Father: David Keller (1788-1837)
Mother: Mary Fairfax Moore (1796-1875)
05/02/1837 - Father, David, died in Colbert Co., Alabama
1852 - M.D. degree, Medical Department of the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (from: AL)
1852 - Married, Sally Phillips (1831-1809), Jefferson Co., KY
04/00/1857 - Moved to Memphis, TN, to practice medicine
07/27/1860 - Practiced medicine, Memphis, Shelby Co., TN (lived with his wife, Sallie, and two children; indexed in the 1860 U. S. Census as J. M. Keller)
10/00/1861 - Surgeon-in-charge, City Hospital, Memphis, TN
03/00/1862 - Surgeon-in-charge, State Hospital, Memphis, TN
05/01/1862 - Chief Surgeon, Gen. T. C. Hindman's Division
12/12/1862 - Medical Director, Gen. T. C. Hindman's Division
08/24/1863 - Surgeon-in-charge, Point Clear Hospital, Point Clear, AL (near Mobile, AL)
1865-1868 - Practiced medicine, Memphis, TN
1868 - Moved to Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY
07/16/1870 - Practiced medicine, Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY (lived with wife, Sallie C. and three children; indexed in the 1870 U. S. Census as J. M. Keller)
09/28/1875 - Mother, Mary, died in Tuscumbia, Colbert Co., AL
06/08/1880 - Practiced medicine, Hot Springs, Garland Co., AR (lived with wife, Sally P., and one nephew, Arthur H. Keller, who was a medical student; indexed in the 1880 U. S. Census as James M. Keller)
06/01/1900 - Practiced medicine, Hot Springs Township, Garland Co., AR (lived with wife, Sarah P. ; indexed in the 1900 U. S. Census as James M. Keller)
04/08/1906 - Wife, Sally, died in Hot Springs, AR (buried: Calvary Cemetery, Little Rock, Pulaski Co., AR; FindAGrave #141798616)
05/12/1910 - Practiced medicine and widower, Hot Springs, Garland Co, AR (lived with a grandson and a granddaughter; indexed in the 1910 U. S. Census as J. M. Keller)
- Past president, Board of Education, Louisville, KY
- Former professor, Louisville Medical College
- Past president, Kentucky State Medical Association
- Member, Arkansas State Medical Society
- ex-vice president, American Medical Society
- ex -president, Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy
05/07/1914 - Died at his home, Hot Springs, Garland Co., AR (buried: Calvary Cemetery, Little Rock, Pulaski Co., AR; FindAGrave #141697832)

Note: Dr. Keller's gravestone has been engraved with an erroneous date of death. Multiple obituaries give the date of death as 05/27/1914, including an obituary in the Journal of the American Medical Association (vol. 62, p. 1824)

Spotsgenie provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
01/24/2015. Updated 10/05/20212.
Unpublished database.

Obituary (May 30, 1914 Arkansas Gazette) indicated he died May 27 in Hot Springs; was great-grandson of Alexander Spotswood, early colonial governor of Virginia; was grandson of Alexander Moore, aide to General LaFayette; was third cousin to Robert E. Lee; was brother to Arthur Keller; was uncle to Helen Keller; was born in Tuscumbia, AL; was Confederate surgeon.