Dewey Cole Keim was born in rural Dickinson County, Kansas in April 1899 to Ephraim H. Keim 1844-1917 and Cornelia Lakel 1856-1928. He was the twelfth child born to Ephraim Keim - six from first wife Sarah Catherine Turney and six from second wife Cornelia Lakel.
The Keim Family moved to Tulia, Swisher County, Texas after 1905 and Dewey was raised on the Keim Homestead East of Tulia. After World War I the Sam H. Braly Family bought a section of Keim land and became neighbors. Dewey and Opal Rae Bralley fell in love, and despite Sam & Ida's protestations, Dewey followed her to Denton where she was enrolled at Texas Women's Institute, and they eloped and got married.
Dewey and Rae's second child, and daughter named Agnes Rosaleigh was born 12 June 1925 in Detroit, Michigan and drowned in a tragic accident when she tumbled into a mop bucket on the porch of the Braly family home, with 4-5 inches of water in the bottom.
Rosaleigh was buried in the Keim Family Plot in Rose Hill Cemetery, Tulia, near her grandfather Ephraim Keim. Her gravesite is now marked with a tombstone thanks to Keim relatives.
Dewey later had several marriages and died in 1976 at age 77 in Hemet, Riverside County, California.
The Keim Family moved to Tulia, Swisher County, Texas after 1905 and Dewey was raised on the Keim Homestead East of Tulia. After World War I the Sam H. Braly Family bought a section of Keim land and became neighbors. Dewey and Opal Rae Bralley fell in love, and despite Sam & Ida's protestations, Dewey followed her to Denton where she was enrolled at Texas Women's Institute, and they eloped and got married.
Dewey and Rae's second child, and daughter named Agnes Rosaleigh was born 12 June 1925 in Detroit, Michigan and drowned in a tragic accident when she tumbled into a mop bucket on the porch of the Braly family home, with 4-5 inches of water in the bottom.
Rosaleigh was buried in the Keim Family Plot in Rose Hill Cemetery, Tulia, near her grandfather Ephraim Keim. Her gravesite is now marked with a tombstone thanks to Keim relatives.
Dewey later had several marriages and died in 1976 at age 77 in Hemet, Riverside County, California.
Dewey Cole Keim was born in rural Dickinson County, Kansas in April 1899 to Ephraim H. Keim 1844-1917 and Cornelia Lakel 1856-1928. He was the twelfth child born to Ephraim Keim - six from first wife Sarah Catherine Turney and six from second wife Cornelia Lakel.
The Keim Family moved to Tulia, Swisher County, Texas after 1905 and Dewey was raised on the Keim Homestead East of Tulia. After World War I the Sam H. Braly Family bought a section of Keim land and became neighbors. Dewey and Opal Rae Bralley fell in love, and despite Sam & Ida's protestations, Dewey followed her to Denton where she was enrolled at Texas Women's Institute, and they eloped and got married.
Dewey and Rae's second child, and daughter named Agnes Rosaleigh was born 12 June 1925 in Detroit, Michigan and drowned in a tragic accident when she tumbled into a mop bucket on the porch of the Braly family home, with 4-5 inches of water in the bottom.
Rosaleigh was buried in the Keim Family Plot in Rose Hill Cemetery, Tulia, near her grandfather Ephraim Keim. Her gravesite is now marked with a tombstone thanks to Keim relatives.
Dewey later had several marriages and died in 1976 at age 77 in Hemet, Riverside County, California.
The Keim Family moved to Tulia, Swisher County, Texas after 1905 and Dewey was raised on the Keim Homestead East of Tulia. After World War I the Sam H. Braly Family bought a section of Keim land and became neighbors. Dewey and Opal Rae Bralley fell in love, and despite Sam & Ida's protestations, Dewey followed her to Denton where she was enrolled at Texas Women's Institute, and they eloped and got married.
Dewey and Rae's second child, and daughter named Agnes Rosaleigh was born 12 June 1925 in Detroit, Michigan and drowned in a tragic accident when she tumbled into a mop bucket on the porch of the Braly family home, with 4-5 inches of water in the bottom.
Rosaleigh was buried in the Keim Family Plot in Rose Hill Cemetery, Tulia, near her grandfather Ephraim Keim. Her gravesite is now marked with a tombstone thanks to Keim relatives.
Dewey later had several marriages and died in 1976 at age 77 in Hemet, Riverside County, California.
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