Cleopatra Keele

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Birth: Aug. 4, 1858 Springville Utah County Utah, USA

Death: May 1, 1893 Bicknell Wayne County Utah, USA

Cleopatra Burgess was born Aug. 4, 1858 in Cottonwood in the Springville area UT to her parents Samuel I. Burgess and Marinda Hartwell. She was just a baby, under a year old when her mother, Marinda Hartwell left her and her 4 other siblings and her husband. It is said she married a soldier named John Hughes, Jr. She was never heard from again. Sometime after Marinda and Samuel separated, Samuel I. moved his family of 4 very young children first to Washington, UT on a cotton mission and when that failed, they moved on to Pine Valley, UT. She was raised without a mother and is reported her father's mother, Mary Ann Nullis Burgess, or grandmother Burgess, passed away in St. George, UT when Cleopartra was only 4 years old and had helped to raise her the first 4 years of her life. Then her 10 year old sister, Laura, stepped in to help raise her. It must have been a hard and sad life not to have the love and nurturing of a mother. She was baptized 8 May 1870. Not much is know of her life in Pine Valley until she married William Augustus Keele on 25 May 1876. They had 8 children. Her first child, Cleopatra died at 7 months old. Lois Keele Williams relates a story: "In an effort to save Cleopatra's last baby from miscarriage, in those days they would pack a mother with the hot entrails from a freshly killed chicken..that's just what they did to Cleopatra. However, she did loose her last baby, Ellen in 1892." Cleopatra died the following year. She left behind 5 young children. She died May 1, 1893 in Bicknell, Wayne County, Utah and is buried in the Bicknell Cemetery.

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Parents:

• Samuel Israel Burgess (1826 - 1875)

Spouse:

• William Augustus Keele (1852 - 1924)

Children:

• Cleopatra Keele (1877 - 1877)*
• William Augustus Keele (1878 - 1973)*
• Thomas Alexander Keele (1881 - 1973)*
• John Keele (1884 - 1901)*
• Frank Keele (1886 - 1960)*
• Julia Clista Keele Mickelson (1889 - 1977)*
• Samuel Keele (1891 - 1891)*
• Ellen Keele (1892 - 1892)*

Burial: Bicknell Cemetery Bicknell Wayne County Utah, USA

Sometime after Marinda and Samuel separated, Samuel I. moved his family of 4 very young children first to Washington, Utah on a cotton mission and when that failed, they moved on to Pine Valley, Utah. She was raised without a mother and is reported her father's mother, Mary Ann Nullis Burgess, or grandmother Burgess, passed away in St. George, UT when Cleopartra was only 4 years old and had helped to raise her the first 4 years of her life. Then her 10 year old sister, Laura, stepped in to help raise her. It must have been a hard and sad life not to have the love and nurturing of a mother. She was baptized 8 May 1870.

Not much is know of her life in Pine Valley until she married William Augustus Keele on 25 May 1876. They had 8 children. Her first child, Cleopatra died at 7 months old. Lois Keele Williams relates a story: "In an effort to save Cleopatra's last baby from miscarriage, in those days they would pack a mother with the hot entrails from a freshly killed chicken..that's just what they did to Cleopatra. However, she did loose her last baby, Ellen in 1892." Cleopatra died the following year. She left behind 5 young children. She died May 1, 1893 in Bicknell, Wayne County, Utah and is buried in the Bicknell Cemetery.

Parents:

Samuel Israel Burgess 1826 - 1875

Spouse:

William Augustus Keele 1852 - 1924

Children:

Cleopatra Keele 1877 - 1877

William Augustus Keele 1878 - 1973

Thomas Alexander Keele 1881 - 1973

John Keele 1884 - 1901

Frank Keele 1886 - 1960

Julia Calista Keele Mickelson 1889 - 1977

Samuel Keele 1891 - 1891

Ellen Keele 1892 - 1892

Created by: Lisa Tarbox

Record added: Feb 09, 2011

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