Parents: Rev. George Jacob Enos Keezel and Eliza Carpenter.
Wife: Mary Keziah McFall, dau. of Enos & Sabra McFall.
Known as Calvin.
Goodspeed's History of Tennesee, Washington Co, IN Index of Names
http://www.tngenweb.org/washington/goodspeed/goodspd3.htm#KEEZEL
"W. C. KEEZEL
.. W. C. Keezel, farmer, was born in 1842, in Rockingham County, Va., and when fourteen years of age [1856] came to this county, where he has since resided.
.. He was educated at Laurel Hill Academy, and in September 1862, enlisted in Co. M, 1st Tennessee Federal Cavalry, as a sergeant. He was captured in 1862 at Mulberry Gap, and taken successively to Knoxville, Libby Prison and Petersburg, where he was exchanged. August 8, 1864, he was captured near Atlanta, and taken to Andersonville, Charleston, Florence, S. C., and Wilmington, N. C., where he was exchanged in February, 1865. He then went to Annapolis, Md., Columbus, Ohio, and then home. He was mustered out at Nashville in 1865.
.. In 1869 he married Mary, a daughter of Enos and Sabra McFall, natives of Carter county. She died in 1873, a member of the United Brethren Church, of which he is a steward, trustee and Sabbath-school superintendent.
.. He is a Republican. He owns a farm of 167 acres. His parents, Enos and Eliza (Carpenter) Keezel, are natives of Rockingham County, Va., the former a minister of the United Brethren Church, and a blacksmith and farmer. The mother died about 1852, and Margaret, a daughter of Peter Plecker, became his wife, and after his death, in 1881, she married again, and now lives in Kansas. Henry was the next ancestor, a native of Keezelton, Va.
.. Our subject has one of the finest springs of water in the country, elevated by a hydraulic ram to his spring house. The spring is fifteen feet below the surface of his front yard."
1850: Rockingham Co.
1856: Moved to Limestone, Washington Co, TN
1870: Limestone, Washington Co, TN
Wife: Mary Keziah McFall, dau. of Enos & Sabra McFall.
Known as Calvin.
Goodspeed's History of Tennesee, Washington Co, IN Index of Names
http://www.tngenweb.org/washington/goodspeed/goodspd3.htm#KEEZEL
"W. C. KEEZEL
.. W. C. Keezel, farmer, was born in 1842, in Rockingham County, Va., and when fourteen years of age [1856] came to this county, where he has since resided.
.. He was educated at Laurel Hill Academy, and in September 1862, enlisted in Co. M, 1st Tennessee Federal Cavalry, as a sergeant. He was captured in 1862 at Mulberry Gap, and taken successively to Knoxville, Libby Prison and Petersburg, where he was exchanged. August 8, 1864, he was captured near Atlanta, and taken to Andersonville, Charleston, Florence, S. C., and Wilmington, N. C., where he was exchanged in February, 1865. He then went to Annapolis, Md., Columbus, Ohio, and then home. He was mustered out at Nashville in 1865.
.. In 1869 he married Mary, a daughter of Enos and Sabra McFall, natives of Carter county. She died in 1873, a member of the United Brethren Church, of which he is a steward, trustee and Sabbath-school superintendent.
.. He is a Republican. He owns a farm of 167 acres. His parents, Enos and Eliza (Carpenter) Keezel, are natives of Rockingham County, Va., the former a minister of the United Brethren Church, and a blacksmith and farmer. The mother died about 1852, and Margaret, a daughter of Peter Plecker, became his wife, and after his death, in 1881, she married again, and now lives in Kansas. Henry was the next ancestor, a native of Keezelton, Va.
.. Our subject has one of the finest springs of water in the country, elevated by a hydraulic ram to his spring house. The spring is fifteen feet below the surface of his front yard."
1850: Rockingham Co.
1856: Moved to Limestone, Washington Co, TN
1870: Limestone, Washington Co, TN
Parents: Rev. George Jacob Enos Keezel and Eliza Carpenter.
Wife: Mary Keziah McFall, dau. of Enos & Sabra McFall.
Known as Calvin.
Goodspeed's History of Tennesee, Washington Co, IN Index of Names
http://www.tngenweb.org/washington/goodspeed/goodspd3.htm#KEEZEL
"W. C. KEEZEL
.. W. C. Keezel, farmer, was born in 1842, in Rockingham County, Va., and when fourteen years of age [1856] came to this county, where he has since resided.
.. He was educated at Laurel Hill Academy, and in September 1862, enlisted in Co. M, 1st Tennessee Federal Cavalry, as a sergeant. He was captured in 1862 at Mulberry Gap, and taken successively to Knoxville, Libby Prison and Petersburg, where he was exchanged. August 8, 1864, he was captured near Atlanta, and taken to Andersonville, Charleston, Florence, S. C., and Wilmington, N. C., where he was exchanged in February, 1865. He then went to Annapolis, Md., Columbus, Ohio, and then home. He was mustered out at Nashville in 1865.
.. In 1869 he married Mary, a daughter of Enos and Sabra McFall, natives of Carter county. She died in 1873, a member of the United Brethren Church, of which he is a steward, trustee and Sabbath-school superintendent.
.. He is a Republican. He owns a farm of 167 acres. His parents, Enos and Eliza (Carpenter) Keezel, are natives of Rockingham County, Va., the former a minister of the United Brethren Church, and a blacksmith and farmer. The mother died about 1852, and Margaret, a daughter of Peter Plecker, became his wife, and after his death, in 1881, she married again, and now lives in Kansas. Henry was the next ancestor, a native of Keezelton, Va.
.. Our subject has one of the finest springs of water in the country, elevated by a hydraulic ram to his spring house. The spring is fifteen feet below the surface of his front yard."
1850: Rockingham Co.
1856: Moved to Limestone, Washington Co, TN
1870: Limestone, Washington Co, TN
Wife: Mary Keziah McFall, dau. of Enos & Sabra McFall.
Known as Calvin.
Goodspeed's History of Tennesee, Washington Co, IN Index of Names
http://www.tngenweb.org/washington/goodspeed/goodspd3.htm#KEEZEL
"W. C. KEEZEL
.. W. C. Keezel, farmer, was born in 1842, in Rockingham County, Va., and when fourteen years of age [1856] came to this county, where he has since resided.
.. He was educated at Laurel Hill Academy, and in September 1862, enlisted in Co. M, 1st Tennessee Federal Cavalry, as a sergeant. He was captured in 1862 at Mulberry Gap, and taken successively to Knoxville, Libby Prison and Petersburg, where he was exchanged. August 8, 1864, he was captured near Atlanta, and taken to Andersonville, Charleston, Florence, S. C., and Wilmington, N. C., where he was exchanged in February, 1865. He then went to Annapolis, Md., Columbus, Ohio, and then home. He was mustered out at Nashville in 1865.
.. In 1869 he married Mary, a daughter of Enos and Sabra McFall, natives of Carter county. She died in 1873, a member of the United Brethren Church, of which he is a steward, trustee and Sabbath-school superintendent.
.. He is a Republican. He owns a farm of 167 acres. His parents, Enos and Eliza (Carpenter) Keezel, are natives of Rockingham County, Va., the former a minister of the United Brethren Church, and a blacksmith and farmer. The mother died about 1852, and Margaret, a daughter of Peter Plecker, became his wife, and after his death, in 1881, she married again, and now lives in Kansas. Henry was the next ancestor, a native of Keezelton, Va.
.. Our subject has one of the finest springs of water in the country, elevated by a hydraulic ram to his spring house. The spring is fifteen feet below the surface of his front yard."
1850: Rockingham Co.
1856: Moved to Limestone, Washington Co, TN
1870: Limestone, Washington Co, TN
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William C. Keezel
[Son of Rev. Enos & Eliza Keezel]
28 Mar 1842 - 5 Nov 1908
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