My Keeney Line

    Daughter Clarissa Elizabeth Keeney, born about 1828 in Massachusetts according to 1850 census was married three times.

    First at age 17 to John L. Haskin in 1845, Will County, Illinois.  He died in 1858 of a gunshot wound, and she quickly remarried in 1859 to Webster A. Castle.  He had deserted his first wife back in Connecticut and deserted Clarissa before 1862.  At her third marriage in 1862 to Hiram Moulton she was again using the Haskin name.  For several years this was the last mention I had of her although her four known sons remained in the Chicago area.  Very recently I found her, via the internet, listed in the 1870 census index in Joliet, Will County, Illinois, again using the name Haskin. I will have to review the actual census schedule to see who else is living in the household.   Clarissa seems to be a very interesting lady!

UPDATE  of "my Keeney line"

April 2, 2001 I was contacted by a man who is doing the genealogy of his house which was built about 1850 in Belchertown, Massachusetts by a man named DAVIS.  His research shows the birth of Clarissa DAVIS 16 October 1801 (the same date I had calculated from her tombstone) in Belchertown, along with her older sister Betsey (she's the right age, too, from census records in Illinois).  Plus five other siblings.  I may not have gained any real KEENEY info, but I now have an additional two generations of DAVIS'.

Also in the additional info section on Clarissa Elisabeth KEENEY HASKIN CASTLE MOULTON. I did review the 1870 Illinois census for Joliet and found her with two teenage HASKIN sons.