Genealogy - Keepers Family of Kentucky

Group 14.

The progenitor of this group is Joseph Keepers, born in 1795 in Maryland.  See Group 8 for details about the siblings of Joseph.  He was married to Rachel Robbins in Newcastle, Henry County, Kentucky in April, 1822, by a Baptist minister.  Joseph was a veteran of the War of 1812, and his sons, Penuell McClure Keepers and John Keepers,  were veterans of the Civil War.  John was a farmer and blacksmith.  Penuell was a farmer for a short time in Butler County, Kansas, but he had been a school teacher. 

Penuell had his foot crushed by a wagon at the battle of Murfreesboro, TN, in 1863, and in June, 1864, he contracted rheumatism while lying in the "diches" near Kennesaw Mountain.  As a result, he was unable to walk and rode a mule during Sherman's march to Savannah.  His (probable) cousin, Lewis Mifflin Keepers, Group 7, was wounded in the fighting at Kennesaw Mountain and died of his wounds in August, 1864.

Although the Kentucky marriage gave rise to the Kentucky group name, Joseph and Rachel settled in Indiana about 1822.  Clark, Madison, Marion and Scott counties in Indiana are places where many of their descendants lived. 

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