Catherine Christine Keßels Kessel was born on 22 October 1786, in Goldlauter, Schleusingen, Province of Saxony, Prussia, Germany as the daughter of Johann Veit Keßels Kessel. She married Henry M. Ekiss about 1803, in Montgomery, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Montgomery, Virginia, United States in 1860. She died on 7 December 1875, in Virginia, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Goldlauter, Schleusingen, Province of Saxony, Prussia, Germany.
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Possibly an Americanized form of German Kehls, genitivized form of Kehl .
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