Edwin A. Keeble

Birth Date

c1808

Death Date

c1868

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Murfreesboro, Tennessee, attorney and politician. Tennessee native. Married Mary W. Maney in Rutherford County, Tennessee on November 30, 1836. Father of J. M. Keeble, Sallie Keeble, E. A. Keeble, Thomas Keeble, W. B. Keeble, and M. B. Keeble. Attorney in Murfreesboro in 1850. Mayor of Murfreesboro from 1838 to 1855. Attorney in Murfreesboro in 1860. Owned thirty-two enslaved persons in Murfreesboro in 1860. Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1861 to 1862. Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1861 to 1862. Representative from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Rutherford County, City/District, p. 350.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Rutherford County, Murfreesboro, p. 164.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Rutherford County, Murfreesboro, p. 74.
Tennessee Marriage Records, Tennessee State Library and Records, Nashville, Tennessee, p. 132.
Lawrence Kestenbaum, "The Political Graveyard," http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html.

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