Keating-Pope Wedding (7 October 1933)

This image is from the wedding of my grandparents, John William Keating and Sara Elizabeth Pope. It comes from a scanned negative and is a group shot from the wedding and reception that I’d never seen before scanning it in. Read More …

John V. Keating (22 January 1933 – 29 January 2009)

JOHN V. KEATING John V. Keating, 76, of Pine Bluff, formerly of El Dorado, died on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. He was born on Jan. 22, 1933, in El Dorado, the son of Vernon and Virginia Keating. He was reared Read More …

Keating Reunion – Descendants of Michael Keating

On the Keating mailing list, Tom Keating wrote of an upcoming family reunion for descendants of his great-grandfather, Michael Keating: I have been advised that is to be a family reunion of  the descendants of my gr-grandfather, Michael Keating, (1834-1906, Read More …

Births (10 March 1969)

Births Keating–Mr. and Mrs. John W., RD 2, Flintstone, a son yesterday in Memorial. Source: Births, Cumberland Evening Times, Cumberland, Maryland, 10 March 1969, p. 16. [Another cousin, James. – JWK3]

Births (17 January 1968)

Births Keating–Mr. and Mrs. John W., RD 2, Flintstone, a son yesterday in Memorial. Source: Births, Cumberland Evening Times, Cumberland, Maryland, 17 January 1968, p. 30. [This was my second—cousin, who shares a name with me. – JWK3]

John W. Keating (20 May 1870 – 10 June 1941)

John W. Keating Frostburg, June 11–John W. Keating, 71, of 81 Mt. Pleasant street, retired employe of the Consolidation Coal Company, died last night at Allegany Hospital, Cumberland, where he had been admitted last Friday. A member of St. Michael’s Read More …

Mrs. Mary E. (Keating) Cronin (January 1857 – 12 March 1940)

Mrs. Mary E. Cronin Mrs. Mary E. Cronin, 84, widow of Patrick Cronin, died this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Katherine Hawkins, 109 South Smallwood street, following a protracted illness. She was a daughter of the late Read More …

Sara Elizabeth (Pope) Keating (30 April 1913 – 12 September 1974)

Mrs. John W. Keating Frostburg – Mrs. Elizabeth Keating, widow of the late John W. Keating, 3500 Plateau Avenue, Baltimore, died Thursday at her home following an illness of five months. Daughter of the late George and Mary (Carney) Pope, Read More …

Youth’s Body Recovered From Stream (7 April 1965)

Youth’s Body Recovered From Stream A Requiem High Mass will be celebrated for James Joseph Keating Jr., 19, Beans Cove, who was drowned Saturday in the Bush River near Joppa, Md., on Saturday at 11 a.m. in Our Lady of Read More …

V. J. Keating, Native Of Here, Dies (24 January 1964)

V. J. Keating, Native Of Here, Dies Vincent Joseph Keating, 72, who began his newspaper career on the Cumberland Evening Times nearly 50 years ago, died yesterday in San Francisco. Mr. Keating retired as a San Francisco Examiner copy editor Read More …

John William Keating (20 May 1870 – 10 June 1941)

KEATING, John W., aged 71, 87 Mount Pleasant Street, Frostburg, died Tuesday, June 10th. The body will remain at the home where friends and relatives will be received. Funeral Mass Saturday, 9:00 A. M., St. Michael’s Catholic Church. Interment in Read More …

Lonaconing (1 May 1940)

Lonaconing Lonaconing, May 1. Miss Margaret Keating, R. N., was called to Detroit by the illness of her brother John Keating, who underwent a major operation yesterday there. Mr. Keating a month ago attended the funeral of his mother Mrs. Read More …

Lonaconing (5 April 1940)

Lonaconing Lonaconing, April 5. Mr. and Mrs. John Keating and Charles Keating, Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Keating, Nemacolin, Pa.; and Mrs. Sarah Nicol and family, Fairmont, W.Va., were here for the funeral of Mrs. Thomas Keating. Source: Lonaconing, Evening Read More …