Mary M. Keithley

Mary M. Keithley

• Father: Jacob Keithley b. circa 1754, d. circa 1844
• Mother: Barbara Ro(w)land b. circa 1757, d. circa 1847

• Mary M. Keithley was born on 26 September 1779 in Fayette County, Kentucky.
• She was known as Polly.
• She married Isaac Hostetter, son of Francis Hostetter and Franzinia Schutz, on 16 August 1796 in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
• From a newspaper account, supplied by her daughter, Mrs. Anna Waters, we have substantially the following, interesting account of old time pioneer ingenuity, hardihood and courage. Isaac Hostetter and two of his neighbors found on the bank of the Licking River in Ky., a large sycamore which they cut down and made from it a bateau, or canoe, sixty feet long and launched it on the Licking River. They put their three families and their effects into the canoe and floated down to the Ohio River and on down the Ohio to the Mississippi River, then paddled up the Mississippi until they reached the Missouri River and on to the city of St. Charles, Mo. All landed safely in the fall of 1798. Their children, from the Hostetter family Bible.
• She and Isaac Hostetter relocated to Pike County, Missouri, in circa 1817.
• Mary M. Keithley became a widow at the 24 December 1844 death of her husband Isaac Hostetter.
• Gabriel Hostetter appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Peno Township, Pike County, Missouri. Other members of the household included Mary M. Keithley, Mary A. Hostetter, Robert Hostetter, James Hostetter and Oscar Hostetter.
• Mary M. Keithley died on 15 March 1855 at age 75 in Missouri.
• She was interred at Hostetter family cemetery, Pike County, Missouri, on the old Isaac Hostetter farm, 3-1/2 miles northeast of Frankford.

• Last Edited: 18 Oct 2011