JANE LUCAS

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1. JANE LUCAS: First born to Andrew Lucas and Elizabeth Edwards.
    Born 13 Nov 1800, Coan/Coon Parish of Dysart, Co. Kilkenny, Ire.,
    died 18 Apr 1853, Pigeon Creek, Iowa. (Near Council Bluffs). In
   1820, she married WILLIAM THOMAS McKEOWN, born around
   1785, Moy, Co., Tyrone, Ireland, died Nov 1827, Beckwith Township,
   Lanark Co., Ont.
   William likely buried on the farm with son Thomas.
   Jane buried on the farm at Pigeon Creek, Iowa.
   They had 4 children. Thomas, Jane, Elizabeth and William.

        (Also show Jane as being born 3 Dec 1800).

William joined the Knights Templars Lodge No. 465 (Masons) of Moy
Co., Tyrone,Ire., on the 16 Dec 1808 and was signed off their
members roll on the 12 Feb 1815.

JANE re-married 9 Feb 1829 to JAMES HOLBROOK KILFOYLE.
         (More on this family after the McKeown data).

The  following letters were received from the Ontario Archives and
have been retyped exactly as they are written on the photostat copies
The  ____ ___ ___ means there are words missing and they are so
faint they cannot be read.

They are typed as originally written, including spelling errors.

These letters were written to Elizabeth (McKeown) Bryce, William
Jr's sister who lived in Warwick Twp., Lambton Co., Ont., Canada.
They were written by William McKeown's 1st wife Eliza (Hall)
McKeown.

Council Bluffs City Iowa. April 23, 1853.

Dear Brother and sister and friends. it is with pecular feelings that i sit
down this morning to rite a few lines to youse as i have bad noose to
rite to you noose that is not agreeable for me to rite.
mother was taken away from us the 18 of thes month. she dyed the
18 nite of this month about 12 a clock in the nite she was burred the
19 at 4 a clock in the eavning. she was spechless 14 hours before
she dyed. she suffered more pain than i ever saw any person her legs
ware red and black when she dyed. she did not think that she was going to dye but there was no person that knowed how she was that
thought she would live. she wanted to see betsy and grandfather and jane. she talked about you all but she talked the most about them three
many a time she would say poor betsy and my poor old father. we thought that Andrew was ded but we got a letter from him 9 days before mother dyed she wanted to see him verry bad before she dyed. he was to be here tomorow he will be badly disapointed when he comes home and fins his mother dyed so shorty before he got here.
we have not heard from him sinse the sumer before mother and jane
went to cannada. i am glad that she got to see you all before she dyed
and you see her.

Eliza McKeown

                    ________________________________

Council Bluffs Iowa (No date on this one)

Dear frends. my mind is troubed that i dont know what to rite to you
as we are here alone with out our friends to comfort us in this time of
trouble and of morning. father had given up going to the valey this year
till mother dyed but he thinks that he will go now. you never saw a man
take any thing so hard as he did mothers death. a few minutes after
mother dyed he fainted away for a long time he was most out of his
minde he spare no trouble to wait on her or expunse to get what she
wanted he was as kind as a man could be to lift and turn her and wait
on her. i believe if he lives in the house or on the place where mother
dyed he would not live a year yet i dont want him to go away from here
for we are so lone some now that we can hardly stand it and if he goes
we will be left here alone. mother wanted us all to stay togeter if she
dyed so that we could see after the children.  mother inteended for us to take Martha and Rachel and take care of them till they growed up. she intended to go to the valey this summer if she lived but she has pased behind the vails her toils and trubles are all over the most of her truble before she dyed was to see all of her children together. she is burried a qarter of a mile from our house we can see her grave every time we look out of the door which will bring her fresh to our minds daily. i rote a letter to uncle George three weeks a go i have rote five
or six sinse last fall. rite to us often and let us know how you all are.

Eliza McKeown

____________________________

Council Bluffs Iowa (No date of this letter)

Dear friends. it is with a painful hart that i sit down to rite a ______ ___
___ rote the storye about mother we can not begin to tell you what she
sufferred sinse last october.  some times it would take 2 or 3 to holds
her.  she said she would rather suffer a hundred deaths and live than to
dye and leave her children. she was very anxous to live to see Andrew
but it is now the 1 day of may and he has not come yet. father is going
to the valey in a few dyas then we well be left here alone unles some
of yous will move out here.  i think if you new how much biggar a man can
farm here than they can in the old country you would soon come here. William Breayt has hurt him some this spring we are just starting to i have no time to rite any more.

Eliza McKeown

1. THOMAS McKEOWN: Born and died 1821, beckwith Twp., Lanark
    Co., Ont.
    More than likely buried on the farm with his father.

2. JANE McKEOWN: Born 24 Jul 1824, Beckwith Twp., Lanark Co.,
    Ont., Can., died 21 Jun 1904, Murray, Utah. On the 17 Mar 1841, in
    Warwick Twp., Lambton Co., Ont., she married ROBERT
    GARDNER Jr., born 12 Oct 1819, Kilsythe Sterling, Scotland, died
    3 Feb 1906, Murray, Utah. (s/o Robert Gardner  and Margaret
    Callender).
    Both buried Pine Valley, Utah.
    They had 12 children. Robert, Mary, Margaret, William, Sarah,
    Elizabeth, James, Thomas, Reuben, Jane, Hyrum and son (stillborn).

They were also of the Mormon Faith. In 1846 the Gardner party, which
consisted of 10 wagons, left Alvinston, Ont., Lambton Co., for Nauvoo,
Illinois to join the rest of the Saints. They spent the winter there and in
the spring of 1847, they left with Brigham Young for Salt Lake City,
Utah, arriving there the 24th July 1847.

Robert Gardner married 3 more times (plural marriages): He was the
father of 37 children, 27 of whom grew to adulthood.
On the 5 Aug 1851, he married Cynthia Lovina Berry. (9 children).
On the 20 Jul 1856, he married Mary Ann Carr. (7 children).
On the 23 Jun 1863, he married Leonora Cannon. (9 children).

3. ELIZABETH McKEOWN: Born 9 Feb 1826, Beckwith Twp., Lanark
    Co., Ont., died 7 Oct 1906 Warwick Twp., Lambton Co., Ont. On
    the 12 Apr 1843, she married ROBERT BRYCE, born 8 Feb 1815,
    Langlone Parish, Old Monkland, Scotland, died 13 Oct 1892,
    Warwick Twp., Lambton Co., Ont. (s/o William Bryce and Mary
    Wright).
    Both buried Watford, Ont.
    They had 13 children, William, Mary (#1), Hugh, Jane, John, Mary
    (#2), Robert, Elizabeth, Caroline, Margaret, Martha, James & Violet
    (Twins).

Elizabeth was the only one of this family to stay in Canada. Her Mother,
sister and brother all converted to the Mormon Faith, and went to
Navuoo, Illinois in 1846 to join the rest of The Saints.

        (1)  WILLIAM BRYCE: Born 23 Feb 1822, died 17 Feb 1896. On
              the 29 Dec 1871, he married Margaret Glendinning, born
              1843, died 1 May 1915, Wainright, Sask.  (d/o Alexander
              Glendinning and Margaret Park).
              William buried Watford, Ont.
              Margaret buried Wainright, Sask.
              They had 3 children. Robert, George and Alexander.

              1901 Census shows Margaret born 30 Oct 1842.
              Also show Margaret's death date as being 25 Dec 1918.

        (2)  MARY BRYCE #1: Born 22 Mar 1845, died 7 Nov 1847.

        (3)  HUGH BRYCE: Born 16 Feb 1847, died 16 Apr 1902. On
              the 29 Sep 1868,   he married Sarah Agnes Jones, born
              11 Mar 1852, died  4 Aug 1919.
              Both buried Watford, Ont.
              They had 9 children. Margaret, Robert, James, Albert,
              Mary, Sarah, Loren, and Etta.

        (4)  JANE BRYCE: Born 23 Dec 1849, died 11 Feb 1902. On
              the 24 May 1866, she married William Burger, born 13 May
              1838, died 1889.
              Both buried St. Mary's Cemetery, Warwick, Ont.
              They had 11 children. Robert, Alma, Archibald, Elizabeth #1,
              John, Violet, Martha, Amy, Mary, Bertha and Elizabeth #2.

        (5)  JOHN ROBERT BRYCE: Born 14 Mar 1850, died 6 Aug
              1929. On the 8 Oct 1873, he married Catherine Duncan,
              born 21 Mar 1851, died 1 Nov 1927. (s/o William Duncan
              and Phoebe Kemp).
              Both buried Watford, Ont.
              They had 2 children. William and Ethel.

       (6)  MARY BRYCE #2:  Born 16 Dec 1851, died 10 Jul 1891.
             On the 24 Dec 1868, she married James Higgins, born
             16 Jun 1838, died 15 Aug 1909. (s/o Thomas Higgins and
             Sarah Hillis).
             Both buried St. James Cemetery, Brooke Twp., Ont.
             They had 11 children. Elizabeth, Sarah, Caroline, Susannah,
             Violet #1, Thomas, Mary, David, Martha, Margaret and
             Violet #2.

      (7)  ROBERT BRYCE: Born 16 Oct 1853, died 4 May 1945.
            On the15 Apr 1891, he married Letitia Moffatt, born 18 Apr
            1863, died 24 Jul 1964.
            Both buried Watford, Ont.
            They had 7 children. Walter, Robert, Margaret, Lottie, Mabel,
            Lena and Leyden.

            They also raised 2 grandchildren. John (Jack) and Elizabeth.

      (8)  ELIZABETH BRYCE: Born 11 Oct 1855, died 14 Jan 1923.
            On the 23 Jun 1885, she married Robert Fleming, born
            7 Nov 1852, died 8 Feb 1923. (s/o William Fleming and
            Elizabeth Allison).
            Both buried Watford, Ont.
            They had 3 children. Robert, Elizabeth and William.

      (9)  CAROLINE CATHERINE BRYCE: Born 9 Oct 1858, died
            11 Mar 1914. On the 25 Dec 1885, she married Joseph
            Gideon Morrow, born 27 Sep 1863, died 17 Sep1916.
            (s/o Joseph Morrow and Elizabeth Corneille).
            Both buried??
            They had 8 children. Robert, Ruth, Elvira, Lorne, William,
            Elizabeth, Violet #1 and Violet #2.

    (10)  MARGARET BRYCE: Born 21 Oct 1860, died 26 Sep 1927.
            On the 25 Oct 1882, she married Christopher Willoughby,
            born 7 Aug 1855, died 26 Nov 1925.
            Both buried Watford, Ont.
            They had 11 children. Barbara, Albert, Beatrice, Violet,
            Elizabeth,   Harold, Nicole, William, Samuel, Margaret and
            Robert.

    (11)  MARTHA ELIZABETH BRYCE: Born 21 Jul 1862, died
            25 Mar 1920. On the 20 Sep 1877, she married Duncan
            Ward, born 15 Jul 1857, died 28 Sep 1943. (s/o Thomas
            Ward and Catherine McCurchey).
            Both buried Watford, Ont.
            They had 6 children. Ada, Thomas, Martha, Unknown, Mary
            and Robert.

            Also show name as being Martha RACHEL Bryce.

    (12)  JAMES DAVID BRYCE: (Twin). Born 3 Aug 1865, died
            6 Sep 1902. On the 5 Apr 1893, he married Mary Ann
            Shannon, born 17 Sep 1867, died 29 Nov 1939.
            Both buried Watford, Ont.
            They had 5 children. Robert, Ivan, Cecil, Vernon & Verna
            (Twins).

   (13)  VIOLET URET BRYCE: (Twin). Born 3 Aug 1865, died
            22 Apr 1932. On the 22 Feb 1893, she married Thomas
            Kerr, born 22 Jul 1865, died 27 Apr 1940.
            Both buried Watford, Ont.
            They had 5 children. Florence, Elizabeth, WIlliam, Mary and
            Vera.

4. WILLIAM McKEOWN: Born 7 Mar 1828, Beckwith Twp., Lanark
    Co., Ont., died 4 Jul 1902, Council Bluffs, Iowa. On the 8 May
    1848, he married  (1) ELIZA JANE HALL, born 10 Jul 1826, died
     4 Feb 1870. (d/o Joseph Hall and Joannah Challis).
    William buried Grange Cemetery, near Honey Creek, Iowa.
    (Council Bluffs).
    Eliza buried Reel's Cemetery, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa.
    They had 11 children. William, Thomas, Joseph, Mary, Robery,
    Baby, Martha, Johanna, Eliza, David and George.

    William was born 5 months after his father died in Nov 1827.

    William re-married 11 Feb 1873 to Janet Kirkwood. (10 children).

    Children of William McKeown and ELIZA JANE HALL:

Children of WILLIAM McKEOWN and JANET KIRKWOOD:

1. JANE (LUCAS) McKEOWN: (1800-1853): Re-married 9 Feb 1829
    to JAMES HOLBROOK KILFOYLE, born 1805, Ballyragget, Co.,
    Kilkenny, Ireland, died  6 Jul 1872, Wellsville, Utah. (s/o Francis
    Kilfoyle and Jane Holbrook).
    Jane buried Pigeon Creek, Iowa. (Near Council Bluffs).
    James buried Wellsville, Utah.
    They had 9 children. Francis, Andrew, Mary (#1), Mary (#2),
     William, Caroline, Martha, Rachel and James.

James states in his hand written Diary, that he was born in the Townland of Coon/Coan, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland. The Mormon Church records states he was born in Ballyraggett, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland.

James converted to the Mormon Faith. Jane's daughter Jane and son William McKeown also converted to the Mormon Faith, but Jane's daughter Elizabeth McKeown did not, she married and lived in Warwick Twp., Lambton Co., Ont., Canada.

James, being of the Mormon Faith married 3 more times (plural marriages).
On the 27 Feb 1854, he married Ellen Keating(1815-1854).
(No children).
On the 10 May 1855, he married Mary A.(Laurence) Beckett. (1801-1884).   (No children).
On the 9 Nov 1856 he married Mary McGowen (1826-1865)
(3 children).