Jeremias Keffer(ly) of Shenandoah County, Virginia, his descendants and their relatives compiled by James Michael Keffer

Jeremias or Jeremiah, born abt 1727, wife Magdalena Fetzer
    | Jacob, wife Margaret "Peggy" Fizer, lived in Giles County, VA
       | Jacob, wife Rebecca Snodgrass, lived in Boone County, WV
           | Titham James, 2nd wife Paulina Adkins, Boone County, WV
               | Etheral, "Big Ike", wife Agnes Dalton, Boone County, WV
                   | Maurice, 1st wife, Midge Johnson
                       | Jim, wife Donna Bostic, Superior, Colorado
your site author---->      |James Michael, Fullerton, California

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Keffers in 1850 census	Keffers in 1860 census
Keffers in 1870 census	Keffers in 1880 census
Keffers in 1900 census	Keffers in 1910 census
Keffers in 1920 census	1930 census
Donna BOSTIC KEFFER's Genealogy	Index of names (Donna's)

1. Jeremiah Keffer: The first record found is in 1759, Berks County,
   Pennsylvania, on tax lists as a single man. The next found is baptizing
   son Abraham in 1767. In 1772 he is in Shenandoah County,
   Virginia, witnessing the will of Abraham Miller. Died 1796, Shenandoah
   County, VA. The earliest records are spelled Kefferry or Kefferly. Land records confirm his wife was the daughter of George Fetzer. She was called Susannah by the Fetzers and was known as Magdalena while married to Jeremiah.
2. Jacob Keffer married Margaret Fizer, Botetourt County, Virginia, 1792.
   Jacob died in Giles County, Virginia, 1820. In the 1810 census his household
   had seven white males, including himself, and four white females.
3. Jacob Keffer born ca. 1804, married 1828, Kanawha County, to Rebecca
   Snodgrass of Giles County, Virginia. They had eight children. Jacob lived
   and died in Boone County, West Virginia.
4. Tithom James Keffer, born in Kanawha County, Virginia, 1838, outlived
   four wives. He married my great-great grandmother, Paulina Ann Adkins,
   28 November 1866. Called "Bee" or "Old Man Bee", he lived to
   96 years and died in Boone County, West Virginia, of injuries from
   an automobile accident.
5. Etherel W. Keffer, born in Boone County, West Virginia, 1868, married
   Agnes Catherine Dalton, daughter of Irish immigrants. "Big Ike" Keffer,
   a railroad conductor, died the year his youngest son, my grandfather,
   was born: 1911. He is buried in Kanawha County with the Dalton family.
6. Maurice Joseph Keffer, born in Madison, West Virginia. His first marriage,
   to Mildred Virginia Johnson, issued my father. His second marriage was
   to another direct descendant of Jacob and Rebecca, Mollie O'Meara.
   Maurice served on the Battleship Alabama in the second World War.
   He retired from service to the U.S. Treasury Department and died in Yuma,
   Arizona, 1982.
7. James Maurice Keffer, born 1932 , Cabell County, West Virginia, married
   Donna Jean Bostic, after serving in the United States Marine Corps in Korea.
   After earning a degree from Marshall University he moved his family to
   California where he became an aerospace engineer. He is retired,
   an avid golfer, and grandfather thrice.
8. James Michael Keffer, born 1953 in Cabell County, West Virginia, holds a
   degree from the Calif. State University, Fullerton, a retired Police Officer.

Jim & Donna Keffer

Jon, Bette, Michael, Sean Craig, Joy and Jenny

David J. Keffer, the youngest of us.