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Keyser, John Jefferson
| Last Name: | Keyser |
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| First Name: | John Jefferson |
| Dates: |
*12.9.1845 (Date of Birth)
*5.11.1946 (Date of Death)
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| Biography/History: | John Jefferson Keyser is noted as the last remaining Civil War veteran living in Spokane; he died in 1946 at the age of 101. Born 12 Sept 1845, Keyser grew up in the large farming family of James and Elizabeth Keyser in Hopkins, KY. He enlisted as a private in 1863 assigned to Kentucky’s mounted infantry, Company A, 35th Infantry Regiment. He mustered out of the company in 1864 at Louisville, KY and had returned to his family household in Charleston, KY by 1870. He was no longer living there a decade later, and reappears in the public record in 1920 and 1930 as a single man, farming in Fertile Valley, Pend Oreille County, WA. By 1935 he had moved into Spokane, living at 917 Cleveland, and by 1940 (when he was 95) his single niece Opal Reneford age 36, was living with him there. Keyser died age 101, 7 Nov 1946, Medical Lake, WA; buried Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane with military veteran headstone. (Resources: federal censuses 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1920, 1930, 1940 and Find-a-grave) |
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