Newton Family Documents
Jacob Keeney
1854 Cass County, Missouri land grant
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Source: Bureau of Land Management Land Patents online
Keeney Family Burying Ground
Section 32, Township 47, Range 33W
While the old Kenney farm was located partly in Jackson county and partly in Cass county, the burying ground was on that part of the farm which was in Jackson county. All trace of the old family burying ground is erased, but the following inscriptions were copied several years ago by Mr. J. R. Kenney, a grandson of Michael Keeney, from the stones which he found piled in a corner of a corn field:
Micheal Keeney, d: July 26, 1849, age: 60 years
Nancy Keeney (wife), d: May 19, 1857; age: 60 years
Fountain Keeney (son), b: June 25, 1829, d: May 26, 1857
David Keeney (son), d: May 25, 1857; age: 25 years
J. Keeney, b: March 8, 1818, d: Sept. 25, 1883
Eliza Keeney, d: May 4, 1855; age: 20 years, 4 months, 6 days
Julia Ann Keeney, wife of J. Keeney, b: March 18, 1818, d: Feb. 18, 1863
Margaret J., daughter of J. and J. A. Keeney, d: April 18, 1851; age: 1 year
Mary Keeney, daughter of J. and J. A. Keeney, b: Aug. 22, 1847, d: Oct. 15, 1868; age: 21 years, 1 month, 23 days
Miss Frances Keeney, Belton, Missouri, contributed the following information regarding several members of the family of Michael Keeney not buried in the old family cemetery:
Thomas Keeney, b: March 10, 1824, d: Oct. 28, 1900; burid in Belton, Missouri
Isaac Keeney, b: Nov. 10, 1833, d: April 20, 1906; buried in Belton, Missouri
Elija Keeney, b: Feb. 1827, d: June 13, 1893; buried in Bryant Cemetery, Cass county
Mary Ann, b: March 5, 1836, d: Jan. 4, 1917; buried in Bryant Cemetery, Cass county
Anderson Family Land Grants
Clay County, Missouri
registered at Lexington, Missouri
7 Sept. 1838 Elias Anderson, Sec. 20, T53N/R31W
7 Sept. 1838 Horace P. Anderson, Sec. 31, T53N/R31W
7 Sept. 1838 Joseph Anderson, Sec. 19, T53N/R31W
1 May 1843 Elias Anderson, Sec. SWNW 20, T53N/R31W
1 May 1843 Horace P. Anderson, Sec. NWSE 24, T53N/R31W
1 May 1843 Horace P. Anderson, Sec. NWSE 19, T53N/R31W
1 May 1843 Horace P. Anderson, Sec. NWSE 19, T53N/R31W
1 May 1843 Joseph Anderson, Sec. NESW 19, T53N/R31W
1 July 1845 Henry D. Anderson, Sec. SENW 20, T53N/R31W
Source: Bureau of Land Management Land Patents online