1. Andrew1 KEYSER [86], born 16 Dec 1758 in Shenandoah, Page, Virginia; died 23 Nov 1833, son of Charles B KEYSER [89] and Elizabeth GROSSGLOSS [90].  He married on 23 Nov 1784 Sarah Margaret RHINEHART [85], born 17 Dec 1770; died 2 Apr 1820, daughter of Mathias RHINEHART [91].

Notes for Andrew KEYSER
 Fought in the Revolutionary war.

 The following is a portion of a letter from "Veterans Administration" The letter was dated: Washington, D. C., 8 Sept. 1931 and signed by A. D. Hiller, Assistant to Administrator giving the following information:

 " You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 5651, that Andrew Keyser Sr., was born December 16, 1758, place not stated. While a resident of Shenandoah County, Virginia, he enlisted in 1780, served as a private in Captain Conway Oldham's and Lieutenant Robert Jouett's Company, Colonel Richard Cambell's Virginia Regiment, in the battles of Guilford Court House, Camden, Ninety Six and Eutaw Springs, and was discharged Jan 14, 1782, having served eighteen months, etc." Also Certificate No. 170, issued August 4, 1832, allowed Andrew Keyser a Veterans Pension of $60.00 per year."

 The above letter is attributed to material compiled by John Harold Keyser in "Taylor Owens their Tails and Ties". I have all these records at this time and am unable to find the letter. I believe it is more likely in the possession of Joe E. Keyser whose father Charles Paul Keyser investigated Andrew’s life rather extensively.  John H. Keyser, Jr. 8/17/89

 Children of Andrew KEYSER and Sarah Margaret RHINEHART were as follows:
+ 2 i Noah2 KEYSER [52], born 2 Jan 1786 in Shenandoah, Page, Virginia; died 7 Aug 1842 in Luray, Page, Virginia.  He married Ann RHODES (ROADS) [53].
 3 ii George2 KEYSER [305], born 2 Oct 1789; died 1859.   Married Esther Hershberger.
 4 iii Susannah2 KEYSER [306], born 25 Sep 1791.   Married Ephraim Trumbo.
 5 iv Peter2 KEYSER [307], born 12 Apr 1793; died 7 Nov 1870.   Two marriages. Miss Artz and Miss Fray.
 6 v Mary or Poly2 KEYSER [308], born 28 Jan 1795; died 7 Nov 1870.   Married John Cullers.
 7 vi Lydia2 KEYSER [309], born 25 Dec 1796.   This first Lydia probably died at birth and they named another girl baby born 10 July 1801 Lydia. This was common practice in those days.
 8 vii Margaret2 KEYSER [310], born 7 Aug 1798.   Married John Reedy.
 9 viii Sarah (Sally)2 KEYSER [311], born 7 Jun 1800.   Married Henry Cullers.
 10 ix Lydia2 KEYSER [312], born 10 Jul 1803; died 3 Jan 1853.   This is the second Lydia child in this family. The first probably died in birth.  !Married Isaac Austin a cousin.
 11 x Andrew2 KEYSER (Jr) [313], born 30 Mar 1804; died 20 Jul 1876.   Colonel in the Civil War. Married twice. Wives were Mary Brumbaker and Julie Cox.
 12 xi Charles2 KEYSER (3rd) [314], born 2 Sep 1806; died 18 Oct 1891.   Married Amanda Haun.
 13 xii Michael2 KEYSER [315], born 1 Jan 1809; died 14 Oct 1815.
 14 xiii Able2 KEYSER [316], born 29 Dec 1811; died 1815.
 15 xiv Esther2 KEYSER [317], born 2 Sep 1816; died 2 May 1891.   Married Isaac Dovel.

2. Noah2 KEYSER [52] (Andrew1), born 2 Jan 1786 in Shenandoah, Page, Virginia; died 7 Aug 1842 in Luray, Page, Virginia.  He married on 14 Mar 1809 Ann RHODES (ROADS) [53], born 22 Nov 1789 in Mountain View, Luray, Virginia; died 28 Aug 1861, daughter of Joseph RHODES (ROADS) (2nd) [87] and Magdalene HOTTEL [88].

Notes for Noah KEYSER
 There seems to be very little on record concerning Noah Keyser and Ann Rhodes. It is likely he was a farmer and lived a quiet life.

 Children of Noah KEYSER and Ann RHODES (ROADS) were as follows:
 16 i Mary3 KEYSER [236], born 1810 in Luray, Page, Virginia.
+ 17 ii Jacob3 KEYSER [37], born 16 Dec 1812 in Sandy Hook., Luray, Page, Virginia; died 17 Mar 1895 in Fayette, Howard, Missouri; buried  in Fayette, Howard, Missouri.  He married (1) Susan Frances BURNER [38]; (2) Virginia Ann CHANDLER [56].
 18 iii Joseph Roads3 KEYSER [235], born abt 1815 in Luray, Page, Virginia.
 19 iv John Ambrose3 KEYSER [234], born 11 Dec 1816; died 1834.
 20 v William E3 KEYSER [233], born abt 1817.   Married Mary Shenk
 21 vi Andrew Jackson3 KEYSER [299], born 21 May 1819 in Luray, Page, Virginia; died 8 May 1892.   Married Lucy Ann Roads 22 Nov 1855.
 22 vii Sarah Ann3 KEYSER [300], born 14 Jun 1825 in Luray, Page, Virginia; died 10 Oct 1893.   Married 18 Oct 1842 to Ambrose Milton Biedler.
 23 viii Elizabeth Ann3 KEYSER [301], born 7 Jun 1828 in Luray, Page, Virginia; died 21 Jan 1902.   Married Joseph M. Fray.
 24 ix Noah3 KEYSER [302], born 30 Sep 1830 in Luray, Page, Virginia; died 10 Jan 1894.   Married to Annie G Miller.
 25 x Edward Thomas3 KEYSER [303], born 8 Mar 1834 in Luray, Page, Virginia; died 20 Feb 1916.   Married 15 Nov 1859 to Mary Jane Williams, b. 24 Feb 1838, Washington, Rapnok, Virginia, d. 9 mar 1927.  !Two children. William Keyser b. 7 Sep 1864, Washington Virginia, married 11 Jun 1890 to Callie DeJarnette, d. 15 sep 1915. Hubert Forest Keyser b. 22 Apr 1866, Washington, Virginia, married 10 Dec 1890 to Loula Wood.
 26 xi Lafayette3 KEYSER [304], born 15 Jul 1836; died Jan 1837.

17. Jacob3 KEYSER [37] (Noah2, Andrew1), born 16 Dec 1812 in Sandy Hook., Luray, Page, Virginia; died 17 Mar 1895 in Fayette, Howard, Missouri; buried  in Fayette, Howard, Missouri.  He married (1) on 22 Jan 1839 in Boonville, , Missouri Susan Frances BURNER [38], born 9 Apr 1815 in Luray, Page, Virginia; died 23 Mar 1852 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, daughter of John Rhodes BURNER [54] and Elizabeth STRICKLER [55]; (2) in 1855 in Boonville, , Missouri Virginia Ann CHANDLER [56], born 2 Dec 1821 in Charlottsville, , Virginia; died 14 Nov 1911 in New Franklin, Howard, Missouri, daughter of Leroy CHANDLER [65] and Eloise COPELAND [66].

Notes for Jacob KEYSER
 Although he worked as a mercantile dealer in Cooper Co., Missouri for a while, he was a farmer first in Page Co., Virginia and then migrated to Cooper Co., Missouri, near Bunceton where he continued to farm for many more years. He moved to New Franklin, Howard Co., Missouri in 1855 after he married Virginia Ann Chandler Fields, and he lived there until the Civil War of 1860 - 1864. The family then moved to Fayette, Howard Co., Missouri where he died.

 He was converted and joined the Baptist church in his early youth and was a deacon and pillar of the church for more than 40 years.

Notes for Susan Frances BURNER
 Church Aff.: Baptist

 The following information was attached to a counterpane woven by Susan Frances Burner 1815 - 1852, my paternal grandmother. Before their marriage in Virginia, the bride had carded and spun and dyed the wool for the woof and had woven this counterpane.       Signed Charles Paul Keyser 1878  Portland, Oregon, Jan 4, 1964

 The counterpane is now in the possession of Joseph E. Keyser, Portland, Oregon, a great grandson.

 Also in the possession of Joseph E. Keyser are silhouettes of Susan Frances Burner, her Father, mother, and one brother all in a single frame. In order to get a good picture of them, They were taken out of the frame and behind the pictures was found a certificate indicating that Susan Keyser had contributed $1.00 toward the construction of the Washington Monument. The certificate was issued by the Washington National Monument Society and was signed by Z. Taylor, President among others.

Notes for Virginia Ann CHANDLER
 First marriage to Dr. John W. Fields. Second to Jacob Keyser.

 Children of Jacob KEYSER and Susan Frances BURNER were as follows:
+ 27 i Mary Isabella4 KEYSER [39], born 25 Nov 1839 in , Cooper, Missouri; died 15 Mar 1886 in Calhoun, Henry, Missouri; buried  in Calhoun, Henry, Missouri.  She married James Archer TAYLOR [46].
+ 28 ii John Newton4 KEYSER [40], born 17 Sep 1841 in Old Palestine, Cooper, Missouri; died 29 Jun 1912 in Fayette, , Missouri.  He married Ida Frank MILLER [47].
 29 iii Ann Elizabeth4 KEYSER [41], born 13 Mar 1844 in Bunceton, Cooper, Missouri; died 21 Oct 1922 in Fayette, , Missouri; buried  in Fayette Cem., Howard, Missouri.   Unmarried.
 30 iv Eliza Jane4 KEYSER [42], born 10 Oct 1845 in Bunceton, Cooper, Missouri; died 4 Feb 1923 in Fayette, , Missouri; buried  in Fayette Cem., Howard, Missouri.   Unmarried.
+ 31 v Joseph Linn4 KEYSER [12], born 11 Nov 1847 in Bunceton, Cooper, Missouri; died 21 Apr 1934 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; buried  in Elko, Elko, Nevada.  He married Margaret Ferguson YEATES [13].
 32 vi Emma Susan4 KEYSER [43], born 9 Jan 1850 in Bunceton, Cooper, Missouri; died 1 Feb 1850 in Fayette, , Missouri.
 33 vii Charles Lee4 KEYSER [44], born 6 Dec 1850 in Bunceton, Cooper, Missouri; died 15 Feb 1851 in Fayette, , Missouri.
 34 viii Edwin Burner4 KEYSER [45], born 31 Dec 1851 in Bunceton, Cooper, Missouri; died 21 Sep 1852 in Fayette, , Missouri.

 Children of Jacob KEYSER and Virginia Ann CHANDLER were as follows:
 35 i Leroy4 KEYSER [57], born 11 Mar 1856 in New Franklin, Howard, Missouri; died 8 Jan 1902 in Mangum, , Oklahoma.   Unmarried.
 36 ii Edward Rhodes4 KEYSER [58], born 24 Mar 1858 in New Franklin, Howard, Missouri; died 18 Dec 1941 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; buried  in Elko, Elko, Nevada.   Unmarried.  !He was 30 minutes older than his identical twin brother Robert Emmet Keyser.
 37 iii Robert Emmet4 KEYSER [59], born 24 Mar 1858 in New Franklin, Howard, Missouri; died 16 Jan 1941.  He married on 18 Nov 1897 in Salt Lake City, , Utah Grace CROCKETT [63].   He was born 30 minutes later than his older brother Edward Rhodes Keyser.
 38 iv Virginia Temple4 KEYSER [60], born 2 Jan 1861 in New Franklin, Howard, Missouri; died 21 Oct 1872.
 39 v William Almond4 KEYSER [61], born 23 Apr 1862 in New Franklin, Howard, Missouri; died 5 Aug 1913 in Fayette, , Missouri.
 40 vi Eloise Copeland4 KEYSER [62], born 23 Oct 1864 in New Franklin, Howard, Missouri.  She married on 7 Dec 1892 Joseph Eugene SUTHERLAND [64].   Called "Nellie"

27. Mary Isabella4 KEYSER [39] (Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 25 Nov 1839 in , Cooper, Missouri; died 15 Mar 1886 in Calhoun, Henry, Missouri; buried  in Calhoun, Henry, Missouri.  She married on 5 Feb 1857 in Fayette, Howard, Missouri James Archer TAYLOR [46], born 28 Feb 1837 in Liberty, Cooper, Missouri; died 26 Feb 1878 in Calhoun, Henry, Missouri; buried  in Calhoun, Henry, Missouri.

Notes for Mary Isabella KEYSER
 The descendants of Mary Isabelle Keyser and James Archer Taylor are well documented in "Taylor Owens Their Trails and Ties". I therefore will only list their children here. An exception will be to show the ancestry of Tom Taylor who is author of Taylor Owens Their Trails and Ties.  Jack Keyser 7/15/89

Notes for James Archer TAYLOR
 Father: William M. Taylor, b. 1806. Georgia. Mother: Susan Kavannaugh Briscoe, b. Oct 1817, Luray, Page Co., Virginia.

 Children of Mary Isabella KEYSER and James Archer TAYLOR were as follows:
 41 i George Washington5 TAYLOR [455], born 14 Feb 1858 in Fayette, Howard, Missouri; died 1939.   Married 14 Feb 1882 to Elizabeth "Betty" Baker. Five Children.
 42 ii Charles Lee5 TAYLOR (Rev.) [456], born 14 Apr 1859 in Fayette, Howard, Missouri; died 18 Feb 1914 in Topeka, , Kansas.   Married 10 Apr 1895 to Blanche Ross, d. 8 Sep 1896 in childbirth. Married 25 Nov 1897 to Alice Louella Hannum, b. 31 May 1875 at Concordia, Cloud Co., Kansas, d. 11 May 1918. Four children.
 43 iii John Keyser5 TAYLOR [457], born 28 Feb 1861 in Fayette, Howard, Missouri; died 27 Aug 1907.   Married 17 Nov 1891 to Margaret Louise "Lou" Lewese. Four children
+ 44 iv William Archer5 TAYLOR [458], born 31 Jan 1867 in Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky; died 26 Apr 1953 in Fayette, Howard, Missouri; buried  in Fayette, Howard, Missouri.  He married Nancy Ellen OWENS [459].
 45 v Sterling Price5 TAYLOR [473], born 14 Jul 1869 in Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky; died 4 Mar 1949.   Married 16 Feb 1899 to Ida Trenary, b. 10 May 1863, d. 4 Jun 1907. No children.  !Married 16 Feb 1908 to Mayne Dulany, b. 1877, d. 1936. Two children.
 46 vi Joseph Linn5 TAYLOR [474], born 12 Aug 1871 in Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky; died 26 Sep 1875.
 47 vii Robert Aubre5 TAYLOR [475], born 15 Dec 1873 in Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky; died 17 Dec 1908 in Troy, , Montana; buried  in Troy, , Montana.   Married 29 May 1902, West Butte, Montana to Beula Belle Jennings, b. 15 Feb 1879, d.27 Oct 1977. Four children.
 48 viii Henry Cake5 TAYLOR (Rev.) [476], born 26 May 1875 in Clinton, Henry, Missouri; died 20 Oct 1944 in Elma, , Washington.   Never married.
 49 ix James5 TAYLOR [477], born Jul 1877.   Died at birth with his twin Jennie.
 50 x Jennie5 TAYLOR [478], born Jul 1877.   Died at birth with her twin James.
 51 xi Leland Burner5 TAYLOR [479], born 26 Aug 1878 in Clinton, Henry, Missouri; died 1955 in Troy, , Montana.   Married 14 may 1911 to Mary Atlanta McMurtrey, b. 13 July 1885. Seven children.
 

28. John Newton4 KEYSER [40] (Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 17 Sep 1841 in Old Palestine, Cooper, Missouri; died 29 Jun 1912 in Fayette, , Missouri.  He married on 20 Dec 1887 in Louisiana, , Missouri Ida Frank MILLER [47], born 18 Feb 1856 in Mountain Green, , Virginia; died 31 Jan 1941.

Notes for John Newton KEYSER
 Born in Old Palestine, near Bunceton, Missouri.

 Children of John Newton KEYSER and Ida Frank MILLER were as follows:
+ 52 i Fannie Browning5 KEYSER [480], born 28 Nov 1888 in Fayette, , Missouri; died 15 May 1966.  She married John William CRESON [482].
+ 53 ii Virginia Newton5 KEYSER [481], born 25 Mar 1890 in Fayette, Howard, Missouri; died 16 Aug 1968 in Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri; buried  in New Lebanon Cem., Cooper Co, Missouri.  She married John Virgil GANDER [502].
 

31. Joseph Linn4 KEYSER [12] (Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 11 Nov 1847 in Bunceton, Cooper, Missouri; died 21 Apr 1934 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; buried  in Elko, Elko, Nevada.  He married on 30 Dec 1875 in Elko, Elko, Nevada Margaret Ferguson YEATES [13], born 9 Feb 1858 in Sturgeon Bay, , Wisconsin; died 4 May 1933 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; buried  in Elko, Elko, Nevada, daughter of Elijah Samuel YEATES [48] and Janet (Jessie) DAVIDSON [49].

Notes for Joseph Linn KEYSER
 Occupation: School Teacher, Carpenter, and Mortician.

 Education: William Jewell College at Liberty MO 1868 & 1869.

 Church Aff.: Baptist

 Enlisted on the Southern side in the Civil War, but was captured while going to training camp.

 Information about the life of J. L. Keyser

Compiled from various sources by his grandson John H. Keyser, Jr.  The sources of the information are indicated. The material has been only very lightly edited or interpreted as required for clarity or ease of reading.  In a few places I have inserted information in parenthesis or as a note when, in my opinion, it is appropriate.  The tribute by his son Charles Paul Keyser is the last version he wrote dated 12/13/60, but I have added three very minor additions from his earlier "draft" version that I thought were pertinent.

John H. Keyser, Jr.

A short sketch of the life of J. L. Keyser
 

 Written in his own hand at Elko, Nevada, dated 10/9/36. Copied from a transcription of the original holographic account that was made by Charles Paul Keyser.

 Following the transcription are additional comments by his second son Charles Paul Keyser.
 

Autobiography of J. L. Keyser

 I, Joseph L. Keyser, Was born in Cooper County Mo. near the little town of Bunceton, on Nov 11th 1847.  My parents were Jacob Keyser and Susan F. Burner, both natives of the state of Virginia, where they were married (1839) and then moved to Missouri.  To this union were born a family of eight children, four boys and four girls three having died in infancy.

 My father married a second time (around 1855) and to that union were born six children, four boys and two girls.

 With my father I moved to New Franklin Howard County and lived there until the Civil War of l860 to 1864, when the family moved to Fayette, Mo.  I attended Wm. Jewell College at Liberty Mo. during the years of 1868 & 1869, after which I taught several terms of a county school, and in May 1872 I went West to Denver Colo. for a few weeks, then went further west to Elko Nev. arriving there June 13, 1872.  On Dec 30th 1875 I was married to Margaret F. Yeates and to this union was born two sons and one daughter, John H. Keyser of Elko, Charles Paul Keyser of Portland Oregon, and Jessie K. Steel of Longvale Calif..

After the two sons were born, I returned to Missouri in Nov. 1879 where the daughter was born. After one year in Mo. I returned to Nevada and settled in the Mining town of Tuscarora, then upon the death of my Uncle Elijah Burner (in or near Elko) I returned to Elko and have made it my home ever since.

 I followed various occupations while in Elko.  First as a clerk in Samuel Mooser's General Merchandising Store until he sold out to return to Calif., then in the lumber business of L. Wiley.  I then worked in the Carpenter's trade for many years until the fall of 1902 when I bought the Mortuary business from A. J. Pullman.  I followed that occupation until 1928, when I leased the business to my son J. H. Keyser.
During my stay in Elko, I engaged in Church and Lodge work, becoming quite proficient in the latter, and in which I took great pride until disability and advanced age prevented further activity, having served the Masonic Lodge as master for four years.  At this date 10/9/33 I have been a member in good standing for more than 58 years.

 My personal effects not disposed of in a certain "Gift Deed" such as books, pictures and other personal things that may not be sold for cash, may be divided as my heirs may agree upon.  The things that have been given to me by anyone may be returned to the giver.  My Knights Templar uniform may be sold and the money divided equally.  My open faced Waltham watch which I give to Paul and my Carpenter tools may be divided or sold as you may see fit.  The little wooden chain whittled out of a solid stick by me with a small penknife in 1873 may be given to whoever would appreciate it.  It is a rare piece of work of no intrinsic value. (At this time 8/30/88 it is in the possession of his granddaughter Dorothy Johnson of El Cerrito, Ca)

 (Note of C.P. Keyser.)  Then followed in lead pencil, on a double sheet of foolscap the following:

Biography of J. L. Keyser

 Joseph Lynn Keyser was born in Cooper County Missouri on Nov 11th 1847 near the little town of Buncetown.  My father was Jacob Keyser and my mother was Susan Frances Burner.  Both were born near Luray Virginia.  After their marriage they went to Missouri where they raised a family of eight children, four boys and four girls.  Two boys and one girl died in infancy leaving three girls and two boys, J. L. (J. L. Keyser) being the youngest of the five, and the last surviving.  My father moved to New Franklin Howard County (about 1855 according to Paul Keyser) just before the Civil War of 1860 to 1865.  He lived there until after the war, and then moved to Fayette.

FURTHER LIGHT ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF
JOSEPH LINN KEYSER

In tribute by his son Charles Paul Keyser
 

My father was a God-fearing man ten years older than my mother. They had been married over fifty seven years when she passed away on May 4 1933.He had prayed to the Good Lord to spare him to take care of her as long as she should live, and his prayer was answered.  She passed away on May 4 1933. By the following October he had put his house in order, as he expressed it, and he came to visit me in my home in Portland, Oregon.  His mission was primarily to brief me on the distribution of his worldly possessions, bringing the gift deed he mentions, together with a holographic will the provisions of which he anticipated I would see were complied with.  He also left me also his signing off statement to which the following comment attaches.  Incidentally we went over the significant events of his life in a session lasting several days.  He had a feeling of certainty as if he had a presentment that his time would come within a year.  From Portland he journeyed to Longvale, California for a farewell visit to my sister, and from there on home to Elko to await his call to the other shore of the Tranquil River.

 He passed away on April 21 1934, stricken with coronary occlusion.  After a hearty breakfast as usual he had gone out in the front yard to weed his lawn, soon got the summons of Thanatopsis.  He laid up his digging tool in the place where he had habitually kept it, lay down on his couch, and by 9 o'clock had passed to pleasant dreams.  A quarter century later I am essaying to append amplification to his swan song.  I should like to make it more revealing, and perhaps find a place for the record in the archives for such historical value as it may have as reflecting the character of a worthy pioneer who left his impression in the community over a period covering three score years.  I have no intent to doctor it up into a criticism or eulogy; I merely present a son's testimonial.

 Our surname Keyser traces back to a (Pennsylvania?) Dutch settlement in Colonial Pennsylvania.  I have knowledge of another Keyser lineage that traces back to a certain forebearer in Holland as of 1681, Anak Keyser by name.  Doubtless it could be related.  My father was not one to parade his ancestry.  He was satisfied to know who his grandparents were and that they lived and died in Page County, Virginia, although he never saw them.  His parents were married in Virginia in January 1839 and trekked soon after to Missouri where they pioneered on a homestead in Cooper County.

 On a visit to Luray in 1931 I got my eligibility to membership in the Sons of the American Revolution authenticated.  Here is the line: My father Joseph Linn Keyser, was the second son of Jacob Keyser, the eldest son of Noah Keyser, the son of Andrew Keyser, the son of Charles Keyser.

 Charles Keyser was a butcher from Lancaster Pennsylvania who was assigned to the commissary of George Washington's Colonial forces that accompanied General Braddock's British Regulars to Fort Duquesne in the disastrous expedition of 1755 in the French and Indian War.  He drove cattle along and slaughtered them en route to feed the soldiers.  He got back to Lancaster unscathed and soon after married a Miss Shelley of Philadelphia, and they went to the Shenandoah Valley and settled on a homestead near Luray. His son Andrew served in the Virginia contingent of the Revolutionary Army.

 My father's grandparents were Noah Keyser and Ann Roads; and John Roads Burner and Elizabeth Strickler.  All his forebears appear to have been long lived save his maternal grandmother, and his mother who perished, let us say, from eight childbirths in twelve years along with the excessive burdens of a pioneer's wife.  My father was only five years old when she died in 1852.  Jacob Keyser married a widow with a son in 1855 and after a year or so removed to New Franklin in Howard County.  He lived there or near Fayette, the County Seat, the rest of his days.  He died in March 1895 aged 82.  All told he had sired eight sons and six daughters, of whom Joseph Linn was the only son to be the father of sons and they were only two my brother and myself; and we have only three grandsons between us to perpetuate Jacob's Keyser's line.

 I believe his middle name Linn was after Senator Linn of Missouri a contemporary of his father with a notable record in Congress, particularly as the father of the Homestead Law that had such a far-reaching effect in the settlement of the public domain west of the Mississippi.  In Missouri he was familiarly called by his middle name, but he disliked it and preferred his first name, Joseph, and tried to shuck Linn when he came to Nevada.  His Uncle of course called him Linn, and he settled on J. L. when his father-in-law to be, surmised that a young man with a prominent nose named Joseph clerking for merchant Sam Mooser would be a Jew.  It will be interesting to the brothers of a certain secret order, that J. L. surmised that he was blackballed on that score, on his first petition for membership.  All came clear on the second trial and nobody ever knew "who done it".  Many years later, when I asked him how he had come to turn against Linn he gave me the Latin proverb:  de gustibus non est dispustandem, (concerning tastes let there be no dispute).  He then went on to say the way his father used to upbraid him beginning with " You Linn", had spoiled any taste he might have had for it or perhaps any other name.  He had many times wilted me with his "Look at him", but never with "You Paul".

 He was five feet and eight inches tall; weighed around 150 pounds; and was straight strong and quick, but was not of the sort to carry a chip on his shoulder.  His hair and beard were black and his eye's hazel.  He sang with a tenor voice good enough for the village choir, and he played back-number tunes such as Buffalo Gals and Bacon & Beans.   When there had been a brass band in town he played the tuba.  He was habitually ready and eager to get along with what he was doing.  You could tell by his whistling if things were going well as he worked.  He did not swear or bluster or prattle; rather his address was dignified and refined as would become a Virginia gentleman's son, and he was not one with a roving eye.  He was not dull witted; neither was he given to sallies of subtle wit and repartee, although he could be quite a tease.  His children knew him as a stern disciplinarian, tracing back to his schoolmaster days perhaps.  He was usually too much engrossed in fending off the wolf to devote much time toward instruction in their secular learning, but we got plenty of moral dogma and precept.  He was inclined to pick flaws rather than sing praises.  Let us say he was a perfectionist and not that he was pernickety.  He was opinionated and did not hesitate to maintain a stand and express himself candidly.

A fundamentalist Baptist, he lived to the tenets of his Church.  He was never satisfied with the forms of worship in the community until he got a Baptist Church established.

Note by J. H. Keyser, Jr 8/30/88:

The Baptist Church in Elko still exists where he donated the land for it.  The town cemetery was moved and the town fathers gave the contract to J.L. Keyser.  As payment, he was given deed for much of the resultant cleared land.  He in turn donated some of his new land for the Church building.  He undoubtedly had a lot to do with constructing the building also in both labor and money.

It is my understanding that as part of the deed donating the land, he made a provision that should the building ever cease to be a Baptist Church, the title of the land should revert to him or his heirs.  At this time his heirs are his grandchildren J. H. Keyser, Jr, Dorothy K. Johnson, Joe E. Keyser Margaret Steel Davis, James Linn Steel, and his great granddaughter Patsy Ruth Arndt or their heirs.  The complications of this arrangement would seem to be quite involved if the Church were ever to try to move and sell the property.
 

 He was ever just in his own mind and he hated pretense and deceit.  He was an abstentious person: not a teetotaler, but he would not take a drink over a bar.  His tools and implements were always in good order and in place, as might be expected of one who was methodical and never slipshod or slovenly.  When he filed a handsaw he would incline it points up and test the precision of his handwork by coursing a fine needle down through the teeth.  Rarely would the needle be caught by an irregularity on the first trial.  Gambling was a vise in his book wherein he did not sin.  Casino was the only card game he played and he played it well.  His game was checkers, and he would take on anybody who thought he was good at it.  He said he never found time for Chess.  He wrote a good letter and a good hand - even at 86; witness the holograph to which comment herein refers.

 Above all else in his makeup, he was a builder.  I think he would have become a successful architect, had opportunity provided schooling in the profession.  While he always harbored the pride of an aristocrat in the Jefferson manner, he did not look down on anybody, and was a born rebel against the machinations of rings or blocs making for collusion or tyranny.

 In 1864 at seventeen, a hero worshiper of Robert E. Lee, he joined up with Pap Price on the Confederate side in the Missouri skirmishes of the Civil War. However before he got into a gray uniform he was captured by Union Forces, and spent the last five months of the Rebellion in Rock Island Prison.  He said he couldn't complain on the treatment he was given, and altogether as he looked back on the experience, he thought it might have been a blessing in disguise.  At any rate it had not warped his sense of justice.  His father had never owned slaves, and he himself was opposed to slavery.

 He was a Democrat always, especially bitter toward the G. O. P. over reconstruction in the South and the treatment of Andrew Johnson, and more particularly so after Tilden was euchred, as he saw it, out of the Presidential election in 1876.  He never voted for a Republican for President until 1928, when he voted for Hoover.

 While he was living in New Franklin, Jacob Keyser operated a general merchandise business.  He also got control of some rich river-bottom land across the Missouri River from Boonville where he grew tobacco.  The panic of 1857 is said to have been the severest money stringency in the history of the country.  Then came the dislocations in the aftermath of the War.  The suddenly liberated slaves had no place to go and no means of subsistence on their own.  The ruined white people were hard put to it for a time to tide them over.  My father told a story about an illiterate ex-slave who had heard about the provisions of a bill to be enacted to alleviate the situation, and he spoke up saying "Iffen dey gwine be some provisions, Ah mos powerful needs a sack o' flouah".  Nobody had anything to use for money except inflated greenback currency and an inadequate supply of that.  My grandfather of course, had to extend credit.  He put his several sons to work growing tobacco in the bottomland.  As in Colonial Virginia, it could be used for barter and enable him to keep his shelves stocked.  For a Virginia gentleman's son to find himself toiling in the place of a "field nigger" was somewhat of a come-down, But he accepted it with equanimity, feeling that he was doing his bit toward restoring normal conditions.  He did not acquire an addiction for tobacco.  He said the surfeit he got at the time was enough to last him a lifetime.  He would smoke a good cigar once in a while, but he hated and despised cigarettes.

 I cannot aver what occupied him in Denver in the spring of 1872 on his way to Elko.  Long ago he told me he had made good wages laying shingles at the rate of 6000 a day, and it seems to me that he mentioned Denver in connection.  I can only surmise that after two years of meager earnings from teaching a country school of that day, he was wanting a little more of the wherewithal with which to reach his destination.  He had responded to a call to join his Mother's brother Elijah Burner, who had pulled out of Virginia soon after the surrender at Appomattox, to seek his fortune in the West.  He had taken, under the Homestead and Desert Land acts a homestead on the Humbolt River upstream from the site of the town of Elko.  The Burner Basin, south of Elko Mountain takes its name from Elijah Burner, not his half brother Jake.  Elijah never married, and died without issue, lingering several weeks following an abdominal injury inflicted by the cantle of his saddle when his horse fell and rolled over him.  As J. L. K. notes that was in 1882.  My father was named executor of the estate, and in 1884 got possession of the Burner ranches and undertook to operate them under an accumulated indebtedness.

 There was extraordinarily high water in the Humbolt in 1884, and ample to meet irrigation needs in 1885.  Then followed in succession four seasons of drought and he gave up ranching with a minor dairy in combination, and sold out to James Dewar just prior to the hard winter of 89 & 90.  He had come out with little more than the satisfaction of paying off the mortgage to show for seven years of unremitting toil and struggle.

 There was a boom on in the newly admitted state of Washington at the moment, and in order to keep the pot boiling at home, he hied thither and built way stations for the Northern Pacific Railway.  That kept him away from home most of the year 1890.  This was the second time he had shaken the dust of Elko off his feet, only to yield to the pull to return.  He was well aware of opportunities in Washington, especially in the burgeoning city of Spokane Falls.  Again, as when he had gone "back home" in 1879 Mother was willing to move.  There must have been something about Elko that he could not desert and forget.  Perhaps he "reckoned" Dame Fortune would smile there sometime.  She did, but it was not until twenty years after Uncle Elijah's demise that she located him in pay dirt.  That was in 1902 when he took over the Pullman Mortuary.  Until then he never seemed to get ahead.

 Times were good in Tuscarora when he returned in 1880 after a disappointing year in Missouri.  Things went well for him for a couple of years while he was the agent for the Fast-freight Line connecting with the railroad at Carlin.  But as its traffic was beginning to dwindle he welcomed the opportunity to return to Elko and manage Elijah Burner's affairs.  He figured that after the mines at Tuscarora would be worked out, Elko, the County Seat, as the center of a large stock raising territory would continue to prosper.

 Up till then he had never owned a home, but he never paid rent thereafter.  He bought a dwelling that stood on the brow of the hill at the corner of Fourth and Pine Streets from his banker friend Jefferson Henderson who had come from Fayette Missouri to San Jose, Cal. to Elko, Nev., succeeding pioneer banker Freeman.  The deed is dated October 30th, 1882,consideration $450.  It appears that Freeman had built the dwelling and sold it to Henderson by deed of September 16,1876, consideration $1000.  This house was still being occupied as a dwelling when I visited Elko 84 years later, standing as my father left it fronting on Fourth Street.  I doubt if there is an older residence in the town.  In 1887 he moved it back on the lot and replaced it with a new house built mainly out of lumber and bricks salvaged from three houses he tore down that fronted on Third Street below the hill.  In 1912 he moved the second house back to the corner of Fourth and Juniper Streets and built a third dwelling on the original site at 403 Pine Street, where he and Mother continued to live until they died; she in 1933, he in 1934.

 As a young man he had started in the building trade as a lather and shingler, and got to be what was known as a stair builder, the highest paid skill in the house carpenter line.  He became a competent and responsible building contractor.  However during the last decade of the nineteenth century with the County's mineral wealth pretty well exploited, and livestock losses suffered in the hard winter not yet recouped, building in town was at a low ebb.  For such contracts as were offered, his scruples would not permit him to underbid and then skimp the job for a dishonest profit margin.

 Once in those hard times he seemed to meet with frustration any way he turned and was unable to pay his grocery bill (or grow tobacco) Brother Mason Jimmy Clark offered him a job as clerk in the Depot Hotel.  That meant that incidentally he would be managing the hotel bar room including bar tending to some extent as the occasion might demand.  He declined.  Neither would his pride allow his wife who was as good a dressmaker as the town boasted to take in sewing.

 He had no taste for politics.  He used to say; "If you rub against a muddy hog you are bound to get mud on you".  He finished out an unexpired term as Justice of the Peace in 1886.  In these lean years he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Office of County Clerk, a position he could have well filled.  He was bitterly disappointed feeling that his friends had forsaken him and that the forces of iniquity were determined to keep him down because he would not "stand in".  But his armor was not dented, nor his shield tarnished.

 As mentioned above, he did not get a lead into comfortable prosperity until he was fifty five years of age and already hard of hearing - no asset for one starting the undertaking business.  Mother was his good helper with care and friendliness, and they made it.  They mortgaged their home to buy out the Pullman Mortuary.  They were fortunate to get along without opposition.  Even so the going was not easy for them.

Their children were grown and had deserted the parental roof, to fend for themselves far away. He always felt he had done his duty by them, had raised them right, and allowed they owed him nothing in a material way.  He was proud of them; especially so when both sons, away from home, although never so pious, had joined the Masonic order in 1902, about the time he was starting on his new venture.

 It is doubtful that he might have succeeded without the encouragement, moral support, and all around usefulness of his dependable helpmate whom God must have made for him; one Maggie Yeates, although he called her Margaret.  He married her before the age of consent, and so, she claimed, she had never been her own boss.  I will say, with her personality it did not matter very much in the last analysis, who pretended to the title of boss.  Through all of his striving and final triumph over adversity he did appreciate her, but it is my considered opinion that she was more necessary to his life, and vitally so, than he ever fully sensed.  She stuck through thick and thin, met conditions bravely, hopefully, and cheerfully; and when, like Job, he bemoaned his luck and lamented his sore trials even unto boils and shingles, she alleviated his suffering and bolstered his morale - for him and all three children into the bargain.

 He was not negligent or dilatory.  He kept his promises.  He was the kind of a father whose children's love for him was subdued by a wholesome respect for his authority.  Until I was well along in my adolescent years I had not appreciated that under all his exacting rectitude he was uncommonly affectionate.  With less of the quality of Douglas and more of that of Marmion in his manner, his destined pathway would have been less thorny.  But all in all, as nearly as any person I have ever known, he lived up to Shakespeare's adage: "to thine own self be true; and it must follow as night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man'.  Like Brutis he was an honorable man and stood for principle.  He left very little of evil of his making in the world to live after him.  Elko would have been less of a place to come from, if he had not dwelt and wrought in the community from 1872 to 1934.  If Freemasonry was his hobby, most assuredly his lodge benefited thereby.

 Recorded from recollection of a character, at Portland, Oregon, Dec.13, l960.

      by
       Charles Paul Keyser
 

Notes for Margaret Ferguson YEATES
 Occupation; Homemaker

 Education: Graduate of Elko County High School, Elko Nevada. Also was a member of the first class of the University of Nevada when it started in Elko, Nevada.

 Church Aff.: Baptist. Was Presbyterian before J. L. Keyser started the Baptist church in Elko.

 Children of Joseph Linn KEYSER and Margaret Ferguson YEATES were as follows:
+ 54 i John Harold5 KEYSER [6], born 21 Apr 1877 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; died 25 Oct 1965 in Glendale, Los Angeles, California; buried  in Elko, Elko, Nevada.  He married Ethel Edith Averilla TROWER [7].
+ 55 ii Charles Paul5 KEYSER [14], born 13 Dec 1878 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; died 20 Jan 1976 in Portland, Multanoma, Oregon; buried  in Portland, Multanoma, Oregon.  He married Aimee Alice SHERMAN [50].
+ 56 iii Jessie Susan5 KEYSER [15], born 3 May 1880 in Fayette, , Missouri; died 6 Feb 1937 in Willets, Mendocino, California.  She married Stephen Randall STEELE [51].

44. William Archer5 TAYLOR [458] (Mary Isabella4 Keyser, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 31 Jan 1867 in Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky; died 26 Apr 1953 in Fayette, Howard, Missouri; buried  in Fayette, Howard, Missouri.  He married on 28 Mar 1894 in , Henry, Missouri, divorced  Nancy Ellen OWENS [459], born 6 Jul 1870 in , Henry, Missouri; died 11 Oct 1941 in Council Bluffs, , Iowa; buried  in Macedonia, , Iowa.

Notes for Nancy Ellen OWENS
 Father: Robert Cross Owens. Mother: Mary Elizabeth George

 Children of William Archer TAYLOR and Nancy Ellen OWENS were as follows:
 57 i Geneva May6 TAYLOR [460], born 10 Jan 1895 in Thrush, Henry, Missouri.   Married 22 Dec 1912 to Fredrick Alonzo Plains, b. 23 Feb 1889. Six children. Divorced 1933.
 58 ii James Robert6 TAYLOR [461], born 29 Jan 1896 in Calhoun, Henry, Missouri.   Married 19 Feb 1920 Aberdeen South Dakota to Lulu May Rush, b.23 Sep 1897. Eight children.
 59 iii Henry Vernon6 TAYLOR [462], born 3 Apr 1897 in Thrush, Henry, Missouri; died 10 Jan 1972; buried  in Macedonia, , Iowa.
 60 iv Lillard DeWitt6 TAYLOR [463], born 19 Mar 1899 in Thrush, Henry, Missouri; died 3 Sep 1941; buried  in Macedonia, , Iowa.
 61 v Marian Frances6 TAYLOR [464], born 13 Jun 1900 in Thrush, Henry, Missouri; died 1901.
 62 vi Theresa Rhodelia6 TAYLOR [465], born 24 May 1902 in Calhoun, Henry, Missouri; died 17 Aug 1976 in Great Bend, , Kansas; buried 20 Aug 1976 in Larned, , Kansas.   Married 28 Aug 1919 to Herman Dewey Merkel. Three children.
 63 vii Ethel Mary6 TAYLOR [466], born 17 Jan 1904 in Calhoun, Henry, Missouri; died 15 Apr 1977 in Yates Center, , Kansas; buried 18 Apr 1977 in Iola, , Kansas.   Married 14 May 1922 to Herman Boese. Four children.
 64 viii Beulah Lane6 TAYLOR [467], born 11 Dec 1906 in Almon, Camden, Missouri.
 65 ix Eulah Irene6 TAYLOR [468], born 11 Dec 1906 in Almon, Camden, Missouri.
+ 66 x Thomas Alva6 TAYLOR [469], born 21 Sep 1908 in Almon, Camden, Missouri; died 23 Jun 1989 in Logan, , Utah; buried  in Logan, , Utah.  He married Edna CARDON [470].
 

52. Fannie Browning5 KEYSER [480] (John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 28 Nov 1888 in Fayette, , Missouri; died 15 May 1966.  She married on 30 May 1916 John William CRESON [482], born 27 Jul 1888 in Burton, Howard, Missouri; died 8 Apr 1967.

 Children of Fannie Browning KEYSER and John William CRESON were as follows:
+ 67 i Ida Elizabeth6 CRESON [483], born 5 Oct 1919 in Fayette, Howard, Missouri.  She married John Edward HUNTER [485].
 68 ii John James6 CRESON [484], born 11 Jan 1926.   Married Hattie Mae ______.
 

53. Virginia Newton5 KEYSER [481] (John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 25 Mar 1890 in Fayette, Howard, Missouri; died 16 Aug 1968 in Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri; buried  in New Lebanon Cem., Cooper Co, Missouri.  She married on 25 Feb 1914 in Fayette, , Missouri John Virgil GANDER [502], born 11 May 1889 in New Lebanon, Cooper, Missouri; died 1 May 1967 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri; buried  in New Lebanon Cem., Cooper, Missouri.

Notes for John Virgil GANDER
 Son of John Gander.

 Children of Virginia Newton KEYSER and John Virgil GANDER were as follows:
+ 69 i John Franklin6 GANDER [503], born 22 Feb 1915 in Vermont, Cooper, Missouri.  He married Ruby Lee KLEIN [508].
+ 70 ii Margaret Lucile6 GANDER [504], born 27 May 1918 in Vermont, Cooper, Missouri.  She married Walter Leslie HARRIS [524].
+ 71 iii Mary Virginia6 GANDER [505], born 23 May 1920 in Vermont, Cooper, Missouri.  She married Francis Emmons TUTT [541].
+ 72 iv Dorothy Frances6 GANDER [506], born 15 Jun 1924 in Vermont, Cooper, Missouri.  She married Luther Owen GARNETT [564].
+ 73 v Thelma Rose6 GANDER [507], born 28 Apr 1926 in Vermont, Cooper, Missouri.  She married (1) Hallie Arthur ADAMS [581]; (2) Carl Wilton ADAMS [583].
 

54. John Harold5 KEYSER [6] (Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 21 Apr 1877 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; died 25 Oct 1965 in Glendale, Los Angeles, California; buried  in Elko, Elko, Nevada.  He married on 2 Jun 1903 in Oakland, Alameda, California Ethel Edith Averilla TROWER [7], born 27 Dec 1884 in Oakland, Alameda, California; died 3 Jul 1932 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; buried  in Elko, Elko, Nevada, daughter of Ebenezer TROWER [16] and Mary WHITTAKER [17].

Notes for John Harold KEYSER
 Occupation: In order; Railroad Engineer, Mortician, Fruit Ranch in  Napa, Calif. and Gasoline Station owner and operator.

 Education: Elko County High School, Elko, Nevada graduate.

 Church Aff. Presbyterian

 RECOLLECTIONS OF JOHN H. KEYSER
by his son
JOHN H. KEYSER, JR.
10/14/88

John Harold Keyser was born April 21, 1877 in Elko, Nevada.  He was the oldest child of Joseph Linn Keyser of Germanic (1) ancestry and Margaret Ferguson Yates of English and Scotch descent.  He was known as Harry.

Note1: Rhine Valley - German, Swiss, Dutch and perhaps some English ancestry.

His earliest memories included a small blue chair that went with him everywhere he went as evidenced by the fact that the back legs were worn off at a 45-degree angle from being dragged behind him.  At his request, it was placed at the foot of his casket at his funeral service and cremated with him.

His childhood was spent in Elko, Nevada, Tuscarora, Nevada, and a year in Fayette, Mo.  It was, I imagine, typical of any boy growing up in a raw frontier town in the West.

When he was three or four, living in Tuscarora, his mother sent him to an Aunt for a few slices of bread.  He came home with a whole loaf.  His Aunt ever afterward kidded him for asking for a "sloaf".

He wrote the following about the Chinese in Elko around 1888-89:
"The town of Elko used to have quite a large Chinatown supported mostly by the extensive mining industry of Tuscarora, Nevada.  The Chinese population at the occasion of their New Years celebration would create a big pow-wow lasting for several days.  On the other hand, a Chinese funeral would create just about as much excitement for the boys in town.  The funeral ceremonies consisted of Chinese music, drums, etc. followed by roast chicken, candy and other food left at the graveside.  After funeral services at the gravesite were concluded and the mourners dispersed, Paul and myself would take home the chicken, candy and other food.  If we didn't get the goodies, the Indians would. After several years, the deceased Chinaman's remains were disinterred, bones scraped and placed in a metal container and shipped to China".

Another incident he related to me was also about the Chinese.  The Elko Chinatown was a place apart and connected to the rest of the town at a corner where a storefront hitching post was handy.  The Chinese men belonged to Tongs (or clubs) each of which had their own meeting place.  These "Joss houses" were a place for the members to congregate in the evening and among other things, smoke opium.  In their "high" condition, they often got worked up and took out after each other (and perhaps the annoying town boys).  Some of the boys tied a rope to the hitching post at ankle level and laid it across the street.  When the angry Chinese came around the corner, the rope was pulled tight with predictable results

The Indians were also a source of entertainment.  The Shoshone tribe inhabited the area and established an encampment just north of town.  In those days, their customs were still intact and their tribal dances were of great interest.  Whenever there was a big pow-wow, the town boys would go see it and actually join in the dancing.  The Indians didn't seem to mind.  My Father used to fascinate us and in later years his grandchildren by demonstrating complete with Indian sound effects.

Harry and his brother Paul witnessed what may have been the last hanging in front of the county court house. His wife and her boyfriend in the town of Carlin murdered a man.  They buried him in a shallow grave in the basement.  A subsequent tenant wanted more headroom and proceeded to dig the basement a little deeper.  The murdered man was uncovered as well as the plot.  The two were convicted and hung together.  The hanging was an exciting event and most of the town turned out.  The boy's mother, of course, forbade them attending but they sneaked in anyway.  Their description was quite gory.

There used to be extensive Hot Springs southeast of Elko across the Humbolt River.  One small one was known as Chicken Soup Springs.  A cupful tasted just like chicken soup.  It wasn't until he was an adult that he realized that the chicken soup was a concoction of boiled small animals that had fallen in.

My father graduated from Elko High School and was proud of it.  That achievement was not at all common in those days.  He did not go to college, but his younger brother Paul and his sister Jessie did.

He was a very good photographer.  Some of his pictures of the Ruby Mountains, East of Elko are excellent.  Some were on display in the Henderson Bank in Elko for many years.  His interest in photography stemmed from an ad in Boy's Life magazine offering a camera for a reasonable price.  He had earned enough money so he sent for one.  His father was furious at such a waste.  The camera arrived and he no sooner learned to use it than a law was passed requiring all Chinese to register and submit a picture.  Dad had the only camera in town.  He made considerable at $3.00 for a set of pictures.  Some of the profit went toward sending his mother to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in San Francisco.  I also believe some of it was used to assist his sister Jessie with college expenses.

Soon after graduating from high school, he went to work for the Southern Pacific railroad (about the time the Central Pacific was incorporated into the S. P.) at Oakland, California.  He started as a Fireman, was promoted to Engineer and continued with them until 1916(?).

In Oakland he met my mother, Ethel E. Trower.  They were married there June 2, 1903.  Three children from this marriage are Edith May, February 10, 1905, John H., Jr., March 22, l918, and Dorothy Florence, June 10, 1921.

In 1916(?) the family moved to Elko.  My father told me the strain of being a railroad engineer was getting to be too much.  In Elko he joined forces with his father in the mortuary business.  From this time until 1930 his fortunes were good.  In the fall of 1928 he leased the Keyser Mortuary from his father and took complete charge.  About that time he also established a Studebaker Automobile agency.

Until about 1928, the Keyser Mortuary had no competition.  At that time a number of Elko businessmen got together with another mortician who had moved into town.  They thought they could get wealthy but they had little luck and finally came to my father with an offer to buy him out.  They hoped they could thus recover their losses and enjoy a monopoly.  They asked him to name his price and he tossed out the ridiculously high price (for that time) of $30,000 cash.  They considered and agreed.

My mother had always wanted to return to California and now they had the opportunity.  The Studebaker agency was holding its own, but not making enough to support the family.  It was closed and the family moved to Napa, California.  Harry purchased a 20-acre orchard near Brown's Valley just outside the city of Napa.  It consisted of 5 acres of apples, 7 acres of cherries, 8 acres of prunes, a good house and outbuildings.  Dad worked hard to make a go of it, but the great depression of the 1930's gradually ate up the whole thing.  My mother was very happy on the ranch for a couple of years until she was tragically struck with her final illness (intestinal blockage).  She died in Elko, Nevada July 3, 1932.  She had taken me there for the dry air so I could recover from pneumonia that I had contracted earlier in the year.

My father stayed on the ranch for a year or two more, then leased it and moved back to Elko where for a short time he was head of the federal unemployment office.  June 1, 1934 saw another tragedy when his oldest child, Edith May, died from tuberculosis, leaving an orphan daughter Patsy Ruth Steninger.  Her paternal aunt raised Patsy Ruth.

He later moved to Ely, Nevada and set up a mortuary there, but could not break into the existing monopoly of the company town.  He moved back to the ranch for a while but finally had to let the bank take it over.

By that time I had graduated from College (2) and he moved to Los Angeles to live with me. He got a job in a service station and worked there for several years building up his eligibility for social security.  He continued to live in Los Angeles after retirement, then later moved to a retirement home in Verdugo City, California where he stayed until shortly before his death October 25,1965 in a convalescent home in Montrose, (now Glendale) California.  His death at the age of 88 was essentially from old age.  The body finally just wore out.

Note2:    I went to College on an inheritance from Jack Gollar, the divorced husband of my mother's younger sister, Florence

A son's impression of his father is that he was first of all a loving person.  He was almost always cheerful and happy to be with family and friends.  He was very good with his children.  He supplied necessary discipline, but with a light hand.  Never as strict as his father had been, he relied on example.  I never was tempted to do anything I knew he would think was wrong.  He loved my mother very much.  Although married three times after her death none of them lasted beyond a few months.  In his heart he knew he had only loved one woman.

He was proud to be a Mason and lived by its precepts.  He never went through the chairs although he started, but withdrew when his hearing began to fail.  He was almost as deeply involved in Masonry as his father and certainly far more so than his son.  His last rites and burial in Elko were Masonic as he wished.

His success in business was mixed.  Some would say he was too easy going.  I would say he was too nice a person to engage in rough business practices.  Most significant he was a victim of the great depression.

He had the "Yeates hurry" a trait attributed to his grandfather Yeates to sometimes be so deliberately slow as to put others on edge, but he was thorough and always on schedule.  His railroad days had ingrained in him the habit of always being on time.  He used to drive on schedule.  He would get out his railroad watch -- look at it -- then announce when we would arrive at our destination.  He would then proceed to do exactly that.

When the Studebaker agency was closed, he took advantage of his right to buy a car at wholesale by purchasing the most luxurious and powerful car in the line - a Studebaker President Straight Eight sedan.  This classic car could really move as frequent, fast, and on schedule trips between Elko and Napa proved.  Average speeds of 70-75 miles an hour became routine.  The car became known in Elko as Harry Keyser's Flyer.

He loved to dance.  He frequented ballrooms in Los Angeles and charmed the ladies there when he was in his 80's.

No one could have asked for a better father.  His example of love, honesty and fairness have guided his children and earned respect.  His example of always trying his best and expecting (not demanding) the best of us has been a primary influence in my life.

RECOLLECTIONS OF JOHN H. KEYSER
by his daughter
DOROTHY KEYSER JOHNSON
supplementing recollections of J. H. Keyser, Jr.
1/25/1982

My earliest recollections about our father, who I always called "Daddy" to the day of his death, are all good and loving.  I am sure I was "Daddy's girl".  I loved to crawl in his lap and have him read the funnies to me or watch him sleep in his easy chair.  He used to snore resoundingly and he told me then that it was because he ate so much peanut butter.  He was also the one who promised me good eyes and curly hair if I ate my carrots.  I started wearing glasses at ten and have never had a curl in my life.

I remember in Elko his "radio" which was some sort of contraption set up in the corner of the dining room...and he would get far away places like Salt Lake City on it.  It seemed that he and mother never missed a dance and sometimes I went along to sleep on a bench.  In later years, I learned that he was usually the Santa Claus at the Presbyterian Church Sunday school Party.  This would account for the laughter when he would talk to me at the party and I would say, "I saw you in Salt Lake"(Mother usually took us to the big city and we would tell Santa what we wanted).

My impression is that he was a very devoted and dutiful son to his parents.  My Aunt Jessie, his sister, once told me that he was a very mischievous, fun-loving boy and got himself into more trouble with his father because of it. I also got the feeling that he was well liked and appreciated and that in later years both his brother and sister came to appreciate what help he was in seeing that they could have their college education.  I do know that he brought us to Elko to live with my grandfather when he was alone and we stayed until he died.  It was not easy. I was a young teenager wanting to have friends in and out and wanting to do the things that "modern" girls did then. My grandfather was in his late 80's and not welcoming any upset to his rigid routine.   Daddy was the buffer and managed to make it o.k. with both of us.  I think that perhaps if he had one shortcoming it was that he was generous to a fault.  His brother Paul once told me that he thought he was not too shrewd at business.  I think it was that he could refuse nothing to his friends or his family.  When he moved the family to Napa, my Uncle Charlie was upset with both our parents because they bought a small orchard and a large house.  He knew that mother wanted the house, but he also knew that 20 acres would not support this family. I think my father was influenced by mother's longing to have the home.

I will never criticize my father for his move from Elko.  He told me later that he was as anxious to leave as mother.  He had reached an age where he was burying his own friends and that was more than this gentle man could bear.  The failure at Napa was due to many insurmountable events.  The depression took its toll of his savings, and the bottom fell out of all the food markets. Mother and Edith became seriously ill in a day when health insurance was unheard of.  I often think of the terrible burden he carried over a period of five or six years.  He lost his wife, mother, father, daughter, and his ranch.  He was left with a young son, a younger daughter and a small granddaughter to provide for.  It would have crushed a better man, but Daddy was always loving, cheerful and did his best to keep us together and make a home for us.  He learned to cook and we learned to like it.  It must have been very difficult for him to deny us the things that he always provided so easily before.

Your recollections of Harry Keyser’s flyer remind me of the bright yellow Studebaker Coupe that he sold to our grandfather.  Grandpa was also very hard of hearing then and never, ever, did he shift the thing from second gear to high.  He chugged around Elko and everyone always said they could hear old J.L. coming even if they couldn't see him in that bright yellow car.

The moves back to Elko and subsequently to Ely were not too successful, but they did provide him with employment at a time when so many were not able to get work of any kind.  He wanted to make a success of the venture in Ely but it was truly a "Company Town" and everyone told him they wished they could send him business, but they "owed the company store".

He and I spent the war years in Los Angeles.  Sometimes together, sometimes in separate apartments.  After I was married, Daddy and I lived in the same apartment building in different apartments and we went out to dinner a couple of times a week. He would also invite me down to his place for a home cooked meal.  Nothing seemed to delight him more than to have the grandchildren start coming.  My oldest, Kenneth, learned to love his grandpa as I did and always wanted some funnies or a story read.

I have always thought my father was very handsome.  His early pictures show him as a dark haired, nice featured young man.  When I was born, he was 44 and I never knew him without completely white hair, but it was beautiful, wavy hair and remained so even to his death.  He never became overweight, probably because he worked so hard most of his life and learned to eat rather frugally during the hard times so his family would have more.  The fact that he remarried numerous times following mother's death has never bothered me.  They were all honorable women and he was motivated by the fact that he had to earn a living and keep a home together.  I think he found later in life that you don't always have to marry to enjoy companionship.  He might be called a forerunner of this present generation who has discovered this and put it to practice

My favorite story that sums up the character and outlook of the man is Mother wanted him to go see the movie Romeo and Juliet when it came to Elko.  He consented, and afterward asked her never to take him to something like that again.  He said his life was fraught with enough tragedy, he didn't have to go to a movie for more.  He liked entertainment in a light vein and enjoyed tremendously the old Tom Mix, Buck Rodgers western movies and the Harold Lloyd and Eddie Cantor comedies.  I have come to the same conclusion.  Tragedies are not entertainment.  Culture perhaps, but not entertainment.  Perhaps the best summary to make about Daddy is that when I think of him, it is always in the happiest, light-hearted manner of good memories and happy sweet-sour times with a fine father.
 
 

Notes for Ethel Edith Averilla TROWER
 Occupation: Homemaker   !Education: High School

 Church Aff.: Presbyterian
 

      Children of John Harold KEYSER and Ethel Edith Averilla TROWER were as follows:
+ 74 i Edith May6 KEYSER [8], born 10 Feb 1905 in Oakland, Alameda, California; died 1 Jun 1934 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; buried  in Elko, Elko, Nevada.  She married John Barret STENINGER [67].
+ 75 ii John Harold6 KEYSER (Jr) [1], born 22 Mar 1918 in Elko, Elko, Nevada.  He married Leta Frances WEAVER [2].
+ 76 iii Dorothy Florence6 KEYSER [9], born 10 Jun 1921 in Elko, Elko, Nevada.  She married Roy Edward JOHNSON [132].
 

55. Charles Paul5 KEYSER [14] (Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 13 Dec 1878 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; died 20 Jan 1976 in Portland, Multanoma, Oregon; buried  in Portland, Multanoma, Oregon.  He married on 5 Aug 1906 in Santa Cruz, , California Aimee Alice SHERMAN [50], born 22 Dec 1877 in Carson City, , Nevada; died 14 Dec 1948 in Portland, Multanoma, Oregon.

Notes for Charles Paul KEYSER
 Occupation: Civil Engineer. Superintendent of Parks of Portland Oregon.

 Education: University of Nevada graduate in Civil Engineering.

 After graduation from the University, he was employed by the Southern Pacific Railway and worked as a Civil Engineer on the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake. This project shortened the distance to get from one side of the Lake to the other bypassing Promentary Point to the North.

 He also helped engineer the effort that stopped the overflow from the Colorado River Irrigation project that formed the Salton Sea. Poorly conceived operating practices caused a disastrous flow into a basin below sea level (similar to Death Valley). Not only was the Salton Sea formed, but farmlands and the Southern Pacific main line were being flooded. The Southern Pacific finally stopped the flow by pushing trainloads after trainload of cars loaded with dirt and other material into the gap, cars and all.

 He later became Superintendent of Parks in Portland Oregon and is responsible for many of the beautiful parks and golf courses in that city.

 He was also responsible for gathering much of the data that went into this version of the Keyser Genealogy.

Notes for Aimee Alice SHERMAN
 She was born at the Brunswick Mill (reduction of ore) on the Carson River some 8 miles from Carson City, Nevada.

 Children of Charles Paul KEYSER and Aimee Alice SHERMAN were as follows:
+ 77 i Joseph Elliot6 KEYSER [137], born 20 Dec 1909 in Portland, , Oregon.  He married Helen LAURGAARD [138].
 

56. Jessie Susan5 KEYSER [15] (Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 3 May 1880 in Fayette, , Missouri; died 6 Feb 1937 in Willets, Mendocino, California.  She married on 25 Dec 1901 in Elko, Elko, Nevada Stephen Randall STEELE [51], born 3 Jan 1876 in Clover Valley, Elko, Nevada; died  9 Jan 1952 in Cloverdale, , California, son of James Alexander STEELE [143].

Notes for Jessie Susan KEYSER
 Occupation; Homemaker Education: University of Nevada

Notes for Stephen Randall STEELE
 County Recorder in and for Sonoma County, State of California. Death Certificate for Stephen R. Steele. Cause of death was Hydrothorax and Bronchiogenic carcinoma.

 Children of Jessie Susan KEYSER and Stephen Randall STEELE were as follows:
+ 78 i Margaret6 STEELE [141], born  15 Nov 1903 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; died  2 May 1993 in Hayward, California; buried  in Hayward, California.  She married Henry Eugene DAVIS [144].
+ 79 ii James Linn6 STEELE [142], born 18 Nov 1905 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; died abt Jan 1971.  He married Lorna HICKEY [176].

66. Thomas Alva6 TAYLOR [469] (William Archer5, Mary Isabella4 Keyser, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 21 Sep 1908 in Almon, Camden, Missouri; died 23 Jun 1989 in Logan, , Utah; buried  in Logan, , Utah.  He married on 1 Apr 1938 in Logan, Cache, Utah Edna CARDON [470], born 16 Apr 1915 in Logan, Cache, Utah.

Notes for Thomas Alva TAYLOR
 Together with his wife was the author of "Taylor Owens Their Trails and Ties".

Notes for Edna CARDON
 Coauthor with her Husband, Thomas Alva Taylor of "Taylor Owens Their Trails and Ties".

 Father: Louis Samuel Cardon. !Mother: Rebecca Ann Ballard

 Children of Thomas Alva TAYLOR and Edna CARDON were as follows:
 80 i Thomas Ronald7 TAYLOR [471],
 81 ii Nancy Louise7 TAYLOR [472],
 

67. Ida Elizabeth6 CRESON [483] (Fannie Browning5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 5 Oct 1919 in Fayette, Howard, Missouri.  She married on 30 May 1946 in Carrollton, , Illinois, divorced  John Edward HUNTER [485], born 24 Oct 1924.

 Children of Ida Elizabeth CRESON and John Edward HUNTER were as follows:
 82 i Abigail Florence7 HUNTER [486],
+ 83 ii John Franklin7 HUNTER [487],
 84 iii James Edward7 HUNTER [488],
+ 85 iv Annabel Browning7 HUNTER [489],
+ 86 v Holly Idabeth7 HUNTER [490],

69. John Franklin6 GANDER [503] (Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 22 Feb 1915 in Vermont, Cooper, Missouri.  He married on 20 Nov 1935 in , Cooper, Missouri Ruby Lee KLEIN [508].

 Children of John Franklin GANDER and Ruby Lee KLEIN were as follows:
+ 87 i John William7 GANDER [509],
+ 88 ii Marie Janet7 GANDER [510],
+ 89 iii Barbara Kay7 GANDER [511],
 

70. Margaret Lucile6 GANDER [504] (Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 27 May 1918 in Vermont, Cooper, Missouri.  She married on 19 Sep 1940 in Boonville, , Missouri Walter Leslie HARRIS [524], born 28 Sep 1912 in Clarksford, , Missouri.

Notes for Walter Leslie HARRIS
 Son of Frank Leslie Harris and Ida Mae Coffman.

 Children of Margaret Lucile GANDER and Walter Leslie HARRIS were as follows:
 90 i Helen Dorothy7 HARRIS [525], born 29 Jul 1941.   Stillborn.
+ 91 ii John Leslie7 HARRIS [526],
+ 92 iii Margaret Ann7 HARRIS [527],
+ 93 iv James Walter7 HARRIS [528],
 94 v Ronald Frank7 HARRIS [529],
 95 vi Virgil William7 HARRIS [530],
 

71. Mary Virginia6 GANDER [505] (Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 23 May 1920 in Vermont, Cooper, Missouri.  She married on 22 Jan 1940 Francis Emmons TUTT [541], born 1 Oct 1900.

 Children of Mary Virginia GANDER and Francis Emmons TUTT were as follows:
 96 i James Henry7 TUTT [542], born 20 Nov 1940; died 25 Mar 1941; buried  in Bunceton, Masonic Cemetery, Missouri.
+ 97 ii Charles Francis7 TUTT [543],
+ 98 iii Mary Virginia7 TUTT [544],
+ 99 iv George Edward7 TUTT [545],
+ 100 v Samuel Emmons7 TUTT [546],
 

72. Dorothy Frances6 GANDER [506] (Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 15 Jun 1924 in Vermont, Cooper, Missouri.  She married on 8 Apr 1944 in Shelbyville, , Missouri Luther Owen GARNETT [564], born 7 Nov 1923 in Leonard, , Missouri.

 Children of Dorothy Frances GANDER and Luther Owen GARNETT were as follows:
+ 101 i Marilyn Kay7 GARNETT [565],
+ 102 ii Carolyn Faye7 GARNETT [566],
 103 iii David Allen7 GARNETT [567],
+ 104 iv Beverly Ann7 GARNETT [568],
 105 v Denna Lea7 GARNETT [569],

73. Thelma Rose6 GANDER [507] (Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 28 Apr 1926 in Vermont, Cooper, Missouri.  She married (1) on 9 Aug 1943 Hallie Arthur ADAMS [581], born 9 Jun 1922 in Novelty, , Missouri; died 22 Sep 1944 in see note; (2) on 20 Dec 1945 in Wintzville, , Missouri Carl Wilton ADAMS [583].

Notes for Hallie Arthur ADAMS
 Killed in action in Europe during World War II.

 Younger brother of Carl Wilton Adams, second husband of Thelma Rosa Gander.

Notes for Carl Wilton ADAMS
 Older brother of Hallie Arthur Adams, first husband or Thelma Rosa Gander.

 Children of Thelma Rose GANDER and Hallie Arthur ADAMS were as follows:
+ 106 i Tanna Lee7 ADAMS [582],

 Children of Thelma Rose GANDER and Carl Wilton ADAMS were as follows:
+ 107 i Carl Wilton7 ADAMS (Jr) [584],
 108 ii Calvin Dee7 ADAMS [585],
 

74. Edith May6 KEYSER [8] (John Harold5, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 10 Feb 1905 in Oakland, Alameda, California; died 1 Jun 1934 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; buried  in Elko, Elko, Nevada.  She married on 1 Aug 1926 in Elko, Elko, Nevada John Barret STENINGER [67], born 9 Apr 1901 in Sioux Rapids, , Iowa; died 18 Jul 1928 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; buried  in Elko, Elko, Nevada, son of Eber M STENINGER [69].

Notes for Edith May KEYSER
 Died of Tuberculosis.

Notes for John Barret STENINGER
 Occupation: Editor of the Elko Free Press

 Died of a ruptured appendix.

 Children of Edith May KEYSER and John Barret STENINGER were as follows:
+ 109 i Patsy Ruth7 STENINGER [68],
 

75. John Harold6 KEYSER (Jr) [1] (John Harold5, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 22 Mar 1918 in Elko, Elko, Nevada.  He married on 16 May 1942 in Glendale, Los Angeles, California Leta Frances WEAVER [2], born 12 Jun 1918 in Glendale, Los Angeles, California; died 20 Dec 1998 in Pomona, California, daughter of Alvah Linn WEAVER [10] and Elsie Hattie ADAMS [11].

Notes for John Harold KEYSER (Jr)
 Occupation: Electrical Engineer

 Education: Cal Tech B.S. 1940

 Church Aff.: Methodist, Presbyterian

 John H. Keyser, Jr. (Jack) was born in Elko, Nevada in 1918, and is a second generation native. His father was born there in the 1870's shortly after it was established as a town on the Central Pacific railroad. He was raised in this pioneer town and lived there until high school graduation, with the exception of four years in Napa, California from 1929 through 1933.

 He attended California Institute of Technology and graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1940 with $15 in his pocket and a job with an electric motor manufacturer. A year later he went to work for Vega (now a part of Lockheed) doing shop liaison on the B17 and other aircraft. A short time later, the Army called and he was given a commission to study Radar and later to write basic radar manuals. Following the war he went back to Lockheed's research department.

  A couple of years later he and a friend developed an instrument called a myograph. the instrument was used to access nerve damage in polio victims. The instrument was a success, but the company was not.

  In 1949 he joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Caltech. He was told the job might last a year, since it was not likely the Corpral rocket project would go much beyond that. Thirty four years later he retired! In those years he worked at many jobs. The first one was the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of the Corpral rocket ground telemetry and data reduction equipment. The Corporal was turned into a weapon during the Korean incident and he joined a section formed by JPL to help get it into production and also to write Army manuals covering its system and operation.

 JPL and the Army launched Explorer, the first United States satellite. JPL then became a space laboratory under NASA and faced the problem of reorganizing and expanding. In this period he worked on getting Policies and Procedures published appropriate to the newly enlarged organization.

 Of the long list of things one does in the course of 34 years on the job, the earliest stand out, but one other must be mentioned. He was configuration manager on Mariner 4, the first spacecraft to orbit Mars.

 He met and married his wife Leta in 1942.Together they moved back to New Jersey during WWII where their first child Jacklynne was born in the Fort Monmouth Hospital. Their two sons were born in Southern California. one in Glendale, the other in Los Angles. They have two grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Son Tom married into a built in" family with two other "grandchildren"

 In 1966 we moved to a retirement home, Mount San Antonio Gardens, on the border between Pomona and Claremont California. Wife Leta passed away in December of 1998. Jack is busy being treasurer of the Gardens Club, the organization of all the residents. He is also active on the Computer committee which has six state of the art computers and trains those who live at the Gardens how to use the computer.

Notes for Leta Frances WEAVER
 Occupation: Librarian

 Education: University of California at Los Angeles BA 1940 and the University of Southern California BA in Library Science 1941

 Church Aff: Methodist. After move to Mount San Antonio Gardens in 1995 became a member of the Claremont Presbyterian Church of Claremont, Ca.

      She died suddenly in her sleep (taking a nap) while suffering from what appeared to be flu at 2:00pm 20 Dec 1998.

Leta Frances Weaver was born in Glendale California June 12, 1918.  Her mother Elsie and her father Lynn Weaver were natives of Nebraska.  Her father died in the 1918 flu epidemic and in due course her mother remarried.  It was a happy joining of families.  Leta and her stepsister Ruth Tower Hodgson became lifelong friends and always considered themselves to be true sisters.  Ruth’s son Alfred has always been one of the cousins.

Leta grew up in Glendale and spent most of her life in or near there.  She attended UCLA and received BS in Literature.  She then attended the USC library school and received a BS degree in Library Science.

She had a great love of travel.  She never forgot early trips around the East with her Aunt Leta to see the historical sites and scenic marvels there.  She also fondly remembered a trip to Alaska with her Aunt and in the same year a trip to Hawaii with her Mother on the old Matson Line.  Later she and Jack went to Alaska and several times to Hawaii. They also enjoyed considerable travel through Europe, Egypt, Greece, Mexico, through the Panama Canal and down the Mississippi.

She and husband Jack met and were married in 1942.  After the disruption of World War II they settled in La Canada, California where they lived for 49 years.

 They have three children:

Jacklynne Showalter of El Segundo
John R. Keyser of Corona,
 Tom Keyser of Cypress.

Four grandchildren:

Suzanne Macdonald of Orange
James Thomas of Bellflower
Meghan Fishman and Blake Fishman of Cypress.
 (“Grandchildren" by marriage)

Four great grandchildren:

 David Macdonald
Christine Macdonald
Brittany Thomas
Alan Thomas

During her life she had a loving custom of knitting a Christmas stocking for each child in the family.  This was extended to the spouse, the grandchildren and the great grandchildren.  Just a day or so before she died, it was with great satisfaction that she completed all the knitting on a stocking for the last addition to the family that she knew, Christine Macdonald.

She worked for the City of Glendale library, beginning as a part time children’s librarian and retiring as the librarian in charge of one of the branches.

She was active in PEO and was a founding member of chapter OM in La Canada. She served as president of her chapter in 1956-57 and 1982-83.

In 1996 She and her husband moved to Mount San Antonio Gardens in Pomona and became members of the Claremont Presbyterian Church although her activity in both was severely limited by the onset of Sciatica.

She passed away peacefully in her sleep on the afternoon of December 20 while she was resting trying to recover from what appeared to be the flu.
 

 Children of John Harold KEYSER (Jr) and Leta Frances WEAVER were as follows:
+ 110 i Jacklynne Ruth7 KEYSER [3],
 111 ii John Robert7 KEYSER [4],
 112 iii Thomas Joseph7 KEYSER [5],
 

76. Dorothy Florence6 KEYSER [9] (John Harold5, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 10 Jun 1921 in Elko, Elko, Nevada.  She married on 13 Nov 1943 Roy Edward JOHNSON [132], born 6 Jul 1920 in Bisbee, Cochise, Arizona, son of John Edward JOHNSON [135] and Hilja Elvira LAMPI [136].

Notes for Dorothy Florence KEYSER
 Occupation: Medical Secretary !Education: Los Angeles City College - 1 Year University of California at Berkley - 1 year

Notes for Roy Edward JOHNSON
 Occupation: Construction Superintendent !Education: 2 years of Technical College

 Roy served in WW II on the submarine U.S.S. Gar. After discharge from the Navy he worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad as a diesel mechanic. He was offered a foreman's job with Timber Structures, Inc. and became a journeyman carpenter. He retired after 25 years as a Construction Superintendent for Van Bokkelen - Cole Co. and ten years with Concrete Shell Structures both of Oakland, California.

 Children of Dorothy Florence KEYSER and Roy Edward JOHNSON were as follows:
 113 i Kenneth Edward7 JOHNSON (Dr) [133],
 114 ii Scott Edward7 JOHNSON [134],
 

77. Joseph Elliot6 KEYSER [137] (Charles Paul5, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 20 Dec 1909 in Portland, , Oregon.  He married on 16 Jan 1938 Helen LAURGAARD [138], born 11 Sep 1910 in Portland, , Oregon; died 11 Oct 1988 in Portland, , Oregon, daughter of Olaf LAURGAARD [590] and Goldie SHERER [591].

Notes for Helen LAURGAARD
 Occupation: Librarian

 Children of Joseph Elliot KEYSER and Helen LAURGAARD were as follows:
 115 i Marcia7 KEYSER [139], born 11 Apr 1939 in Portland, , Oregon; died 9 Sep 1959.   She died at the start of her Junior year at Oregon State University.
+ 116 ii Rodney Elliot7 KEYSER [140],
 

78. Margaret6 STEELE [141] (Jessie Susan5 Keyser, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born  15 Nov 1903 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; died  2 May 1993 in Hayward, California; buried  in Hayward, California.  She married on 12 Jul 1924 in Hayward, Alameda, California, divorced  Henry Eugene DAVIS [144], born ,  16 Mar 1904 in Durango, , , Mexico; died ,  16 Jan 1992 in San Luis Obispo, CA., son of Arthur Eugene DAVIS [148] and Edith CLEMENT [149].

Notes for Margaret STEELE
 Her conservator visited her in her nursing home April 29 and had a good rational talk with her. Evidently she was ready to "go". She was down to 80 pounds and wouldn’t eat any longer. Evidently old age and malnutrition had taken her.

 The conservator told me that Margaret was buried without ceremony in an ordinary plot in the county graveyard.

 The above from a letter to J. H. Keyser, Jr from Joe E. Keyser 5/19/93.

 She had been a nursing home in San Mateo County for a number of years and her affairs were handled by a county social case worker at the time of her death.

Notes for Henry Eugene DAVIS
 Cause of death was Lung Cancer

 Children of Margaret STEELE and Henry Eugene DAVIS were as follows:
+ 117 i Henry Eugene7 DAVIS (Jr) [145],
+ 118 ii Donald Alan7 DAVIS [146],
 119 iii Linn Steven7 DAVIS [147],
 

79. James Linn6 STEELE [142] (Jessie Susan5 Keyser, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 18 Nov 1905 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; died abt Jan 1971.  He married on 30 Jun 1930 in Hayward, , California Lorna HICKEY [176], born  in , , Idaho.

Notes for James Linn STEELE
 From information from Margaret Steele Davis: " Linn was driving from Lake Tahoe area to his home in the Bay area when he disappeared." The date and place of death is unknown.
 

 Children of Margaret STEELE and Henry Eugene DAVIS were as follows:
+ 117 i Henry Eugene7 DAVIS (Jr) [145], born  8 Mar 1926 in Hayward, Alameda, California.  He married (1) Elsie Jo WALKER [150]; (2) Elizabeth Ann KENOYER [154].
+ 118 ii Donald Alan7 DAVIS [146], born 22 Jan 1929 in Hayward, Alameda, California.  He married Perthenia Louise MARVIN [167].
 119 iii Linn Steven7 DAVIS [147], born 3 Mar 1930 in Hayward, California.  He married (1) , divorced  Madelyn (---) [175]; (2)  (---) UNMARRIED [1917].   He was in the Navy in World War II and saw duty in Tokyo and Yokusuka. Year 2000 lives in Riverside, California. Had a brief marriage which ended in divorce.
 

79. James Linn6 STEELE [142] (Jessie Susan5 Keyser, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 18 Nov 1905 in Elko, Elko, Nevada; died abt Jan 1971.  He married on 30 Jun 1930 in Hayward, , California Lorna HICKEY [176], born  in , , Idaho.

Notes for James Linn STEELE
 From information from Margaret Steele Davis: " Linn was driving from Lake Tahoe area to his home in the Bay area when he disappeared." The date and place of death is unknown.

 Children of James Linn STEELE and Lorna HICKEY were as follows:
+ 120 i Donald Robert7 STEELE [177], born 8 May 1936 in Hayward, , California.  He married Arlene BERNET [178].

83. John Franklin7 HUNTER [487] (Ida Elizabeth6 Creson, Fannie Browning5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 11 Dec 1950 in Shawnee, , Oklahoma.  He married on 29 Aug 1970 Sandra Earlene MCGRAW [491], born 1 Mar 1947 in , , Arkansas.

Notes for Sandra Earlene MCGRAW
 Born in N. E. Arkansas. Raised in St. Louis Co.

 Children of John Franklin HUNTER and Sandra Earlene MCGRAW were as follows:
 121 i John Jeffrey8 HUNTER [492], born 30 Sep 1972 in Fort Bragg, , North Carolina.   He is John Hunter IV.
 122 ii Jennifer Lynn8 HUNTER [493], born 22 Sep 1974 in Fayette, , Missouri.
 123 iii Jamie Alan8 HUNTER [494], born 12 Mar 1976 in Fayette, , Missouri.
 124 iv Joy Elizabeth8 HUNTER [495], born 3 Jul 1980 in Fayette, , Missouri.
 

85. Annabel Browning7 HUNTER [489] (Ida Elizabeth6 Creson, Fannie Browning5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 13 Sep 1956 in Fayette, , Missouri.  She married on 7 Jun 1975 Steven James STAATS [496], born 12 Feb 1951 in Fulton, , Missouri.

 Children of Annabel Browning HUNTER and Steven James STAATS were as follows:
 125 i Janice Lynn8 STAATS [497], born 6 Oct 1978 in Columbia, , Missouri.
 126 ii David Nicholas8 STAATS [498], born 3 Dec 1979 in Columbia, , Missouri.
 

86. Holly Idabeth7 HUNTER [490] (Ida Elizabeth6 Creson, Fannie Browning5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 3 Sep 1959 in Fayette, , Missouri.  She married (1)  in Wichita, , Kansas, divorced  Timothy Wayne TICE [499]; (2) on 8 Dec 1979 in Wichita, , Kansas Rodger Dean FISCHER [501], born 28 May 1953.

 Children of Holly Idabeth HUNTER and Timothy Wayne TICE were as follows:
 127 i Joshua Lee Marshall8 TICE [500], born 11 Sep 1977 in Wichita, , Kansas.
 

87. John William7 GANDER [509] (John Franklin6, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 8 Oct 1936 in , Cooper, Missouri.  He married on 2 Apr 1959 Barbara Arlene GARRISON [512], born 6 Aug 1936 in , , Oklahoma.

 Children of John William GANDER and Barbara Arlene GARRISON were as follows:
 128 i Jonna Sue8 GANDER [513], born 14 Jun 1961 in St. Charles, , Missouri.
 129 ii John Scott8 GANDER [514], born 31 Jan 1963 in Lebanon, , Missouri.
 130 iii Jill Renee8 GANDER [515], born 24 Jun 1968 in Lebanon, , Missouri.
 

88. Marie Janet7 GANDER [510] (John Franklin6, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 27 Jul 1939.  She married on 6 Apr 1958 Wilber Lee POHLMAN [516], born 24 Mar 1937 in Wooldridge, Cooper, Missouri.

 Children of Marie Janet GANDER and Wilber Lee POHLMAN were as follows:
 131 i Alicia Gayle8 POHLMAN [517], born 8 Oct 1959 in Wooldridge, Cooper, Missouri.
 132 ii Timothy Wayne8 POHLMAN [518], born 4 Dec 1961 in Wooldridge, Cooper, Missouri.
 133 iii Janella Marie8 POHLMAN [519], born 5 Jan 1968 in Wooldridge, Cooper, Missouri.
 

89. Barbara Kay7 GANDER [511] (John Franklin6, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 16 Aug 1948 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri.  She married on 17 Mar 1968 Jon Edwin THOMA [520].

Notes for Jon Edwin THOMA
 From Boonville, Missouri.

 Children of Barbara Kay GANDER and Jon Edwin THOMA were as follows:
 134 i Jon Keith8 THOMA [521], born 16 Oct 1969.
 135 ii Christopher Franklin8 THOMA [522], born 22 Aug 1973.
 136 iii Brent Patrick8 THOMA [523], born 7 Jul 1978.
 

91. John Leslie7 HARRIS [526] (Margaret Lucile6 Gander, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 5 Apr 1943 in Bunceton, Cooper, Missouri.  He married (1) on 28 May 1965, divorced  Mary Louise ARNETT [531], born 21 Jun 1943; (2) on 18 May 1975 Cynthia Mae GOODMAN [534], born 6 Jun 1954.

 Children of John Leslie HARRIS and Mary Louise ARNETT were as follows:
 137 i Andrew Leslie8 HARRIS [532], born 27 Dec 1965 in Sedalia, Cooper, Missouri.
 138 ii Brent William8 HARRIS [533], born 19 Aug 1968 in Smithville, , Missouri.
 

92. Margaret Ann7 HARRIS [527] (Margaret Lucile6 Gander, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 23 Feb 1944 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri.  She married on 19 Dec 1973 John James WEDUA [535], born 13 Dec 1934.

 Children of Margaret Ann HARRIS and John James WEDUA were as follows:
 139 i Margaret Michelle8 WEDUA [536], born 17 Mar 1975 in North Kan. City, , Missouri.
 

93. James Walter7 HARRIS [528] (Margaret Lucile6 Gander, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 27 Nov 1950 in Tipton, Moniteau, Missouri.  He married (1) on 16 Jun 1974, divorced  Diane Elizabeth HARMS [537], born 3 Nov 1951; (2) on 19 Nov 1977 Denise Ann DABNER [539], born 23 Apr 1955.

 Children of James Walter HARRIS and Diane Elizabeth HARMS were as follows:
 140 i Matthew Dean8 HARRIS [538], born 10 Oct 1975 in Sedalia, Pettis, Missouri.
 

97. Charles Francis7 TUTT [543] (Mary Virginia6 Gander, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 24 Nov 1941.  He married (1) on 27 May 1961 in Columbia, , Missouri, divorced  Denise Elaine YEOMAN [547], born 14 Feb 1943; (2) on 14 Nov 1969, divorced  Lynn PERCELL [554]; (3) on 1 Jun 1971 Lilyane O'QUINN (MRS) [555].

Notes for Lilyane O'QUINN (MRS)
 Mother of Bryce Tutt who was adopted by Charles Francis Tutt and is listed as the adopted son of Charles Frances and his first wife Denise E. Yeoman.

 Children of Charles Francis TUTT and Denise Elaine YEOMAN were as follows:
 141 i Jeffrey Scott8 TUTT [548], born 4 Feb 1962 in , , California.
 142 ii David Bryan8 TUTT [549], born 25 Jul 1963 in , , California.
 143 iii Bryce8 TUTT [550], born 12 Nov 1963 in see note.   Adopted by Charles Tutt, and carries the name of Tutt (Child of Lilyane O'Quinn who became the third wife of Charles Francis Tutt). Information from "Taylor Owens Their Trails and Ties".
 

98. Mary Virginia7 TUTT [544] (Mary Virginia6 Gander, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 14 Sep 1943 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri.  She married on 14 Sep 1965 in St Louis, , Missouri James Vernon GALBRAITH [551], born 23 Mar 1940.

 Children of Mary Virginia TUTT and James Vernon GALBRAITH were as follows:
 144 i Shawn Thomas8 GALBRAITH [552], born 7 Aug 1970 in St Louis, , Missouri.
 145 ii James Douglas8 GALBRAITH [553], born 26 Aug 1973 in St Louis, , Missouri.
 

99. George Edward7 TUTT [545] (Mary Virginia6 Gander, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 20 Sep 1945 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri.  He married on 11 Nov 1963 Sarah Jane HUNT [556], born 17 Jan 1945 in Roceport, , Missouri.

 Children of George Edward TUTT and Sarah Jane HUNT were as follows:
 146 i Charles Scott8 TUTT [557], born 9 Oct 1964 in Columbia, , Missouri.
 147 ii Kevin Ray8 TUTT [558], born 1 Dec 1966 in Columbia, , Missouri.
 148 iii Brian Keith8 TUTT [559], born 1 Oct 1969 in Columbia, , Missouri.
 

100. Samuel Emmons7 TUTT [546] (Mary Virginia6 Gander, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 4 Nov 1947 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri.  He married in Oct 1968 in Charleston, , South Carolina Sherry Lynette BOLICK [560].

 Children of Samuel Emmons TUTT and Sherry Lynette BOLICK were as follows:
 149 i Scarlett Renae8 TUTT [561], born 9 Apr 1969 in Charleston, , South Carolina.
 150 ii Nathaniel Emmons8 TUTT [562], born 11 Mar 1970 in Columbia, , Missouri.
 151 iii Tammy Lynn8 TUTT [563], born 15 Sep 1971 in see note.   Adopted.
 

101. Marilyn Kay7 GARNETT [565] (Dorothy Frances6 Gander, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 6 Dec 1946.  She married on 2 Mar 1968 Gary SPARKS [570].

 Children of Marilyn Kay GARNETT and Gary SPARKS were as follows:
 152 i Laurie Lu8 SPARKS [571], born 13 Aug 1968.
 153 ii Melanie Ann8 SPARKS [572], born 5 Dec 1970.
 

102. Carolyn Faye7 GARNETT [566] (Dorothy Frances6 Gander, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 26 Jan 1948 in Leonard, , Missouri.  She married on 20 Dec 1964 in California, , Missouri Michael Eugene MILLER [573].

 Children of Carolyn Faye GARNETT and Michael Eugene MILLER were as follows:
 154 i Michelle Lynn8 MILLER [574], born 15 Feb 1966 in California, , Missouri.
 155 ii Michael Todd8 MILLER [575], born 21 Mar 1968 in Jefferson City, , Missouri.
 156 iii Lesley Dawn8 MILLER [576], born 29 Dec 1970.
 

104. Beverly Ann7 GARNETT [568] (Dorothy Frances6 Gander, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 14 Oct 1954 in Jefferson City, , Missouri.  She married on 9 Dec 1972 Lynn REX [578].

 Children of Beverly Ann GARNETT and Lynn REX were as follows:
 157 i Lanny Ray8 REX [579], born 3 Oct 1974.
 158 ii Jeffrey Allen8 REX [580], born 22 Jul 1978.
 

106. Tanna Lee7 ADAMS [582] (Thelma Rose6 Gander, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 6 Aug 1944 in Boonville, , Missouri.  She married on 21 Aug 1965 Rodney Clark SHOCK [586], born 26 Jul 1943.

 Children of Tanna Lee ADAMS and Rodney Clark SHOCK were as follows:
 159 i Marla Christine8 SHOCK [587], born 18 Mar 1972.
 

107. Carl Wilton7 ADAMS (Jr) [584] (Thelma Rose6 Gander, Virginia Newton5 Keyser, John Newton4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 11 Jul 1947 in Edina, Knox, Missouri.  He married on 8 Nov 1969 Carol Sue LUBBRING [588].

 Children of Carl Wilton ADAMS (Jr) and Carol Sue LUBBRING were as follows:
 160 i Curtis Wilton8 ADAMS [589], born 24 Aug 1970.
 

109. Patsy Ruth7 STENINGER [68] (Edith May6 Keyser, John Harold5, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 9 Feb 1928 in Elko, Elko, Nevada.  She married (1) on 13 Oct 1946 in Berkley, , California, divorced  Charles Edward STAMBAUGH [70], born 14 Nov 1926; died 1986 in Las Vegas, , Nevada; (2) on 24 Jul 1966 William Frances ARNDT [71], born 8 May 1924 in Erie, , Pennsylvania; died 7 Jul 1989 in Alameda, Alameda, California.

 Children of Patsy Ruth STENINGER and Charles Edward STAMBAUGH were as follows:
+ 161 i Linda Ruth8 STAMBAUGH [72], born 11 Apr 1951 in Oakland, Alameda, California.  She married Timothy James ASPEL [75].
+ 162 ii Laurie Beth8 STAMBAUGH [73], born 18 May 1954 in Oakland, Alameda, California; died 27 Nov 1992 in Port Angeles, , Washington.  She married Manual Stanley SILVA [77].
+ 163 iii Andrea Kay8 STAMBAUGH [74], born 23 Sep 1957 in Hayward, , California.  She married (1) James Patrick HOLGERSON [78]; (2) Lynn BRURTZ [79].

 Children of Patsy Ruth STENINGER and William Frances ARNDT were as follows:
 164 i Jeffrey William8 ARNDT [84], born 29 Jun 1970 in Alameda, Alameda, California.
 

110. Jacklynne Ruth7 KEYSER [3] (John Harold6, John Harold5, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 17 Aug 1944 in Ocean Port, Monmouth, New Jersey.  She married (1) on 4 Sep 1965 in Claremont, Los Angeles, California Alan Keith THOMAS [120], born 29 Dec 1943 in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii; died 18 Aug 1987 in near Bishop, , California; buried  in Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, son of Wilbur Barrows THOMAS [123] and Dorothy KEITH [124]; (2) on 5 Feb 1991 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, divorced  Mike LORR [1105], son of Maurice LORR [1106] and Joan (---) [1107]; (3) in Jul 1996 in El Segundo, Los Angeles, California James Lewis SHOWALTER [1286], born 2 Dec 1938 in , , Indiana.

Notes for Jacklynne Ruth KEYSER
 Occupation: High School Science Teacher

 Education: Pomona College B.S. 1966  University of California at Los Angeles M.S.

 Church Aff. Presbyterian

Notes for Alan Keith THOMAS
 Occupation: Physicist with TRW.

 Education:  BS Pamona College, MS UCLA

 Church aff.:  Presbyterian

 Died of "Mountain sickness" while on a hike in the high Sierra's with his family.

 Buried in Inglewood Cemetery

 Children of Jacklynne Ruth KEYSER and Alan Keith THOMAS were as follows:
+ 165 i Suzanne Christine8 THOMAS [121], born 11 Apr 1966 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.  She married Paul Henry MACDONALD [1120].
+ 166 ii James Michael8 THOMAS [122], born 27 Oct 1968 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California.  He married Arlene LEIVA [1121].
 

116. Rodney Elliot7 KEYSER [140] (Joseph Elliot6, Charles Paul5, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 25 Feb 1942 in Portland, , Oregon.  He married (1)  unknown; (2) in 1999 in Hawaii (---) MICHELLE [1913].

Notes for Rodney Elliot KEYSER
 Education: Graduate of the University of Washington 1964.

  I have not received and details about his wife Michelle as of 5/25/2000 although the request was made. John H. Keyser.

 Children of Rodney Elliot KEYSER were as follows:
+ 167 i Anne Kirsten8 HILLYER [1119], born 18 Oct 1962 in Portland, Multanoma, Oregon.  She married Pablo SAMBOY [1274].
 

117. Henry Eugene7 DAVIS (Jr) [145] (Margaret6 Steele, Jessie Susan5 Keyser, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born  8 Mar 1926 in Hayward, Alameda, California.  He married (1) on 5 Nov 1948, divorced  Elsie Jo WALKER [150], born 4 Apr 1932 in Fayetteville, , Arkansas, daughter of Clifford WALKER [152] and Mary HELMS [153]; (2) on 12 Oct 1955 in Stockton, CA. Elizabeth Ann KENOYER [154], born  27 Aug 1933 in Stockton, San Joaquin, California, daughter of Marvel Deloss KENOYER [159] and Sidney Hall BLANCHARD [160].

Notes for Henry Eugene DAVIS (Jr)
 Year 2000 living in Aptos, California with his wife Elizabeth. Henry served in US Navy during WWII. Stationed on DE739 Destroyer Escort - USS Bangust. Was recalled for Korean War in 1952. Worked for California Division of Highways after Korean War then was VP Western Division of Mobile Drilling Co., Inc of Indianapolis, IN for 35 years. Has worked as a consultant since retirement and is very involved with meeting annually with his Shipmates from World War II.
 

Notes for Elizabeth Ann KENOYER
 Spent 25 years as a stay at home Mom, working as a volunteer for the schools, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts. Returned to school in 1975, completed her prerequisites for the Nursing Program and entered Nursing School in 1978. Graduated in 1980 and took a position as a staff nurse in the Labor & Delivery Department at Watsonville Community Hospital, Watsonville, California. Retired in 1998 and now sews, works on her genealogy and enjoys traveling with her husband.

 Elizabeth and Henry shared their wedding with Elizabeth's sister Frances and her new husband Ulmer Fields McClure.

 Children of Henry Eugene DAVIS (Jr) and Elsie Jo WALKER were as follows:
+ 168 i Katherine Elaine8 DAVIS [151], born 11 Jun 1950 in Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, California.  She married Ernst Paul WERFELMANN [161].

 Children of Henry Eugene DAVIS (Jr) and Elizabeth Ann KENOYER were as follows:
+ 169 i Scott Eugene8 DAVIS [155], born 12 Oct 1956 in Stockton, San Joaquin, California.  He married Mary Anne HUGHES [1869].
+ 170 ii Susan Elizabeth8 DAVIS [156], born 18 Nov 1957 in Stockton, San Joaquin, California.  She married Jay Gerard MANOR [164].
+ 171 iii Sandra Edith8 DAVIS [157], born 8 Aug 1959 in Englewood, , Colorado.  She married Anthony Jack PUDLOFF [165].
+ 172 iv Sara Eileen8 DAVIS (Dr.) [158], born 5 Mar 1962 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California.  She married Mark Steven TRANCHINA [1879].
 

118. Donald Alan7 DAVIS [146] (Margaret6 Steele, Jessie Susan5 Keyser, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 22 Jan 1929 in Hayward, Alameda, California.  He married on 3 Nov 1956 in Westwood Village, Los Angeles, California Perthenia Louise MARVIN [167], born 30 Nov 1926 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Calif., daughter of Vincent MARVIN [171] and Frances TYSON [172].

Notes for Donald Alan DAVIS
 Year 2000 living in Santa Maria, California with his wife Penny. Retired from GTE several years ago. Is very involved with his church in Santa Maria. Served in the Marine Corp. during the Korean War. Was wounded several times but always returned to combat.

Notes for Perthenia Louise MARVIN
 Alias: Penny /Marvin/

 Children of Donald Alan DAVIS and Perthenia Louise MARVIN were as follows:
 173 i Patricia Anne8 DAVIS [168], born 10 Dec 1957 in San Luis Obispo, , California.  She married (1) on 7 Sep 1979 in Cascade Springs, , Utah Gregory Ray DAVIS [173]; (2) on 12 Dec 1986 in Santa Maria, CA Gary HILL [1904]; (3) on 17 Jun 1988 in Lake Tahoe, CA Tom JACKHOLM [1908]; (4) on 8 Jul 1995 in Vancouver, BC, Canada Gregory THOMPSON [1896].   Year 2000 lives with her 4th husband Gregory in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Has worked as a chef.
 174 ii John Marvin8 DAVIS [169], born 4 Apr 1959 in San Luis Obispo, , California; died 22 May 1982 in San Luis Obispo, CA.   Was killed in a motorcycle accident near Avila Beach, California.
+ 175 iii Charles Alan8 DAVIS [170], born 6 Mar 1960 in San Luis Obispo, , California.  He married (1) Donna Rae GRECO [174]; (2) Henria Sue DOHERTY [1907].
 

120. Donald Robert7 STEELE [177] (James Linn6, Jessie Susan5 Keyser, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 8 May 1936 in Hayward, , California.  He married on 24 Apr 1960 in San Mateo, CA Arlene BERNET [178].

 Children of Donald Robert STEELE and Arlene BERNET were as follows:
 176 i Robert Alan8 STEELE [1914], born 14 Jan 1961.

161. Linda Ruth8 STAMBAUGH [72] (Patsy Ruth7 Steninger, Edith May6 Keyser, John Harold5, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 11 Apr 1951 in Oakland, Alameda, California.  She married on 14 May 1978 in Lake Tahoe, , California Timothy James ASPEL [75].

Notes for Linda Ruth STAMBAUGH
 Occupation: Was an airline stewardess for World Airways.

 Children of Linda Ruth STAMBAUGH and Timothy James ASPEL were as follows:
 177 i Morgan Rebecca9 ASPEL [80], born 26 Aug 1986.
 178 ii Conor Timothy9 ASPEL [1057], born 7 Apr 1990 in , Orange, California.   Do not know hospital where he was born. Home is Laguna Hills.
 179 iii Kade James9 ASPEL [1125], born 4 Jan 1994 in Laguna Hills, , California.
 

162. Laurie Beth8 STAMBAUGH [73] (Patsy Ruth7 Steninger, Edith May6 Keyser, John Harold5, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 18 May 1954 in Oakland, Alameda, California; died 27 Nov 1992 in Port Angeles, , Washington.  She married on 26 Sep 1976 in Berkley, , California, divorced  Manual Stanley SILVA [77].

Notes for Laurie Beth STAMBAUGH
 Place of death not sure as of 5/16/95

 Children of Laurie Beth STAMBAUGH and Manual Stanley SILVA were as follows:
 180 i Brandon Nicholas9 SILVA [81], born 6 Nov 1977 in Hayward, , California.
 

163. Andrea Kay8 STAMBAUGH [74] (Patsy Ruth7 Steninger, Edith May6 Keyser, John Harold5, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 23 Sep 1957 in Hayward, , California.  She married (1) on 11 Dec 1976 in Alameda, Alameda, California, divorced  James Patrick HOLGERSON [78]; (2)  Lynn BRURTZ [79].

 Children of Andrea Kay STAMBAUGH and James Patrick HOLGERSON were as follows:
 181 i Jamie Elizabeth9 HOLGERSON [82], born 14 Jan 1977 in Alameda, Alameda, California.

 Children of Andrea Kay STAMBAUGH and Lynn BRURTZ were as follows:
 182 i Michele Lynn9 BRURTZ [83], born 8 Jul 1987 in Oakland, Alameda, California.
 183 ii Amanda Kay9 BRURTZ [972], born 12 Mar 1990.
 

165. Suzanne Christine8 THOMAS [121] (Jacklynne Ruth7 Keyser, John Harold6, John Harold5, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 11 Apr 1966 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.  She married on 11 Jul 1992 Paul Henry MACDONALD [1120], born 5 Dec 1965 in Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii, son of Colin Roderick MACDONALD [1126] and Marie Thelma MALVIDO [1127].

Notes for Suzanne Christine THOMAS
 Education: BA in Linguistics Pamona College 1988. Master of Divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Is qualified to accept a calling to a Presbyterian Church.

 Children of Suzanne Christine THOMAS and Paul Henry MACDONALD were as follows:
 184 i David Paul9 MACDONALD [1273], born 11 Oct 1994 in Davis, Yolo, California.   Christening was at the Newman Center in Davis. Interdenominational service was written by his mother Suzanne Macdonald. The Catholic Priest and Presbyterian Ministers presided. David's grandmother, Marie Macdonald, and all his uncles and aunts and their families on his father’s side were present. Representing his mother's family were his great grandparents Wilbur Thomas and Jack and Leta Keyser; his grandmother Jacklynne Thomas; and his uncle and aunt Jim and Arlene Thomas.
 185 ii Christine Marie9 MACDONALD [1279], born 18 Feb 1997 in Orange, Los Angeles, California.
 

166. James Michael8 THOMAS [122] (Jacklynne Ruth7 Keyser, John Harold6, John Harold5, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 27 Oct 1968 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California.  He married on 6 Nov 1993 in Bellflower, Los Angeles, California Arlene LEIVA [1121], born 2 Dec 1971 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, daughter of Christian Francisco LEIVA [1122] and Marlene Pauline MENDEZ [1123].

Notes for James Michael THOMAS
 Occupation: Employed by TRW Aerospace in California.

 Education: Graduated from the University of Redlands at Redlands CA in June of 1990 in Engineering. Attending the University of Southern California and got his Master Degree.

 Church Aff.: Presbyterian

Notes for Arlene LEIVA
 Christened in St Dominic Savio Catholic Church.

 Children of James Michael THOMAS and Arlene LEIVA were as follows:
 186 i Brittany Nicole9 THOMAS [1276], born 18 Jan 1995 in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California.   Born about 10:45 am by Caesarian section. Weight 7 pounds 4 ounces.
 187 ii Alan Christian9 THOMAS [1295], born 7 Jan 1999 in Downey, Los Angeles, Ca.   Named after his paternal grandfather.
 

167. Anne Kirsten8 HILLYER [1119] (Rodney Elliot7, Joseph Elliot6, Charles Paul5, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 18 Oct 1962 in Portland, Multanoma, Oregon.  She married on 15 Dec 1993 in San Pedro, Macrois, , Dominican Repub. Pablo SAMBOY [1274], born 12 Sep 1968 in Pedernales, , , Dominican Repub..

Notes for Anne Kirsten HILLYER
 Anne is the natural daughter of Rodney Keyser. She was born out of wedlock and put up for adoption. She recently desired to know her natural family and was given the information whereupon she made herself known to her real father, Rodney Keyser, and grandfather, Joe Keyser. They were very pleased.  JHK 6/18/93

Notes for Pablo SAMBOY
 From the Dominican Republic.

 Children of Anne Kirsten HILLYER and Pablo SAMBOY were as follows:
 188 i Wolk9 SAMBOY [1275], born 30 Jun 1994 in Milwaukee, , Wisconsin.
 

168. Katherine Elaine8 DAVIS [151] (Henry Eugene7, Margaret6 Steele, Jessie Susan5 Keyser, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 11 Jun 1950 in Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, California.  She married on 6 Jun 1970 in Bakersfield, Kern, California Ernst Paul WERFELMANN [161], born 5 Apr 1949 in Beloit, Wisconsin; died 6 Jun 1970 in Bakersfield, Ca.

Notes for Katherine Elaine DAVIS
 Year 2000 lives in Campbell, California with her husband Paul and children Jennifer and Stephen. She is employed by EPRI in Palo Alto. Paul is pastor of Hope Lutheran Church in Santa Clara. Daughter Jennifer expects to graduate from the Nursing Program at Evergreen Community College in June 2000.

 Children of Katherine Elaine DAVIS and Ernst Paul WERFELMANN were as follows:
 189 i Jennifer Elsa9 WERFELMANN [162], born 28 Oct 1974 in St Paul, , Minnesota.
 190 ii Stephen Paul9 WERFELMANN [163], born 5 Jan 1979 in San Pablo, , California.
 

169. Scott Eugene8 DAVIS [155] (Henry Eugene7, Margaret6 Steele, Jessie Susan5 Keyser, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 12 Oct 1956 in Stockton, San Joaquin, California.  He married on 8 Jan 1983 in Chico, CA. Mary Anne HUGHES [1869], born 1 Jul 1961 in Reno, NV.

Notes for Scott Eugene DAVIS
 Year 2000 lives in Nevada City, California with wife Mary Anne and sons Bryan and Andrew. Is employed by The Grass Valley Group as a project engineer.

 Children of Scott Eugene DAVIS and Mary Anne HUGHES were as follows:
 191 i Bryan Eugene9 DAVIS [1870], born 19 Oct 1985 in Carlsbad, CA.
 192 ii Andrew Robert9 DAVIS [1871], born 1 May 1992 in Grass Valley, CA.
 

170. Susan Elizabeth8 DAVIS [156] (Henry Eugene7, Margaret6 Steele, Jessie Susan5 Keyser, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 18 Nov 1957 in Stockton, San Joaquin, California.  She married on 20 Oct 1979 in Pensacola, , Florida Jay Gerard MANOR [164], born 1 Oct 1958 in Monroe Mi.

Notes for Susan Elizabeth DAVIS
 Year 2000 lives in Monroe, Michigan with husband Jay and children Kyle, Kelsey and Zachary. She is a Registered Nurse and is employed at a Surgical Center in Monroe.

 Children of Susan Elizabeth DAVIS and Jay Gerard MANOR were as follows:
 193 i Kyle Edward9 MANOR [1873], born 17 Apr 1982 in Pensacola, FL.
 194 ii Kelsey Elizabeth9 MANOR [1874], born 19 Sep 1987 in Royal Oak, MI.
 195 iii Zachary Gerard9 MANOR [1875], born 16 Nov 1989 in Flint, MI.
 

171. Sandra Edith8 DAVIS [157] (Henry Eugene7, Margaret6 Steele, Jessie Susan5 Keyser, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 8 Aug 1959 in Englewood, , Colorado.  She married on 23 Oct 1977 in Danville, Contra Costa, California Anthony Jack PUDLOFF [165], born 20 Feb 1955 in Marysville, Yuba, California, son of Jack Michael PUDOFF [1897] and Wanda Antonio RINALDI [1898].

Notes for Sandra Edith DAVIS
 Year 2000 lives in Jacksonville, Florida with her husband Tony and son Anthony. She trained as a chef but due to a work related accident is now unable to use her skills except to cook for her family.

Notes for Anthony Jack PUDLOFF
 Alias: Tony /Pudoff/

 Children of Sandra Edith DAVIS and Anthony Jack PUDLOFF were as follows:
+ 196 i Stephanie Michelle9 PUDLOFF [166], born 19 Jun 1978 in Vallejo, Solano, California.  She married Joseph OSTERHAUT [1901].
 197 ii Anthony Scott9 PUDOFF [1878], born 4 Oct 1985 in Oakland, CA.
 

172. Sara Eileen8 DAVIS (Dr.) [158] (Henry Eugene7, Margaret6 Steele, Jessie Susan5 Keyser, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 5 Mar 1962 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California.  She married on 28 Apr 1990 in Dallas, TX. Mark Steven TRANCHINA [1879], born 1 Sep 1959 in Dallas, TX.

Notes for Sara Eileen DAVIS (Dr.)
 Year 2000 lives in Dallas, Texas with husband Mark and children Jordan and Emily. Is a Medical Doctor and has a Family Practice at St. Paul's Hospital in Dallas.
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Notes for Mark Steven TRANCHINA
 Mark works for BankAmerica, formerly Nations Bank in Dallas.

 Children of Sara Eileen DAVIS (Dr.) and Mark Steven TRANCHINA were as follows:
 198 i Jordan Frederick9 TRANCHINA [1880], born 22 Sep 1993 in Dallas, TX.
 199 ii Emily Grace9 TRANCHINA [1900], born 16 Jan 1996 in Dallas, TX.
 

175. Charles Alan8 DAVIS [170] (Donald Alan7, Margaret6 Steele, Jessie Susan5 Keyser, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 6 Mar 1960 in San Luis Obispo, , California.  He married (1) on 1 Mar 1980 in Santa Maria, , California Donna Rae GRECO [174]; (2) on 23 Mar 1985 in Reno, NV Henria Sue DOHERTY [1907].

  Children of Charles Alan DAVIS and Donna Rae GRECO were as follows:
 200 i Brad Alan9 DAVIS [1906], born 5 May 1981.

 Children of Charles Alan DAVIS and Henria Sue DOHERTY were as follows:
 201 i Mellissa Sue9 DAVIS [1909], born 1979.
 202 ii Samantha9 DAVIS [1910], born Jan 1986.

196. Stephanie Michelle9 PUDLOFF [166] (Sandra Edith8 Davis, Henry Eugene7, Margaret6 Steele, Jessie Susan5 Keyser, Joseph Linn4, Jacob3, Noah2, Andrew1), born 19 Jun 1978 in Vallejo, Solano, California.  She married on 23 Aug 1996 in Florida Joseph OSTERHAUT [1901].

Notes for Stephanie Michelle PUDLOFF
 Year 2000 lives in Jacksonville, Florida with husband Joseph and children Taylor and Brandon. Is employed by Blue Cross.

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 Children of Stephanie Michelle PUDLOFF and Joseph OSTERHAUT were as follows:
 203 i Taylor Elizabeth10 OSTERHAUT [1902], born 31 Mar 1997 in Florida.
 204 ii Brandon Michael10 OSTERHAUT [1911], born 19 Nov 1998 in Florida.