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From: Charles and Gail Snow <>
Subject: [ALWALKER-L] Re: ALWALKER-D Digest V98 #58
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 15:37:22 -0500


Here's what we have on this family. If you get in touch, we can give you
the person from whom we got this...
Gail and Chuck Snow
Grand Rapids Michigan

3. WILLIAM S. WASHINGTON2 KEY (JOHN* 1) was born Jan 8, 1801 in Amherst

Co., Va., and died Jun 9, 1879 in near Manchester, Al. Buried: Shiloh
Cem. on Nauvoo Road. (Source: Mrs. James Henry Key, Ft. Worth, Tx. 1972;

KAAF pg. 267 & 270; James Leonard Owen, Oakman, Al.; HOWC pg. 135;
Walker
Co. 1860 census.). He married CYNTHIA ASENETH ABBOTT Abt. 1819 in Va.,
daughter of JAMES ABBOTT and ELIZABETH COPELAND.
Children of WILLIAM KEY and CYNTHIA ABBOTT are:
i. ELIZABETH C.3 KEY, b. Jan 12, 1820, Al. Moved to
Bullard, Tx.; d. Jan 2, 1902 (Source: HOWC pg. 135.); m. WILLIAM W.
SNOW.
ii. BELINDA ASENETH KEY, b. 1822; m. J. R. CHEEK.
iii. NANCY KEY, b. Abt. 1823; m. MR. CHEEK.
iv. JANE MILLS KEY, b. Jun 7, 1824, Walker Co., Al.; d.
Aug 23, 1900, Walker Co, Al. Buried: Hatt Ch. of Christ.; m. THOMAS
BRADLEY, Abt. 1861.
v. JOHN MARTIN KEY, b. 1829, Sipsey, Al.; d. 1874; m.
MARTHA E. ?, Abt. 1848.
vi. JAMES WILLIAM* KEY, b. Jul 18, 1832, Al. Moved to
Bullard, Tx. in 1892.; d. Nov 6, 1920, Bullard, Tx. Buried: Bullard,
Tx.
Community Cem. (Source: Mrs. James Henry Key, Ft. Worth, Tx. 1972; KAAF
pg. 270.); m. MARY "POLLY" KEY, Sep 18, 1856.

Notes for JAMES WILLIAM* KEY:

It was Elizabeth (Key) Snow, sister of James William Key, who
first moved to Bullard, Texas. Her letters to her brother, James
William
Key, describing life in the area, greatly influenced him to move with
his
family to Texas in 1892. They moved by train.

James William Key owned a sawmill and lumber yard in or near
Jasper, Al., as well as farm and timber lands nearby. The mill and yard

burned some time in 1892, prior to the move to Texas.

James William Key served in Co. C., 13th Battalion, Al.,
Partisan Rangers, Cavalry. He enlisted Sep. 6, 1862 at Jasper, Al.

vii. HIEL ABBOTT KEY, b. Jun 7, 1836, (Son of Wm. S. Wash.
Key & Cynthia Abbott) (Grandson of John & Belinda Key); d. Sep 3, 1904,
Walker Co., Al. Buried: West Jeff. Freewill Bapt. Cem. (Source: Jasper
Mtn. Eagle Oct. 12, 1904; Walker Co., 1880 census - H. A. Key, age 45, -

C. C., 46, wife; 1900 census - Hiel A. Key & Celia Key, wife.); m.
CAROLINE BUZBEE, Abt. 1857, (Married 1st cousin).
viii. JONATHAN KEY, b. Abt. 1849 (Source: Walker Co., Al.
1860 census.).

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