Name: Thomas Kea(2)_2021-05-26

Updated: 05-27-2021 05:05:80.


Individual Page


Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Rosannah Eliizabeth 'Rosa' Herndon: Birth: 23 FEB 1850 in Troy, Pike, Alabama, USA. Death: 16 APR 1939 in Galveston, Texas, USA

  2. Lula S Herndon: Birth: JUL 1851 in Troy, Pike, Alabama, USA. Death: AFT 1900 in Orion, Pike, Alabama, USA

  3. Elizabeth Herndon: Birth: 1853 in Troy, Pike, Alabama, USA.

  4. James Hampton Herndon: Birth: 8 AUG 1854 in Troy, Pike, Alabama, USA. Death: AFT 1920 in Covington, Alabama, USA

  5. Jacob Kelley Herndon: Birth: 31 JUL 1856 in Troy, Pike, Alabama, USA. Death: 26 MAY 1908 in Lavaca, Sebastian, Arkansas, USA

  6. Emma Sylvestor Herndon: Birth: 23 FEB 1858 in Orion, Pike, Alabama, USA. Death: 16 APR 1939 in Marl, Geneva, Alabama, USA


Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Martha E Key: Birth: 14 FEB 1861 in Troy, Pike, Alabama, USA. Death: BEF 24 MAR 1888 in Pike, Alabama, USA


Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. William R Chancellor: Birth: 11 MAY 1864 in Orion, Pike, Alabama, USA. Death: 18 JUN 1926 in Weed Crossroad, Crenshaw, Alabama, USA

  2. William Burrell 'Bill' Chancellor Key: Birth: 27 JUN 1865 in Troy, Pike, Alabama, USA. Death: 6 DEC 1938 in Troy, Pike, Alabama, USA

  3. Lula Augusta Chancellor Key: Birth: 23 SEP 1870 in Troy, Pike, Alabama, USA. Death: 24 FEB 1942 in Camilla, Mitchell, Georgia, USA


Sources
1. Title:   Heard, Jerry; Jerry@@Heard.com
2. Title:   U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;

Notes
a. Note:   1826: 'Melissa was born 8 miles from Darlington.' [memoirs of Lillie Ruth Wingate McCaskill]
  1842: 'When Melissa was 16, her family left South Carolina in a wagon train; with families: Wingates, Shirleys, Kelleys, Loves, Johnstons, Keys, Herndons, Chanceys, Osteens, Wards, Rallings, and Hudsons. The Wingates and Hudsons left the wagon train in Georgia, and the remaining families moved to Pike County, Alabama.' [memoirs of Lillie Ruth Wingae McCaskill]
  1847; Melissa and Jon P Herndon marry 6/20/1847 in Pike, Alabama. She is 21 years old.
  1860: Melissa and William Key marry 5/14/1860 in Troy, Pike, Alabama. She is 33 years old; William is 30.
  1860: Melissa and William Key recorded with her father in the 1860 Pike County, Alabama census.
  1861: William Key and Melissa's child, Martha, born 2/14/1861; in Troy, Alabama.
  1863: 'William M. was a POW, held at Fort Monroe (Camp Hamilton Prison Camp), Hampton, Virginia. He was exchanged in 1864. After taking the amnesty oath, he escaped into Illinois until the war ended.' ['Eleven Generations,' page 5]
  1863: Larry Kea CW Notes: Zachariah Kea, William's brother, was a Corporal, 57th Alabama Infantry, Co. 'D.' The 57th was organized in March, 1863, at Troy, in Pike County, Alabama. The 57th was in the Dalton-Atlanta Campaign, (Battle of Peach Tree Creek); also in North Carolina, at Bentonville, where it surrendered. Zachariah did not serve in the Virginia campaigns, either.
  1865: Melissa's second child, William Burl, born 6/27/1865; in Troy, Alabama.
  1870: Melissa's third child, Lula Augusta, born 9/23/1870; in Troy, Alabama.
  1870: Melissa and children recorded in 1870 Orion, Pike County, Alabama census. Melissa Key, 41; Elizabeth Key (Herndon), age 17; James Key (Herndon), age16; Jacob Key (Herndon), age 17; Emma Key (Herndon), age 12; Martha Key, age 9; William Key (Chancellor), age 5; Augusta Key (Chancellor), age 1.
  1880: Melissa, recorded as a widow and living with children from both marriages in the 1880 Pike County, Alabama census. Her son, James and family recorded in Orion, Alabama census; page 78A; next to his mother, Malissa Key. [LDS, electronic]
  1880's: 'My mother (Lula Augusta Key) told me that her father (William Key) went to Texas to see his brother, Tommy. He wanted grandmother (Melissa) to leave her first family (grown) with her parents and move with him to Texas with the 3 children; my grandmother did not want to go. They heard from Grandfather Key often; until 1892.' [memoirs of Lillie Ruth Wingate McCaskill].
  1900: Where is Melissa in census?
  1910: Malissa, mother-in-law, enumerated with her daughter Lula Wingate and family in the 1173 Militia Dist, Mitchell County, Georgia, Dist 111, image 18 of 44, electronic.

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