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Descendants of Thomas Keesee

      9. Gideon⁵ Keesee (Thomas⁴, George Faris³, Richard², George¹) was born ca. 1816 in Franklin County?, Tennessee ²⁹⁸, and died Aft. 1875. He married Martha Wooding Hargrove^299,^300,³⁰¹, daughter of William Hargrove and Charlotte Chappell. She was born 21 December 1821 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama ³⁰², and died 15 September 1859 in Ashley County, Arkansas^302,³⁰³.

Notes for Gideon Keesee:
Gideon Keesee owned 22 slaves, according to the 1850 Union County, Arkansas Slave Schedule (El Dorado Township).
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1850 Union County, Arkansas, Census; El Dorado Township, #173/173:

KESEE, Gideon 34M Farmer Tenn.
Martha W. 27F Ala
Mary C. 10F Ark
Wm. H. 9M ALA [!]
Permelia A. 7F Ark
Paulina J. 6F Ark
SMITH, George 22M School Teacher Va.
BRYANT, Wm. 25M Carpenter N. C.

[The above is from a typed transcript of the census provided by J&W Enterprises, Shreveport, LA. I don't know why it doesn't match the Walls and McClain 1850 census transcription of this same family.
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Goodspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas (1890; 1978), p. 825:

Union County, Arkansas, "Polk Lodge, A.F.&A.M., located at Hillsboro, was organized November 7, 1849, with the following roster of officers and charter members:" The list includes Hamilton G. Quarles, J.W.; G.W. Rutherford, Sec.; Gideon Reese [sic Keesee], Treas.; H.C. Pratt, G.S. Green, M. Reese [sic Keesee], W. Calvert, G.W. Murphy.

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From Jeff Henson e-mail, <jwhenson@onr.com> to <ceb@rice.edu>, 8 April 1999:

I did go to the TX archives over the Xmas break and I found some information that may interest you. I wrote some of this down in a letter to Teddie Sue Carter, which I am pasting below.

In searching the TSP [Texas State Police] files, I found. . . . There was a letter dated 29 Aug 1871 to a TSP officer, Lt Clayburn Johnson, bringing his attention to the enclosed capias against one Gideon Keesee. Johnson was instructed to go immediately to Ellis Co and arrest Gideon Keesee, and return him to Washington Co for trial. I found in the penitentiary files a Giddeon Keesee, age 59, from TN, left arm paralyzed, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to 5 years in prison in Washington
Co in Oct 1874. I have enclosed a copy of the notes from the penitentiary files for you. He was pardoned by Gov Coke and discharged on 5 May 1875. He was pardoned because of "the ill health and extreme age of the convict, and doubts existing as to the correctness of his conviction... " A copy of this pardon is also enclosed [to TSC]. Going to have to check the local papers on this one. This could have been a motivating factor for the Keesees to leave Washington County for other parts of Texas.
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Ancestry.com, 1 October 2000
Search Results

Search Terms: KEESEE (98), GIDEON (1911)
Database: Civil War Muster Rolls
Combined Matches: 4

Surname Given Name Middle Initial Company Unit Rank - Induction Rank - Discharge Notes Box # Extraction # Record #
Keesee C.       B 35 Texas Cavalry. Corporal Private Keesee Gideon 000227 0020 00000477
Keesee Gideon       F 5 Texas Cavalry. Private Private 000227 0020 00000480
Keesee Gideon       B 35 Texas Cavalry. Corporal Private 20 Texas Inf. 000227 0020 00000481
Keezee G.       B 35 Texas Cavalry. Corporal Private Keesee Gideon 000227 0020 00000498

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Heritage Quest Digital Microfilm M653/37/152
Ashley County, Arkansas, p. 48; printed page #152
Extra Township, PO Hamburg, __ July 1860 [no date on surrounding pages either]
[Cannot read dwelling or household numbers, even with magnification]

Gideon KEESEE      45-M      Farmer      15000/30,000      Tennessee
Mary C. KEESEE      20-F                        Arkansas
Amelia A. KEESEE      17-F                        "
William H. KEESEE      19-M                        Alabama
Poline J. KEESEE      14-F                        Arkansas
George K. KEESEE      12-F                        "
Robert KEESEE      10-M                        "
Thomas J. KEESEE      7-M                        "
John P. KEESEE      5-M                        "
Sally W. KEESEE      3-F                        "
Samuel J. COOK      56-M      Lawyer      ---/---            Virginia

John HILL is next head of household. One before Gideon is Edward A. BUTLER

Gideon's father Thomas KEESEE Sr. is in same township, same post office, same date, printed page 155. Gideon's half sister, Virginia, the daughter of his father and his second wife, is married and listed in same township, same post office, same date, printed page 157.

More About Gideon Keesee:
Arkansas State Militia: 18 November 1842, Capt, 2nd Batt, 18th Reg. Saline County ³⁰⁴
Census: 1840, Probably the 20-30-year-old male living with Thomas Keesee Sr., Owen Township, Saline County, Arkansas, p. 213
Fact 1: 07 November 1850, Union County, Arkansas, Security for Hamilton G. Quarles, McEnerrey estate ³⁰⁵
Fact 2: 1850, Union County, Arkansas, D. 173, El Dorado Township ³⁰⁶
Fact 3: 08 June 1867, visited Hubert Lodge #67 (Chappell Hill, Texas); was member of Liberty Lodge #5, Ashley County, Arkansas ³⁰⁷
Religion: 1855, Methodist, on membership roll of Methodist church at Chappell Hill--or is that another Gideon?³⁰⁸

Notes for Martha Wooding Hargrove:
Obituary, True Democrat, 7 December 1859, p. 3, c. 5:
Died--at her residence in Ashley Co., Ark., on the 15th September, Mrs. Martha W., consort of Mr. Gideon Keese [sic]. Mes. Keese was born in Tuscaloosa Co., Ala., on the 21st of Dec., 1821 . . . joined the Methodist church at 16 . . . joined husband in Cumberland Presbyterian church . . . til death. (Tusca, Ala. & Chappell Hill, Texas papers will please copy.)

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J[ohn] A[lexander] Hargrove Autobiography, (Rockdale, Texas: 1903; Manuscript and typescript copies on file at Chappell Hill Historical Society Museum): JAH said his sister Martha W. (Hargrove) Keesee was the oldest child in their family and "married Gideon Keesee of Tuscaloosa County and moved shortly after to Saline County, Arkansas, then to Union County on the Washita River [Ouachita River]. From there they moved to Ashley County [Arkansas] and there bought a farm on the bayou Bartholmu [sic]. My sister died there leaving seven children. After several years the children moved to Washington County."

More About Martha Wooding Hargrove:
Religion 1: 1837, Methodist, joined church ³⁰⁹
Religion 2: Cumberland Presbyterian after marriage³⁰⁹

Children of Gideon Keesee and Martha Hargrove are:

	75	i.	(unknown)⁶ Keesee ³¹⁰, died Unknown.
	76	ii.	Mary E. Keesee ³¹¹, born ca. 1840³¹¹; died Unknown.
	77	iii.	William H. Keesee³¹¹, born ca. 1841³¹¹; died Unknown.
	78	iv.	Permelia A. Keesee³¹¹, born ca. 1843³¹¹; died Unknown.
+	79	v.	Pauline J. Keesee, born 09 August 1844; died 12 April 1917 in Bastrop County, Texas.
	80	vi.	George R. Keesee³¹¹, born ca. 1846³¹¹; died Unknown.
	81	vii.	Robert H. Keesee³¹¹, born ca. 1848³¹¹; died Unknown.

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