Third Generation:		Grant Uncle / Great Aunt
Family Group Sheet:  David Fullmer Keaton and Annie Marie Andersen

Name:	David Fullmer Keaton

Birth:	14 Apr 1879	Salt Lake City, Salt lake, Utah
Death:	5 Oct 1931	Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona
Burial:	18 Oct 1931	Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona
Father:	George Dennis Keaton
Mother:	Rhoda Joane Fullmer
Marriage:	20 Dec 1904	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah   

Spouse:	Annie Marie Andersen1
Birth:	30 Apr 1884	Hals, Aalborg, Denmark
Death:	20 Mar 1953	Burley, Cassia, ID, USA
Burial:	24 Mar 1953	Burley, Cassia, ID, USA
Father:	Anders Peter Andreasen-Glad (1859-1938)
Mother:	Matilda Larsen (1864-1938)

Children
1 F:	Rhoda Marie Keaton
Birth:	3 Oct 1905	Bingham, Salt Lake, Utah
Death:	20 Mar 1953	Burley, Cassia, Idaho
Spouse:	Arthur Valoris Dayley
Marriage:	3 Oct 1923	Burley, Cassia, Idaho
	Children:	Dorothy Anna (1925-)
		Nelda May (1926-)
		Lois Carrie (1927-)
		Maxine Rhoda (1929-)
		Arthur David (1939-)
		Robert Charles (1949-)
2 M:	George David Keaton
Birth:	8 Dec 1910	Lark, Salt Lake, Utah
Death:	4 Jan 1992
Spouse:	Jaunita Claire Howard
Marriage:	1 Oct 1938
	Children:	George Dennis (1941-)
		James Eugene (1943-)
3 M:	Eugene Anders Keaton
Birth:	3 Dec 1912	Lark, Salt Lake, Utah
Death:	Nov 1981	Rupert, Minidoka, Idaho
Spouse:	Dorothy Francis Wheeler
Marriage:	26 Jul 1936
	Children:	Marjorie Ann (1941-)
		Marion Elaine (1945-)
		Jean Marie (1948-)
		Allen Paul (1952-)
4 M:	David Woodrow Keaton
Birth:	21 Nov 1917	Lark, Salt Lake, Utah
Spouse:	Margaret May MacMillan
Marriage:	25 Sep 1938
	Children:	David William (1947-)
		Paul Michael (1951-)
5 F:	Anna Mathilda Keaton
Birth:	27 Oct 1919	Burley, Cassia, Idaho
Spouse:	Clair Rothberg Killen
Marriage:	14 Nov 1942
	Children:	Donna Clair (1945-)
		Jeffrey Exis (1948-)

Notes for David Fullmer Keaton
Divorced 14 Aug 1961.
Sources
1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Ancestral File (R),” Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998.

THE LIFE STORY OF ANNIE MARIE ANDERSEN KEATON 
( by her daughter Rhoda Dayley) 

	Mother was born 30 April 1884 in Hals, Aalborg, Denmark, the eldest daughter and second child of Anders Peter Andersen and Matilda Larsen. There were 16 children born into this family; eight boys and eight girls. They all lived to raise families of their own except one little girl who died as a baby in Denmark and one little boy who also died as a baby in Utah.  I have heard grandmother say that she always worked in the fields along with the rest of the family.   When a baby was born she would stay in bed for a day or so and then would be up and working again.  On the tenth day, she would go back to bed for a day because they thought all the things in her "tummy” had not gone back into place.  She didn’t have a Doctor except for the last four that were born in Utah. 
	These ancestors were not pioneers because they arrived after the railroad was completed. It is interesting how they heard about the Gospel. Anders Peter Andersen had an uncle who came to America about the mid 1880's and settled in South Dakota. After a few years he found he had more land than he could take care of alone so he sent money back to his relatives in Denmark for some young man in the family to come and work for him.  It was decided that Niels Peter Andersen, a younger brother of grandfathers would go. So he went to Copenhagen and made arrangements to sail to America. As it would be several days before the ship would sail, he decided to take a walk down town and see the sights before leaving.  As he walked he noticed a crowd of people on a corner, having a lot of fun,so he went closer. There he saw two well dressed young men standing on a box, and as he put it "butchering the King's Danish", he desided to join in the fun, but as he stood there he began to listen to what they were saying, or trying to say, and suddenly he knew they were teaching were truth. He knew then that he must go to Salt Lake City and meet those people and learn more. Then he realized he already had a ticket in his pocket for Americs. So when he arrived he didn't go to South Dakota, but went directly to Salt Lake City.    He joined the church, found work and within two years he paid his uncle all the money he owed him plus interest. Then the uncle sent back to Denmark for another nephew, and Mads Peter Andersen, another of grandfather!s brothers was chosen to go. 	Mads went directly to his uncle’s farm in South Dakota and worked for him but as soon as his brother Niels knew about it he started to write to him about the church and finally, he too left South Dakota and came to Salt Lake City. After some time he also joined the church,found work and stayed.  In about 1901 Niels was called to go back to Denmark on a Mission for the Church and while there he taught the Gospel to his brother Anders Peter and family. Anders, by this time had quite a large family.  There were eleven living children.  As it was difficult to get enough money to pay passage on the ship for so many they sent two of the children with returning missionaries to Utah to stay with relatives.  Then the rest of the family came the next year. These two children were a girl, Chriatene, about 12 years old and James about 9. Can you imagine what it would be like to be that young and travel to a strange country without your parents or family and not be able to speak the language? Even the food was different.  I remember hearing aunt Christene tell about one stop the train made somewhere along the way.  She saw a peddler by the side of the track or in the Depot, selling the most delicious Apples she had ever seen.  She bought a few and could hardly wait to sink her teeth into one.  But when she did it was the nastiest thing she had ever tasted. They could not eat them.  But she had been taught to never waste anything so she placed the little bag of apples on a fence post near by.   It wasn’t until years later that she discovered those apples had really been tomatoes.  She had never seen them before.  It took her a while to learn to like tomatoes but she did.  
	In the spring of 1903 the rest of the family came to Utah except Andrew,the oldest child.  He was engaged to marry a girl whose parents were very bitter toward the church and would not let their daughter marry him if he joined the church.  However, many years later when grandfather went to Denmark on a miission he visited the family but they still wanted nothing to do with the church. Their oldest son, Chris, came to this country but hasn't joined the church. My mother did not want to came to America either. (I have thought that she had a boyfriend there also and didn't want to leave him.  However, I didn't ever ask her).  Grandfather was determined to bring his family to Utah but grandmother refused to leave my mother because she was crippled.  Mother had fallen in the ice when about 8 years of age and dislocated her hip.  The Doctor didn’t know how to put it back in place.  She spent eleven months flat on her back ln bed ,with a weight hanging from her leg hoping that would take care of it. But it didn’t so she was unable to work in the fields with the rest of the family. It was her job to care for the babies as best she could and knit all the sox and stockings for the entire family.  When she was older she learned the dressmaker trade. In those days the instructor would take her studenta along with their baggage and equipment and travel from house to house staying in each home while doing all the sewing needed in each home. Thls is the way the students learned the trade and they learned it well.  Mothar was an excellent seemstress and taylor.  she learned the tayloring trade after she came to Utah by working in her Uncle Nei1's taylor shop. 	When mother could see that the family would be broken up if she dldn’t come with them she came and was baptized about a year later.  She learned the english language by studing the dictionary while riding the street car to and from work and evenings. She always spoke very good english.  Her family lived in Bluffdale then later in Riverton which was 20 or more miles south of Salt Lake City so she stayed in town.  At least part of the time she roomed with Alice Keaton and another girl whose name may hav been Blanch.  I don’t remember what her name was but that is how my mother and father, David Fullmer Keeton. met each other. They were married 20 Dec 1904, in Salt Lake City.  I don't know when they moved to upper Bingham Canyon by the copper mines, but I was born there 3 Oct 1905. When I was about one year old mother had to have her hip operated on as tuberculosis (I think this is a wrong diagnosis) had developed in the hip joint and they had to remove the hip joint end about three inches of the thigh bone which resulted in her left leg being 5 inches shorter then the right one.   From then on she walked with a cane and wore a built up shoe. Prior to this surgery she walked with crutches.  She had beautiful red hair and deep blue eyes.  She was 5ft 7inches tall and weighed about 140 lbs. and had a very good figure.  I remember hearing her tell about how she helped Alice and Blanch cinch up their corsets to make their waist smaller but she did not have that problem.  Her life was not a very happy one but she was always cheerful and pleaaant. She was never active in the church, probably because it was so hard for her to get around and we walked everywhere we went.  However, she always welcomed the visiting teachers into her home and always defended the church when others spoke against it.  When she lived with me toward the last part of her life, she always attended Relief Society with me and loved it. Because of her hip problem, she had a difficult time in child birth, however,  ahe gave birth to four more children, George David b. 8 Dec l910, Eugene Anders b. 3 Dec 19l2, David Woodrow b. 21 Nov 1917 and Anna Matilda b. 27 Oct l9l9.  Grandfather moved his family to the Burley Idaho area about 1914 because he wanted to own his own land and it was cheap at that time.  Part of the land he bought was claared and it had a small house on it.  My folks came to visit them about 1917 and bought a 40 acre farm that was cleared but had no buildings.  In 1918 my father came back to Idaho and contracted a house to be built.  It was to be a four room brick home.  He then rented the farm out for the summer and we eventually moved to the farm late in Oct 19l9 just before Anna was born.  Dad was not a farmer and actually knew absolutely nothing about farming.  So inspite of the fact that the farm and house were paid for and he had several thousand dollars cash, he had to mortgage the place and within four years we lost it.  He wanted to go back to the mines but mother would not go.  The marriage had never been happy and seemed to get worse as time went on.  Mom felt that she needed to stay close to her family so Dad left.  He came home once at christmas time just after I had married.  We all stayed on the farm until February when mother and the kids moved to Burley and my husband and I moved to another farm in the neighborhood.  Dad stayed just a few days, then went back to the mines and we never saw him again.  Mother supported herself and the four younger kids by sewing.  There was no such thing as welfare, or aid to dependant children or anything like that.  The county had a fund that they used to help widows a little but mother was not a widow so the kids worked at whatever they could get and hepled put themselves through school.  We all graduated from High School (Eugene was on the Honor roll) except George.  We helped as much as we could and so did Grandfather but we had a very hard time of it..  Early in Oct 1931 we received word that Dad had died in Phoenix, Arizona.   Up until then we had no idea where he was.  When mother had sold her last crop an the farm, she had put $100.00 in the bank because ahe had a feeling she would need it for him some day.  So she sent it for his burial in a cemetery so  he would not be put in the potters field.  She could have used that money for herself or one of the kids many times but did not.  Some years latter I had a nice headstone placed on his grave after my sister, Anna, had located it. Even though she was crippled she was not an invalid. She did all her own house work and her house was always clean. We didn’t have a well on our farm so we carried every drop of water we used from a well on an abandoned farm across the road. We had to pull the water up out of a 50 ft.well with a bucket on the end of a rope for all the animals and all household use.  We led the cow and horses to the well but carried it to the pigs, chickens and calves.  Us kids did most of the watering but I am sure that many times mother had to do it  when dad would be roaming the hills looking for metals and us kids were in school or later when I would be away working. We had none of the modern conveniences, we didn’t have electricity on the farm like we did when we lived in Utah.  We only had cold running water in the house then too. 
	I don't remember how long we lived in Bingham Canyon. I know that we lived 1n Ogden for a whi1e before we moved to Lark, Utah where George was born and we lived in the same house until we moved to Idaho.  In the summer of 1929 Mom had a serious heart attack, I sent my three little girls down the street to my mother-in-law and stayed with mother unti1 she could be moved.  Then I brought her to my house and took care of her until she was able to go back home. She continued to sew and care for herself until after Anna graduated and went to California to study art.  Then her health became so bad she had to give up and spent the next several years living with first one and then another of us kids.  But she was always busy with her hands and made beautiful crochet pieces.  She would give some away but some she sold through the Mormon Handicraft Shop in Salt Lake City.  She had a beautiful table cloth about 3/4 done when her health became so bad she couldn’t finish it.  A few years after she passed away I finished it for her.  The last couple of years of her life were spent in a nursing home where she passed away on March 20, 1953 of another heart attack.  She is buried by her mather and father in the Pleaaant View cemetery, Burley, Idaho
Left – Right:
Rhoda Keaton Dayley’s child
Rhoda Marie Keaton (1905)
Annie Marie Andersen Keaton (1884)
Mathilde Larsen Andersen (1864)