Raona -

Thanks for your email. I will email you the will and a couple others you might find interesting,and also part of the 1871 Cherryhill map where I've circled a couple of names that appear on the will. The will mentions some adjoining property that can be seen on the map.

I have W. B. Keller's obituary but it is totally silent about any parents, siblings or relatives at all except for his immediate family. Your suggestion inspired me, though, to look up obits for some other relatives. I willl have quite a bill for copying, but it will be worth it.

I did look on the 1860 census for William Davis and found him listed as a farm laborer living with the family listed next after the G Keller family, so it could be that he was working for neighbors at the time. I don't know why he wouldn't have stayed wil the Kellers, but maybe they didn't need him. It dous say he attended school, which may indicate soem type of family connection (to pay for the school).

In one of W. B. Keller's letters from around 1910 in his pension file at the Archives, he says that he can't produce evidence of his birth date because the family bible was distroyed when their house burned down on March 9, 1856. I don't know why he would be so specific about the date so many years later, but I am hoping to find a newspaper from that time that covers that date, and hopefully there will be some reference to a house fire. That could be a useful find if it's out there.

Anyway, please let me know your thoughts on the wills that I send you.

Thanks,

Harry Raab