Monday, October 23, 2023

October 23, 1938 - Amelia E. Keeney

Amelia E. Keeney
16 March 1914* - 23 October 1938
Clustered Spires Cemetery
Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland

From the author's personal collection

From birth:

Maryland State Archives "Maryland Birth Index 1910-1951 MSA SM27 1-52" Reclaim The Records (http://archive.org ; accessed 16 October 2023)

To Death:

Maryland State Archives "Maryland Death Certificates 1938-1940 MSA SE43 5953-6780" Reclaim The Records (http://archive.org ; accessed 16 October 2023)


The obituary:

The Frederick Post
Frederick, MD
October 24, 1938


MISS AMELIA E. KEENEY
    Miss Amelia Elizabeth Keeney, 214 1/2 East Sixth street, died suddenly at University Hospital, Baltimore, Sunday afternoon at 3.20 o'clock. She had been in ill health for five months. She was aged 15 years, 7 months, 7 days. She was a member of Trinity M. E. church, South and the Sunday school of that church, and is survived by her mother, Mrs. Teeney Keeney and one brother, Walter H. Keeney, at home. The body will be taken to the home of her mother this evening and the funeral will take place from Trinity church Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. Interment Frederick Memorial cemetery. M. R. Etchison and Son, funeral directors. 


*The Maryland Birth Index has 1923 as the year of birth and the obituary has her age as 15 with the mother being the informant. Not sure about gravestone having 1914 as year of birth.