Samuel Keithline

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Samuel and Eliza (Hoover) Keithline, both, were born and reared in Pennsylvania and there married. Samuel Keithline was a son of John and Mary (Neyhart) Keithline, who also lived in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. The great grandfather of Charles J. was Joseph Keithline, who served in the War of 1812, and made buckskin breeches for the United States Government, which were worn by the United States soldiers. He was a tailor by trade. Samuel Keithline learned the trade of wagon maker in his younger days and operated a wagon shop at Hanover, Penn. He lived in his native State until 1884, when he migrated to Kansas and invested his capital in land in Shannon township upon which he lived in retirement until his demise in 1900, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. Samuel and Eliza Keithline were the parents of the following children: John A. died May 17, 1915, in Atchison, Kan.; Samuel died in infancy ; Joseph died at the age of three years; Charles J. ; Augustus L.. Lancaster township; Sarah E., in Shannon township; Emma Carlton, Franklin county, Kansas, and Mrs. Cora Riley, Atchison, Kan. Eliza Keithline died in 1910, at the age of seventy-nine years.

Family/Spouse: Eliza Hoover. Eliza (daughter of John Hoover and Sarah Sims) was born on 3 May 1826 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; died on 18 Apr 1910 in Shannon Twp, Pottawatomie County, Kansas; was buried in Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, Atchison County, Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]