Mastin L. Keys and Nancy Godwin Keys

The back of this photo is inscribed "Uncle Bob & Aunt Elizabeth Keys." Bob's legal name was known to be Maston Lindsey Keys. Elizabeth was better known as Aunt Lizzie. This letter from Aunt Lizzie exemplifies their faith, patience and endurance:
Lenore, Tex Nov. the 27 '92
Mrs. L. J. Long and Mother and Brother and Sisters
Greetings to you all.
We air all well and hope you all the same our wheat is looking fine we have 45 acres sode we aim to break some more new land this winter if we can I wanted to have come to see you all last summer but I could not on account of Mary Janes sickness she dide the 27 of last month. She was taken sick last April and her pa went out thair to see her and she got a little better and come home with him tha got hear about the 2 of Jul and she never set up but verry little after she got hear and their was 15 weeks that she was not up only as we hope her up no one cant begin to tell how she suffered I have saw no sutch case thair was 6 doctors saw her first and last but nun of them did not no what was the matter with her but thanks be to the Lord as she had to die she dide in his hands We talked all about ding to her and she told us that she had no fears of death she was made to rejois several times during her sickness she wood laugh and tell us her way was clear her misery was mostly in her head and right leg we had the best neighbors you ever saw tha hope lift her all most day and night for 15 weeks tha nour faild to come and help us. Josh has gone back to hunt Co with the children I want you all to rite to us as soon as you get this tell Henry and Sally that we air all well and that his pa will rite to them soon Ma if we live till next sommer I want to come to see you if I can I want you all to remember us in your prairs
rite soon and dont fail yours as ever
N. E. Keys
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Floyd B. Weaver of Goldthwaite TX and Myra Weaver Smith of Lockhart provided Ruth Godwin Gadbury with information on the family of Ruth's grand-aunt, Nancy Elizabeth (Lizzie) Keys. Ruth used this information in her book GODWIN-HILL AND RELATED FAMILIES, 1980.
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