Genealogy - Keepers Family of Frederick County Maryland
Isaac Keepers (see Keepers Family of the American Colonial Period) was the founder of this group.
His wife, Catherine McCardell/McCardle, was Scottish. Isaac was a veteran of the Revolutionary
war and enrolled in the Maryland militia in January1776. His great-grandson, Alexius Vincent
Keepers, fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and was wounded at Gettysburg
during the fighting at the Devil's Den.
Isaac's son, also named Isaac, was born about
1775 and married Helen Livers. According to his great-granddaughter this Isaac
was killed in a hunting accident in the year 1804. She writes further that his
farm was located on the site where the City of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, now
stands. Helen Livers Keepers with four young sons returned to Frederick County,
Maryland, her former home, to live with her widowed mother, Mary Livers. Her
father, Arnold Livers, had died in 1779 and his will is recorded in the
probate clerk's office at Frederick (G. M.#1. page 132).
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