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Keagy, Franklin, [View Citation] [Table of Contents] [Page Numbers]
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A history of the Kagy relationship in America : from 1715 to 1900
Harrisburg, Pa.: Harrisburg Pub. Co., 1899, 662 pgs.
Page 46
Jacob Keagy was m. to Feronica Stelman about 1770 and had three sons and one daughter. The old family Bible thus records his death:"Fell asleep in Jeasus on the 28th of December, in the year of Lord Jesus Christ 1788, aged 69 yrs., 3 m. and 15 d." His children were John, Jacob, b. April 21, 1760; Abraham, b--, and Anna.
John Keagy, the eldest son of Jacob was b. 1746, or thereabout. He was m. to Sarah Sneider, who was b. in Canada. To them were born six children, one son, Jacob, and five daughters, Mariah, Sarah, Ann, Elizabeth, b. Aug. 1, 1781 in York Co. PA and Eve. In the spring of 1783 John Keagy moved from York Co., Pa., to Bedford Co., Pa., near where Myersdale City, now in Somerset Co. John Keagy was a Dunkard preacher and held the first Liebensmohl communion meeting west of the Allegheny mountains. This was in the year 1783. At this time there were only eight to ten families living in that region.
John Keagy sought out these families and appointed a day and place of meeting, and a church was organized; the society prospered and multiplied, and the settlement too, the name of "Bruderthal," that is "Brother's Valley." Years afterward, when this seciton was laid out in townships, one of them was named Brothers Valley township.The society thus began in 1783, has increased and divided, and subdivided, and to-day nunbers nearly thirty distinct organizatons of brethren or Dunkards.
In 1810 John Keagy moved from Somerset Co. Pa, to Montgomery Co., Ohio with his son-in-law, John Olinger, where he soon afterward died, beloved and respected by all who knew him for his kindness and exalted Christian character. His wiwfe d. about 1835, in Montgomery Co., Ohio.
Jacob Keagy, the only son of John, was b. about the year 1770. He m. Susan Markley---and they ahd a son whom they called John, who was b. about 1795. Jacob Keagy is said to have been a genius, a natural-born mechanic
(THERE IS A PHOTO OF EDWARD AND SARAH MEESE KEAGY ON PAGE 47)
and could mould and fashion anyting that he undertookto make either in wood, stone, iron or steel. He d. quite young, at about 30 yrs. of age.
John Keagy, only son of Jacob, m. Margaret Meese about the year 1815 or 1816. They had four children, viz: Edward,Anthony, Patrick, and Sarah.
John Keagy d. Dec. 6, 1822 in Salisbury, Somerset Co PA. He followed merchandizing. His widow married again, a man named David Steele and had three children.
The families are given...names and dates of spouses and children....
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