FORWARDING: > From: "R. D. Fisher" <rndfisher@oro.net> > To: <KELLER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 1:02 AM > Subject: [Keller] John V. Keller > John Vincent Keller > b. 22 June 1846, Austria, died 15 January 1916, Rohnerville Humbolt > County, CA > buried Rohnerville, Catholic Cemetery, Humbolt Co. CA > m. 1865-1912 Elizabeth ? b. 29 September 1854 d. 14 may 1929 > children: > elizabeth (Lizzie) b. 29 June 1884 Graslitz, Bohormia, Austria m. Hugh > Roberts > Amelia Josephine "Mollie" (my grandmother) b. 17 July 1893 Chicago, > Sangamon Co. Ill. died 3 May 1937/38 > Joseph b. 17 March 1873, Vienna, Austria > Frank (Franz) b. 2 February 1878, Graslitz, Gohormia Austria > > Family rumor has it that the family changed name twice before keeping > Keller > Messornz and Meindleschmidt, that they made violins in Austria. That > John and Elizabeth met on a boat on the Rhine River. That they had 12 > children and all died but 4 in a flu epedemic in Illinois. They > disowned my grandmother for not marrying a Catholic. Were in the timber > business in California. > Debbie