When Joel Gordon Keeling was born on 10 March 1865, in Willisburg, Washington, Kentucky, United States, his father, Uriah Keeling, was 34 and his mother, Mary Jane Shields, was 34. He married Sarah Alice Curtsinger on 12 September 1887, in Washington, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Samuel Family Burial Grounds, Nelson, Kentucky, United States in 1920 and Magisterial District 2, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 18 September 1945, in Nelson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Bardstown Cemetery, Bardstown, Nelson, Virginia, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Historical Boundaries 1879: Montgomery, Kentucky, United States
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: nickname from Middle English keling, kiling (probably of Old Norse origin) ‘young codfish’, perhaps for a fishmonger or for someone with staring eyes. Alternatively, from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Kel(l)ing, which may be transferred use of the nickname keling. The name has been established in Ireland since the 17th century. It is not to be confused with Irish Keelan .
Americanized form of German Kühling, a patronymic from Colo, probably a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name meaning ‘helmet’.
English: variant of Killing, a habitational name from Kelling (Norfolk) or Nunkeeling (East Yorkshire), both meaning ‘(the place of) the people of a man called Cylla’, from an Old English personal name Cylla + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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