This article was published in the Farmington News, not the Leadbelt News. On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:59:27 -0600 "B. Warner" <bkwofc@i1.net> wrote: > The Leadbelt News, Flat River, Missouri December 11, >1953. > > TWINS CELEBRATE 81ST BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY. > > Misses Nelle and Virginia Keith, of St. Louis, prepared >a > birthday dinner last week for their father, Pleasant G. > Keith, of Flat River, and Mr. Keith's twin sister, Mrs. > Clara Keith Russell, of DeSoto, for their 81st birthday > anniversaries. They are probably the only twins in > Southeast Missouri to reach that advanced age. > > They were born near Libertyville, on the old John Baker > Keith homestead on November 29, 1872. They were named >for > their grandparents, Pleasant Gentry and Clarinda Baker > Keith, who are mentioned in the story of Big River >Mills, > so cleverly written by Mrs. Lon Pettus. Their father, > John B. Keith, when a lad of 16, went with his father, > Pleasant Gentry Keith, to California during the "49 Gold > Rush". Pleasant and Clara grew to man and womanhood on >the > farm where they were born. They are one set of >twenty-one > sets of twins born in a radius of three miles square in > what is known as Cook's Settlement. They are each the > parents of five children, four girls and one boy, all > living, except Pleasant Gentry, IV, (Sonny). > > Mr. Keith and Mrs. Russell are Methodists and staunch > Democrats. > > [Note: A photo of the twins accompanied this article.] > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >MOSTFRAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the >message