The Families of Adam Keith
“Once upon a time ...”, family facts and tales
These stories are a general collection of mostly factual and, most likely, some truth stretching tales about direct members, friends, and acquaintances of the Adam Keith family tree.
Pfaltzgraff Pottery
The A. I. duPont family
The great Baker hoax
A Very Merry Christmas
The Rockwood opera house
Cypher’s quartz mine
Ghirardelli chocolate
“Blues” left-fielder
Father scalped by Indians
75th Wedding Anniversary
West Point man
Early plant fossil
Wild Bill Hickok
A renaissance woman
The good old days
Rear Admiral Mervine
Official wolf catcher
United Empire Loyalist
Old Cheyenne warrior
“The Boss”
The marathon man
Six Cents Reward
The bottom fell out
John Brown, abolitionist
The “Fencibles”
Indian scare
A mother’s experience
She shot her man
The earthquake of 1906
We wish we could
The Keath House
Gunpowder house explodes
Grandson’s recollection
Carriage Maker
The white muslin flag
The school superintendent
Intervened in shooting
Brown county Indiana war
A Kansas governor
Diamond tipped driller
British spy and Atlantis
British surgeon and naturalist
English bishop’s nephew
Niagara Falls canal builder
Toronto Ontario mayor
NYSE President
Star Wars creator
Aurora Academy principal