Edwin Augustus Keeble

Background

Edwin Keeble was born on February 14, 1807, in Cumberland County, Virginia, United States. He was the son of Walter and Amanda Shrewsbury Keeble.

Education

Edwin Augustus Keeble attended the University of North Carolina.

Career

Edwin Augustus Keeble was the publisher and editor of the Murfreesboro Central Monitor in 1834 and the Monitor in 1835. From 1838 to 1855, he was the Democratic mayor of Murfreesboro. He also served as speaker of the lower house of Tennessee in the late 1850s and as director of a savings institute prior to the Civil War. Edwin Keeble served in the Tennessee state legislature in 1861. Keeble was elected to the second Confederate Congress in 1863 without opposition. He represented the 6th district of that state in the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865.

A Davis administration supporter, he served on the Judiciary Committee. After the war, he returned to the practice of law and was an opponent of the Brownlow administration.

Achievements

• Edwin Augustus Keeble was the Democratic mayor of Murfreesboro. He was elected to the second Confederate Congress without opposition. Edwin also served on the Judiciary Committee.

Connections

Edwin Keeble had four children by his first marriage. On November 30, 1836, following his first wife’s death, he married Mary West Maney, by whom he had five children. He had a son, John Bell Keeble, by his third marriage to Sally Dickinson Bell.

Father:

Walter Keeble

Mother:

Amanda Shrewsbury Keeble

Wife:

Sally Dickinson Bell

ex-wife:

Mary West Maney

late wife:

Susan Keeble

Sister:

Sarah Jane Wendel

Son:

Richard H. Keeble

Son:

John Bell Keeble

References

• The Historical Atlas of the Congresses of the Confederate States of America 1861-1865
  1994
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
  2003