The Keeling Family

Ancestors of Delilah Keeling Mattingly

1^st generation

 Ancestors of Delilah Keeling Mattingly

Benjamin Keeling[1]

(1740-before 1810)

Elizabeth Whitman

(2^nd wife)

(born about 1740)

             Benjamin Keeling was born in 1740 in Virginia, the son of William (?) Keeling (born about 1720 in Halifax, VA).

            We do not know the name of Benjamin’s first wife, with whom he had the following children:

i.                     William Keeling b. abt 1765 VA

ii.                   James Louis Keeling b. 1770 VA m. Mary Whitman

                        (their son William married Nancy Hardin and became

                        the parents of Delilah Keeling, first wife of John

                        Thomas Mattingly)

iii.                  Thomas Keeling b. abt 1773 VA, m. Rosannah  Barlow (their

                        son Benjamin was the father of Elizabeth Keeling, second

                        wife of John Thomas Mattingly)

iv.                 Peggy Keeling b. abt 1776

v.                   Elizabeth Keeling b. 1780 SC

            Benjamin married his second wife Elizabeth Whitman about 1780 in Virginia or South Carolina.  They had the following children:

vi.                 Jane Keeling b. 1783 m. John Stephen Hardin

vii.                            (their daughter Nancy Hardin married William Keeling

                        and became the parents of Delilah Keeling, first wife of

                        John Thomas Mattingly; their daughter Frances or Fannie

                        married Benjamin Keeling and they became the parents

                        of Elizabeth Keeling, second wife of John Thomas

                        Mattingly)

            xiii.       Benjamin F. Jr. b. abt 1784 SC;

            xiv.       Dorcas b. 1785 SC;

            xv         Margaret (Peggy) b. 1788 SC;

            x.         John B. b. abt 1783 SC/VA.

            The Benjamin Keeling website gives this brief bit of information on Benjamin Keeling:  Land grant recorded 1771 in Halifax Co., VA; sold 1778; moved to SC; moved Washington Co., KY before Apr 1790.  Land transfer on file 1797 M0092.  Deed Book A, p. 4; 4 Oct 1792 some records in Nelson Co., KY 200 acres Nelson Co., then in 1792 it became Washington Co.  Deed Book B, pp 1-2 May 1797;  Washington Co., KY for 28 acres for 36 pounds from Arthur E. Gibbons.

            Benjamin died before 1810 in Washington Co., KY.

2^nd generation

 Ancestors of Delilah Keeling Mattingly

James Louis Keeling

(1770-1852)

Mary Whitman

(born about 1770)

            James Louis Keeling was born about 1770 in Virginia[2], the second of five children of Benjamin Keeling and his first wife.

            James married on 1 October 1792 in Washington County, KY, Mary Whitman who was born about 1770.

            James and Mary had the following children:

            i.          Richard F. Keeling 1792

            ii.          William Keeling (1797-1871) m. Nancy Hardin

            iii.         Margaret Keeling 1805

            iv.         Elizabeth Keeling 1808

            v.         John Keeling 1810

            vi.         James Howard Keeling 1814

            The 1850 census of Shelby County, Indiana[3] shows James Keeling, age 80, born in North Carolina, living in the home of his youngest son, James H., age 36, along with James’ wife Nancy 36, and three children.

            James Keeling died about 1852 in Geneva, Shelby Co., Indiana.

 3^rd generation

 Ancestors of Delilah Keeling Mattingly

William Keeling, Sr.[4]

(1797- 1871)

Nancy Hardin

(1801-before 1870)

            William Keeling was born about 1797 in Washington Co., KY, the second of six children of James Louis Keeling and Mary Whitman.

            William married 27 Jan 1823[5] in Washington Co., KY Nancy Hardin who was born in Kentucky in 1801, the daughter of John Stephen Hardin and Jane Keeling.[6]  (see HARDIN).

            William and Nancy had 9 children:

            i.          Mariah Jane Keeling b. 1824 Washington Co., KY, m. John J. Hall[7]

            ii.          Sarah Ellen Keeling b. abt 1826 Washington Co., KY m. Joseph Hall[8]

            iii.         Delilah M. Keeling b. abt 1829 m. John Thomas Mattingly (see

                                   MATTINGLY)

            iv.         Savilla Ann (Isabella) Keeling b. 1833 m. James Mattingly (brother

                                    of John Thomas Mattingly)[9]

            v.         Ann Elizabeth Keeling b abt 1837 Washington Co., KY m. Paul B.

                                    Moore

            vi.         James M. Keeling Sr. b. about 1838, m . Martha Dennis[10]

            vii.        William Keeling, Jr. b. about 1840

            viii.       Uriah L. Keeling Sr. b. about 1843 m. (1) Mary Elizabeth Hardin,

                                    (2) Villia Ryan

            ix.         John W. Keeling

            The family appears in the 1850 Washington Co., KY census as follows:

            KEELING, William 55, farmer

                        Nancy 49

                        Delila 21

                        Savilla A. 17

                        Elizabeth 13

                        James 12

                        William 10

                        Uriah 7

            The family has not been found in the 1860 census.

            In the 1870 Washington Co., KY census[11]  William Keeling 74, is living in the household of his son James Keeling 32, and James’ family, Martha 22, Willie 8, James 5, Jesse 2, Uriah 2 mos.

            Nancy Hardin Keeling died before 1870, and William Keeling died in 1871.