Re: Thomas Keast
KEAST
Posted By: M. Knight (email) In Response To: Thomas Keast (Darrell Keast)
Date: 6/5/2004 at 20:47:13
Your posting caught my eye because I also had ancestors in Winnebago Co., Rockford area. I see by the 1870 census that your Thomas Keast (in the 1870 census it was incorrectly interpreted as REAST), wife Eliza, and children Emma and Samuel were in New Milford, IL.........again, the same place that my Irish ancestors settled.
The Keast family is in Pottawattamie County, Macedonia Twp., IA, by the 1880 census, where son Samuel is shown as age 12, born England, which would mean he was born about 1867.
In the 1900 census for Pottawattamie County, Iowa, Macedonia, Eliza is widowed, but she states to the census taker that she immigrated in 1868 and had been in the U.S. for 30 years. Here is that census:
Dwelling 62, page 21, 12 June 1900, Macedonia, IA:
Keast, Eliza, b. Apr 1847, age 53, widow, gave birth to 7 children, 2 survive (which is wrong, since there appear to be 3 sons living with her), that she was b. England, immigrated 1868, has been in the U.S. for 30 years, is a farmer.
Keast, William T., son, b. Jan 1873, age 27, b. IL
Keast, Frank, son, b. Apr 1878, age 22, b. IA
Keast, Charly, son, b. July 1880, age 19, b. IA
Watson, William, boarder, b. IA, 36, single, farm laborerI see that Samuel Keast, son of Eliza, is in Macedonia as well.
I hope this is helpful for you. I believe that the courthouse in Rockford would have the naturalization papers for your Thomas Keast family.
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