Rose was the 12th of 14 children born to Cornelius Mayham and Julia Ann Reynolds Mayham. Her father relocated the family to Blenheim, New York about 1850 where he was a farmer. He died when she was four years of age and her mother relocated the family to Gilboa, New York. In 1860, she resided for a time in the household of Lyman and Eliza Wilcox at Harpersfield, New York. She returned to her mother’s home at Gilboa by 1865. Rose married to Charles Gorse Keator on 2 May 1870 at Roxbury, New York. They made their home at Bovina Valley, near Roxbury, with her husband’s parents, Abram and Ruth Keator, where her husband was a farmer with his father. About 1894, they relocated permanently to Roxbury where her husband was the owner of a creamery. Rose and Charles were the parents of three children; Harry Mayham Keator, Anna Smith Keator, and Ruth Frisbee Keator.
*Note-her middle name was also found as Camellia in some records and the name Keator was found with many spelling variations.
Biography added by JMA#4262611 on 26 November 2014 (updated 3 August 2016).
Sources-
-August 1910, The Historical Journal of the More Family
-2015, John More Association Directory
-ancestry.com
Rose was the 12th of 14 children born to Cornelius Mayham and Julia Ann Reynolds Mayham. Her father relocated the family to Blenheim, New York about 1850 where he was a farmer. He died when she was four years of age and her mother relocated the family to Gilboa, New York. In 1860, she resided for a time in the household of Lyman and Eliza Wilcox at Harpersfield, New York. She returned to her mother’s home at Gilboa by 1865. Rose married to Charles Gorse Keator on 2 May 1870 at Roxbury, New York. They made their home at Bovina Valley, near Roxbury, with her husband’s parents, Abram and Ruth Keator, where her husband was a farmer with his father. About 1894, they relocated permanently to Roxbury where her husband was the owner of a creamery. Rose and Charles were the parents of three children; Harry Mayham Keator, Anna Smith Keator, and Ruth Frisbee Keator.
*Note-her middle name was also found as Camellia in some records and the name Keator was found with many spelling variations.
Biography added by JMA#4262611 on 26 November 2014 (updated 3 August 2016).
Sources-
-August 1910, The Historical Journal of the More Family
-2015, John More Association Directory
-ancestry.com
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