Brief Life History of Abraham
When Abraham Keckler was born on 5 March 1837, in Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, David Keckler, was 25 and his mother, Jane Brady, was 21. He married Eliza Virginia Allison in 1862, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Cumberland Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. He registered for military service in 1864. He died on 9 April 1911, in Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Abraham Keckler, "United States Census, 1910"
- Abraham Keckler, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
- Abraham Keckler, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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World Events (8)
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Altered form of German Kechler, an occupational name for a potter, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kachel ‘clay pot, tile’. Later it came to denote a stove fitter who built the typical Bavarian and Austrian tile stoves.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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