Elizabeth (Keeney) Duncan
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Elizabeth (Keeney) Duncan (abt. 1815)

Elizabeth Duncan formerly Keeney aka Keeney
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Biography

Birth and Early Life

Birth

Elizabeth Keeney was born in about 1815 to Thomas Keeney and Nancy Fugate.

Marriages and Family

She married twice.

  1. On 29 January 1832 in Saline, Missouri she married her first cousin, Isley Keeney (1811-1842). He died of tuberculosis when her youngest child was 3 years old in 1842.
  2. 20 February 1843 in Holt County, Missouri she married John H. Duncan by Minister Isaac Martin.

Children of the Keeney-Keeney Marriage

  1. John Keeney born c. 1837 in Ray County, Missouri, United States.
  2. Nancy Ann Keeney born in 17 April 1839 in Ray County, Missouri, United States. She married James Luney Smith (1837-1907) c. 1858. Nancy died on 20 June 1923 in Creswell, Lane, Oregon, United States.

Later Life and the Keeney Wagon Train

After her husband died, she decided to accompany her mother-in-law and the extended family with her family to Oregon on the Oregon Trail in the largest wagon train of the time on the Oregon Trail. It was led by Isley's brothers Elias and Capt. Jonathan Keeney.

Sources

  • Keeney, Ralph Ray. Wagon Ruts West. Keeney, R.R., 1983. [1]
  • Missouri Marriages to 1850 for Isley Keeney and Elizabeth Keeney.
  • Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002 in Holt County for Elizabeth Keeney and John H. Duncan.

Footnotes

  1. Keeney, RR: It is out of print, but the author had granted pieces of it for educational purposes to be read on line. Find at: [1] It gives family genealogy.




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