David H. Keaggy

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Farm Laborer, 1860, Centre Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania. From 1860 Census

Living with his mother.

• Biography: From A History of the Kagy Relationship in America from 1715 to 1900, 1899. A History of the Kagy Relationship in America from 1715 to 1900
by Franklin Keagy
Harrisburg, Pa.
Harrisburg Publishing Company
1899

DAVID H. KEAGGY was b. in Indiana Co., Pa., Feb. 26, 1842; worked on a farm until he was 16 years of age, and then went to Allegheny City, Pa., in 1858, and was in the employ of the Fort Wayne Railroad when the war broke out; enlisted in 1861, and was discharged Aug. 1, 1865; he served in the army and navy with credit and won distinction.

David H. Keaggy stands 5 feet 11½ inches high in his stockings, weighs 160 pounds, is as straight as an arrow, agile as a boy of 15, has dark curly hair and gray eyes. There is a most striking resemblance between his family and the sons and grandsons of Rudolph Kägy who came to America in 1764. Independent of this resemblance, there is not only legendary, but documentary proof that the families are more closely allied to each other than either of them are to any of the other branches of the Kägy family in America. The documents above referred to were given into the hands of a Philadelphia, Pa., lawyer, to establish title to some expected fortune in the old country. The lawyer died and the papers, deeds, etc., were lost and with them all claim to the estate.

David H. Keaggy has had an eventful life. His youth was spent upon the farm until his sixteenth year. He then engaged in railroading five years on the Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad as freight and passenger conductor and served three years on the Pennsylvania Railroad in the same capacity. In the latter part of 1861 he enlisted in the 123d Regt., Co. H, Pa. Vol., as fifth corporal, and participated in all the battles in which his regiment was engaged up to the battle of Gettysburg. At Fredericksburg he was wounded in the leg, but only flesh wounds. After the Gettysburg fight he returned home, and soon afterward enlisted in the United States Navy as ensign on board the United States volunteers dispatch boat, and was also a short time on the iron clad "Neoshia," and participated in several naval engagements. He was mustered out of the service Aug. 25, 1865, with a record of which he may justly lte proud. Mr. Keaggy has been a merchant, then farmer, then merchant, then an oil prospector, auctioneer, landlord, horse dealer, and is now the superintendent of his deceased uncle's (H. G. Lomison) estate at Greensburg, Pa., now the property of his younger brother, who inherited it by virtue of his uncle's will. The estate is valued at $700,000 dollars.

In 1867 he married a daughter of John J. Henderson and the widow of Henry Shafer, and to them were born three sons: John B., b. Oct. 27, 1886, and David H., b. April 16, 1890; the eldest son, D. H., Jr., was b. Oct. 27, 1876, and d. April 16, 1880.

Note: There must be an error in the listing of his children as there are two named David H. with one dying the day the other was born.

• Pension: From Family Search org. Name: David H. Keaggy
Rank: Corp.
Company: A
Regiment: 123
State: Pennsylvania
Arm of Service: Infantry
Date of Filing:
State/Arm of Service:
Company/Regiment:
Publication Title: Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900
NARA Publication Number: T289
Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration
Collection Title: Civil War Pensions

• Occupation: Agent, 1900, Allegany City, Allegany, Pennsylvania. From 1900 Census

• Occupation: Farmer on Home Farm, 1910, Mead, Crawford, Pennsylvania. From 1910 Census

David married Sarah J. Henderson, daughter of John J. Henderson and Unknown, in 1868. (Sarah J. Henderson was born in Mar 1841 in Pennsylvania.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage Banns: 1900 Census states they have been married 32 years.