The parents of Chesley Philip Key are Nancy Helen Palmer and Thomas Jefferson Key.
Chesley was born @1858 possibly in Helena, Arkansas (at least his parent's lived there).
Thomas Jefferson Key was born in 1831 in Tennessee. He was a major during the Civil War.
He was a newspaper publisher throughout the South (Alabama. Mississippi, maybe Arkansas,)
He and Nancy lived in Louisville, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee where they both died)
Nancy Palmer was from Tuscumbia, Alabama. She is my great, great aunt. Her son Chesley
had children born in Houston County Tennessee , several of them stayed in that area, some
migrated to Southern Illinois (Madison County). Chesley died about 1920 in Memphis,
Tennessee.
I am Marcia (Mrs John Bower), Tempe, AZ. My sister and several of her children live in St
Clair County, one of her daughters and her family haved lived in Dover, Cumberland City,
Dickson, and McEwen Tennessee.
Hope to "hear " from you soon !
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Clair County, one of her daughters and her family have lived in Dover, Cumberland City,
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iI Marcia (Mrs