Keeney - Sarah Gordon Stanfield
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, 7 June 1901
The funeral of Mrs. Jere Keeney took place last Tuesday morning at ten o'clock at the family residence, 508 west Main street.. The interment was at Oak Hill. Mrs. Keeney was born in Bellfountain, Ohio, and was the daughter of Judge William Stanfield, who when Mrs. Keeney was a mere child removed to South Bend. There she was raised and was married to Mr. Keeney, who, with six of the seven children born to them, survives her. One child, Miss Sallie G. Keeney, died eleven years ago The six living children are J. M. Keeney, Jr., Miss Mattie Keeney, Mrs. W. T. Miller, Dr. Stanfield Keeney, of Indianapolis Miss Annie L. Keeney, and Mrs. S. M. Coffman. Mrs. Keeney was a woman richly endowed with graces and virtues which made her life a beautiful as well as useful one. While during her entire residence here she was a consistent and devoted member of Center church, it was In her home that her charming character was most manifest. In the religion of dally life with the members of her family she was so sincere, so thoroughly devoted, that her death makes a mother's loss, always irreparable, doubly hard to bear. - thanks to Kim H