When Margaret Ellen Keenan was born on 24 December 1879, in Belleville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, her father, Thomas Keenan, was 43 and her mother, Mary Ann Donovan, was 38. She married John Cornelius Kane on 26 April 1904, in Mount Pleasant, Isabella, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Dowagiac, Cass, Michigan, United States in 1910 and Mount Pleasant, Isabella, Michigan, United States in 1920. She died on 1 April 1974, in Bartlesville, Washington, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Bartlesville, Washington, Oklahoma, United States.