Nancy Minerva Keen

Brief Life History of Nancy Minerva

When Nancy Minerva Keen was born on 24 October 1868, in Texas, Missouri, United States, her father, Isaac Keen, was 38 and her mother, Phebe Margaret Simmons, was 34. She married George Porter Doss on 24 August 1884, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Berryville, Carroll, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Cabanal, Carroll, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 15 July 1952, in Marble, Madison, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Berryville, Carroll, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Porter Doss
1859–1932
Nancy Minerva Keen
1868–1952
Marriage: 24 August 1884
Rev Marion Lewis Doss
1891–1960
Mary Alice Doss
1894–
Rev Samuel Luther Doss
1895–1954
Rosa Mylinda Doss
1898–1977
Isaac Labin Doss
1900–1991
George Miley Doss
1903–1934
Raymond Theodore Doss
1906–1966

Sources (12)

  • Nancy Doss in household of George Doss, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Nannie Keen, "Arkansas Marriages, 1837-1944"
  • Nancy Mervina Keen Doss, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

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.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English personal name Kene, a short form of Old English names formed with either Cēn- (from cēn ‘keen’) or Cyne- (from cyne-, combining form of cynn ‘kin, family’).

English: nickname from Middle English kene ‘wise, brave, proud, keen’.

Dutch and North German: from a pet form of the personal name Christianus (see Christian ).

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

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