Chauncey McKeever

Birth Date

1829-08-31

Death Date

1901-09-04

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Washington, D.C., soldier. Maryland native. Married to Fanny Chauncey McKeever. Father of Helen C. McKeever and Elsa McKeever. Graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in July 1849. Served in the United States Army as captain and assistant adjutant general in 1861 and 1863.

Twelfth Manuscript Census of the United States (1900), Population Schedules, Washington, District of Columbia, Enumeration District 33, p. 17.
Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1821-1968), South Carolina Division of Libraries and History, Range 1925-1945: Kershaw County, 1935, File #5861, p. 75 of 242 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies Ser. 3, ch. 10 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1890), 553.
"Death of General McKeever,"Altoona Tribune (Altoona, Pennsylvania), September 6, 1901, p. 2.
Find A Grave, "Chauncy McKeever (1829-1901)," Memorial #5951268, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5951268 (accessed July 3, 2020).

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