Wagon Ruts West
JOHN KEENEY, JR. FAMILY
By Ralph Ray Keeney
Published in 1983
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Select section:
Forward & Sources
Section 1 - Ralph R. Keeney
Section 2 - Willard Warren Keeney
Section 3 - John Blanden Keeney
Section 4 - Andrew Jackson Keeney
Section 5 - John Keeney, Jr.
Section 6 - John Keeney, Sr.
Section 7 - Roberta A. (Doty) Keeney
Section 8 - Harold & Dolors Doty
Section 9 - Alice Loa (Crall) Keeney
Section 10 - Ida (Crall) Dunn
Section 11 - Harvie Leslie (Les) Dunn
Section 12 - Albert L. Crall
Section 13 - Glenn Keeney
Section 14 - Benjamin Franklin Keeney
Section 15 - Thomas Paine Keeney
Section 16 - Elizabeth Jane Williams
Section 17 - Thomas Paine Keeney
Section 18 - Leslie Matlock
Section 19 - Howard Rogers
Section 20 - Willard Handsaker
Section 21 - Claire H. Keeney
Section 22 - James M. Keeney
Section 23 - Jonathan Keeney
Section 24 - James Blanden Keeney
Section 25 - Elias Keeney
Section 26 - Mrs. J. W. Moore
Section 27 - James Keeney
Section 28 - Family Pictures
Section 29 - Joseph B. Keeney
Section 30 - Jonathan H. Keeney
Section 31 - Genealogy Charts
Section 31-1 - Genealogy part 1
Section 31-2 - Genealogy part 2
Section 31-3 - Genealogy part 3
Section 31-4 - Genealogy part 4
Section 31-5 - Genealogy part 5
Section 31-6 - Genealogy part 6
Section 31-7 - Genealogy part 7
KEENEY FAMILY TREE (Part 6)
Isaiah Hurt (father of Ella (Hurt) Keeney who was the mother of Willard Warren Keeney)
Frederick Karl Marlin Sommer (grandfather of Alice Loa (Crall) Keeney who was wife of Willard Warren Keeney)
Isaiah Hurt
b. 1825
d.
Md. 1853
To: Sara Miller
b. 17 Mar 1832
d. 6 Sept. 1909
(8 children)
James Franklin Hurt
Elizabeth Hurt
Amenda Hurt
Stephen Arnold Douglas Hurt
Leah Jane Hurt
Ellen Leora "Ella" Hurt
b. 19 June 1865, Oregon
d. 27 Apr 1929,
Md. 26 Oct 1881,
Eliel M. Hurt
William Thurston Hurt
b. 20 Aug 1871
d. 26 Feb 1900
Frederick Karl Marlin Sommer
b. 22 Mar 1857,Schwerin, Mecklenburg, Germany
d. 8 Oct 1927, Manchester, Delaware Co., Iowa
Md. 1881, Germany
To: Maria Johnna Christiana Weinke
b. 30 Mar 1860, Schwerin, Mecklenburg,Germany
d. 23 Jan 1953
buried: Oakland Cemetery,
(12 children)
NOTE: Mecklenburg became part of East Germany after World War II.
Minnie Friederica Christiana Mari Sophia Sommer
b. 3 June 1882,
d. 5 July 1946,
Md. 1st: 1901, Blairstown, Benton Co., Iowa
To: Fred Bramow
(4 children)
(Divorced 1920/21)
Md. 2nd: 4 Jan 1931
Emma Frieda Marie Sommer
b. 18 Oct 1883,
d.
Md. 1st: 20 Mar 1902
To: Henry Leroy DuBois
d. 1940
(1 child)
Md. 2nd: 15 Oct 1942
To: John Mathias Thompson
Anna Henrietta Sommer
b. 22 May 1885, in U.S. (arrived in April)
d.
Md. 1st: 23 Aug 1904
To: Ernest Fredrich William Buelow
d. 1918
(5 children)
Md. 2nd:
To: Carl H. Struck
d. 1935
(2 children)
Md. 3rd:
to: Frank Heims
(Hines or Hein)
(divorced)
Md. 4th: 1943
To: Frank Hanfelt
.d 1951
Md. 5th: 8 May 1952
To: Howard Theodus Bellows
Ernest Sommer
b. 10 Aug 1886,
d. 6 June 1977,
Md. 28 June 1911
To: Bessie Williamson
(2 children)
Ida Sommer
b. 3 Feb 1888,
d. 31 May 1969,
Md. 1st:
To: Ralph Daniel Crall
b. 13 Sept 1879
d. 13 May 1914Mason City, Cerro Gordo Co., IA
(3 Children)
Md. 2nd: Cecil Self (div)
Md. 3rd: John Kopp (div)
Md. 4th: Alvin Martin (div)
Md. 5th: Jack Wilder (div)
Md. 6th: Ceo. Carpenter (div)
Md. 7th:
To: Harvey Leslie "Les" Dunn
b. 27 Mar 1897
d. 22 Aug 1967
Alice Loa Crall
b. 11 feb 1905, Mason City, Cerro Gordo Co., IA
Md. 23 Aug 1920
Walla Walla WA.
To: Willard Warren Keeney
b. 10 Feb 1888,
d. 27 Aug 1958,
buried: Condon Cemetery,
His Father: John Blanden Keeney
His Mother: Ellen "Ella" L. Hurt
(8 children)
Jack Leroy Keeney
Ralph Ray Keeney
Harold Blanding Keeney
b. 3 May 1925
d. 10 May 1925
Loa May Keeney
Ida Dee Keeney
Billie Fae Keeney
William Warren Keeney
Bessie Joe Keeney
Albert LEroy Crall
b. 15 Feb 1906, Mason City, Cerro Gordo Co., IA
d. 26 Sept 1968
Md. 1st: 19 Feb 1928
To: Katherine Foltz
b. 10 June 1905, Walter, Russia, (near Volga R.)
d. 25 Mar 1957,
His Father: Henry Foltz
His Mother: Marie Margaret Kannerzel
(2 children)
Anita Joanne Crall
b. 19 Apr 1937
Md. 8 Apr 1970, Walla Walla WA.
To: Robert Hillard Rigstad
b. 8 Mar 1938
His Father: Hillard Rigsted
His Mother: Mildred Walters
Robert Allen Crall
Md. 2nd: 22 June 1958 (div)
To: Gladys Jantzen Corkery
Md. 3rd: 1962
To: Helen M. Seitz Proctor
Loyd Crall
Lena Sommer
b. 1 Sept 1889
d. Jan 1969
William John Lewis Sommer
John Herman Augusta Sommer
b. 13 Apr 1893
d. 7 Sept 1972, Marshall, Calhoun Co., Mich.
Henry D. Sommer
b. 7 Feb 1895
d. 20 Jan 1980
Carl John Sommer
Mary Alice Sommer
b. 7 Apr 1900
d. 5 Oct 1937,
Frederick Karl Marlin Sommer, Jr. "Fritz"
b. 6 June 1902,
d. 15 Oct 1943,
Select section:
Forward & Sources
Section 1 - Ralph R. Keeney
Section 2 - Willard Warren Keeney
Section 3 - John Blanden Keeney
Section 4 - Andrew Jackson Keeney
Section 5 - John Keeney, Jr.
Section 6 - John Keeney, Sr.
Section 7 - Roberta A. (Doty) Keeney
Section 8 - Harold & Dolors Doty
Section 9 - Alice Loa (Crall) Keeney
Section 10 - Ida (Crall) Dunn
Section 11 - Harvie Leslie (Les) Dunn
Section 12 - Albert L. Crall
Section 13 - Glenn Keeney
Section 14 - Benjamin Franklin Keeney
Section 15 - Thomas Paine Keeney
Section 16 - Elizabeth Jane Williams
Section 17 - Thomas Paine Keeney
Section 18 - Leslie Matlock
Section 19 - Howard Rogers
Section 20 - Willard Handsaker
Section 21 - Claire H. Keeney
Section 22 - James M. Keeney
Section 23 - Jonathan Keeney
Section 24 - James Blanden Keeney
Section 25 - Elias Keeney
Section 26 - Mrs. J. W. Moore
Section 27 - James Keeney
Section 28 - Family Pictures
Section 29 - Joseph B. Keeney
Section 30 - Jonathan H. Keeney
Section 31 - Genealogy Charts
Section 31-1 - Genealogy part 1
Section 31-2 - Genealogy part 2
Section 31-3 - Genealogy part 3
Section 31-4 - Genealogy part 4
Section 31-5 - Genealogy part 5
Section 31-6 - Genealogy part 6
Section 31-7 - Genealogy part 7