Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of HUMPHREY B. KEYES This biography was submitted by Sandy Spradling, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 250-251 HUMPHREY B. KEYES. John H. Keyes, a well known farmer and blacksmith in Tuckahoe, Greenbrier county, was the father of Humphrey B. Keyes, the subject of this sketch. He married Elizabeth Pine, a resident of Monroe county. Their eldest son, Janies, was taken prisoner in the late war between the States and died on his way home. Joseph R. another son, served throughout the war in Edgar's Battalion. Gashrnan, the youngest son, died in Covington, Va. Humphrey B. Keyes was born in January, 1882, went to school in Tuckahoe district a few terms, and in later years officiated as school trustee. On the date that President Garfield was shot Mr. Keyes married Susan Gardner. She was the datighter of John Gardner, who lived at the head of Little creek. After they married, a residence was taken up where they now reside, on a farm consisting of one hundred and forty-six acres, and where they have since lived. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Keyes, as follow: Lula, who married Edgar Lynch and now living in North Dakota; Gertie, who married Henry Lynch, postmaster; Clarence, James, Zora, Bessie, Amy, Lillian and Florence, the last named now dead. Mr. Keyes lives a simple life, but is a successful farmer and one of Greenbrier's representative citizens.