Bedford County TN Archives Biographies.....Keiter, Capt. William June 3, 1830 - 1862
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Author: Virgil A. Lewis

/Captain William Keiter/, of the Tennessee Artillery, Confederate Army, was a
native of Hampshire county. He was the son of Benjamin Keiter, whose father
emigrated to the county from Pennsylvania about the year 1790. Young Keiter was
born June 3, 1830, and after attending two terms at Romney Academy, he entered
the Virginia Military Institute, from which he graduated July 4, 1859. Repairing
to Shelbyville, Tennessee, he there engaged in teaching. In 1861, he entered the
Confederate Army, and was made captain of an artillery company. He was killed in
1862, by the explosion of a gun.


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From History of West Virginia in Two Parts by Virgil A. Lewis, Hampshire County
entry.

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