This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: cpaige169 Surnames: Page, Keyes Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.michigan.counties.kalamazoo/15801.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks again for the tip(s). Just in case you're interested in some Kalamazoo County history, my Keyes and Page families spent some generations of time there. The Keyes family was closely tied to the Carney and Powers families through marriage and association. In fact, old John Carney, patriarch of the Michigan Carneys, came from Niagara Co., NY, where he and his large family had been neighbors of my ancestor the widow Hannah (Francis) Keyes. Hannah came to Section 17 of Climax, Kalamazoo Co., MI in the mid-1830s to become a schoolteacher and was again a neighbor of John Carney. She married widowwer George Fletcher who had brought his family from Virginia and they subsequently settled in Prairie Ronde. John Carney's son Samuel, who had married Hannah's daughter Mary Keyes, was the first person buried in the Gilson Cemetery according to "History of Kalamazoo county, Michigan." Durant, Samuel W. comp. Philadelphia: Everts & Abbott, 1880. p. 341: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pagebarnes/SOP_TOC_Page-Castner.html -The Story of Sarah M. (Keyes) Page Cline -Families of William Henry Page and Chloe Thayer -In_Search_of_Riley... -Carrie B., George Hudson, and Charles Orlando (the surviving Page kids) Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Are the Keyes, Key families mentioned connected to Francis Scott Key, who wrote the words of our national anthem? --- "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to > this mailing list. > > Author: cpaige169 > Surnames: Page, Keyes > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.michigan.counties.kalamazoo/15801.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > Thanks again for the tip(s). > > Just in case you're interested in some Kalamazoo > County history, my Keyes and Page families spent > some generations of time there. The Keyes family was > closely tied to the Carney and Powers families > through marriage and association. In fact, old John > Carney, patriarch of the Michigan Carneys, came from > Niagara Co., NY, where he and his large family had > been neighbors of my ancestor the widow Hannah > (Francis) Keyes. Hannah came to Section 17 of > Climax, Kalamazoo Co., MI in the mid-1830s to become > a schoolteacher and was again a neighbor of John > Carney. She married widowwer George Fletcher who had > brought his family from Virginia and they > subsequently settled in Prairie Ronde. John Carney's > son Samuel, who had married Hannah's daughter Mary > Keyes, was the first person buried in the Gilson > Cemetery according to "History of Kalamazoo county, > Michigan." Durant, Samuel W. comp. > Philadelphia: Everts & Abbott, 1880. p. 341: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pagebarnes/SOP_TOC_Page-Castner.html > > -The Story of Sarah M. (Keyes) Page Cline > -Families of William Henry Page and Chloe Thayer > -In_Search_of_Riley... > -Carrie B., George Hudson, and Charles Orlando (the > surviving Page kids) > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to > this list. If you would like to reply to them, > please click on the Message Board URL link above and > respond on the board. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to MIKALAMA-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message