JEREMIAH M. C. KEASEY
Jeremiah M. C. Keasey was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, November 10, 1826. His father, Christian Keasey, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and removed to Fairfield county, Ohio, with his parents when quite young. He, (Christian Keasey) died in Ohio in 1844. After his death his widow, Elizabeth Keasey, moved with her family, to La Grange county, Indiana, where she died in November 1872. Jeremiah Keasey and Temperance Merrifield were married in that county, May 25, 1851. She was born in Huron county, Ohio, May 19, 1832. They lived in La Grange county and followed farming until 1862, when they moved to Jasper county, Iowa, and engaged in the same business. In 1873 they came to Cass county and bought forty acres of land in Franklin township, on which they lived five years. February 17, 1882, they moved to the farm which they now own and occupy, consisting of eighty acres on section 4, of Union township. Mr. and Mrs. Keasey have two children--John and Elmer. Elmer was married in 1880, to Mary Lucass, and resides in Franklin township. John was married in 1884, to Minnie Folsom; they reside in Union township.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 743.
