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Note: 1830: Delilah is 1 of 3 females enumerated in 1830 Darlington County Federal census.
1836: (1) Lanie Kea appointed Executrix of Estate of Thomas Kea, Deceased, on March 4, 1836. (2) Curtis Ivey Kea was named Guardian ad Litem for the eight minor children of Thomas Kea, Deceased: Nancy, age 18; DELILAH, age 17; James, age 16; Zachariah, age 11; John W., age 9; William, age 6; Margaret E., age 3, and Thomas, age five months; document dated March 4, 1836.
1837: Delilah and John Alexander marry; first child Mary born 1838. [1850 census]
1840: Liley and William Alexander listed on 1840 membership rolls of Cypress Methodist Church. (see USC reference) The oldest Cypress grave marker recorded is d. 8/22/1845, Vol III, Lee County,page 171, #120.
1840: Delilah's brother Curtis Ivey and family recorded in the Darlington County, S.C., US census of 1840. (3 males, 3 females: Curtis, (age 28); his wife Gatsey, (age 23); children Francis Albright, (age 6); Nicey, (age 4); Hannah, (age 1); and probably his brother Zachariah, (age 15).)
1840: Delilah K Alexander, age 19, census?
1840's: 'Liley' and John moved to Henry Co., Alabama after 1840, where his brother James Alexander was, however, they returned to SC in 1849. John was a Methodist minister on the Lamar Circuit.
1842: 'When Melissa Shirley 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 Wingate McCaskill] Melissa's 2nd marriage was William Key, brother of Delilah Kea Alexander, in 1860.
1850: Delilah, age 29, and family enumerated in the Bishopville, Sumter County, South Carolina census, page 362b. [usgenweb, electronic, sumter/pg360.txt] and [Line 15, hh #880, image 108 of 228, electronic]
1850: Delilah's brother Curtis (spelled Kean) Kea and family, recorded in the 1850 Darlington County, SC census; Curtis, 37; Gatsey, 33; Francis, 16; Nicey, 13; Hannah, 11; Margaren, 8; Thomas, 6; Helen, 4; Dora A., 2. [page 279, dated 8/2/1850, lines 6-14]. The John and Leonora O'Kelley family recorded on Lines 18-26. [Delilah's brother, the James Kea family recorded on page 337B, lines 26-31.] [Delilah's sister, Winniford Kea Hicks, and family, recorded on page 327, lines 6-11.]
1850: 'Liley,' the 6th born child of Thomas and 'Lanie, ' was the 1st to die, after 9/16/1850, and before 12/16/1852, at age 30 - 31. ('My mother died when I was about four years old.' from her son John Wesley's Civil War "Reminiscence." written in 1932.) Liley was member of Cypress in 1840; probably buried there (see 1840 entry).
1852: William re-married on December 16, 1852 to Martha Parnell.
1899: John Alexander is buried at Newman Swamp Cemetery, near Lamar, SC. 'Liley's' place of burial is not known; she may also be buried at Newman Swamp Cemetery, in an unmarked grave. [Newman Swamp Methodist was organized about 1816 as 'Windham's Meeting House.' The earliest grave marker is dated 8/14/1849.]
1970: Included in 'Lena' Green's personal files in Texas, was a letter, written about 1970. The writer [unknown to lfk] stated to Lena: 'I knew the daughter of John Wesley [Alexander], a maiden lady who died several years ago and was about 88 years of age. She did not know anything about the Kea's, except that her grandmother Delila was a Kea.' [Of all John Wesley [Alexander's] daughters, Maggie [Alexander], who died in 1965 at age 86, is the only one that fits the profile described by the writer. lfk]
LFK Note: This is an amazing piece of information; in it the writer gives 'Lena' Green information about the Thomas Kea Will, and information about the South Carolina [James Kea family;] that did not fit her "Kea Generations" profile she created. Further, the writer stated to Lena: 'I am satisfied that 'Leonore' and 'Lanie' Kea is the same person and that she was the daughter of James Johnson of Lenoir County, North Carolina.' Evidently, Lena chose to disregard what had been furnished to her. [Delila Kea was a sister of James Kea.]
'Lena' Green was the Kea family historian; she wrote the unpublished "Eleven Generations of Kea and Key families."
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