NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - OBIT: KELLER, Levi (d. 1889)
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Obituary:  THE CALDWELL PRESS, April 18, 1889:  Died, Monday morning, at 4
o'clock, Levi Keller of Mt. Ephraim, aged 93 years and 7 months.  Deceased
was born on Wheeling Creek, W. Va.  At 5 years of age, was taken into
Belmont Co. where his father located and where he grew to manhood.  Came to
this Co., about 1820.  In 1821 he erected a house on Smoky Fork of Buffalo
Creek in now Center Tp.  In 1827 moved to the vicinity of Mt. Ephraim.  At
the age of 20 he married Elizabeth Shafer, a native of London (Loudoun)
County, Va.  He reared a family of 11 children, 5 of whom are dead. 
Deceased was the first clerk of Seneca Tp., acted as Justice of the Peace 6
years.  Was a member of the Presbyterian Church in former years."

Susan Kellar Ratcliffe
Delaware, Ohio 
skrat@midohio.net

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