keaton, c l
unknown – unknown
- Name variants
- Col. C. L. Keaton
- Record count
- 10
- Sources
- life_events
- Places seen
- Dexter; Poplar Bluff; Tennessee
- First event date
- 1833
- Last event date
- 1913-10-01
Timeline — 6 events
- 1833 Tennessee. Born 1833 in Tennessee; oldest practicing attorney of the Southeast Missouri bar after deaths of Major Henry H. Bedford and S. M. Chapman Quote: "Col. Keaton was born in 1833 and is consequently 77 years old"
- 1860 Tennessee; Dexter. Taught school in Tennessee; began study of law 1860; entered Confederate service as a private soldier; fought to the battle of Atlanta, July 1864, badly wounded in foot and hand; president of the Lampasas Masonic Female College, Georgia; practiced at Savannah, Tennessee, then Bloo…
- 1910-04-06 Dexter. The deaths of Major Henry H. Bedford of Dexter and S. M. Chapman of Poplar Bluff leave Col. C. L. Keaton of Dexter the oldest practicing attorney of the Southeast Missouri bar. Col. Keaton was born in 1833 (Tennessee) and is 77 years old; taught school until 1860; entered the Confederate ser…
- 1912-10-16 Dexter. Col. C. L. Keaton, of Dexter, was here this week looking after the interest of his clients in the circuit court Quote: "Col. C. L. Keaton, of Dexter, was here this week looking after the interest of his clients in the circuit court."
- 1913-02-12 Dexter. Col. C. L. Keaton had held the distinction of being the oldest resident of Dexter until Uncle Jess McCollum returned from Texas Co-mentioned: Uncle Jess McCollum. Quote: "Col. C. L. Keaton has lost his job of being the oldest resident of Dexter"
- 1913-10-01 Poplar Bluff. Col. C. L. Keaton was in Poplar Bluff today on legal business Quote: "Col. C. L. Keaton is in Poplar Bluff today on legal business."
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