Born in Knox Co., Tennessee, USA
Ancestors 
Daughter of Peter Richard Keener
and Susannah (Lowe) Keener
Sister of
Ulrich Keener, Ulery Keener, Anne Keener, Peter Keener, Alitha (Keener) Williams, Abraham Keener, Rebecca (Keener) Payne and Mary (Keener) Whittle
Wife of
Hugh Botkin Jr.
— married
1801 (to after 27 Feb 1836) in Knox Co. TN., USA
Descendants 
Mother of
James B. Botkin, Peter Botkin, Susannah Botkin, Nancy (Botkin) Adamson, Esther (Botkin) Denton, Mary Lowe Botkin, Elizabeth Botkin, Talitha (Botkin) Denton, John Wesley Botkin, Joseph Keener Botkin, William Miller Botkin, Jonathon Botkin and Samuel Thomas Botkin
Died
at age 74
in Corlis, Randolph Co.,Indiana, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 11 May 2017
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Biography
Rachel Keener was born in 1785, the daughter of Peter Keener (1750 - 1837) and Susannah (Lowe) Keener (1755 - 1840).
On March 17, 1801, in Knox county, Tennessee, Rachel married Hugh Botkin. [1]
Hugh was a farmer and a tanner by trade, and a prominent and respected citizen. Their family moved from Tennessee to Pike Township, Marion county, Indiana, in 1816. Rachel and Hugh were the parents of thirteen children, including:
- Peter Botkin, born November 2, 1804, in Knox county, Tennesse, died November 24, 1876, married Elizabeth Adamson
- Susannah Botkin, born 1807, in Tennessee, died May 15, 1863, in Marion county, Indiana, married Jonathan Hollingsworth, mother of ten children
- Talitha Botkin (1809 - 1888) married James Overall Denton, widower of her sister, Esther
- Nancy Botkin (1809 - 1886) married Abraham Adamson
- Esther Botkin Denton (1811 - 1840) married James Overall Denton
- Mary Lowe Botkin (1813 - 1895) married Miles Hunt
- Dr. John Wesley Botkin (1819 - 1901) married Mary Peacock
- Joseph Keener Botkin (1820 - 1891) married Harriet Ann Cropper
- William Miller Botkin (1823 - 1906) married 1) Martha Ann Hiatt and 2) Docia Calloway Butler
- Jonathan Botkin (1825 - 1850) name is listed on the headstone for his parents
Rachel died in 1857, in Randolph County, Indiana and is buried in the Huntsville cemtery, there. [2]
Sources
- ↑ "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNCF-5CX : 4 December 2014), Hugh Botkin and Rachel Keener, 17 Mar 1801; from "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing p. , Knox, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
- ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=43547950
- Ancestry Family Trees><Tennessee, State Marriages, 1780-2002
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rachel by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rachel:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rachel by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rachel:
-
~3.12%
Samuel Rader
:
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Jim Keener :
23andMe, GEDmatch TS1868305 [compare]
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~1.56%
Leslie Farquhar :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Lesliefz1
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~1.56%
Melvin Williams :
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Roderick Patterson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch WN6304307 [compare]
+
Living DNA
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~1.56%
Hazel Patterson :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Jared Stiffler :
23andMe, GEDmatch AB3586019 [compare]
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~0.78%
Gerald McGee :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A308572 [compare]
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