Rainstown - After a brief illness, Grandma Keeney died Thursday evening aged ninety-two years, ten months and twenty-eight days. Mary Kruzan was born in Ohio July 4th, 1805. At the age of nineteen she was married to John H. Keeney near Connersville, Ind. They moved to Missouri, returning to Montgomery county, Indiana in 1830. Six years later they removed to Hendricks county where she has since resided. Her husband died in 1867. She was the mother of nine children, six of whom survive her. There are thirty grandchildren and twenty-eight great-grandchildren living. She had been a member of the Baptist church about sixty years. She was a kind mother and was ever ready to assist the afflicted and needy. The funeral services were conducted by Elder Benson at the Baptist church at Pittsboro, after which the burial was at White Lick cemetery east of town. The pall-bearers were great-grandsons. There was a large attendance of relatives and friends.
Rainstown - After a brief illness, Grandma Keeney died Thursday evening aged ninety-two years, ten months and twenty-eight days. Mary Kruzan was born in Ohio July 4th, 1805. At the age of nineteen she was married to John H. Keeney near Connersville, Ind. They moved to Missouri, returning to Montgomery county, Indiana in 1830. Six years later they removed to Hendricks county where she has since resided. Her husband died in 1867. She was the mother of nine children, six of whom survive her. There are thirty grandchildren and twenty-eight great-grandchildren living. She had been a member of the Baptist church about sixty years. She was a kind mother and was ever ready to assist the afflicted and needy. The funeral services were conducted by Elder Benson at the Baptist church at Pittsboro, after which the burial was at White Lick cemetery east of town. The pall-bearers were great-grandsons. There was a large attendance of relatives and friends.
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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