Ira Savilla (Dayton) Keller (1870 - 1938)

Born 7 Dec 1870 in Amberson, Fannett Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Died 10 Aug 1938 at age 67 in Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States

Biography

Savilla (Dayton) Keller was a Pennsylvanian.

Savilla, daughter of Hezekiah James Dayton and Elizabeth Jane Henry,^[1][2] was born 7 December 1870 in Amberson, Fannett Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.^[1][2] Her father died in 1875,^[3] when she was just four. In 1880 Elizabeth Dayton (age 42) headed the family in Fannett Township that included Ira Savilla (10) and her siblings John (19, tannery worker), Carrie (16), James (14), Susan (12) and Joseph (5).^[4]

On 18 September 1894 in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, 22-year-old Savilla married 72-year-old Daniel F. Keller,^[1] son of Johann Jacob Keller and Maria Magdalena Leiby.^[1] Both were residents of Bear Gap, where he was a farmer, at the time of their wedding.^[1] His former wife with whom he had two children, Helena Knoebel, died 17 April 1890.^[1]

Savilla and Daniel had two children and adopted a son (Archie McC. Davis):

• Fortunata Keller (b. 6 January 1895;^[5] m. David L Smith;^[6] d. 10 June 1938).^[6]

• Emmert Dennie Keller (b. 12 December 1899;^[7][8] d. 6 March 1926).^[8]

The couple settled on Daniel's farm in Ralpho Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, where in 1900 the household included Daniel (age 79), Savilla (30, mother of four, three living), their children Fortunata (5) and Emmert D. (1) and their adopted son Archie McC. Davis (7).^[9]

Her husband died in 1902.^[10] Records for the years after his death have not been located, but she appears to have moved to Iowa. Her daughter Fortunata died in June 1838. It must have been difficult to survive a child.^[6]

Savilla died from uterine cancer at age 67 on 10 August 1938 in Davenport, Scott County, Iowa.^[2] She was buried at Shamokin, Pennsylvania.^[2]

Research Notes

• Although her marriage record to Daniel shows that she was not previously married, there is a record of a Savilla Dayton marrying Mr. Hamme in 1892 (two years before Daniel).

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Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950, database with images, FamilySearch (4 November 2017), Daniel Keller and Savilla Dayton, 18 Sep 1894; citing Marriage, , Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States, various county courts and registers, Pennslyvannia; FHL microfilm 961,096.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951, database with images, FamilySearch (8 November 2017), Ira Savilla Keller, 10 Aug 1938, Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States; citing certificate #82487, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines; FamilySearch digital folder 101821074.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Find A Grave: Memorial #43600766 for Hezekiah James Dayton, 1875. buried at Amberson Union Cemetery in Amberson, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States of America (retrieved 13 December 2015).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} United States Census, 1880, database with images, FamilySearch (15 July 2017), Ira Dayton in household of Elizabeth Dayton, Fannett, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district ED 90, sheet 61D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,131.
5. ↑ Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, database, FamilySearch (11 February 2018), Fortuneta Kellar, 06 Jan 1895; Birth, citing Rockefeller, Northumberland, Pennsylvania; FHL microfilm 961,051. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951, database with images, FamilySearch (8 November 2017), Fortunata Smith, 10 Jun 1938, Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States; citing certificate #82395, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines; FamilySearch digital folder 101821074.
7. ↑ United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, database with images, FamilySearch (25 August 2019), Emmert Dennie Keller, 1917-1918.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Find A Grave: Memorial #52917911 for Emmert D Keller, 1926, buried at Saint Peter's Reformed Cemetery in Paxinos, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States of America (retrieved 13 December 2015).
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} United States Census, 1900, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 10 October 2019), Savilla Kellar in household of Daniel Kellar, Ralpho Township, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 143, sheet 5B, family 92, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,449.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Find A Grave: Memorial #52917695 for Daniel F Keller, 1902, buried at Saint Peter's Reformed Cemetery in Paxinos, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States of America (retrieved 13 December 2015).

• "Family Tree," database, "FamilySearch" (modified 10 October 2019, 02:22), entry for Ira Savilla Dayton; contributed by various users.