For week two, I am choosing my 2nd great grandmother. For years I only knew her first name was Kate. A user at ancestry.com helped me discover her full name was Katherine Viola Keller.
Katherine Viola Keller was born on March 4, 1887 in Spring Grove, Wisconsin to Jacob E. Keller (1843-1931) and Mary Elizabeth Newcomer (1850-1895). Katherine would of just been eight years old when her mother passed in 1895 and they were living in McLeod, Minnesota. By 1900, Katherine and her family had moved back to Spring Grove, Wisconsin. At the age of 17, Katherine married Walton Ward Greene on January 11, 1905. They welcomed their first child Chester Walton Greene (my great grandfather) on December 26, 1905 (Chester passed in 1967). Katherine and Walton had three other children Ora Belle (1908-1988), Georgia Mary (1922-2008) and a son that I have being born in 1923. I wasn't positive if he was still living so I didn't want to include this name for privacy concerns.
Katherine passed away at age 58 on August 5, 1945 in Avon, Rock, Wisconsin.
Ancestry
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