{"id":1832,"date":"2014-07-30T20:45:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T01:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne2\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2014-07-30T20:45:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T01:45:24","slug":"keeton-robert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/keeton-robert\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeton, Robert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KEETON, Robert<\/strong>, born July 1892, son of John T., (b. Jan 1850) and Mary E. (July 1859 &#8211; 1944) KEETON. His siblings were Mildred KEETON, b. Jan 1883, married Joe WILSON; Florida P., KEETON, b. March 1889, married Mr. BUCHANAN and lived in Giles Co., TN; Oscar KEETON, b. July 1878, d. 1956, married Clara and had two children: Luree and Townsend[?]; Charlie KEETON, b. May 1881; Flake KEETON (see sketch above); Harry KEETON, who married Aileen DICKEY; Walter KEETON, Oct 1896-1987; and Bruce KEETON.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting Robert&#8217;s niece, Mary WILSON, daughter of Mildred and Joe, as she had heard her Grandma KEETON say often &#8220;I&#8217;d go OVER THERE to fight any time rather than have them fight on OUR soil; they did not respect the women and children &#8211; were very cruel to them.<\/p>\n<p>Robert never saw anyone he knew over there until the Germans surrendered. Rob and his company were pulling out of Germany when a jeep [sic] passed by with someone waving and yelling &#8220;Bob, Bob!&#8221;; it was Bob Pointer from Waynesboro who recognized KEETON.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KEETON, Robert, born July 1892, son of John T., (b. Jan 1850) and Mary E. (July 1859 &#8211; 1944) KEETON. His siblings were Mildred KEETON, b. Jan 1883, married Joe WILSON; Florida P., KEETON, b. March 1889, married Mr. BUCHANAN and lived in Giles Co., TN; Oscar KEETON, b. July 1878, d. 1956, married Clara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[391],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteranbiography","tag-keeton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/wayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}