Served as either a Private or a Sergeant with Co. E of the 41st PA Infantry during the Civil War per list of veteran burials in Nebraska. His pension record reflected the lower rank.
Marriage: 31 Jan 1872 Saline, NE to Frances H Creager. The marriage license showed that he was the son of Joseph Keller and Sarah Winters of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. They were living in Northampton Co., PA in 1840 and 1850 when father Joseph died before the 1850 census was taken. They moved to New Jersey to be closer to Sarah's family and thus also missed being enumerated there as that census had been taken earlier. By 1860 William was back in Easton, PA where he worked as a clerk while living the owner's family. Around 1870 his sister Annette and her family decided to move to Kansas. We know that the youngest son Robert went with them. William may have also gone with them, but being older decided to continue on to Nebraska. Both Robert and William married in 1872.
His father had a brother, William Franklin Keller who may have been living with them when William was born so I suspect that he was named for him.
Obituary
William F. Keller was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1839, and died at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Facknitz, at Clay Center, Nebr.
His father died when deceased was eleven years old. His mother died at the close of the civil war. He enlisted as a soldier at the call of his country in 1861, and was appointed Sergeant of Company E, 12th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers. In 1869 he went to Illinois and two years later settled on an homestead near Juniata, Nebraska. January 31st (1872) he was married to Miss Fa n ny Creager, to whom were born two boys an d three girls. His wife, one one and two daughters, also two sisters (Annette and Emma) and one brother (Robert), besides other near relatives and friends are left to mourn his loss.
Marriage: 31 Jan 1872 Saline, NE to Frances H Creager. The marriage license showed that he was the son of Joseph Keller and Sarah Winters of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. They were living in Northampton Co., PA in 1840 and 1850 when father Joseph died before the 1850 census was taken. They moved to New Jersey to be closer to Sarah's family and thus also missed being enumerated there as that census had been taken earlier. By 1860 William was back in Easton, PA where he worked as a clerk while living the owner's family. Around 1870 his sister Annette and her family decided to move to Kansas. We know that the youngest son Robert went with them. William may have also gone with them, but being older decided to continue on to Nebraska. Both Robert and William married in 1872.
His father had a brother, William Franklin Keller who may have been living with them when William was born so I suspect that he was named for him.
Obituary
William F. Keller was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1839, and died at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Facknitz, at Clay Center, Nebr.
His father died when deceased was eleven years old. His mother died at the close of the civil war. He enlisted as a soldier at the call of his country in 1861, and was appointed Sergeant of Company E, 12th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers. In 1869 he went to Illinois and two years later settled on an homestead near Juniata, Nebraska. January 31st (1872) he was married to Miss Fa n ny Creager, to whom were born two boys an d three girls. His wife, one one and two daughters, also two sisters (Annette and Emma) and one brother (Robert), besides other near relatives and friends are left to mourn his loss.
Served as either a Private or a Sergeant with Co. E of the 41st PA Infantry during the Civil War per list of veteran burials in Nebraska. His pension record reflected the lower rank.
Marriage: 31 Jan 1872 Saline, NE to Frances H Creager. The marriage license showed that he was the son of Joseph Keller and Sarah Winters of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. They were living in Northampton Co., PA in 1840 and 1850 when father Joseph died before the 1850 census was taken. They moved to New Jersey to be closer to Sarah's family and thus also missed being enumerated there as that census had been taken earlier. By 1860 William was back in Easton, PA where he worked as a clerk while living the owner's family. Around 1870 his sister Annette and her family decided to move to Kansas. We know that the youngest son Robert went with them. William may have also gone with them, but being older decided to continue on to Nebraska. Both Robert and William married in 1872.
His father had a brother, William Franklin Keller who may have been living with them when William was born so I suspect that he was named for him.
Obituary
William F. Keller was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1839, and died at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Facknitz, at Clay Center, Nebr.
His father died when deceased was eleven years old. His mother died at the close of the civil war. He enlisted as a soldier at the call of his country in 1861, and was appointed Sergeant of Company E, 12th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers. In 1869 he went to Illinois and two years later settled on an homestead near Juniata, Nebraska. January 31st (1872) he was married to Miss Fa n ny Creager, to whom were born two boys an d three girls. His wife, one one and two daughters, also two sisters (Annette and Emma) and one brother (Robert), besides other near relatives and friends are left to mourn his loss.
Marriage: 31 Jan 1872 Saline, NE to Frances H Creager. The marriage license showed that he was the son of Joseph Keller and Sarah Winters of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. They were living in Northampton Co., PA in 1840 and 1850 when father Joseph died before the 1850 census was taken. They moved to New Jersey to be closer to Sarah's family and thus also missed being enumerated there as that census had been taken earlier. By 1860 William was back in Easton, PA where he worked as a clerk while living the owner's family. Around 1870 his sister Annette and her family decided to move to Kansas. We know that the youngest son Robert went with them. William may have also gone with them, but being older decided to continue on to Nebraska. Both Robert and William married in 1872.
His father had a brother, William Franklin Keller who may have been living with them when William was born so I suspect that he was named for him.
Obituary
William F. Keller was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, October 5, 1839, and died at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Facknitz, at Clay Center, Nebr.
His father died when deceased was eleven years old. His mother died at the close of the civil war. He enlisted as a soldier at the call of his country in 1861, and was appointed Sergeant of Company E, 12th Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers. In 1869 he went to Illinois and two years later settled on an homestead near Juniata, Nebraska. January 31st (1872) he was married to Miss Fa n ny Creager, to whom were born two boys an d three girls. His wife, one one and two daughters, also two sisters (Annette and Emma) and one brother (Robert), besides other near relatives and friends are left to mourn his loss.
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