From: KyArchives [Archives@genrecords.org] To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Keys.Samuel.F.1944.Breckinridge-Hardin-Meade.DEATH Samuel F. Keys February 29, 1944 Breckinridge-Hardin-Meade County KyArchives Death Name: Keys, Samuel F. Date Of Death: February 29, 1944 Time: 9:05 a.m. Place Of Death: West Point, Hardin County, Kentucky Residence: West Point, Hardin County, Kentucky Gender: Male Race: W Age: 77 Marital Status: Widowed Spouse: Keys (deceased), Nora Date Of Birth: April 8, 1866 Place Of Birth: Breckinridge County, Kentucky Mother's Name: Unknown, Unknown Mother's Birthplace: Unknown Father's Name: Keys, Andrew Father's Birthplace: Unknown Cause Of Death: Ch [chronic?] nephritis, due to asthma, paralysis right side, arterial hypertension, arteriosclerosis Hospital: None specified SS Number: None specified Occupation: I.C.R.R. Employee Funeral Home: W.G. Hardy, Shively, Kentucky Doctor: D. ___, West Point, Kentucky Coroner: Unavailable Informant: Mrs. Ellis Snawder, Kosmosdale, Kentucky Date Of Burial: March 2, 1944 Place Of Burial: Bethany Cemetery Date Recorded: March 8, 1944 Source Of Record: Kentucky Registrar of Vital Statistics, Certified Copy Certificate No.: 6636 Submitted by: Tanya Curtis aunttata@netzero.net Additional Comments: Samuel Franklin Keys was born on 8 April 1866 in Breckinridge County, Kentucky to Andrew Jackson Keys, Sr. (born in Virginia, or possibly Ohio) and Martha Ann Shaw (born in Indiana). He married Nora Ellen Bunger (on 18 Nov 1896, Meade County, Kentucky?), and the couple had 6 children. Mrs. Ellis Snawder, identified on the death certificate as the informant, is their daughter Louise Blanche Keys Snawder, who married John Ellis Snawder. Nora Ellen Bunger had passed away just a few days prior to Samuel's death, on 16 February 1944, at the Norton Infirmary, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/