{"id":456,"date":"2017-12-13T15:14:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=456"},"modified":"2017-12-14T02:25:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T02:25:56","slug":"ancestor-28-john-keatley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/?page_id=456","title":{"rendered":"Ancestor 28 John Keatley"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Keatley was born in Monroe County, Virginia (now West Virginia) on December 9, 1809, the eldest son of Lydia Sovain<\/a>, age 15, and James (Jesse) Keatley<\/a>, age 19.<\/p>\n

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John married Mahala McDaniel on February 20, 1832, when he was 22 years old, in Monroe County, Virginia.\u00a0 There is a possibly of one child from this union but no confirmation.<\/p>\n

He then married Susan Harvey<\/a>, no record found,\u00a0 but likely it was in Mercer County, Virginia about 1850.\u00a0 They had eight children together, in order by age:\u00a0 Mary Adaline, George, Caroline, Allen, Elizabeth, Albert, Henry<\/a>, and Burk.<\/p>\n

John’s granddaughter Betty once told me that “John kept a path worn over the mountain to his mistresses house”.\u00a0 When I asked how Susie felt about her husband cheating, she said that Susie was glad to have him out of the way.<\/p>\n

Later it was shared with me that there was a rumor that Burk, their youngest daughter, married her half brother, Robert Lee Snider – that Robert was John’s illegitimate child.\u00a0 Robert was the son of Dimotha Christian Snider.\u00a0 I have a dna match through Malinda Jane Snider who is also the daughter of Dymotha Christian.\u00a0 It can be deduced that John’s mistress was Dymotha Christian and that he fathered more than one of her children. It is worthy of consideration when there are dna connections that can’t be explained that John may have spread his seed further.<\/p>\n

John was a farmer and it seems he purchased property when he could manage it.\u00a0 He acquired a nice farm that he was able to pass along to his children.\u00a0 He was clearly more of a farmer and lover than a fighter because there is no record that he participated in the Civil War.<\/p>\n

He died on March 7, 1893, in Mercer County, West Virginia, having lived a long life of 83 years, and was buried in the Keatley Cemetery in Speedway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Keatley was born in Monroe County, Virginia (now West Virginia) on December 9, 1809, the eldest son of Lydia Sovain, age 15, and James (Jesse) Keatley, age 19. John married Mahala McDaniel on February 20, 1832, when he was 22 years old, in Monroe County, Virginia.\u00a0 There is a possibly of one child from … Continue reading Ancestor 28 John Keatley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-456","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/456\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}