6.  ANDREW2 KEYSER (Charles1) (#6) was born 16 December 1758.  Andrew died 23 November 1833 at 74 years of age.
 He married twice.  He married SARAH MARGARET "SALLY" RINEHART 23 Nov 1784.  (Sarah Margaret "Sally" Rinehart is #17.)  Sarah was born in Shenandoah Co, Va 17 Dec 1770.  Sarah was the daughter of Hans Michael "Michael" Rinehart Jr. and Elizabeth.  Sarah died 7 Apr 1820 in Page Co, Va, at 49 years of age.  She was a sister to Catherine who married John Keyser.
 He married ELIZABETH GROVE Strickler 8 Oct 1820.  (Elizabeth Grove Strickler is #2254.)  Elizabeth was born 1769.  Elizabeth was the daughter of Christian Grove and Ann Rhodes.  She married DAVID STRICKLER circa 1784.  Elizabeth died 13 Jul 1845 at 76 years of age.  After the death of her second husband, Elizabeth went to live with her daughter Mary (Mrs. Abraham Heiston), on Dry Run, Page County, Virginia, and is buried there.
 Andrew reported for active duty in Virginia, 1780.  Andrew enlisted in 1780 for 18 months as private in Captain Conway Oldham's Company, Colonel Richard Campbell's Virginia Regiment.  He engaged in the battles of Guilford, Camden, Ninety-Six and Eutaw Springs, per DAR records.  Numerous other writings show him as a Major in the Virginia Troup.  In his application he stated he was born 16 Dec 1758
 He served as an officer in the military in Virginia, 1780.  He bought property in Shenandoah Co, Va, 9 Dec 1790.  The following individual is also linked to this event: Charles Keyser Jr (Grantor). Per Mead Relations by Pritchard:  "Charles Keyser, Jr., and Elizabeth, his wife, by deed of 9 Dec 1790, recorded in deed book "I" page 265, conveyed unto Andrew Keyser a parcel of fifty-seven acres of land in Shenandoah County, Va., on the north side of the South Branch of the Shenandoah River, described as part of land conveyed to Charles Keyser, deceased, by Lewis Rhinehart, Mathias Rhinehart and Elizabeth, his wife, by deeds of lease and release dated the 6th and 7th days of April, 1765, and recorded in Frederick County, Va. The conveyance recites that Charles Keyser, deceased, dying intestate, the land descended to his eldest son, Charles Keyser."
 He bought property in Shenandoah Co, Va, 29 Dec 1793.  The following individual is also linked to this event: Charles Keyser Jr (Grantor). On 29 Dec 1793, Charles Keyser and Elizabeth his wife executed a deed to Andrew Keyser for 57 acres of the aforesaid tract, (see Charles Keyser, Sr.) stating among other things "and the said Charles Kyser deceased dieing intestate the same descended to his eldest son charles Kyser".  Shenandoah Co. Deed book 1-265.  Data from Shenandoah Co. Will Book E, pages 160-162; Russell Co, Va Will Book 3, page 175; Page County Will Book A, page 98; Keyser Family Descendants by Charles S. Keyser, page 153; Forerunners by Strickler, page 120.
 He bought property in Shenandoah Co, Va, 1 Sep 1808.  The following individual is also linked to this event: Elizabeth Baker (Grantor). On 1 Sep 1808, Elizabeth Kyser widow and relict of Charles Keyser, deceased, Joseph Kyser, one of the sons and heirs of the said Charles Kyser dec'd and Katy his wife, Peggy Kyser and Mary Kyser, daughters and heirs of the said Charles Kyser dec'd, deeded to andrew Kyser two tracts (50 acres and 25 acres) on the South Fork of the Shenandoah River, "formerly patented to Joseph Kyser and David Kyser" - Shenandoah Co, Deed Book T-292 & 366.  Strickler's Forerunners page 120.  Also see "Some Descendants of John Counts of Glade Hollow (Southwest Virginia) 1722-1977" by E. J. Sutherland.
 Andrew applied for a military pension 1832.  Andrew Keyser applied for a pension for his Revolutionary War service in 1832.  He stated he enlisted in 1780 for 18 months as private in Captain Conway Oldham's company, Colonel Richard Campbell's Virginia Regiment.  He engaged in the battles of Guilford, Camden, Ninety-six and Eutaw Springs.
Note.  The following letter has been received from the Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.

September 8, 1931
Dear Sir:
 You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 5651, that Andrew Keyser, Senior, 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 Campbell’s Virginia Regiment, in the battles of Guilford Court House, Camden, Ninety Six and Eutaw Springs, and was discharged January 14, 1782, having served eighteen months.  He was allowed pension on his application executed July 23, 1832, while a resident of Page County, Virginia.  There is no data on file of his family.  The above history is that of the only soldier of that name, under any spelling, found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.  In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name of the person paid, and possibly the date of the soldier’s death, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., citing the following data:  Andrew Keyser, Certificate No. 170, issued August 4, 1832, rate $60.00 per year, commenced March 4, 1831, Act. June 7, 1832, Virginia Agency.
 Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER  Assistant to Administrator.

 Andrew Keyser, Sr., joined the church and was baptized in the Shenandoah River by Elder Ambrose C. Booten on the 10 Oct. 1832, just a little more than one year before his death, according to the notes of Isaac C. Dovel.  Per Meade Relations by Pritchard.
In Kercheval's History of the Valley, 4th Ed., page 37, he relates an incident in relation to which "Major Andrew Keyser also informed the author that an Indian once called at his father's in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, appeared to be much agitated, and asked for something to eat. After refreshing himself he was asked what disturbed him.  He replied, 'The Southern Indians have killed my whole nation.'"  Note by A. M. Pritchard in his Mead Relations:  "This indicates clearly that Charles Keyser lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, before he settled in what is now Page County, Virginia.
Per a letter from Adam Strickler to Andrew's grandson, E. A. Keyser on 28 Oct 1892:  A year or two before his death he was baptized and received in to the Big Spring Church -- lived an exemplary member until his death.  He was a strong Democrat of the Jefferson and Jackson stamp, and from him I imbibe my Democratic principles without warning. I have never given any other vote in my life except a Democratic vote.  Your grandfather was a great provider for his family, and abundance of all the necessaries of life for both white and colored.  He was handy with tools, coopering and shoemaking.  He was a splendid marksman and fond of a gun as long as he lived.  He learned to read and write and keep his accounts without a teacher. He was a kind stepfather to me and all the Keysers treat me with marked respect wherever I see them. Show this to cousin Sudie Brumback with my love to her, please write to me as soon as you get this. I am more poorly today than usual, bad cough and trouble with my lungs.  I was 80 years old the 5th day of last March.  Goodbye.  Adam Strickler.
(Major Andrew Keyser referred to in the above as "your grandfather" married Adam's widowed mother and became his stepfather.  "Sudie Brumback" was Miss Keyser.  She married (1) ABRAM ROTHGEB; (2) THOMAS BRUMBACK.  The above article appeared again in Page News May 23, 1922, and was taken from same paper of date Oct 20, 1905."  See Forerunners by Strickler page 120-121.  Note:  Adam Strickler was born 5 Mar 1812 and died 12 Mar 1894, was a schoolmaster for more than 40 years.
Andrew Keyser's bible was inherited by his sons, and has been posted to the Library of Virginia web site where it can be viewed by all.  I have a copy of that record (JRV).

      Andrew Keyser and Sarah Margaret "Sally" Rinehart had the following family:

      24  i.  PETER3.
      25  ii.  NOAH was born 2 Jan 1786
      26  iii.  GEORGE was born 2 Oct 1789
      27  iv.  SUSANNAH was born 25 Sep 1791
      28  v.  MARY "POLLY" was born 28 Jan 1795
        vi.  MARGARET (#24) was born 7 Aug 1798.  She married JOHN REEDY  26 Apr 1812.  (John Reedy is #37.)
      29  vii.  SARAH "SALLIE" was born 5 Jun 1800
      30  viii.  LYDIA was born 10 Jul 1801
      31  ix.  ANDREW was born 30 Mar 1804
      32  x.  CHARLES was born 2 Sep 1806
        xi.  MICHAEL (#5828) was born 1 Jan 1809.  Michael died 14 Oct 1815 at 6 years of age.
        xii.  ABLE (#5829) was born 29 Dec 1811.  Able died 1815 at 3 years of age.
      33  xiii.  ESTHER W. was born 2 Sep 1816

 7.  MARY2 KEYSER (Charles1) (#7) was born 5 Aug 1760.  Mary died 10 Aug 1824 in Lawrence Co, Oh, at 64 years of age.
 She married LUKE KELLY in Shenandoah Co, Va, 1 February 1782.  They married on 1 Feb 1782 in Shenandoah County, VA. The certificate of their marriage, as recorded in the clerk's office, is as follows:
 "1782 Feby 1st
 I do hereby certify that Luke Kelly & Mary Keaser are lawfully married by publishment.
 Given under my hand this above date.
Anderson Moffitt."
Per A. M. Prichard, author of "Mead Relations": Under the law, as then existed, marriage was performed either by license issued by the clerk of the county court; or, without such license, by "thrice publication of banns" by the minister; and, in both cases, the certificate of the minister recorded by the clerk was evidence of the marriage.  It was a matter of economy to be married by publication of banns, because it saved a few pounds of tobacco which was charged by the clerk for issuing license.

 (Luke Kelly is #42.)  Luke was the son of Joseph Kelly and Nancy Powell.  Per A. M. Pritchard's Mead Relations:  From Shenandoah County, VA they went first to Russell County, VA on the western border of Virginia, where some of their children were born; and, thence, to the vicinity of what is now Hanging Rock, in Lawrence County, Ohio.  Judge E. J. Sutherland (author of Some Descendants of John Counts of Glade Hollow) provided the following taken from the records of Russell County, VA, viz: "Luke Kelly purchased 50 acres from Abram and Elizabeth Childress on Clinch River, the deed bearing date of August, 1797.  (Deed Book 2, pg 342.)  Luke Kelly and wife, Mary, executed deed to William Dollarhide for 50 acres on Clinch River on July 24, 1798 (Deed Book 2, page 518)."  NOTE: Abram and Elizabeth Childress were the parents of Mary Childress who married Joseph Kiser (see Kiser Family Group 8.1).
The following information was obtained from the General Land Office of the United States, at Washington, D.C.:  "A patent issued to Luke Kelly, November 3, 1803, for Sections 9 and 14, in Township 1 north of the Ohio River Base, of Range 19 west of the State Line, containing 662.25 acres.  The record of the patent is found in Miscellaneous patent record, Vol. 3, at page 8."
The patent itself, which is signed by Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, and James Madison, Secretary of State, is in part as follows:  "KNOW YE, That Luke Kelly, having deposited in the Treasury a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Chilicothe, whereby it appears that he has made full payment for the Lot or Section Number Nine and Fraction Number Fourteen of Township Number One of Range Number Nineteen of the Lands directed to be sold at Chilicothe by the Act of Congress entitled 'An Act to amend the Act, entitled An Act providing for the sale of lands of the United States in the Territory North West of the Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky River,' THERE is granted by the United States in pursuance of the Act aforesaid, unto the said Luke Kelly the Lot or Section and fraction of land above described."
Thus they then lived and died in Lawrence County, Ohio.  Per the Reverend James Gilruth, in a series of letters to Mr. W. H. Kelly, prior to 1872, described the first settlers on the Ohio River between Storm's Creek and the lower extremity of Lawrence County, in Ohio; and between the Little Sandy River and a point about opposite the mouth of Storm's Creek in Kentucky.  These letters were published in "The Ironton Register" in 1872 and reprinted in "the Ironton News" in 1929.  In them Mr. Gilruth spoke of Luke Kelly and his family as follows:
"About 1802 or 1803 Luke Kelly settled on the lower point of a run known as Kelly's Run.  His wife's name was Mary Keyser.  Their children were: Elizabeth, John, Joseph, Charles, Polly, Joshua and Reuben."
"Mr. Kelly having entered a section of land where he lived, settled all his sons on it along the river as follows:  Reuben on the homestead, then Joshua, Charles, Joseph, John, all practical farmers and useful citizens.  On the upper point of Kelly's Run was located the first grave yard ever used by white men in these parts.  Afterwards on the lower point of this run was located the first still house built between Big Sandy and Big Sioto.  Mr. Kelly, having become the owner of Stump's float mill, manufactured the proceeds of this mill into whiskey for the people, and swill for his hogs.  Up this run at the foot of the hill, on Kelly's, was the first meeting house built in Lawrence County.  It was a round log structure, one story high, with a clap board roof, puncheon floor, split log seats, and about 18 or 20 feet square.  It was truly a rough building, but equal to the necessity of the times."
"Mr. Kelly had a brother, an old bachelor named Darby, who lived a short time with him, and who was a Baptist preacher.  If my memory serves me he preached once or twice while here.  If I am correct, to the Kelly's belongs the credit of preaching the first sermon, and building the first meeting house in Lawrence County."

Per A. M. Pritchard's Mead Relations:  "This anecdote is one concerning General Kelly's grandmother, Mary (Keyser) Kelly.  I give it as I heard it.  Mrs. M. Kelly, with some other women and Joseph Crank, of whom I have made mention in a former letter, were crossing the Ohio River in a canoe; and when they were about the middle, by some mishap, the canoe was overturned.  The water was deep and none on board could swim but Mrs. Kelly.  She caught each one as they were sinking, and made them lock hands across the bottom of the canoe.  She brought up Crank and bade him climb up and sit astraddle of the canoe.  She then swam out and got a paddle that was floating near and gave it to him, saying:  'Now paddle for the shore,' which he did and brought all safe to land."

      Mary Keyser and Luke Kelly had the following family:

      34  i.  JOSEPH3.
      35  ii.  CHARLES SR..
      36  iii.  REUBEN.
      37  iv.  ELIZABETH was born 11 Mar 1784
      38  v.  JOHN was born 3 Jun 1786
      39  vi.  JOSHUA was born 1789
      40  vii.  MARY "POLLY" was born 6 Jul 1793

 8.  ELIZABETH2 KEYSER (Charles1) (#9) was born in Frederick (later Shenandoah) C, Virginia 1762.  Elizabeth died 10 Aug 1832 in Breathitt Co., Ky, at 70 years of age.
 She married HENRY HURST in Shenandoah Co, Va, 20 Jan 1784.  (Henry Hurst is #5447.)  Henry was born in Frederick Co, Va 27 Oct 1762.  Henry was the son of John "Mill Creek" Hurst and Nancy Ann Nunn.  Henry died 2 Nov 1844 in Morgan Co, Ky, at 82 years of age.  Elizabeth and her husband moved to Russell County, Virginia along with her sister Mary who married Luke Kelly and her brother Joseph who married Susannah Stacy.  Later, Elizabeth and her husband moved to Kentucky.  Mary and her husband moved on to Ohio.  Per Pam Hurst Collins.

      Elizabeth Keyser and Henry Hurst had the following family:

        i.  HARMON3 (#5803) was born 23 Aug 1785.
        ii.  ANDREW KISER (#5802) was born about 1788.
      41  iii.  ELISHA was born about 1791
        iv.  ESTHER (#5804) was born Feb 1794.
        v.  ELIZABETH (#5805) was born 1797.
        vi.  SAMUEL (#5806) was born 9 Sep 1799.

 9.  ESTHER2 KEYSER (Charles1) (#8) was born about 1764.  Esther died 4 Oct 1846 in Lawrence Co, Oh, at 82 years of age.
 She married GEORGE AUSTIN in Shenandoah Co, Va, 9 May 1797.  (George Austin is #43.)  Per A. M. Prichard's Mead Relations:  Esther Keyser and George Austin married in Shenandoah County, Virginia and moved to Lawrence County, Ohio.  The Rev. James Gilruth, in his letters referred to in the sketch of Mary Keyser, No. 6, said:  'About this time Stephen Colvin, of Rumley, Va., entered all the bottom from Luke Kelly's section to the French Grant.  George Austin bought and settled on this farm.  His wife's maiden name was Esther Kiser.  Their children were:  Isaac, Mary and Rebecca.  Mary married George Trumbo. Isaac married Lydia Kiser.  Rebecca married William Gilruth.  Austin was an industrious farmer and valuable citizen.'
Note:  In 13 Penn. archives (2nd Ser.), page 616, may be seen the muster roll of Capt. Isaac Austin's Fourth Company of the First Battalion of Pennsylvania Militia of Foot, in the service of the United States, commanded by William Bradford, Colonel.  It is dated the 12 July 1777; and besides the name of Isaac Austin as captain, it shows the names of Nicholas and Michael Keyser as private.  What, if any, relationship may have existed between this Captain Isaac Austin and George Austin has not been considered."

      Esther Keyser and George Austin had the following family:

      42  i.  MARY "POLLY"3 was born 12 Oct 1798
      43  ii.  ISAAC was born about 1800
      44  iii.  REBECCA was born 20 Sep 1816

Information on this second generation was provided by Julie Voyles and Harvey A. Kiser, and compiled by Julie Voyles