Greenberry Keeton

Brief Life History of Greenberry

When Greenberry Keeton was born in September 1833, in Wells Mill, Floyd, Kentucky, United States, his father, Edmund Edward Keeton, was 20 and his mother, Catherine Smith, was 21. He married Mary Smith on 15 September 1855, in Morgan, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Fentress, Tennessee, United States in 1850. He died on 5 March 1912, in Morgan, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 78.

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Family Time Line

Greenberry Keeton
1833–1912
Mary Smith
1835–1917
Marriage: 15 September 1855
Sarilda Keeton
1856–1950
James Harvey Keeton
1858–1928
Edmund Keeton
1861–
Elijah Keeton
1863–1935
Asberry Keeton
1865–1936
Greenberry Keeton Jr
1867–1937
Benjamin Keaton
1871–
Thomas Jefferson Keaton
1871–1962
Lucinda C Keeton
1876–1900

Sources (20)

  • Grunberry Keeton, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Granbury B Kuten, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • Greane Keeton in entry for Berry Keeton, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967"

World Events (8)

1835 · The Hermitage is Built

The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

Name Meaning

English:

habitational name from Kiveton, in the parish of Wales (Yorkshire), close to the borders of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. The placename probably derives from Old English cȳf ‘vessel, tub’, used topographically for a depression or hollow, + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.

variant of Caton .

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

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