Hi Robin, Your question about Keel St. in Memphis "rang a bell!" I grew up in Memphis on Seventh St., between Keel and Looney. Keel started probably at Front St. (or the next one, Main St.) and ran east. In the 1890s it would not have been in the center of town. Even as late as the '50s Keel St. was residential, until you were almost to the river. I had an interesting afternoon last week looking at this 1890/91 directory database. I found my grandfather, Otto Richter age 26, living at 16 Adams St. When I did a search for "16 Adams St." I learned that a group of young people with German sounding names also boarded there. Even a newspaper, the German Gazette" was edited at that address. If you type in a search for "Keel", besides getting a few surnames, you will have a list of everyone living on Keel St., and the companies located there. It will give you an idea of the range of address numbers also. This database is great! Best wishes, Cora McDonnell "Robin E. Dickens" wrote: > Hello All > > I was happy to find a relative in the directory (as a "laborer", along with a possible inlaw, Thomas Cox a "driver"), but when I mapped the listed address (22 Keel Street) on an 1887 map it seems to have been an industrial area on the waterfront. The map shows two factory/warehouse type structures nearest that location. > > Two requests: > > 1. Could anyone tell me what building/business was located at 22 Keel Street during 1890-1891? Did folks actually live there, or just work there? > > 2. Would someone kindly check other Memphis City Directories (for the years just prior to and just following 1890/1891) for Andrew D. Dickens? Also for Thomas Cox? (Andrew married Lucy Cox in 1880; this is the first occurrence of a possible male relative on her side... a dream come true!). > > We always believed Andrew had been a farmer up around Big Creek, and left Memphis around 1892/3 for Oklahoma. His being a "laborer" within the city limits is news to us, but the timing makes sense if he was working for a year or two to make money for the big move to Oklahoma to buy land, etc. Checking the previous & prior years' directories should help us make sense of his being in the city. > > Thanks so much for any assistance you can offer... > R. Dickens > NYC