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KERAN, J. P., far., Sec. 35; P. O. New Boston; born in Coles Co., Ill., Dec. 30, 1839; came to Lee Co. in 1843; first settled in Augusta, thence removed to Charleston Tp. Married Miss M. A. Britton March 1, 1866; she was born in Guernsey Co., Ohio, April 11, 1837; her parents came to Lee Co. in 1838. Mr. K. has one child living — Charles C., born March 24, 1876, and three deceased, Fletcher B., born Dec. 22, 1866, and was drowned at 18 months of age; the others, twins, a boy and girl, born Aug. 28, 1874, and died the same year. Mr. Keran owns seventy one and a half acres of land. He enlisted March 15, 1862, and served till the close of the war, in Co. I, 17th Iowa V. I.; was in eight battles — Iuka, Miss., Corinth, the evacuation of Corinth, Baker’s Creek, Missionary Ridge, Jackson, Miss., siege of Vicksburg and Tilton Grove, where he was taken prisoner, and held in Andersonville Prison six months and nine days, and when released was a mere skeleton, and still suffers ill-health from his privations and a sunstroke.