“Death of Thomas Keesee,” Waxahachie Daily Light (21 July 1909), p. 4, col. 4
Or, Subtitled: “I will not hereafter serve in the Armies of the Confederate States, nor in any military capacity whatever, against the United States of America”
Bible register of family bible of Thomas Keesee and Jane Caroline Green, photocopy sent to me in December 2000, Barbara Scott Wyche of Richmond, Texas, a descendant of Thomas and Jane, who told me she did not know where the original bible is
Or, Subtitled: He “marketed the first bales of cotton in Little Rock,—which event occasioned considerable excitement and comment”
10. Jane Caroline Green, the tenth child of John Green and Jane Kerr, was born 10 October 1808 in Pendleton District, South Carolina. This date is recorded on her tombstone in Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian cemetery at Ovilla in Ellis County, Texas, and also in a family bible that belonged to Jane and husband Thomas Keesee.[1] The inscription reads,