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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: KEENEY, James T.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@AOL.com
September 26, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 449-450
JAMES T. KEENEY, building contractor, at Eskdale, in Cabin Creek District,
Kanawba County, W. Va., has been a resident of this county all his life, and
was born at East Bank, November 7, 1875, and is a son of Foster and Eliza
(Gatewood) Keeney.
The Keeney family was established in Kanawha County in 1823, when Great
grandfather William Keeney came and built his log cabin with the other three
or four on Cabin Creek. He died here, leaving four sons, William E., Michael,
Stires and Moses. Williarn E. Keeney, grandfather of James T., spent his
entire life here and was a prosperous farmer of Cabin Creek District. He
married Sallie Huff, of Kanawha County. They lived to be aged people and
when she died in August, i908, was said to be over 100 years of age. They
had seven children: Charles, Foster, Zackariah, Samuel. Nannie and two babes
that died un-named. The only survivor is Nannie, who is the wife of L. L.
Williams.
Foster Keeney, father of James T., was born where the latter resides at
Eskdale, when eighteen years of age left home to seek employment, moving to
East Bank, after his marriage, where he resided for fifteen years. He then
worked at the carpenter's trade in Charleston for three years, 1892-93-4 and
'95, and lived at Eskdale for sixteen years prior to his death, which
occurred May 10, 1909, when he was aged seventy-four years. He married Eliza
Gatewood, who died at the early age of twenty-seven years, the mother of four
children:
Grace, James T., Theodore, and Oakley, who' died when four years old.
James T. Keeney attended the public schools at East Bank and then learned the
carpenter's trade with his father, with whom he continued to live. He does a
very satisfactory business and has been concerned in the erection of many
structures in this section. He is one of the representative men of the town
and is a member of its board of councilmen.
Mr. Keeney was married April 13, 1905, to Miss Edna Jacobs, a daughter of J.
J. Jacobs, and they have four children: Lucille, Arthur, Elmo and an infant.
He is identified with the order of Odd Fellows and belongs to the lodge at
Eskdale.
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