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JOHN 5 LEWIS
(or LOUIS) KEEL (#1875) MARTHA4
P (PARLEE or PARALEE) JOHNSTON (LEWIS BURTON3,
GEORGE GREGORY ("G.G." OR "GREG")2, LEWIS1)
was born in Johnson County, Texas November 22, 1877. John died January 18, 1929 in Abilene, Taylor
County, Texas, at 51 years of age. His body was interred in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, South Park Cemetery.
He married Eliza England in Breckenridge, Texas, September 22, 1907. (Eliza England is #3829.) Eliza was born in Honey Grove, Lamar County, Texas March 10, 1880. She was the daughter of Thomas Welch England and Nancy Susan Crowley. Her body was interred date unknown in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, South Park Cemetery. Eliza died April 19, 1921 in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, at 41 years of age.
Notes: In her 1936 Memoirs, Martha P. Johnston Keel states emphatically that her son, John Lewis Keel, born on the banks of Nolan River in Johnson County, Texas, was named for his two grandfathers, John L. Keel and Lewis Burton Johnston. However, for most of his life, he was known by the nickname, "Louie," apparently causing his family to believe that his middle name was spelled "Louis." He, himself, may have begun to spell his written name that way. He apparently did name his oldest son John Louis, Jr.
John L. Keel, in 1911, owned and operated a Wagon Yard on Virginia Avenue and Second Street in Roswell, New Mexico. It was there that his younger brother, Larkin Almus Keel, worked and, in December 1911, took his own life at the age of 22 by ingesting carbolic acid. No one ever knew why.
John L. Keel was in the livestock and real estate business in the Roswell area through the 1920's. In January of 1929, he was visiting his mother in Abilene, TX. While there, he was stricken and died on January 18, 1929. He was returned to Roswell for burial.
JOHN (LEWIS OR LOUIS) KEEL and ELIZA ENGLAND had the following children:
i. JOHN LOUIS KEEL JR.6
(#3832) was born in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico July 10, 1908. He married
Lillian (Childs) Watkins in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas,
January 17, 1931. (Lillian (Childs) Watkins is #3833.) Lillian
was born in place unknown April 15, 1907. John died January 7, 1979 in
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, at 70 years of age. The ashes of
John Louis Keel were scattered over the Pacific Ocean. They had at least one
son, John Lewis Keel III, born, died and buried in 1932, in Roswell, New Mexico.
ii. MARIAN ELIZABETH KEEL6
(#3834) was born in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico September 25, 1909. Her
body was interred date unknown in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico. She
married Roy Tapana Norton in place unknown, May 5, 1929. (Roy
Tapana Norton is #3835.) Roy was born in Arlington, Tarrant
County, Texas, March 21, 1897. Marian died November 23, 1997 in Wichita,
Kansas, at 88 years of age. She was buried at South Park Cemetery, Roswell, New
Mexico.
iii. RUTHE KEEL6
(#3836) was born in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico June 7, 1911. Her body
was interred in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, South Park
Cemetery. She married Herbert Pruitt Joyce in Roswell, New Mexico, July
9, 1930. (Herbert Pruitt Joyce is #3837.) Herbert was born
in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico March 31, 1901. Ruthe died August
27, 1988 in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, at 77 years of age.
iv. THOMAS WARREN KEEL6
(#3838) was born in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico September 18, 1915. His
body was interred in Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico, South Park
Cemetery. Thomas died August 5, 1929 in Roswell, Chaves County, New
Mexico, at 13 years of age, from an accidental gunshot.
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