Matilda Lois Keys

  General Notes:

Lois' maiden name was found at a web posting at ancestry.com made by Tom Keys (Feb 2004). Tom records her parents as John G. Keys (b Jan 2, 1851 in Rock Camp, Lawrence Co., Ohio, d Dec 7, 1931 in Coal Grove, Lawrence Co., Ohio) and Mary Lucretia Allen (b: 8 Feb 1853, d: Dec 5, 1924), Married: Mar 30, 1870 in Rock Camp, Ohio.

Tom writes the following about John and Mary Keys:
They had 8 Children. He was Lawrence County Comminssioner for 2 terms of 3 years each.
He is buried beside his wife, Mary L. Allen Keys in Lawrence County,Woodland Cemetery, Ironton, Ohio.
Died age 80 years, 11 months and 29 days.
He bought the old homestead and farm after his mother (Elizabeth Lambert Waller Keys) died.
Lawrence County Record of Deaths Ledger 11-88 Register # 21.
"His early education was acquired in the public schools of the county and upon leaving school he went into the milling business at Rock Camp, and then took up farming in Perry Township. He served as treasurer of Perry Township for eight years and was elected county commissioner on the Republican ticket and manages a splendid farm. Personally he is a man of fine address and intelligence. Being thoroughly conversant with the county and its needs and a man of progressive ideas, he has made a valued public servant and enjoys the confidence and respect of all, in the city or the farm." (This news article was written probably before 1900.)

Matilda married Newton Gills Hill, son of Rev. John Henry Hill and Pharabey McComas, about 1899 in Perry Township, Lawrence Co., Ohio. (Newton Gills Hill was born on 25 Dec 1878 in Rock Camp, Perry Township, Lawrence Co., Ohio, died on 4 Feb 1950 in Coal Grove, Lawrence Co., Ohio and was buried on 7 Feb 1950 in Woodland Cemetery, Ironton, Lawrence Co., Ohio.) The cause of his death was Coronary Sclerosis.