Born in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Fines Ewing Keene
— married
11 Feb 1905 in Knox County, Tennessee
Descendants 
Mother of
Bernice (Keene) McDonald and Clara Thelma Keene
Died
at age 93
in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
Profile last modified
| Created 24 Dec 2017
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Biography
Daughter of John Eli Gaston and Clara Maranda (Curtis) Gaston
Sources
"Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8TW-KMW : 21 December 2016), Fines E. Keene and Bessie L. Gaston, 1905.
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGF3-BL5 : accessed 24 December 2017), F E Keene, Knoxville Ward 11, Knox, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 101, sheet 1A, family 4, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1507; FHL microfilm 1,375,520.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SP4G-1MQ : accessed 24 December 2017), Fines E Keene, District 02, Knox, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 66, sheet 4A, line 23, family 71, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2259; FHL microfilm 2,341,993.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4C5-TVD : accessed 24 December 2017), F E Keene, Civil District 2, Knox, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 47-1B, sheet 12A, line 38, family 258, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3909.
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JPBH-SPL : 19 May 2014), Bessie Keene, Mar 1979; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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