broke the stones and incorporated them into the
foundation of his new house, and destroyed the burial ground.

Children of DEMPSEY KEY and MARY ISOM are:

	i.	INFANT (1)² KEY, b. Aft. 1850.
	ii.	INFANT (2) KEY, b. Aft. 1850.
	iii.	INFANT (3) KEY, b. Aft. 1850.
	iv.	INFANT (4) KEY, b. Aft. 1850.
2.	v.	WILLIAM HARDY KEY, b. March 15, 1836, Shelby County, Tennessee; d. February 03, 1936, Carroll Conty, Missouri.
	vi.	JONATHAN A. KEY, b. 1837; d. 1921; m. (1) MARGARET STREET; m. (2) SARAH MARGARET CASKY, September 24, 1858; b. December 15, 1838; d. May 04, 1877; m. (3) ESTHER BELLAMY, June 25, 1884; d. January 18, 1889; m. (4) MARTHA LEE BAGNELL, September 02, 1890; b. February 06, 1852; d. April 19, 1914.

More About SARAH MARGARET CASKY:
Fact 1: Jonathan and Sarah had 8 children

More About MARTHA LEE BAGNELL:
Fact 1: Jonathan and Martha had 2 children

vii.

OWEN DEMPSEY KEY, b. 1838, Tennessee; d. April 02, 1931.

More About OWEN DEMPSEY KEY:
Fact 1: died young

	viii.	DORSEY MARION KEY, b. 1840; d. 1857.
	ix.	JAMES W. KEY, b. 1840; d. 1857.
3.	x.	PHOEBE ANN KEY, b. 1854; d. Iowa.
	xi.	JOHN WESLEY KEY, b. 1843, Tennessee; d. 1857.
	xii.	HENRY CALVIN KEY, b. 1845, Missouri; d. 1857.
4.	xiii.	EDMOND TAYLOR KEY, b. March 30, 1847, Missouri; d. December 15, 1926, buried at Dover Missouri.
	xiv.	THOMAS KEY, b. 1847, Missouri; d. 1857.
	xv.	MARTHA R. KEY, b. July 12, 1849; d. 1850.

More About MARTHA R. KEY:
Fact 1: died as an infant.

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