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

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


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Burrell Kea: Birth: 12 FEB 1810 in Stokes Bridge, Darlington, South Carolina, USA. Death: 22 OCT 1894 in Adrian, Emanuel, Georgia, USA

  2. Sion Heath Key: Birth: 11 JUL 1812 in Stokes Bridge, Darlington, South Carolina, USA. Death: 29 DEC 1882 in Colquitt, Georgia, USA

  3. Eliza Ann Key: Birth: JUL 1815 in Stokes Bridge, Darlington, South Carolina, USA. Death: AFT 1900 in Emanuel, Georgia, USA

  4. Spencer Key: Birth: 1817 in Stokes Bridge, Darlington, South Carolina, USA. Death: 1857 in Adrian, Emanuel, Georgia, USA

  5. Pattie Key: Birth: 1818 in Stokes Bridge, Darlington, South Carolina, USA. Death: BEF 1820

  6. Della Key: Birth: 1818 in Stokes Bridge, Darlington, South Carolina, USA. Death: BEF 1820

  7. Wesley Kea: Birth: 2 JAN 1819 in Emanuel, Georgia, USA. Death: 21 JUN 1878 in Swainsboro, Emanuel, Georgia, USA

  8. Wylie 'Wiley' Key: Birth: 30 MAR 1821 in Emanuel, Georgia, USA. Death: 22 AUG 1873 in Adrian, Emanuel, Georgia, USA

  9. Delilah Key: Birth: 1823 in Emanuel, Georgia, USA. Death: AFT 1860 in Ware, Georgia, USA

  10. Nancy Key: Birth: 10 SEP 1825 in Emanuel, Georgia, USA. Death: JUN 1900 in Johnson, Georgia, USA

  11. Mary H 'Polly' Key: Birth: 9 FEB 1827 in Emanuel, Georgia, USA. Death: SEP 1901 in Laurens, Georgia, USA

  12. Arrena Rumph 'Rena' Key: Birth: 24 APR 1830 in Emanuel, Georgia, USA. Death: 10 APR 1914 in Swainsboro, Emanuel, Georgia, USA

  13. Warren Kea: Birth: 1833 in Emanuel, Georgia, USA. Death: 2 AUG 1862 in Antietam, Maryland, USA

  14. John Nelson Kea: Birth: 4 DEC 1835 in Emanuel, Georgia, USA. Death: 15 AUG 1862 in Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, USA


Sources
1. Title:   U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
2. Title:   1810 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1810; Census Place: Darlington, South Carolina; Roll: 62; Page: 645; Image: 00015; Family History Library Film: 0181421
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;

Notes
a. Note:   1805: Elias 'Eli' Whiddon, son of William, Jr., enumerated in 1805/1806 Montgomery County, Georgia tax records. (see 1812, 1818, and 1821)
  1806: Rev Edward Skinner, son of Benjamin, licensed to preach in Methodist church on 9/26/1806.
  1809: Rev Edward Skinner, Methodist minister, performs marriage of Warren Key abt 5/12/1809? (Warren Key enumerated next to Rev Edward Skinner in 1810 census.)
  1810: The official (as of) date for the 1810 census was August 6, 1810; to be completed within 9 months, and extended by law to 10 months.
  1810: Warren Key recorded in the 1810 US Census, Darlington District, SC, next to Rev Edward Skinner, next to his brothers, Benjamin and John. The Skinner brothers, including Lemuel, were children of Benjamin Skinner and Pricilla Woodham. Edward Skinner witnessed land purchases of Thomas Kea in 1812, 1813, and 1816. Thomas Kea purchased land from Benjamin and Frederick Skinner. Curtis Ivy Kea, son of Thomas Kea, married Gatsey Skinner, daughter of Lemuel Skinner.
  1810: Abraham Beasley and Warren Key is recorded 12 households apart in 1810 US Census. Three Beasley family members; Abraham, his wife Elizabeth, and son Noel, born 5/13/1809. Three Key family members would be Warren, his wife Nancy, and son Burrell, born 1810.
  1810: The James Barwick family recorded next to Abram Beasley in the 1810 Darlington County census. [electronic; Darlington...page 0009.gif] (see year 1855)
  1812: Emanuel County, Georgia formed from part of Montgomery County, Georgia. (see 1805 and 1821)
  1814: Warren Kea served in the SC Militia during the War of 1812. He was discharged on 26 November 1814.
  1815: William E 'Bill' Whiddon, son of William, Jr., moved to Emanuel County, Georgia in 1815. (See 1821 sale to Warren Key)
  1818: William Whiddon, Jr., father of 'Eli' and William E 'Bill' Whiddon, died 2/3/1818 in Emanuel County, Ga.
  1818: Warren Key family must have moved to Emanuel County, Georgia in 1818, before Wesley was born in January. 1819.
  1819: Wesley Key, son of Warren Key, born 1/2/1819 in Emanuel County, Georgia -according to 1850, 1860, and 1870 Emanuel County census.
  1819: Thomas Kea purchases 100 acres bordering the Chesterfield Road on 10/12/1819; where Warren Key lived. Purchase made after Warren moved to Georgia.
  1820: The official (as of) date for the 1820 census was August 7, 1820; to be completed within 6 months, and extended by law to 13 months.
  1820: Abram Beasley recorded next to Thomas Kea in Darlington District 1820 US Census.
  1820: Warren Key enumerated next to Eli Whiddon (brother of William E 'Bill' Whiddon) in the 1820 Emanuel County, Georgia census. Eli's brother William sold 300 acres toWarren Key on 9/20/1821.
  1821: 'William E 'Bill' Whiddon, brother of 'Eli' Whiddon, sold Warren Key 300 acres for $50; dated 9/20/1821; recorded 2/2/1842, Emanuel County, Georgia.' [Hutchinson]
  1825: Abram Beasley recorded on the 1825 Mills map; on what is now US 15 / SC 34, near the Sparrow Swamp.
  1830: The official (as of) date for the 1830 census was June 1, 1830; to be completed within 6 months, and extended by law to 12 months.
  1840: The official (as of) date for the 1840 census was June 1, 1840; to be completed within 9 months, and extended by law to 18 months.
  1840: Included in the Warren Key 1840 Emanuel County census is a female; 60-70 years old, born 1771-1780; his/her mother?
  1843: 'Warren died near Statesboro; he and Burrell was headed home after a trip to Brunswick to get a supply of salt for the plantation.' [Mrs. Ruby Thompson King; page 15, Key/Kea, Vol 1.]
  1855: James Barwick's nephew, Curtis Manning Barwick, married Mary Ann 'Polly' Kea, the daughter of Burrell Kea, on 3/8/1851. Both Curtis, b. 4/9/1823; and Burell, b. 2/12/1810; the son of Warren Key, were born in Darlington, SC.
  1984: 'Founder and first preacher of Kea's Church, Emanuel Co., Ga; son of James and Elizabeth Barnes Key; born NC 1780-90; m/Polly Beasley, daughter of James and Polly Beasley of Warrenton, Ga; eldest son named Burrell Key (B 1810).' ref: Lawrence, Harold, Methodist Preachers in Georgia 1783-1900 (The Boyd Publishing Co. LTD, 1984, Tignall, Ga.) Also see: Dorsey, James, Footprints Along The Hoppee (The Reprint Co., Spartanburg, S.C.)
  Warren Key family descendants believe that Warren married a grand-daughter of James and Polly Beasley of Warrenton, Ga., (and child of William Beasley and Rachel Robbinett.)
  I believe there is another circumstantial possibility: Warren Key married Mary 'Polly' Whiddon, daughter of William and Mary Davis Whiddon. (See 1820 Emanuel census notes.) For Warren to marry Polly Beasley, he would have to travel to Georgia and return to SC. I personally don't think it happened. Larry Kea
  There is DNA evidence that Warren Key and Thomas Kea are related, and they lived in the same vicinity of Stokes Bridge, Darlington County during the 1812 - 1819 period.

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