After getting 8 children raised and retiring from teaching school, I finally have time to get serious about genealogy, but I have lots to learn. My father Jess Thomas Keeler spent a great deal of his life trying to locate information on his family. It is ironic that in just a few short months, using the Internet and e-mailing cousins, I have been able to find probably 10 times more than he ever did in his life time. I really feel we've been blessed to live in a time such as this!

Evans/Keeler/Murphy reunion July 1, 2000 in Pocatello, Idaho. An annual get-to-gether for all relatives of my grandma Ruth Evans Keeler Murphy.

Ebenezer Keeler Line: Recently found great information on Sarah Ann Reed's family though county records in Shelbyville, Illinois.
(See history in link section below)

In a related note: Ebenezer's Granddaughter, Nina Keeler Donat just celebrated her 100th birthday Feb. 18, in Pocatello, Idaho. We attended and had a grant time meeting all her family & friends. We expect her to live another 10 years! She's alert and very conversational. (Her story in link section)

Henderson/Thomas Line: In a similar vein found family Bible with Thomas records in Montana. Link to Benjamin Thomas below.

• Keeler-Henderson genealogy connections (856 KB)
  Ancestors of Margaret Alene Henderson and Jess Thomas Keeler. Family lines include Keeler, Reed, Robinett, Austin, Sherrill,Smith, Evans, Bowen, Henderson, Thomas, Roberts,Warner, and others.

• Ebenezer Keeler 1835-1912 (4 KB)
  Ebenezer, the son of James W. Keeler and Catherine Taylor, had three wives: Sarah Ann Reed, Georgia A. and Francis Anderson. He was a patriarch in the Reorganized LDS Church.
• James Edward Keeler farm in Osage, Canada (92 KB)
  Keeler homestead in Osage, Canda taken in 1907. Pictured: R-L James Edward Keeler, Julia Ann, Jesse Willis, Nina, Howard, and Louis. Parents joined a caravan from Iowa to Canada in 1902 and lived there 5 years, but crops froze most years, and they moved to Oregon, then Arbon Valley in 1909.
• Nina Gertrude Keeler Donat (3 KB)
  Nina recently celebrated her 100th birthday in Pocatello, Idaho. 1900-2000 and still going!
• Jess & Margaret Keeler wedding (105 KB)
  Wedding September 07, 1940 Pocatello, Idaho of Jess Thomas Keeler and Margaret Alene Henderson
• Ruth Evans Keeler Murphy (13 KB)
  My grandmother. Jess Thomas was her only child with Jess Willis Keeler. She later married Mike Murphy.
• Jess Willis Keeler (10 KB)
  Wedding picture taken April 18, 1915. Shortly after birth of his son, Jess Thomas, he enlisted in WWI, and never was to return to his wife & child.

• Nina Keeler Donat 1900-2000 (and going strong) (1 KB)
  Brief History of Nina written by her son Bob Donat at the time of her 100th birthday, Feb. 19, 2000
• Harriet Delight Warner (10 KB)
  A valiant pioneer woman, my gggrandmother. Born 1831, a year after the LDS church was organized, knew the Prophet Joseph, attended first Relief society, and went west with the Saints. Drove two yoke of oxen to Salt Lake Valley as a teenage girl. Mother of 13 children.
• Thomas, Bolingbroke obituaries (9 KB)
  John L. Thomas, David Davis Thomas, & Mrs. Charles Bolingbroke obituaries. All ancestors of Margaret Henderson.

• Edward Reed Bible records (Sarah Ann Reed's father)
• Steve & Janet Wilcox family web pages
• Ririe High School Class of 1960, Reunion 2000
• History of Jess Thomas Keeler
• Benjamin L Thomas son of John and Elizabeth Thomas
• Keeler genealogy lines world wide
• Tracing the history of the Keeler surname

Janet Keeler Wilcox
112 S. 300 W. (54-2)
Blanding, Utah 84511
United States
wilcox@sisna.com

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