Nancy Helen Keeney

Brief Life History of Nancy Helen

When Nancy Helen Keeney was born on 19 March 1850, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, her father, Henry Hiram Keeney, was 22 and her mother, Mary Ann "Polly" Baker, was 25. She had at least 9 sons and 2 daughters with William Fox Tomlinson. She lived in Magisterial District 4, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Colo, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States in 1920. She died on 5 August 1926, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Fox Tomlinson
1844–1902
Nancy Helen Keeney
1850–1926
Ann L. Tomlinson
1868–1947
Hardin Simpson Tomlinson
1870–1943
William Henry Tomlinson
1872–1955
Melvin Tomlinson
1874–1952
David F. Tomlinson
1877–
Hester Tomlinson
1879–1953
Virgil Tomlinson
1881–1959
Alvin Tomlison
1885–1946
Albert Tomlinson
1885–1946
Alfred Tomlinson
1888–1960
Rufus Tomlinson
1891–1959

Sources (30)

  • Nancy H Tomlinson in household of William Tomlinson, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Nancy Helen Keeney, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Nancy H. Tomlinson, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"

World Events (8)

1861

Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

Irish: variant of Keaney .

Americanized form of Swiss German Kühni, Kühne (see Kuehn ), or German Kiene or Kiener .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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