Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameJames Hannah KEENE
Birth Date3 Mar 1845
Birth PlaceHinton, Boone County, Missouri
Death Date19 Dec 1908 Age: 63
Death PlaceColumbia, Boone County, Missouri
Burial PlaceHinton, Boone County, Missouri, Rocky Fork Cemetery
Spouses
Birth Date19 Nov 1848
Birth PlaceBoone County, Missouri
Death Date22 Feb 1929 Age: 80
Death PlaceColumbia, Boone County, Missouri
Burial PlaceHinton, Boone County, Missouri, Rocky Fork Cemetery
FatherDavid Hurst SHOCK (1800-1880)
MotherCynthia Ann GIBSON (1805-1889)
Family ID5548
Marr Date28 Dec 1869
Notes for James Hannah KEENE
James Hannah Keene born March 3, 1845, the son of Alfred Keene and Elizabeth Hannah Keene. He married Laura Alice Shock December 28, 1869. James Hannah Keene was a coal miner/farmer. He and Laura Alice Shock Keene are buried at the Rocky Fork Cemetery.

Five children:
Alfred Keene b. August 1871
Cynthia Elizabeth Keene Talbert b. 21 Nov 1872
Estelle Keene Jenkins b. 15 Feb 1874
Edmond Burnham Keene b. 11 June 1877
Clara Keene Wade b. 30 Jan 1885
Four children lived to adulthood.
On Find A Grave.
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Notes for Laura Alice (Spouse 1)
Laura Alice Shock was a homemaker & married James Hannah Keene on December 28, 1869. They had five children: Alfred, died in infancy, Cynthia, Estelle,Edmond, and Clara.

From the local newspaper:
" Mrs. Keene was the youngest & last of a family of 13 children. She was the daughter of a pioneer Boone countian, David Hurst Shock, who came to Boone county in 1818 and filed a claim to land north of town, which is still held as the Shock estate. The original deed, as issued to Mr. Shock, was signed by President John Quincy Adams in 1826.

Mr. Shock married Cynthia Gibson, and 13 children were born to them. The eldest was the late Dr. John M. Shock of Woodlandville, and the youngest and last was the late Mrs. Laura Alice Keene.

Laura Alice Shock-Keene died at the home of her daughter, Cynthia Elizabeth Keene Talbert."

Taken from "The Shock News" Columbia, Missouri, August, 1929

On February 22, 1929, Aunt Alice Keene passed to her reward after a lingering illness. She was the last of the children of David H. and Cynthia Shock,and was born on the old homestead north of Columbia, where the 1926 reunion was held, and has always taken an important part in all gatherings. At three meetings she has been the oldest lady present, but at the Centralia meeting of 1927 that honor was given to Aunt Nancy Nichols of Hannibal.

Her husband, James Hanna Keene, died December 22, 1908 and she is survived by three children, Mrs. J. H. Talbert, Mrs. J. H. Jenkins and Ed Keene, besides a number of great-grandchildren. Another daughter, Clara, died in 1906.

Inscription
BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD
FROM HENCEFORTH YEA SAITH THE SPIRIT
THAT THEY MAY REST FROM THEIR LABORS
FOR THEIR WORKS TO FOLLOW THEM.

On Find A Grave.

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age 12 in 1860
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