Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Keeling, Christopher 1811 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Christopher Keeling, farmer, Veedersburg. James Keeling, father of the
subject of this sketch, was born and reared in Virginia, where he was married,
and from which place he shortly after emigrated to Ohio, where he remained for
some time; then came to Fountain county, settling, in 1828, two miles south of
where Veedersburg now stands. Remaining there two years, he purchased forty
acres on the present site of Veedersburg, which he improved and occupied till
his death, which occurred in 1847, in his seventy-sixth year. His favorite
occupation was that of school teaching, which he followed in all about thirty
years. Many are the memories of the good deeds and kind instruction of this
pioneer teacher retained by many of the now old people of this county, who were
then boys and girls. He raised a family of eleven children, seven boys and four
girls, all of whom are dead but Nancy, Margaret, Eliza, Jemima, and Christopher.
James Keeling's father emigrated to America prior to the war of the revolution.
James served in the war of the revolution, though a mere boy. His wife's people
were originally from Wales. Christopher Keeling was born in Virginia, in 1811,
and came to Fountain county with his parents. He was married in 1831, to Sarah
Martin, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Kitner) Martin, both natives of
Virginia; they first emigrated to Ohio, where they remained three years, then to
Fountain county, in 1830, where they both died. William Martin served in the war
of 1812. Mr. C., by this marriage, had ten children, two of whom are living,
William R. and John R. Mr. Keeling was educated in the common school by his
father principally. His success as a business man is more than ordinary. He owns
500 acres of fine land in Fountain county, and a large part of the town of
Veedersburg. In politics he is a republican.

Additional Comments:
Van Buren Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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