Mary J. Keith

Brief Life History of Mary J.

Mary J. Keith was born in 1835, in Tennessee, United States. She married James Dossey Goodwin on 14 May 1856, in Warren, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Lee Township, Boone, Arkansas, United States in 1880 and Elixir Township, Boone, Arkansas, United States in 1900. She died about 1910, at the age of 76.

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Family Time Line

James Dossey Goodwin
1831–1911
Mary J. Keith
1835–1910
Marriage: 14 May 1856
William Uriah Goodwin
1856–1924
George W. Goodwin
1860–1880
Louisa J. Goodwin
1862–1864
Sarah Elizabeth Goodwin
1864–1952
James Stokes Goodwin
1867–
Rachel Caroline Goodwin
1869–1963

Sources (10)

  • Mary J Goodwin in household of James D Goodwin, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Mary Keith, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1959"
  • Reader in entry for Rachel Caroline Jones, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"

World Events (8)

1835 · The Hermitage is Built

The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

Name Meaning

Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Keith in East Lothian. The placename is derived from British Celtic cait- ‘wood’. In the 17th century numerous bearers of this name settled in Ulster.

German: nickname from Middle High German kīt ‘sprout, offspring’.

History: George Keith (c. 1638–1716), born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, came to NJ in or before 1685. In 1689 he settled in Philadelphia, where he became headmaster of the school now called the William Penn Charter School. He came into sharp collision with the Quaker leaders in PA and formed a separatist party known as the Christian Quakers, popularly known as ‘Keithians’.

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

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