When Malissa Ann Keeling was born on 30 May 1838, in Washington, Kentucky, United States, her father, Benjamin Franklin Keeling Jr, was 64 and her mother, Jane Bunch, was 34. She married Levi Ebenezer Carey on 14 August 1860, in Springfield, Washington, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Willisburg, Washington, Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Magisterial District 5, Washington, Kentucky, United States in 1880. She died in 1919, in Kentucky, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Washington, Kentucky, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
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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