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My grandfather, Caspar Keller's son, entered large tracts of land in Alabama and finally settled there.

I have been told that once a year he went from Tuscumbia to Philadelphia on horseback to purchase supplies for the plantation, and my aunt has in her possession many of the letters to his family, which give charming and vivid accounts of these trips.

My Grandmother Keller was a daughter of one of Lafayette's aides, Alexander Moore, and granddaughter of Alexander Spotswood, an early Colonial Governor of Virginia.

She was also second cousin to Robert E. Lee.

My father, Arthur H. Keller, was a captain in the Confederate Army, and my mother, Kate Adams, was his second wife and many years younger.

Her grandfather, Benjamin Adams, married Susanna E. Goodhue, and lived in Newbury, Massachusetts, for many years.

Their son, Charles Adams, was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and moved to Helena, Arkansas.

When the Civil War broke out, he fought on the side of the South and became a brigadier-general.

He married Lucy Helen Everett, who belonged to the same family of Everetts as Edward Everett and Dr. Edward Everett Hale.

After the war was over the family moved to Memphis, Tennessee.