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Michael Joseph Keenan

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Michael Joseph Keenan

Birth
Ireland
Death
4 May 1929 (aged 75–76)
Oroville, Butte County, California, USA
Burial
Sutter, Sutter County, California, USA Add to Map
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"Mike Keenan was a late arrival to the community of Noyesburg. Little is known of this man. He was born in 1853 of Irish extraction. Where he and his family lived before coming to The Buttes is unknown.

"The land records show that Ella (Jones) and William F. Hoke sold a portion of the former Stevenson holdings to Michael Keenan in August 1904 (Book B of Deeds, page 184). It is assumed, then, that Michael Keenan and his family at that time came to Noyesburg to make their home around 1904. Mr. Keenan was one of the largest sheep raising men in the area. He not only had the biggest flock of fine sheep around, he also had the biggest 'flock' of children – nine in all. Mary, (Mrs. Armstrong of Durham); Johnnie, (who married one of the Noyes Grammar School teachers, Donnella Hawn); Anna (Livingstone); Mike, (farmer and sheep man); Rex, Lula, Eleanor, Alys and Dorothy, all of whom attended school at Noyesburg.

"Mr. Keenan's wife Martha, was 25 years his junior. Michael suffered the loss of one arm sometime during his younger years. This handicap did not deter him from being a successful farmer and sheep man. He was a sturdy-built man of ruddy complexion and sandy-colored hair.

"Mrs. Keeenan passed away in January 1919, following a bout with the 1918 'flu' epidemic that took the lives of over 70,000 people in the Untied States. She was 41. The Keenan's youngest child, Dorothy was an infant (6 months) at the time of her Mother's death. After the death of his wife, Mr. Keenan moved his family to Durham. He died in 1929." Source: Sutter County Historical Society, Vol XXXI No. 2., Yuba City, California, April 1990.
"Mike Keenan was a late arrival to the community of Noyesburg. Little is known of this man. He was born in 1853 of Irish extraction. Where he and his family lived before coming to The Buttes is unknown.

"The land records show that Ella (Jones) and William F. Hoke sold a portion of the former Stevenson holdings to Michael Keenan in August 1904 (Book B of Deeds, page 184). It is assumed, then, that Michael Keenan and his family at that time came to Noyesburg to make their home around 1904. Mr. Keenan was one of the largest sheep raising men in the area. He not only had the biggest flock of fine sheep around, he also had the biggest 'flock' of children – nine in all. Mary, (Mrs. Armstrong of Durham); Johnnie, (who married one of the Noyes Grammar School teachers, Donnella Hawn); Anna (Livingstone); Mike, (farmer and sheep man); Rex, Lula, Eleanor, Alys and Dorothy, all of whom attended school at Noyesburg.

"Mr. Keenan's wife Martha, was 25 years his junior. Michael suffered the loss of one arm sometime during his younger years. This handicap did not deter him from being a successful farmer and sheep man. He was a sturdy-built man of ruddy complexion and sandy-colored hair.

"Mrs. Keeenan passed away in January 1919, following a bout with the 1918 'flu' epidemic that took the lives of over 70,000 people in the Untied States. She was 41. The Keenan's youngest child, Dorothy was an infant (6 months) at the time of her Mother's death. After the death of his wife, Mr. Keenan moved his family to Durham. He died in 1929." Source: Sutter County Historical Society, Vol XXXI No. 2., Yuba City, California, April 1990.

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