William Horton Keen

Going by Horton, in 1860 he was a 19 year old farm worker living with 2 younger siblings and (or next door to) his mother and stepfather Posey near Adams in Wilcox County, GA. He enlisted on 3 March 1862 in Abbeville, GA and mustered as a Private in Company H, 10th Georgia Infantry, the Wilcox County Rifles.

He was with his company in Maryland.

He was with his unit without break to the end of the war, and was surrendered with them and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

He married in Wilcox County, GA in 1870, and by 1880 and to at least 1900 was a farmer there. By 1910 he had retired and was living with his oldest son Ashley and family on their farm in Wilcox County; he'd become totally blind due to iritis by 1914.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His continuous presence with his regiment from enlistment to Appomattox and other details are from his 1910 Confederate pension application, online from the Georgia Archives Virtual Vault. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to great-grandson Buford Keene for the pointer to his ancestor.

He married Emily P. "Emma" Scaff (1845-1916) in March 1870 and they had 9 children.

10/04/1841; Irwin County, GA

10/07/1917; Wilcox County, GA; burial in Siloam Baptist Church Cemetery, Abbeville, GA