Christian
Keller
Born about in Zürich, Switzerland
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Brother of
Johann Peter Keller, Anna Barbara (Keller) Kleinefelter, Eliza Katherina Keller, Johann Nikolaus Keller, Mary Elizabeth Keller, Anna Maria Keller, Anthony Keller Jr., Johann Michael Keller, John Keller, Barbara Keller and Henry Keller
Husband of
Elizabeth (Groff) Keller
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at about age 73
in Manchester Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Sep 2016
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Biography
[1]"Keller History. The Keller family is of German extraction and the founder of this honorable old family came to America and settled in Manchester township. York Co.. Pa. Here he died and was buried in the old Mennonite cemetery in that township.
Christian Keller, the grandfather of Mrs. Jacob Beshore, was born in 1752, and died in August. 1826. He married Elizabeth Grove and they had children: John, who died in Canada; Christian; Maria; Elizabeth: Susan; Mattie; and Annie.
Christian Keller (2). the father of Mrs. Jacob Beshore, was born June 3, 1799, in Manchester township, where he followed tanning. He married Elizabeth Bear, daughter of Michael and Catherine (Witmer) Bear, and he died in this township, aged forty-four years, Sept. 29, 1843. She was born Feb. 18, 1793, and died Aug. 18, 1872, aged seventy-nine years and six months, and both were buried in the old Mennonite cemetery mentioned. Their children were: Michael, born Dec. 22, 1820. who died July 12, 1868, and is buried in Manchester township; Daniel, who died in the West, aged eighty-two years; Christian, who lives in Dover township, aged eighty years; Jacob, born in Manchester township in 1827; Elizabeth, who married Peter Rover, of Maryland, and both died in the West; and Catherine, the wife of Jacob Beshore and mother of Josiah Beshore."
[2]1816 Death of daughter
- Magdalena Keller Hoover
- Birth: Apr. 1, 1778, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
- Death: Apr. 5, 1816, Jarvis, Ontario, Canada
- Born in West Manchester Township; died in Rainham Township. Daughter of Elizabeth Groff and Christian Keller.
- Burial: Rainham Mennonite Cemetery
- Rainham Centre, Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada
Sources
- ↑ Prowell, George Reeser. History of York County, Pennsylvania, Volume 2. United States: J. H. Beers, 1907. p. 856
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47002250/magdalena-hoover
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Christian by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Christian:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Christian by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Christian:
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~1.56%
Curt Sumner
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member nudnik_1
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Betty (Scarborough) Jagoe :
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~0.78%
Richard Parker :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A531066 [compare], Ancestry member rialpa38
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~0.78%
Beverly Noland :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Bonnie Scholting :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Jan (Rogers) Argubright :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch DY9166430 [compare], Ancestry member ToddAllanWhitesides
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~0.39%
Emily Lair :
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