Hello, I am looking for the family lines which branch off of this line of Keim. The following are my Keim Family lines. If your family lines branch off please share that info with me ... I am trying to fill in the blanks I have. Until next time, LoriAnn [email protected] The KEIM Family is a branch off my FRANKENFIELD Family Tree. Johannes Keim, b. Germany married Maria ? Their son, Johannes Keim, b. 20 July 1754 Germany, d. 09 Aug. 1815 Bethlehem Twp., Pa. married 1779 to Elizabeth Kloess, daughter of Johannes and Anna Barbara (?) Kloess, b. 04 May 1756 Bethlehem Twp., Pa.; d. 10 Apr. 1837 Bethlehem Twp., Pa. Both are buried at Schoenersville, Pa. Their son, Jacob Keim, b. 11 Jan. 1789 Bethlehem Twp., Pa.; d. 14 July 1838 Bethlehem Twp., Pa. married circa 1816 to Christianna Weber, b. 12 Aug. 1794; d. 27 Sept. 1871 Bethlehem Twp., Pa. Both are buried at Schoenersville, Pa. Their son, Andrew Keim, b. 07 May 1817 Bethlehem Twp., Pa.; d. 09 Apr. 1883 Bethlehem Twp., Pa. married 1844/5 to Elizabeth Brown, daughter of John and Elizabeth (?) Brown, b. 25 Oct. 1822 Bethlehem Twp., Pa.; d. 03 July 1887 Bethlehem Twp., Pa. Both buried at Altonah Cemetery near Bethlehem Twp., Pa. Their daughter, Christianna Keim, b. 30 Oct. 1845 Macada, Bethlehem Twp., Pa.; d. 10 Apr. 1922 Upper Nazareth Twp., Pa. married 21 May 1865 by Rev. D.F. Brendle at Altonah to Jacob Frankenfield, son of, John and Sarah Ann (Rothrock) Frankenfield, b. 02 June 1843 Bethlehem Twp., Pa.; d. 25 Dec. 1903 Both are buried at Salem Lutheran (near Nisky Hill, Pa.) Stroudsburg, Monroe Co.,Pa. The affiliated family branches to the Keim Family Tree are: KLOESS = Johannes Kloess m. Anna Barbara (?) Elizabeth Kloess m. Johannes Keim WEBER = Christianna Weber m. Jacob Keim BROWN/BRAUN = Peter Braun m. Maria Barbara Meyer Gottlieb Braun m. Rebecca Otto John Braun/Brown m. Elizabeth ? Elizabeth Brown m. Andrew Keim ANNALS OF THE OLEY VALLEY March 6, 1926 Beginning on Page KJ21 The Keim family and how its members have contributed to the building of the city and county. By Rev. P.C. Croll D.D. of Womelsdorf, Pa. We have already alluded to JOHN KEIM, his first wife and the Keim Homestead in Oley, in our chapter on "Early Settlements", the widespread character of this pioneer banyan tree, planted .. early in the rich soil of the Oley Valley, and the importance of this family in the history and upbuilding of the county and the city of Reading with an increasing ratio from generation to generation, calls for an entire chapter on this subject. JOHANNES KEIM, the American ancestor, was a native of Speier, Germany, and was born about 1675. He was the son of Johann (John) Keim. The latter was a son of George Keim, a merchant of Speier, who was a son of Ludwig Hercourt Keim, of ...Rhine Valley, and an officer in the Thirty Years' War. Hercourt is doubtless the mother's maiden name and it looks as if he was related to Mrs. Isaac DeTurck and Mrs. Jean Bertolet, who were Hercourts. As he settled in Oley before either the DeTurcks or Bertolets, it is probable that his settlement here may have been the cause of the later coming ... these possible acquaintances and kin. Like so many other happy and well-to-do-residents of this Rhine section of Germany, the French invasion of the Palatinate (1688-1697), financially ruined Johannes Keim. So he visited the New World on a prospecting tour in 1698. Coming to this inviting section of Penn's yet almost impenetrable woods, he staked off a claim in the Oley Valley near the headwaters of the Manatawny Creek, then went back to the Fatherland, wooed, won and married his Katrina, returned with her to America and there among the first white settlers of all this region, in 1706., reared their first rude log cabin and planted this prosperous land outspreading Berks County banyan. The building was placed on the center of his large landed tract, in one of the richest black walnut groves or forests to be found anywhere, which was it's self a sure sign of richness of soil. This first Keim home was near Pikeville and later the tract northeast of Friedensberg was bought and settled on, either by the american progenitor or his son. The private graveyards are at the ancestral homestead. AUTOBIOGRAPHY A single bit of autobiography has come down to his descendants in the form of a faded, time-worn and broken two leafed document in the original Johannes Keims own German Scroll. It descended through the hands of his fourth child (third son) Nicholas Keim and through this line lodged in the family of Daniel May Keim, of Bristol, Pa. It reports the following family history: [gives the german] This family register translated into English reads as follows: I, John Keim was married in the year 1706, 14 days before St. Michael's Day. Katharine was born on St. Michael's Day, 1708. (In another hand) buried the 8th day of May 1793. And in the year 1711, four weeks before Easter, my son John was born into the world. Stephen, born March 28, 1717 John Nicholas, April 2, 1719 Elizabeth, February 1723 Jacob, October 1724 And in the year 1731, the first day of the year, 1731, I took my second wife into wedlock. And in the year 1732, the 27th of April, my son Henry was born into this world. Here the record ends. But not the births. By this second marriage nine more children were born to Johannes Keim-- a total of 16 branchlets taking root in the rich soil of Oley to perpetuate and spread this ancestral banyan. They were all born on this homestead of the Keims in the headwaters of the Manatawny, now Oley, Berks County, then Philadelphia County. The last Will and Testamen probated in Reading Jan 1, 1754, (Mr. Keim having died in 1753), the Christian name of the second wife is given as Maria Elizabeth.