Adaleen Keesler

1838-1924 · Damascus PA

Born 1838, Damascus Twp, Wayne Co PA

Died 1924

Father: Charles D. Keesler

Mother: Sarah "Sallie" Keesler

Children include Alinda

Adaleen Keesler was born 26 July 1838 on the old home farm in Damascus Township, the eldest child in the household of Charles D. Keesler, where the 1850 census records her at twelve. She grew up near Galilee. Two published biographies name her, her brother Walter's, which calls her "Adaline, born on the old home farm in Damascus township ... married Joel Potter," and the Sutliff genealogy from the other side of the family. Her own obituary names her parents as Charles and Sallie Keesler.

She married Joel Potter in 1857 and had ten children, eight of whom outlived her. After Joel's death in 1899 she married Henry Boults, and he too died before her. She spent her last years in feeble health at her daughter's house at Rileyville and died there on Saturday, October 11, 1924, at eighty-six. She was carried by motor hearse to Pine Mill cemetery and buried beside her first husband. Her death certificate, number 94259, is filed under Boults.

Parents

Charles D. Keesler (1812-1888)

Sarah "Sallie" Keesler (1822-1899)

Children

Alinda Potter (1857-1937)

Sources

US Census 1810, Bethel, Sullivan County NY, NARA M252 roll 30, via archive.org · US federal record, public domain

Pennsylvania death indexes, 1924, A-B, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (PHMC) · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania public record

Pennsylvania death indexes, 1947, P-R, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (PHMC) · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania public record

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS NY-4357), Library of Congress · HABS, public domain (US government survey photograph)

Sullivan County Democrat, Callicoon, New York, 21 January 1937; clipping on Find a Grave memorial 95390273

Hancock Herald, Hancock, New York, 30 October 1924; clipping on Find a Grave memorial 50807017

1850 census, Damascus; biography of Walter Keesler; Sutliff genealogy; Pennsylvania death certificate 94259 (index, under Boults); Hancock Herald, October 30, 1924, clipping on Find a Grave 50807017; Sullivan County Democrat, January 21, 1937, clipping on Find a Grave 95390273

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