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== Biography ==
Mennonites: ANDREW KEYSER m. MARY PALMER
'''Birth:''' Mary Palmer is the daughter of Henry Michael Palmer 1742–1806 and Susanna Dunkelberger 1748–1805. Mom Susanna is the daughter of Hans Peter Dunkleburger and Anna Elizabeth Winar per findagrave. Mary was born April 22, 1760.
'''1760s''': Mary was living in Pennsylvania when we were embroiled in the French and Indian War. (1760)
'''Marriage and Children, as Mennonites:'''
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'''1778 Marriage:''' Mary Palmer married Andrew Keyser, descended from Dirck Keyser in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on December 27, 1778, when she was 18 years old. They had many known children:
1. SARAH KEYSER, born January 2 1780, Pennsylvania; died 1850 Belmont County, OH. (Married Christopher Hinkle). One daughter Margaret married Samuel Wise.
:Engravings of gravestones in High Ridge Cemetery Park OH Christopher Hinkle Died Apr. 1, 1861 In his 84 yr. Sarah, Wife of Christopher Hinkle, Died Feb. 8, 1850, Aged 70 yrs 16 dys.
2. HANNAH KEYSER, born 1781, Pennsylvania; died young.
3. WILLIAM KEYSER, born 1783; died young.
4. WILLIAM KEYSER II, born May 27, 1784, Pennsylvania; died 1856 Belmont County OH. Married Margaret Workman and had 10 children together.
5. ANDREW KEYSER, JR., born Sept. 28, 1786; died 1814; married NANCY WILLIAMS on March 14, 1811.
6. JESSE KEYSER, born Jan. 16, 1788; died June 14, 1825. Married Nancy Dunfee on Dec. 4, 1807. They had 11 children.
7. MARY "Polly" KEYSER, born March 8, 1792; died 1885; m. JOSHUA SHAHAN Nov. 30, 1809, Belmont Co, OH
8. THOMAS KEYSER, born Oct. 4, 1794; died July 29, 1882; m. Susanna Allender. Had 12 children. "Thomas Keyser, Died July 29, 1882, Aged 87 yrs 9 mos 25 days". This grave is located on the farm that Thomas and his wife Susanna Allender Keyser owned.
9. JANE KEYSER, born August 2, 1797; married GEORGE O. BLAIR.
10 and 11. Twins born April 25, 1800 in Pennsylvania:
:ISAAC KEYSER, d. 1868 Ohio; m. (1) MARY ANN AMBLER; m. (2) REBECCA STEENROD; Isaac died Valentine's Day, 1868. Mary and Isaac had 8 children, and Rebecca and Isaac had 8 more children!!
:JACOB KEYSER, d. 1871; m. (1) HESTER; (2) MARGARET (nee DUNFEE) MYERS. Jacob died 1871.
12. ELIZABETH KEYSER, born July 1802; married JOHN SCOTT, 1822, Belmont Co, OH. 9 children.
13. HENRY PALMER KEYSER, born November 23, 1805; died. June 16, 1883; m. EMMELINE "AMY" BELL 1825 (said to be 1/2 Native American). Henry and Amy operated a farm near Wegee, Belmont County, OH, and had nine children. Henry died on January 16, 1883 and is buried in the Keyser Cemetery Belmont County, OH on the old Dixon Myers farm in Sec. 14, Mead Township. One of their daughters was Nancy J. Keyser, born March 22, 1844 and died young on December 24, 1850.
'''1835: Death of Husband:''' Mary's husband Andrew passed away on August 22, 1835, in Belmont County, Ohio, at the age of 75. They had been married 56 years.
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''1835:''' This was also the same year that her daughter Elizabeth died - on December 18, 1835 - at the mere age of 33. Elizabeth Keyser (Mennonite) 1802–1835
'''1844: Death of Mary Palmer''' Mary Palmer Keyser died on June 12, 1844, in Mead, Belmonth County, Ohio, when she was 84 years old.
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Mary was born in 1760. She passed away in 1844.
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Unsourced family tree handed down to [[Magyar-2|Skip Magyar]].
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== Sources ==
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http://catorfamilies.com/genealogy/keyser.html
Ancestry Family Trees
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935
* Ancestry and Family Search compilation of data + catorfamily.com website
Author: Anonymous Magyar
Author: Donna Cator
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