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Excerpt from History of the Keck Family Isaac Keck, youngest son of George Keck and Catherine H Shaub, was born Jan. 9, 1789, about the time his parents moved to W'estmoreland county, and died April 30, 1869; was married to Pheoba Smith in 1813. She was born March I, 1795, and died June 15, 1862. T 0 them were born twelve children as follows: Joseph, Isaac, George, Peter, Samuel, Israel, Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary Ann, Caroline, Leah, and Sarah. The children all remained in the county except Sam uel and Leah. Samuel, after his marriage, moved to Green ville, Pa., and remained there a few years and returned to Westmoreland, and there died a few years ago, 1899. Leah married A. Berlin and now lives in Kansas City, Kansas, at 116 Virginia avenue. The parents owned and lived on his farm five miles north of Greenburg, until their death.. We had the pleasure of visiting them frequently in their home, while we lived in Greenburg. He was of a social nature and was quite a conjuror, having the gift of stopping the ow of blood in man or beast and people would go for miles to him for relief. He was a short, heavy-set man, and as straight as an arrow. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, enlisting Sept. 16, 1812, for one year in the. Greensburg volunteers, John B. Alexander as captain, Chris. Drum, Ist lieutenant, Richard Hardin Ist sergeant and 45 others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."