[or-roots] John Brooks Kiezer/ Mea Culpa

[Leslie Chapman]

All I can say Pat is WOW!

And I promise I will not take three years to get that in my family file or
come asking for more information without first seeing if I already Have the
information.

Speaking of which, I went online last night lookin for more information on
Ennis Keizer. Ironically I didn't find a lot on him, but I found his brother
Phil's Obit, he was quite a guy also, lived until age 95 and was just as
important in the medical profession as brother Ennis.

As with so many families the name repetitions are confusing things. Dan
Keizer is my source for Francis Marion Kiezer ma Mable Zieber and I wonder
if he confused FM with FM in the next generation who I seem to have in my
data base as Sylvanus Frank???

The caption on the photo of Mable that you found clearly states Francis M.
Keizer father of the founders of the North Bend hospital which brings us
full circle to why these folks hold such fascination for me as my wife, her
little brother and a number of the folks more closely related to Mable
(Zieber) Keizer, ie. Mable (Keizer) Hansen's family, were born there.

Are we confused yet.

I definitely need to get to Coos Bay and root around in the cemeteries to
see what I can learn there.

If Francis Marion is buried there it will clear up a bunch.

My great uncle Harry Burd Melvin supposedly died in Alaska too, but
according to MMM III and his sister claimed that was incorrect. She recently
sent me a bunch of scanned images of my grand parents generation and some of
the great grands which we don't have captions for many of. We sort of know
who some of them are but ??

And I am rapidly becoming one of the few left who even has a clue because I
am way to close to being patriarch of the clan.

More questions every time you get some answers.

Thank you again Pat. This will probably take me weeks to sort out, if I can
just stick to it.

Les C