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Back Row Left to right - Verna Keller, Lyda
Merce Keller, Earnest Earl Keller
Front Row Left to right - Oprah Henderson,
Eula Georgia Webb Keller, Granville Beverly
Keller, and Veda L. Keller
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Veda L. Keller married Raymond Anderson DeBusk,
son of Samuel Dickson DeBusk and Frances
Virginia Broocke. Granville Beverly
Keller's
sister Martha Laura Keller married
William
Layne "Bid" DeBusk, son of
William
Andrew DeBusk and Martha Ann McAbee.
His
sister Mary Mercie Keller married Fielden
Jasper Helms the son of Susan DeBusk
and
James Patton Helms. His brother George
Homer
Keller married Nancy Ann "Nan"
Helms, the daughter of Susan DeBusk
and James
Patton Helms
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Granville Beverly Keller born 12 Feb 1869 in Vernon County, Missouri
and died 04 Nov 1913 in Coleman County, Texas.
He married Oprah Henderson on 03 Mar 1889
in Coleman County, Texas. She was 10 Jan
1872 and died 11 Oct 1966 in Burkett Cemetery,
Coleman County, Texas. They are both buried
in Burkett Cemetery, Coleman County, Texas.
He owned one half of the Peter Keller Estate
and George owned the other half. They paid
their sisters cash for their interest in
the estate. In 1912, Granvville and Orah
built a house on their own land nearer school
and Burkett. This big house is quite a land
mark at the present time.
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Children
1 --- Lyda Merce Keller born 21 Dec 1890
in Coleman County, Texas and died 05 Jul
1984. She married
Ernest Lindwood Harris,
son of Robert Emmett Harris and Tennessee
Lucrecia "Dink" Brown, on 21 Oct
1914 in Coleman, Coleman County, Texas. He
was born 17 Feb 1887 in Coleman County, Texas
and died 04 Jul 1980 in Coleman County, Texas.
They are both buried in
Burkett Cemetery,
Coleman County, Texas. His sister Birdie
Lee Harris married
Vernon Helms the son of Christopher Elijah "Lige"
Helms and Mary Mahaley "Minnie"
Wesley. Christopher Helms is the son of
James Patton Helms and Susan DeBusk.
2 --- Earnest Earl Keller born 20 Jul 1892
and died 25 Mar 1964. He married Alice Fearley
Lee Moore, daughter of Thomas Lewis Moore
and Amanda Catherine Henry, on 18 Aug 1912.
She was born 22 Dec 1893 and died 21 Sep
1967. They are both buried in Burkett Cemetery,
Coleman County, Texas. Her sister Florence
Pearl Moore married John Breckenridge Campbell,
a descendant of Solomon C. Van Huss and Rebecca
Jane DeBusk, the daughter of
Palser DeBusk and Mary Sarah "Sally" Surber
3 --- Verna Keller born 07 Apr 1897 in Missouri
married Lee Swan. They did not have children.
4 --- Veda L. Keller born 29 May 1902 in
Missouri and died 13 Jan 1988 in Burkett,
Coleman County, Texas. She married Raymond
Anderson DeBusk the son of
Samuel "Sam" Dickson DeBusk and
Frances Virginia Broocke. She was also married to a man named Cowan
and had a son, Granville William "Bill"
Cowan who joined the US Navy on 4 December
1941. He was shot down by the Japanese while
on a bombing run on August 10, 1945 four
days before peace was declared.
5 --- Eula Georgia Webb Keller born 24 Dec
1905 in Missouri married Hugh Burns
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