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REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS
in ALABAMA
Source: Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama
Being a List of Names, Compiled from Authentic
Sources, of Soldiers of the
American Revolution, Who Resided in
The State of Alabama
Montgomery, Ala.
The Brown Printing Company
Printers and Binders,
1911

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

     THOMAS KEATES, aged 78, and a resident of Tuscaloosa county; private Maryland Continental Line; enrolled on Jan. 10, 1827, under act of Congress of Mar. 18, 1818, payment to date from Oct. 18, 1826; annual allowance, $96; sums received to date of publication of list, $708.64
- Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
     PETER KELLY, aged 78, and a resident of Tuscaloosa county; private Maryland Continental Line; enrolled on Jan. 1, 1827, under act of Congress of Mar. 18, 1818, payment to date from Oct. 18, 1826; annual allowance, $96; sums received to date of publication of list, $708.64. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
     WILLIAM KENEDA, aged 78, and a resident of Lauderdale county; private Virginia Militia; enrolled on Aug. 28, 1833, under act of Congress of Jun. 7, 1832, payment to date from Mar. 4, 1831; annual allowance, $34.44; sums received to date of publication of list, $103.32.. - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
     DAVID KENNEDY, a resident of Lowndes county; private in cavalry and infantry, particular service not shown; enrolled on Feb. 28, 1837; annual allowance, $53.10 - Pension Book, State Branch Bank, Mobile.
     WILLIAM KENNEDY, age not given, resided in Marion county, June 1, 1840, with J. Kennedy. - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.
     JOHN WADE KEYES, - "The last resting place of this Revolutionary soldier is in an old family burial ground upon his plantation, three miles from Athens on the Huntsville road.  His lovely rural home was situated upon a hill about half a mile from Swan creek.  His wife, Louisa Talbot Keyes, lies beside him.  John Wade Keys was born in Mystic, near Boston, Mass., Sept. 25, 1752, and died near Athens, Ala., Feb. 13, 1839.  His ancestry and many acts of his life are told in a book of the Keyes family called Solomon Keyes and His Descendants, by Judge Asa Keyes, of Vermont, published in Battleboro.  We find from this that he was the son of Capt. Humphrey Keyes and Marcella Wade.  His father was a sea captain of Boston.  After many successful voyages he was wrecked and taken captive by the Algerines.  He was a prisoner for years, but finally made his escape.  Upon his return to Boston he took John, his oldest son, and went down into Virginia.  An old family record in Tennessee shows that Capt. Humphrey Keyes in 1775 was proprietor of 'Keyes' Ferry' on the Shenandoah river.  A member of the family has now in his possession a letter written by General Washington relative to the survey of Keyes' Ferry tract on the Shenandoah near Charleston, Jefferson county, Virginia, Louisa Talbot, niece of President Monroe.  She was born near Alexandria, Va., Apr. 20, 1756, and died near Athens, Nov. 6, 1836.  This happy couple lived together for sixty-three years.
     Early in the Revolutionary war there was a call made for volunteers under Gen. John Thomas in the Shenandoah Valley.  John Wade Keyes was the second man to enlist; he was engaged in the battles of Bunker Hill, Lexington, Trenton, White Plains, Princeton, Brandywine and King's Mountain.  Capt. John Keyes settled near Alexandria, Virginia, moved thence to the vicinity of Blountsville, Sullivan county, East Tennessee, and finally to Athens, Limestone county, Alabama, where he was one of the pioneer settlers.  It is said that he would never consent to apply for a pension and when asked for his reasons he would reply.  'I fought for patriotism, not pensions.'  He greatly honored and loved George Washington and he showed his admiration by naming his twin sons for him; one was called George and the other Washington.  George Keyes commanded a company under Gen. Jackson and was afterwards made a brigadier-general of militia.  Among the descendants of John Wade Keyes were Chancellor Wade Keyes, one of hte most prominent jurists that Alabama has produced; George P. Keyes, a noted journalist; Col. John B. Richardson, of New Orleans, commander of the famous "Washington Artillery' during the war, and others of distinction at the present day." - Mrs. P. H. Mell in Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Vol. iv. p. 548.
      JOHN KINARD, aged 82, resided in Randolph county, June 1, 1840, with Barnett Kinard.
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Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 184.
     JOHN KINNARD, aged 70, and a resident of Marengo county; private S. C. Militia; enrolled on Sept. 5, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from Mar. 4, 1831; annual allowance, $20. . - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.  He resided in Marengo county, June 1, 1840, aged 77 - Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 149.
      ANDREW J. KIRBY, aged 25, resided in Jackson county, June 1, 1840, with John McReynolds.
- Census of Pensioners, 1841, p. 148.
     EPHRAIM KIRBY,

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     WILLIAM KIRKLAND, aged 72, and a resident of Autauga county; private S. C. State Troops and Militia; enrolled on Jan. 11, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from Mar. 4, 1831; annual allowance, $72.33; sums received to date of publication of list, $217 . - Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Part 3, Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.

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