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CENTENNIAL HISTORY
of
RUSH COUNTY, INDIANA

Edited by
A. L. Gary and E. B. Thomas
Rushville, Inc.
In Two Volumes
Illustrated
Volume II
Historical Publishing Company
Indianapolis
1921

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

 
DANIEL O'KEEFE, a well-known farmer and landowner of Union township, this county, is a native son of the old Buckeye state but has been a resident of Rush county for forty-five years and thus naturally enough has long felt himself "perfectly at home" here.  He has been on a farm in Brown county, Ohio, Apr. 9, 1850, son of John and Johanna O'Keefe, both natives of Ireland, the latter of whom emigrated to this country with her parents in 1832 and the former in 1840, whose last days were spent in Ohio.  John O'Keefe came to America in the days of his young manhood with just enough money to bring him across and upon his arrival here proceeded to Cincinnati, where he remained for about seven years, at the end of which time he moved to Brown county, Ohio, where he bought a farm of 122 acres and established his home.  Some time later he would that farm and bought a farm in Clinton county, same state, and on this latter farm spent the remainder of his life.  He and his wife were the parents of two children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Nellie.  Daniel O'Keefe was reared on the farm in Ohio and received a limited schooling there, his total attendance at school not exceeding ninety days.  He continued farming as a young man and in 1876 came to Indiana and located in Rush county, working here as a farm hand for sixteen years, or until his marriage, after which he rented a farm and established a home of his own.  Mr. O'Keefe continued as a renter for fourteen years, at the end of which time he bought the farm of 114 acres on which he is now living in Union township and has and has since made his home there, he and his family being quite pleasantly situated.   The farm is on rural mail route No. 7 out of Rushville and is well improved.  It was in 1883 that Daniel O'Keefe was united in marriage to Mrs. Sarah J. (Newkirk) Benson, who was born in this county, daughter of Daniel B. and Polly Newkirk.  By her first marriage Mrs. O'Keefe has three sons, Albert, Herbert and Daniel Benson, the latter of whom married Maud Mason.  Albert Benson married Ethel Clifton and has four children, Lenna, Byron, Weldon and Marlin Edward.  Herbert Benson married Minnie Wilson and has seven children, Pearl, Lotus, Lovica Lovica, Leora, Eugene, Harley and Edward Lee.
Source: Centennial History of Rush County, Indiana, Edited by A. L. Gary and E. B. Thomas, Rushville, Inc. - In Two Volumes - Illustrated - Volume II - Historical Publishing Company, Indianapolis - 1921 - Page 453
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