KEYS, ISAAC, was born Jan. 11, 1790, in Fayette county, Kentucky, and when a young man went to Pickaway county, Ohio. Elizabeth Hess was born about 1795 in Virginia, and was taken by her parents, when she was a child, to Pickaway county, Ohio. Isaac Keys and Elizabeth Hess were married, and had three children in that county. They moved to what became Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in 1819, in what is now the southwest corner of Rochester township, where they had five children. Of their eight children--

MARY, born in Pickaway county, Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Timothy Shoup. See his name.

SAMUEL, born in Pickaway county, Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Delay. They had six living children. HENRY, born in 1845, went to Washington Territory in 1871; has not been heard from since 1872. MARY married John Poffenberger, and died in 1870. LORENZO D., born Aug. 10, 1862, died, aged thirteen years. JULIA A., FLORENCE G. and WINNIE live with their parents. Samuel Keys and wife live in the southwest corner of Rochester township, Sangamon county, on the farm where his father settled in 1819.

DANIEL, born in 1817, in Ross county, Ohio, married in Sangamon county, Ill., Jan. 3, 1844, to Sarah J. Armstrong, who died, Sept. 28, 1844, leaving one child, SARAH J. She married Robert A. Jones, See his name. They live near Independence, Montgomery county, Kansas. Daniel Keys married, May 7, 1845, to Nancy A. Dozier, who was born Sept. 26, 1823, in Montgomery county, Ky. They had eight children in Sangamon county, and in 1860 moved to Christian county, where they had two children. Of their children--JAMES A., and ISAAC W. live with their parents. NANCY A. died young. MIRANDA A., born Jan. 28, 1852, married, in 1871, to Sylvester Miller, and live in Christian county, Illinois. JOHN, CHARLES, EDWIN S,, JESSIE F., MARY J. and HATTIE M. All the unmarried children live with their parents, one and one-half miles northwest of Pana, Christian county, Illinois.

ISAAC, Jun., born Jan. 16, 1825, in Sangamon county, married, February 14, 1852, near Rochester, to Almira J. Neal. They had three children. EDWARD D. is bookkeeper in the Fire and Marine Insurance Bank, and lives with his parents. ANNIE E. lives with her parents also. NELLIE I died Sept. 5, 1875, aged eighteen years. Isaac Keys was Deputy United States Marshal in the southern district of Illinois, from 1857 to 1862, when he was appointed by Presiident Lincoln, Provost Marshal for the eighth congressional district of Illinois, and served until Sept., 1865, all that time without the slightest complaint of irregularity. He was one of the original proprietors of the Fifth street horse railroad, and superintened the construction of the same. After that, he was interested in the Barclay coal mine, and superintended that. He now resides in Springfield.

JAMES, born April 11, 1828, in Sangamon county, married Jan. 1, 1863, to Nannie Gardner, daughter of Hiram K. Gardner. She was born Feb. 6, 1835, in Trimble county, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Keys have one daughter, IDA, born Oct. 21, 1863. Mr. Keys is a dealer in real estate, and lives in Springfield, Illinois.

CLARISSA, born in Sangamon county, married Allen Miller; has seven children, and lives in Springfield.

ELIZA A., born April 3, 1832, in Sangamon county, married May 16, 1852, to Jasper Newton Inslee. They had five children. ANN E. died in her second year.

EMMA J., MARY L., MELISSA and JOSEPH W. live with their parents in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MARINDA, born in Sangamon county, married Marion Goldsby; has a family of children, and live in Cass county, Missouri.

Mrs. Elizabeth Keys died in May, 1847, and Isaac Keys, Sen., died May 2, 1848, both on the farm where they settled when they came to the county in 1819.