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.]