Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886. Warren County.

IVEY KEETH, an active and progressing farmer, was born in January, 1844,
in the southeast part of Edmonson County, Ky., and is the fifth of four
sons and five daughters, all of whom lived to be grown, born of John and
Mary (Edwards) Keeth.  John Keeth was born July 20, 1818, in Wayne County,
Ky., and was a prosperous farmer of Edmonson County.  In 1856 he came to
Warren County, and in 1866 located near Barren River, in the southeast
part, on 250 acres of land, of which he has sold and given away till he
now owns but sixty acres.  After his removal to Warren County he was
ordained to preach in the United Baptist Church.  He is a son of Daniel and
Juda (Kennedy) Keeth, natives of Louisa County, Va., who had four sons and
seven daughters, and who immigrated to Wayne County, Ky., as early as
1810; about 1828 Daniel located in Edmonson County, where he remained till
his death in 1872, aged eighty-five years; he was a son of William Keeth
of Virginia. The mother of Ivey Keeth was born in Virginia and a daughter
of Ivey and Phebe (Gardner) Edwards.  Mrs. Phebe Edwards had married four
times.  Ivey Keeth was reared on a farm and received a good common English
education.  In October, 1863, he enlisted in Company I, Fifty-second
Kentucky Infantry, and was in all engagements in which the regiment
participated.  In a skirmish at Hopkinsville, he was wounded in the left
arm; he was discharged in March, 1865, at Bowling Green, when he returned
to his home and engaged in farming and trading in stock.  He located where
he now resides, one mile south of Three Forks, on seventy-five acres of
land, but now owns 170 acres, which he has improved and embellished with
good substantial buildings.  April 19, 1866, he married Jennie Finney, of
Warren County, a daughter of John and Lucinda (Thomas) Finney. To this
union have been born eight children, seven living:  John H., Addie, Clay,
Enchide, Emit, Samuel E. and William L.  Mr. and Mrs. Keeth are members of
the Baptist Church.  In politics Mr. Keeth is a Republican and cast his
first presidential vote for Blaine.

Keeth Edwards Kennedy Gardner Finney Thomas Blaine
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Edmonson-KY Wayne-KY Louisa-VA Hopkinsville-Christian-KY

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