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KEENE FAMILY HISTORY

and GENEALOGY

By ELIAS JONES

BALTIMORE, MD.

1923.

PRESS OF

KOHN AND POLLOCK, INC.

BALTIMORE, MD.

Copyright 1923, by

ELIAS JONES

All rights reserved

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(From collection of Mrs. Hester Dorsey Richardson, author of Side-Lights on Maryland History)

PREFACE

The Holy Bible records that Family History was begun to be written quite early by man, who did not make full family lines, except for male descent, which has ever left a perplexing and unanswerable question: "Who was Cain's wife?" and many other men's wives. In this age of equality in sexes in civil rights woman rightfully shares an equal consideration with man. A complete genealogy of all the people is one great need of the present day, which active co-operation of people and state can readily make. Old genealogical lines could be largely and usefully amended if the people would consent to honor their dead kindred by giving their names, now moulding and decaying away in old family Bibles, and other private family records, for publication and preservation in booklet form for private uses and public libraries as this book is being published by the author.

ELIAS JONES.

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