The Buchanan Family

Sarah Frances Buchanan, daughter of John Buchanan and Elanore Keeling

married William Franklin Smith December 24, 1887

Sarah Frances Buchanan was born January 1, 1864, in St. Paul, Arkansas. She died April, 1937 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

John Littleton Trout Buchanan was born April 26, 1834 in Sadler, Texas (one family records shows his birth place to be Madison County, Arkansas) and married Elanore Keeling on April 3, 1856

John died on August 22, 1907 at Whitesboro, Grayson County, Texas.

Elanore Keeling may have been the widow of Weldon Keeling. Her maiden name may have been Elanore Jane Perry, born in 1838 in Tennessee. She died between 1866 and 1870 in Madison County, Arkansas.

John and Elanore had at least five children:

· Mary Jane Buchanan – born May 23, 1857

· Margaret Buchanan – born about 1859

· John Buchanan – born May 28, 1860

· Sarah Frances Buchanan – born January 1, 1864

· George Buchanan – born about 1866

Sarah Frances "Fannie" and William Franklin "Frank" had 9 children, 6 of whom lived past infancy

Sarah Frances Buchanan	Sarah Frances Buchanan Smith and William Franklin Smith with three of their young children

This Buchanan family of Arkansas and Texas may have been Buckhanan, Buckhannan, or even Buckhannon in some public records. Our own family records show that John Buchanan married Elanore Keeling. However, an exhaustive search of the Keeling family history did not turn up an Elanore until I found that Weldon Keeling died December 25, 1858 in Madison County, Arkansas, leaving a young widow named Elanore Jane Perry Keeling.

In the 1860 census for Madison County, Arkansas, John Buchanan is married to E.J., and there is a Harlan Keeling living with the Buchanan family too. My conclusion is that Elanore Jane Keeling married John Buchanan.

However, I should mention that I found a website for the Airheart family that showed John Buchanan was married to an Ellen J. Pfaff. The dates don’t match and Ellen’s name is not part of our family history, but the E.J. certainly fits the census record.

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