Eliza Jane Keeney Stone
My sister and I are trying to find information on our great-grandmother, Eliza Jane Keeney Stone. We know that she married Winfield Scott "Doc" Stone in 1882 and we have the names and dates of their children. The problem is, we can't find out who her parents were. On her death certificate, her parents were listed as UNKNOWN. She died in 1951 in West Virginia. We have copies of her marriage registration to "Doc" Stone and it too doesn't list her parents, but it DOES list James Overton Batten as her guardian. There are many different stories as to her parents - one of them says that she was born to Foster H. Keeney and went to live with Moses Walls Keeney at a young age. Another story says that she was born to William S Keeney and was raised by her aunt, Caroline V Keeney Batten and her husband James. But in checking the children of William S., he had a Mary Jane (or Mary Elizabeth) NOT Eliza Jane. And the birth date for this daughter is 1865 - the birth date on Eliza's marriage and death certificates state 1862. Can anyone shed any light on this problem? We've learned that the Keeney Update may be very wrong as far as this individual is concerned.