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KIESS

Posted By: Neil Hall (email)
Date: 4/9/2011 at 07:52:26

In Response To: Kiess family (Christine Preston)

I found an online tree which had a birth year for Jacob, his wife's name, and children's names placing them in Floyd county in the 1870-1880 time period. Then I searched for a Jacob, born about 1835, in Pennsylvania, living in Iowa on the 1880 census.

1880 Census, Niles township, Floyd County, IA
Keys, Jacob, 45, farmer, PA Wurtenbug PA
Dorcas, 38, wife, keeping house, WI OH OH
Ida, dau, 2, IA PA WI
Spotts, Alice, 17, step-dau, IA PA WI
John, 14, step-son, IA PA WI
Agnes, 12, step-dau, IA PA WI
Mary, 7, step-dau, IA PA WI

1870 US census, Niles, Floyd, IA
top of page, bottom of previous page
Shutts, Charles, 38, farmer, PA
Dorcus, 27, keeping house, WI
Allice M, 7, IA
John N, 4, IA
Agnes, 2, IA

2 houses lower
Keys, John, 28, farmer, PA
Shopia, 26, keeping house, PA
Abraham, 3, IA
Keys, Jacob, 30, farm laborer, PA

1885 Iowa State Census, Niles, Floyd, Iowa
Keys, Jacob, 4?, PA, living on 80 acres in the East 1/2 of NW quarter of section 13, township 15, range 96
Dorcas, 43, WI
John, 19, b. Floyd County
Agnes, 16, b. Floyd County
Mary, 11, b. Floyd County
Ida, 6, b. Floyd County

1850 US census, Anthony, Lycoming, PA
Keese, Abraham, 48, farmer, Germany
Catherine, 42, PA
George, 17, PA
Jacob, 15, PA
John, 12, PA
Abram, 9, PA
Catherine, 7, PA
David, 1, PA
Same page, adjacent households, probably uncles to your Jacob.
Wm Keese, 42, PA
Jacob Keese, 39, PA
John Keese, 35, PA

in 1860, the family name was listed as Keys. They were still living in the same location. Jacob was listed at then end of his "uncle" William's household, which was directly before Jacob's parent's household.

On the Civil War draft registration, May and June 1863, in Anthony township, Lycoming county, the name is written as Kees.

Early Floyd County Marriage Records
Spotts, Charles Blunt, Dorcas 03-23-1862
Keyes, Jacob D. Spotts, Dorcus 12-07-1876
Bonsall A. J. Spotts Alice 1881/8/28
Spotts Molly Bonsall Clarence Z. 1894/1/10
Spotts Agnes Youngerman John 1891/6/10
Spotts John M. Youngerman Ella 1893/3/15
Spotts Reuben Vance Cora 1896/6/5
Kiess Ida M. Bird Mark C. 1898/9/21
Staebler Emma M. Kiess Abraham S. 1899/12/14

Riverside Cemetery, Charles City
Spotts Charles died June 23 1872
Spotts John M. 1865 May 8 1936

Scroll down to page 703 in the Floyd County history link. Biography of Jacob's brother and nephew gives history of Jacob and John's father Abraham.

History of Floyd County - 1917

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