BIO:  KEITH, William G., s/o W. & Elizabeth (Storm) Keith

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

KEITH   STORM   STONE

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  1886

Knox County, Widner Twp., page 523

WILLIAM G. KEITH was born April 21, 1823, in Knox County, Ind., son of W.
and Elizabeth (Storm) Keith.  The father was born in Kentucky and immigrated
to Indiana in 1819, where he farmed.  The mother was also a native of 
Kentucky.  Our subject secured a common school education, and resided on the
farm until eighteen years of age, when he flat-boated to New Orleans,
following that occupation about seven years.  March 21, 1846, he wedded
Perthena Stone, daughter of Dudley and Mary Stone, who were natives of the
"Blue-grass State".  After his marriage Mr. Keith began farming eighty acres
of land, which he cleared himself, and has kept adding others until he now
owns 120 acres.  To them were born these children:  Alonzo, Lavina, Annie,
Alice, Mattie and Wilmetta.  At the breaking out of the war Mr. Keith
enlisted in Company H, Fifty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and did
service in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and was in the battles of
Shiloh, Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga and Atlanta.  He was in a
provisional brigade, and together with 1,300 comrades was taken prisoner at
Rome, Ga., and held for seventeen days on Belle Isle, when they were
exchanged.  At Columbia, Tenn., his hand was crippled making breastworks,
and after remaining at the hospital at New Albany three months he was
discharged in 1865.  He has since followed farming.  He is a Republican and
cast his first vote for Clay.  He and family are members of the Christian
Church.
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