Samuel Edward Keller, known as Eddie, was born on 14 Jul 1876 in Kilgore, Carroll, Ohio, USA as the second child of Robert Keller and Margaret Ann Seaton. He traveled at least once to California and was in San Francisco at the time of the great earthquake. He had five siblings, namely: Mary Philips, LeRoy (NMN), Charles Wilber, Joseph Earl, and John Rosco.
He was counted in the census in 1910 in Truro, Aurora, South Dakota, USA living with his sister, Mary, and her husband, Henry Philips. He could not be identified in the 1920 census but by 1930 he was in Blendon, Nottoway County, Virginia, USA with his father. He had moved there at some point after his mother’s death, possibly with his father, and purchased a home near his brother, Joe Keller. He worked at a sawmill.
He could not have been a happy man. Single, age 55, in the midst of the Depression, and addicted to alcohol, he took his own life in a most brutal fashion by cutting his throat with a razor on 8 December 1931. This brought on pneumonia and eventually death 9 days later. Notice of his death was not published in the Courier Record, although the social column of Friday, Dec. 25, 1931, was reported. It recalled that his uncles John and Charlie Keller spent several days with their brother Joe Keller before returning to their homes on Monday, Dec. 21. John A. Orange and boys (no mention of his wife Mary Clay Orange), Edwin H. Clay and Chester Barden, as well as Misses Virgie and Nell Clay and many others visited the Keller’s on Sunday Dec. 20, the day after Eddie’s funeral, although it was also young Leroy Keller’s 15th birthday. Samuel Edward Keller was the first Keller to be buried in the Bethel Church Cemetery. His father joined him two years later.
He was counted in the census in 1910 in Truro, Aurora, South Dakota, USA living with his sister, Mary, and her husband, Henry Philips. He could not be identified in the 1920 census but by 1930 he was in Blendon, Nottoway County, Virginia, USA with his father. He had moved there at some point after his mother’s death, possibly with his father, and purchased a home near his brother, Joe Keller. He worked at a sawmill.
He could not have been a happy man. Single, age 55, in the midst of the Depression, and addicted to alcohol, he took his own life in a most brutal fashion by cutting his throat with a razor on 8 December 1931. This brought on pneumonia and eventually death 9 days later. Notice of his death was not published in the Courier Record, although the social column of Friday, Dec. 25, 1931, was reported. It recalled that his uncles John and Charlie Keller spent several days with their brother Joe Keller before returning to their homes on Monday, Dec. 21. John A. Orange and boys (no mention of his wife Mary Clay Orange), Edwin H. Clay and Chester Barden, as well as Misses Virgie and Nell Clay and many others visited the Keller’s on Sunday Dec. 20, the day after Eddie’s funeral, although it was also young Leroy Keller’s 15th birthday. Samuel Edward Keller was the first Keller to be buried in the Bethel Church Cemetery. His father joined him two years later.
Samuel Edward Keller, known as Eddie, was born on 14 Jul 1876 in Kilgore, Carroll, Ohio, USA as the second child of Robert Keller and Margaret Ann Seaton. He traveled at least once to California and was in San Francisco at the time of the great earthquake. He had five siblings, namely: Mary Philips, LeRoy (NMN), Charles Wilber, Joseph Earl, and John Rosco.
He was counted in the census in 1910 in Truro, Aurora, South Dakota, USA living with his sister, Mary, and her husband, Henry Philips. He could not be identified in the 1920 census but by 1930 he was in Blendon, Nottoway County, Virginia, USA with his father. He had moved there at some point after his mother’s death, possibly with his father, and purchased a home near his brother, Joe Keller. He worked at a sawmill.
He could not have been a happy man. Single, age 55, in the midst of the Depression, and addicted to alcohol, he took his own life in a most brutal fashion by cutting his throat with a razor on 8 December 1931. This brought on pneumonia and eventually death 9 days later. Notice of his death was not published in the Courier Record, although the social column of Friday, Dec. 25, 1931, was reported. It recalled that his uncles John and Charlie Keller spent several days with their brother Joe Keller before returning to their homes on Monday, Dec. 21. John A. Orange and boys (no mention of his wife Mary Clay Orange), Edwin H. Clay and Chester Barden, as well as Misses Virgie and Nell Clay and many others visited the Keller’s on Sunday Dec. 20, the day after Eddie’s funeral, although it was also young Leroy Keller’s 15th birthday. Samuel Edward Keller was the first Keller to be buried in the Bethel Church Cemetery. His father joined him two years later.
He was counted in the census in 1910 in Truro, Aurora, South Dakota, USA living with his sister, Mary, and her husband, Henry Philips. He could not be identified in the 1920 census but by 1930 he was in Blendon, Nottoway County, Virginia, USA with his father. He had moved there at some point after his mother’s death, possibly with his father, and purchased a home near his brother, Joe Keller. He worked at a sawmill.
He could not have been a happy man. Single, age 55, in the midst of the Depression, and addicted to alcohol, he took his own life in a most brutal fashion by cutting his throat with a razor on 8 December 1931. This brought on pneumonia and eventually death 9 days later. Notice of his death was not published in the Courier Record, although the social column of Friday, Dec. 25, 1931, was reported. It recalled that his uncles John and Charlie Keller spent several days with their brother Joe Keller before returning to their homes on Monday, Dec. 21. John A. Orange and boys (no mention of his wife Mary Clay Orange), Edwin H. Clay and Chester Barden, as well as Misses Virgie and Nell Clay and many others visited the Keller’s on Sunday Dec. 20, the day after Eddie’s funeral, although it was also young Leroy Keller’s 15th birthday. Samuel Edward Keller was the first Keller to be buried in the Bethel Church Cemetery. His father joined him two years later.
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