Keils Cemetery

 

This is a White Cemetery

From Buffalo take Highway 79 east 7.7 miles to FM 832.  South on FM 832 to CR 223.  West & South on CR 223 a total of 4 miles.

KEILS, Albert D.
     b. Alabama
     Son of Isaac & Niecy Keils
     Was murdered
1821 July 28, 1870
KEILS, John
     b. Mississippi
     Son of Albert D. & Mahala Keils
1856 ca 1910
KEILS, Mahala
     b. S.C.
     Dau of Jacob & Mary Govan Utsey
1823 1905
KEILS, William “Shug”
     b. Alabama
     Son of Albert D. & Mahala U. Keils
     Was murdered
  before 1880

It is thought more are buried here.

There is on large stone placed here.  All of A.D. and M.A. Keils’ children are listed on it. 1856 is listed as the year they came to Keechi.  On the back of the stone, the names of the M.A. Keils Sr. family is listed and grandchildren are also listed.

Keils Cemetery is located on land in the Leander Burns Survey on the land settled by A.D. & M.A. Keils in 1856.

It is now owned in 2000 by their great great grandson

Other children of Albert & Mahala not in Keils Cemetery are: (1) Govan Keils, (2) Mary L. Keils, (3) John Keils, (4) James Keils, (5) Zelpha Keils, and (6) Albert D. Keils II

2000 information provided by N. Meredith,  707 Spruce, Teague Texas 75860