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Keene, David Madison
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| LAST: Keene
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FIRST: David
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MID: Madison
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| GENDER: M
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MAIDEN NAME:
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TITLE: Rev.
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| BORN: 15 Jan 1825
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DIED: 28 Mar 1889
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OCCUPATION: School Teacher, Minister, Farmer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Loudon Co., Tennessee
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| DEATH PLACE: Fairfield, Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
1850 OR CENSUS - D. M. Keen [sic], age 26, occupation school teacher, b. Tennessee, is enumerated in the home of T. H. Bridges [NOTE: He is living next door to Elizabeth Campbell, whom he married circa 1853];
1860 OR CENSUS - D. M. Keene, age 35, b. Tennessee, is enumerated with his wife, E. H. Keene, age 22, b. Missouri, along with M. A.(female), age 6, b. Oregon, M. J. (female), age 3, b. Oregon, M., and M. E. (female), age 1, b. Oregon.
1870 OR CENSUS - D. M. Keene, age 43, occupation minister, b. Tennessee, is enumerated with wife Elizabeth, age 32, b. Missouri, along with Margaret, age 16, Mary R., age 12, Martha, age 11, Elmler L., age 9, and Jas. M., age 5, all born in Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is P. G. Magness, age 21, occupation laborer, b. Arkansas.
1880 OR CENSUS - David Keene, age 54, occupation farmer, b. Tennessee, is enumerated with his wife Elizabeth, age 43, b. Missouri, along with Jennie, age 23, b. Oregon, Mattie, age 21, b. Oregon, Elmer, age 19, b. Oregon, James, age 15, b. Oregon, Clarence, age 6, b. Oregon, and William (identified as nephew of David), age 23, occupation farm laborer, b. Arkansas.
BIOGRAPHICAL (Source - Father's Grandparents):
"Rev. David Madison Keene b. Jan. 15, 1825 Loudon Co., Tenn. d Mar. 27, 1889 Ore. son of Enoch and Mary (Williams) Keene m July 17, 1853 Salem, Prairie, Marion Co., Oregon Territority [sic] to Elizabeth H. Campbell b Nov. 10, 1837 Mo. d Mar. 8, 1883 Oregon. Elizabeth is the daughter of James Campbell and came to Oregon with her parents in 1846. Both are buried Fairfield Cemetery Fairfield, Oregon. David Madison Keene with his brother Alfred C. Keene arrived in Oregon November 1847. (see pg. 13)
Mr. Keene passed the winter on Salem prairie splitting rails, on a farm owned by Mr. Gilbert, subsequently teaching school at Mill Creek bottom, where, in 1849, he took up a Government land claim. This he worked until 1852, when he sold it, and moved to French prairie, where on April 23, 1852 he got O. D. L. C. #1796 of 320 acres, entering it under the donation act. To this purchase he added, in later years, eighty acres. Aff: John C. Peebles, Lorenzo A. Byrd.
Rev. David Madison Keene was educated in the Cumberland Presbyterian Seminary, in his native state. He was an earnest missionary and minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian faith, and was the first to organize a church of that denomination in this state. He solicited funds from families for miles around to build a protestant church at Fairfield, Oregon.
Early in 1870 plans were made and orders were sent for the lumber and materials. These were delivered by boat at the landing on Fairfield slough of the Willamette River where Fairfield town was located.
When the boat delivered the lumber for the church it was tied in bundles. The boatman unloaded it on the first level above the waters edge. The next day when Rev. Keene took sled and horse down the bank to haul it up to the building site, he found the river had raised and the lumber was floating in the water of the slough.
Rev. Keene took rowboat and pike-pole out on the slough and brought all that lumber to land and carried it up to the higher level where rising waters did not reach it. Later he hauled it by sled and horse up to where the church was built. Records of the Fairfield Church, prior to 1889, were destroyed when Rev. Keen's home burned.
Children: All born French Prairie, Oregon.
1 Margaret A. Keene b. 1854 m George Pewetherer
2 Virginia M. Keene b. 1858 Never married d Portland
3 Martha H. Keene b. 1859 No children
4 Elmer L. Keene b. 1861 A graduate of the State University of Ohio, and a civil engineer of Columbus, Ohio. Children: One son and one daughter.
5 James M. Keene b. Oct 26, 1864 m Mollie Barneburg
6 Clarence W. Keene b. June 5, 1875 m Minnie McClaine"
NOTE - David Keene's photo courtesy of Jeff Uecker.
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OBITUARY:
At his residence near Fairfield, this county, Thursday March 28, 1889, at 10 o'clock a.m., Rev. D. M. Keene, aged 64 years.
The deceased, who was the father of Dr. J. M. Keene, of this city, has been well known, prominent and highly respected in Marion county since its early days. He came to Oregon from Tennessee in 1847 and purchased the donation land claim upon which he died, one mile east of Fairfield, from Mr. Lawton, brother-in-law of W. J. Herren. He has lived there constantly since. He was a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and, while he was not an itinerant preacher at any time, he conducted services at various places in Yamhill and Marion counties, his labors of recent years being divided principally between Fairfield and Woodburn. He was known and recognized as a good and true man in every respect. His wife, who was a sister of Mrs. J. B. Bridges, of this city, died two years ago this month. They had six children, three sons and three daughters, all of whom survive. The eldest son is a civil engineer in Ohio, one daughter is married in Polk county, another son is a rising dentist and a popular young man of Salem, and the re....
Daily Oregon Statesman 29 Mar 1889 4:3
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INSCRIPTION:
Rev. D. M. Keene
Born
Jan. 15, 1825
Died
Mar. 28, 1889
Because I live ye shall live also
[shares monument with Elizabeth]
2nd Marker: "Father"
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SOURCES:
Saucy Survey & Photographs
1850 OR TERRITORY CENSUS (Marion Co., Family #273)
1860 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Fairfield Pct., pg 289)
1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Fairfield Pct., pg 109)
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Fairfield Pct., ED 83, pg 5)
Westfall, Reta Keene, Father's Grandparents
DOS 29 Mar 1889 4:3
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