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From: Ellie Handley <>
Subject: [ALWALKER-L] Key's
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:32:24 -0800

This informatiom is for the Key's of Walker Co., AL. Hope one day to tie
the Key's of AL., to the Key's of SC and GA. and maybe back to VA.
Warren Key, father was James Key, b. Bet. 1760-1770 md. Elizabeth
Barnes, b.Bet. 1763-1773.
Anyone wanted names and dates can contact me. Ellie

Warren Key married Nancy Polly abt 1808, Nancy was the daughter of
William1 Earnest.?

Warren Key was listed in the 1810 Census of Darlington Co., SC, along
with a wife and one son. This son was more than likely Burrell who was
born 10 Feb 1810. This would indicate they were married about 1808 and
that Burrell was only a few months old when the census was taken.
Nancy/Polly was about age 17 when she married Warren Key. The Polly
mention in James Beasley Will would have been eight yrs old at his death
if she were the one that married Warren Key. Since Warren Key lived in
SC, could he have meet and married a girl in GA., and could he have
taken her back to SC., in days when travel was very difficulf and
people did not venture very far unless they were moving to a new
location? The sequence that would have taken place if James Beasley had
been her father is not very probable and therefore, it is concluded that
he was not her father.

One last comment, Every record in Emanuel Co., GA., refers to Warren
Key's wife as Nancy, never Polly. Nancy is the dimunitive for Ann and
vice versa. Polly is the dimunitive for Mary. In effect, the Polly/Nance
is indicating two different people unless her name happen to be Mary
Ann, which may have been the case.\

The 1810 Census of Darlington Co.

Warren Key 1 male
16-26 (b. 1784-1794)
page 09. 1 male
0-10 (b. 1800-1810)
1 female
16-26 (b. 1784-1794)

He is married with one son and lives not far away from William1 Beasley.

By 1820 William1 Beasley and Warren Key had disappeared from the Darling
Co., SC census annd were listed on the 1820 Elmanuel Co., GA census.

Warren Key: 1 male
40-50 (b. 1780-1790)
page 170 2 males
15-20 (b. 1810-1815)
1 male
10-15 (b. 1815-1820)
2 males
5-10 (b. 1820-1825)
1 female
30-40 (b. 1790-1800)
1 female
15-20 (b. 1810-1820)
1 female
5-10 (b. 1820-1825)
3 females
0-5 (b. 1825-1830)

NOTE: that Warren Key is still living near william1 Beasley. William
Beasley and his wife are both between 60 and 70 years of age. Their
house is empty except for one male child, who is probably a grandson.
Elijah is still living next door to his father.

FOOTPRINTS ALLONG
THE HOOPEE
(EMANULE)
COUNTY, GEORGIA)

One Methodist church prospered in the early days of the county. Kea's
Church, located in western Emanuel County, dates from the early 1800's.
The following account, written in 1962, describes the history of the
Church:

Rev. Warren Key, founder and first pastor of Kea's Church, was the son
of James Key and Elizabeth Barnes Key. Warren was born probably in North
Carolina, between the year of 1780 and that of 1790. He married Polly
Beasley, daughter of ( I believe William and Nancy Ann, was the father &
mother of Nancy Polly) James & Polly Beasley of Warrenton, Warren
County, Georgia early in the 1800's. Their oldest son, Bueeell Key, was
born in the year 1810.

When Burrell was a small boy the family moved to Georgia and settle in
what is now Emanuel County on the east side and about one mile from the
Big Ohoopee River.
Not so long after he had built for himself and his family a pioneer
Cabin, Warren Key felt the need of a place to worship God. He felt the
need of a place to worship God. He felt the need for a "sanctuary, a
shelter from the wind, the shadow of the great rock in a weary land."

The area in which he lived was thinly settled, so he built by himself,
very likely an arbor. Then before many seasons had passed, with help
from a few neighbors he built a log meeting house on his land.
This, at first a plantation Methodist Church, built in what was then
Washington County, Georgia; later "cut" into Emanuel County, was first
used as a place for worship about 1820. For many years this log building
was a Church, a community center for all the Surrounding area.

Using dates on gravestones in the "Old" Cemetary the site of the Kea's
Church meeting house must have been changed early in the 1860's.
The last date engraves on stone in the "Old" cemetary is 1861. The first
date in the new cemetary is engraved on a stone dated 1863. The church
built then was a frame building made of lumber sawed by a mill powered
by water.
That second building stood just a bit back of the present building, the
third to be built on these grounds.

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