Wagon Ruts West
JOHN KEENEY, JR. FAMILY By Ralph Ray Keeney
Published in 1983
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The following selection is taken from "Wagon Ruts West" written & published by Ralph Ray Keeney in 1983. The book is currently out of print. This section is published with the kind permission of Ralph Ray Keeney. The book this selection is drawn from is under copyright and permission has been granted for educational purposes and it is not to be used in any way for any profit or commercial venture.
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The following is Section 8
SECTION 8. Harold & Dolors Doty -***
KEENEY FAMILY TREE
(Contains Journal of Rouge River War). ___ John, Sr. (1750- - 1845-) Married Martha -
| Jonathan Anthony (1778 - 1850) | ___ John Jr. (1780 - 1845) Married Mary Ramsey Buckhalter, 1805 | | Mary (1806 - 1850-) | | Thomas (1808 - 1842) | | Isley (1811 - 1842) | | Jonathan (1813 - 1878) | | James (1816 - 1885) | | Abraham (1818 - 1843) | | ____Andrew Jackson (1819 - 1898) Married Elizabeth Mulholland, 1841 | | | Frances Ann - drowned with Mother in the Missouri Riv. | | | 2. Married Hannah Daniels Cooper (daughter, Anna Cooper) | | | Elias P. (1852 - 1857) | | | James Madison ( 1853 - 1913) | | | George R. (1856 - 1859) | | | William Daniel (1857 - 1930) | | | ____John Blanden (1859 - 1942) Married Ella Hurt, 1881 | | | | Maude (1882 - 1958) | | | | Rhoda C. (1884 - 1884) | | | | Ira Marvin (1885 - 1945) | | | | ___ Willard Warren (1888 - 1958) Married Alice L. Crall, 1920 | | | | | Jack LeRoy, 1921 | | | | | Ralph Ray, 1923 -*** | | | | | Harold Blanding, (1925 - 1925) | | | | | Loa May, 1926 | | | | | Ida Dee, 1929 | | | | | Billie Fae, 1932 | | | | | William Warren, 1933 | | | | |____Bessie Jo, 1935 | | | |______Glenn (1894 - 1954) | | | 3 Married Amanda Jane Morse Matthews, 1861 (daughter, Rebecca) | | | Martha Ellen "Matty" (1862 - 1911) | | | Benjamin Franklin (1865 - 1935) | | | Andrew Alva (1866 - 1954) | | |________Thomas Paine (1869 - 1947) | | Rebecca (1821 - 1895) | | Eli (twin) (1828 - 1878) | |___________ Elias (twin) (1828 - 1910) | Thomas (1782 - 1846) | Nancy ( 1786 - -- ) | James (- - - ) | Hiram (-- - ) |_________Others -
HAROLD W. DOTY
(B. Oct. 1898 - D. Aug. 1967)
DELORS AND HAROLD DOTY
Parents of Roberta A. (Doty) Keeney
Wife of Ralph R. Keeney
Harold W. Doty was born October, 1898 in Plainview, Nebraska. His occupation was sawmill worker, or Millwright. In his younger years, he worked in the woods near Potlatch, Idaho.
He married Delors Catherine Bull on Feb. 24, 1927 in Moscow, Idaho. From this union were born nine children:
1. Willis Harold Doty - B. June 26, 1929
2. Roberta Adellia (Doty) Keeney - B. Oct. 2, 1930
3. Wayne Lemaul Doty - B. Oct. 29, 1931
4. Lila Lee (Doty) Williamson - B. April 2, 1934
5. Cederick R. Doty - B. Sept. 11, 1936
6. Virgil Herman Doty - B. April 13, 1938
7. Juanita C. Doty - B. Feb. 22, 1943 - D. March 26, 1943
8. Cynthia May (Doty) Maxon - B. Nov. 16, 1946
9. Jerry Allen Doty - B. Jan. 9, 1949In about 1938, Harold moved his family from a farm into Potlatch, Idaho, and went to work in the sawmill there. In 1947, he again moved, this time to Kinzua, Oregon, where he and his oldest son, Willis, were employed in the sawmill. Later, he moved to Fossil, Oregon, and it was here, in 1949, that Roberta met Ralph. A few years after they were married and settled in The Dalles, Oregon, her Father moved one more, this time to Wamic, Oregon to work in the mill there. After a year or so, they moved to Tygh Valley, Oregon, where his two oldest sons were employed in the sawmill.
In 1952, Harold and Dolors were divorced. After this, he went to live in Richmond, Virginia, and died there on Aug. 18, 1967. Dolors is now living in Tygh Valley, Oregon with her son, Wayne.
