John Hiram Keeney, oldest son of Jonathan Keeney, born Dec. 3, 1804 in Jefferson or Cooke County, Tennessee, grew to manhood in Fayette County, Indiana where he married Mary Kruzan (or Crusan) from Ohio in 1826. (A record of John Hiram Keeney's marriage to Mary Crusan on July 12, 1825 was found in Union County, Indiana records.) He, with his Uncle John and the Oldhams, went to Holt County, Missouri where he stayed six years, He returned to Indiana (Montgomery County) near Ladoga, where his father, with the rest of the family, had settled about 1830. Hendricks County records show John H. Keeney entered 160 acres in Section 34, Township 17 North, Range 1 West in what is now Union Township on Nov. 25, 1835 and moved to it in 1836.
He was soon identified with the Big White Lick Baptist Church, founded in Dec. of 1833. His name is mentioned many times in the original minutes as elder and moderator. In the January meeting in 1851, he is named as one of three trustees to supervise the building of the first frame church, one mile east of Pittsboro.
John and Mary are buried near the center of the old White Lick cemetery. The place is marked with a little block of red granite with names and dates, set on the original limestone base. The old stones had fallen over with the legends scarcely readable.
They had two children born in Missouri, two in Montgomery County, Indiana and five in Hendricks County, Indiana
John Hiram Keeney, oldest son of Jonathan Keeney, born Dec. 3, 1804 in Jefferson or Cooke County, Tennessee, grew to manhood in Fayette County, Indiana where he married Mary Kruzan (or Crusan) from Ohio in 1826. (A record of John Hiram Keeney's marriage to Mary Crusan on July 12, 1825 was found in Union County, Indiana records.) He, with his Uncle John and the Oldhams, went to Holt County, Missouri where he stayed six years, He returned to Indiana (Montgomery County) near Ladoga, where his father, with the rest of the family, had settled about 1830. Hendricks County records show John H. Keeney entered 160 acres in Section 34, Township 17 North, Range 1 West in what is now Union Township on Nov. 25, 1835 and moved to it in 1836.
He was soon identified with the Big White Lick Baptist Church, founded in Dec. of 1833. His name is mentioned many times in the original minutes as elder and moderator. In the January meeting in 1851, he is named as one of three trustees to supervise the building of the first frame church, one mile east of Pittsboro.
John and Mary are buried near the center of the old White Lick cemetery. The place is marked with a little block of red granite with names and dates, set on the original limestone base. The old stones had fallen over with the legends scarcely readable.
They had two children born in Missouri, two in Montgomery County, Indiana and five in Hendricks County, Indiana
Family Members
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Mary Ellen Keeney Shaffer
1827–1860
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Jonathan M. Keeney
1829–1847
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John Franklin Keeney
1832–1913
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Charles Willis Keeney
1835–1915
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Elizabeth Ann Keeney Long
1838–1919
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Charlotte Catherine Keeney
1840–1846
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Matilda Jane Keeney May
1843–1912
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Joseph Darius Keeney
1846–1913
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James Barnabus "Barney" Keeney
1853–1929
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