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John Carl Keller

John Carl Keller

Male 1736 - Bef 1806  (< 70 years)


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  • Name John Carl Keller  [1] 
    Birth 7 Jun 1736  Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    • Birth recorded in Lancaster First Reformed Church book. [1]
    Gender Male 
    DAR/SAR Number DAR: A064293; SAR: P-340762. 
    Military Service Bef 29 Aug 1782  Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Patriotic service (gave material aid: furnished beef to Continental Army); public service claim certified 29 Aug 1782; Revolutionary War. 
    Residence 1785  Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Enumerated in 1785 on Jacob Rinker's list; 9 whites, 1 dwelling, and 1 other building. "The families listed by Rinker were about his home, Conicville, and in adjacent sections—Hudson's Cross Roads, Jerome, Liberty Furnace, Mt. Clifton, etc." (Wayland, p. 226). Another John Keller is enumerated on George Keller's list of households in Fort Valley (Wayland, p. 233-234). I don't believe this John Keller nor this enumerator George Keller are of my ancestry. My John Keller would have had a household of 9 at this time: him, his wife, and their seven children. However, land records could prove this theory wrong and need to be examined to sort out these Kellers. 
    Event 8 Nov 1798  Greene County, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    On 8 Nov 1798, "John Keller late of Shanadore County State of Virginia" purchased from Christopher Bullard for £400 a parcel of 400 acres in Greene County, Tennessee, on "both sides of Lick Creek." 
    Death Bef 28 Nov 1806  United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • McCormick (p. 3) has his death as "c 11-8-1800" with no source. An estate inventory from Greene County, Tennessee, shows that debts toward the estate of John Keller were collected on 28 Nov 1806. [4, 5]
    • Probably died in Greene County, Tennessee.
    Will or Estate From 1807 to 26 Oct 1815  Greene County, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7] 
    Partial probate proceedings for John Kellar/Keller are found in Greene County, Tennessee, records of 1807-1809. The administrators were Mary Kellar/Keller and Daniel Kellar/Keller and then just Daniel as "surviving administrator" by 26 Oct 1809. McCormick (p. 6) cites some of these records and states that the estate was settled on 26 Oct 1815; I have not found the original record for the settlement. 
    Person ID I1494  Cook-Delmotte Family | Cook
    Last Modified 10 Jun 2026 

    Father George Keller,   c. 17 May 1711, Weiler, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 28 Mar 1783, Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 71 years) 
    Mother Barbara Anna Hottel,   b. 1713   d. 1798 (Age 85 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1733  United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Online trees have marriage dates ranging from 1733 to 1737 and place as Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with no sources. The couple certainly married by the time the 7 Jun 1736 birth of son John Carl was recorded in Lancaster. His will names "eldest son George" followed by son-in-law Henry Fravel (husband of his daughter Anna) and then son John. Assuming the will follows the custom of naming children in birth order, George and Anna would have been born before John thus putting the marriage date closer to 1733, shortly after his and his wife's immigration.
    Family ID F768  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Unknown,   b. ?, ? Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 27 Oct 1808 and 26 Oct 1809, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • DAR database (Ancestor # A064293) has John's wife as "Mary X". SAR database (Patriot # P-340762) has "Mary XX" but in John's SAR biography written by Harry K. Windland his wife is given as Mary Bowman (Windland was approved on this line in 2000; no source for Bowman given). Thurston has John's wife as Maria Bowman (Dawn Parrett Thurston, Parrett Migration, p. 290; no source for Bowman given). McCormick has John's wife as "Mary (?)" (McCormick, Keller Family Tree, p. 3 and 4). Find a Grave cites two Ancestry trees, one of which has his wife as Mary Yost and another as Mary Bowman, noting "None of the above is proven." [8, 9, 10]
    Children 
    +1. Elizabeth Keller,   b. Cal 1765, Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Jul 1821, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)
    Family ID F767  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 5 Jun 2026 

  • Documents
    John Keller Revolutionary War Public Service Claim Court Booklet (1782)    		John Keller Revolutionary War Public Service Claim Court Booklet (1782)
    Revolutionary War Public Service Claims Recorded in County Court Booklets, Lists & Index (Va.). Public Service Claims of Shenandoah County, Court Booklet, p. 1 (FSL DGS 8570992, image 271 of 484).
    John Keller Revolutionary War Public Service Claim Certificate (1782)    		John Keller Revolutionary War Public Service Claim Certificate (1782)
    Public Service Claims Certificates, ca. 1780-1785. Shenandoah County, Virginia, certificate no. 68 (FSL DGS 8574721, image 522 of 1508).
    Will of George Keller (1783)    		Will of George Keller (1783)
    Shenandoah County, Virginia. Wills, v. A, p. 487-491 (FSL DGS 7646185, images 277-279 of 594).
    John Keller Deed (1798)    		John Keller Deed (1798)
    Greene County, Tennessee. Deeds, v. 6, p. 353-354 (FSL DGS 7902094, images 405-406 of 633).
    John Keller Probate, Greene County, Tennessee (1807-1809)    		John Keller Probate, Greene County, Tennessee (1807-1809)
    Historical Records Project (Tennessee). Tennessee, Records of Greene County: Wills-Inventories, Volume 1802-1810, p. 129-130, 205, and 210 (FSL DGS 4769022, images 136-137, 212, and 217 of 685).

  • Sources 
    1. [S415] Burgert, Annette Kunselman, Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-speaking Lands to North America. Vol. 1, The Northern Kraichgau, (Breinigsville, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania German Society, 1983), p. 194, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-kT87no7XKRBOKluThPlXKbZLXn9Bih6/view?usp=drive_link.

    2. [S412] Revolutionary War Public Service Claims, Shenandoah County, Virginia, Court Booklet, p. 1 (line 22), FSL DGS 8570992, images 270-282 of 484.

    3. [S419] Wayland, John W., History of Shenandoah County, Virginia, (Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1927), p. 226 and 233-234, https://books.google.com/books/download/A_History_of_Shenandoah_County_Virginia.pdf?id=MyUSAAAAYAAJ&output=pdf.

    4. [S418] McCormick, Ruth G., Keller Family Tree, (Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Public Library, 1972), p. 3, https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/koha:7003.

    5. [S417] Historical Records Project (Tennessee), Tennessee, Records of Greene County: Wills-Inventories, Volume 1802-1810, p. 129 (FSL DGS 4769022, image 136 of 685), https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/koha:211125.

    6. [S417] Historical Records Project (Tennessee), Tennessee, Records of Greene County: Wills-Inventories, Volume 1802-1810, p. 129-130, 205, and 210 (FSL DGS 4769022, images 136-137, 212, and 217 of 685), https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/koha:211125.

    7. [S418] McCormick, Ruth G., Keller Family Tree, (Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Public Library, 1972), p. 6, https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/koha:7003.

    8. [S409] Thurston, Dawn Parrett, Parrett Migration: Their Story is America's Story, ([S.l.]: Dawn Parrett Thurston, 2014), p. 290.

    9. [S418] McCormick, Ruth G., Keller Family Tree, (Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Public Library, 1972), p. 3 and 4, https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/koha:7003.

    10. [S1] Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/164611039/john-carl-keller.


 

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