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INDIANA GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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Welcome to
RUSH COUNTY,
INDIANA
HISTORY &
GENEALOGY
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CENTENNIAL HISTORY
of
RUSH COUNTY, INDIANA
Edited by
A. L. Gary and E. B. Thomas
Rushville, Inc.
In Two Volumes
Illustrated
Volume II
Historical Publishing Company
Indianapolis
1921
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DANIEL O'KEEFE, a well-known farmer and landowner of
Union township, this county, is a native son of the old
Buckeye state but has been a resident of Rush county for
forty-five years and thus naturally enough has long felt
himself "perfectly at home" here. He has been on a
farm in Brown county, Ohio, Apr. 9, 1850, son of John
and Johanna O'Keefe, both natives of Ireland, the latter
of whom emigrated to this country with her parents in
1832 and the former in 1840, whose last days were spent
in Ohio. John O'Keefe came to America in
the days of his young manhood with just enough money to
bring him across and upon his arrival here proceeded to
Cincinnati, where he remained for about seven years, at
the end of which time he moved to Brown county, Ohio,
where he bought a farm of 122 acres and established his
home. Some time later he would that farm and bought
a farm in Clinton county, same state, and on this latter
farm spent the remainder of his life. He and his
wife were the parents of two children, the subject of
this sketch having a sister, Nellie. Daniel
O'Keefe was reared on the farm in Ohio and received
a limited schooling there, his total attendance at
school not exceeding ninety days. He continued
farming as a young man and in 1876 came to Indiana and
located in Rush county, working here as a farm hand for
sixteen years, or until his marriage, after which he
rented a farm and established a home of his own.
Mr. O'Keefe continued as a renter for fourteen
years, at the end of which time he bought the farm of
114 acres on which he is now living in Union township
and has and has since made his home there, he and his
family being quite pleasantly situated. The
farm is on rural mail route No. 7 out of Rushville and
is well improved. It was in 1883 that Daniel
O'Keefe was united in marriage to Mrs. Sarah J.
(Newkirk) Benson, who was born in this county,
daughter of Daniel B. and Polly Newkirk. By
her first marriage Mrs. O'Keefe has three sons,
Albert, Herbert and Daniel Benson,
the latter of whom married Maud Mason. Albert
Benson married Ethel Clifton and has four
children, Lenna, Byron, Weldon and
Marlin Edward. Herbert Benson married
Minnie Wilson and has seven children, Pearl,
Lotus, Lovica Lovica, Leora, Eugene, Harley and
Edward Lee.
Source: Centennial History of Rush
County, Indiana, Edited by A. L. Gary and E. B. Thomas,
Rushville, Inc. - In Two Volumes - Illustrated - Volume
II - Historical Publishing Company, Indianapolis - 1921
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