Re: Keeton S.C.>Ms.>Al.
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Keeton S.C.>Ms.>Al.
William Simmons 5/12/98
In this 1998 message you listed the brothers of your ancestor Jesse Keeton, born c1784, including Ephraim, Abner, and James Keeton who moved to Mississippi.
Did they possibly have a sister named Sarah who married Spirus/Spirous Roach?
The 1830 census of Lowndes County, MS, lists Spirous Roach with neighbors Abner Keeton and Ephraim Keeton.The farm in southeastern Lowndes County obtained via land patent by Spirus Roach was close to the land obtained by Abner Keeton and his son Alexander C. Keeton.The land obtained by Ephraim Keeton was across the Tombigbee River.
In the 1830s Spirus Roach and his sons William Roach and Abner Roach purchased, via land patent, farms in southern Oktibbeha County, close to the land purchased by Ephraim Keeton.Spirus/Spirous Roach died in the late 1830s in Oktibbeha County.His widow Sarah Roach was listed in the 1840 census of Oktibbeha County with neighbors Ephraim Keeton, Alexander Keeton, John S. Keeton, and James D. Keeton.
With the Roach and Keeton families being neighbors in both Lowndes and Oktibbeha counties, and with Spirus Roach naming one of his sons Abner, I believe that there may be a family connection.
Billy Weeks