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Civil War Confederate Army Officer. He was the father of Helen Keller. The Confederate headstone for Arthur Henley Keller reflects his rank during his service with the Confederate States Army. However, in 1883 Arthur Henley Keller was commissioned as a Lieutenant Colonel of Cavalry in the Alabama State Troops (the Militia) and appointed to the position of Aide-de-Camp on the personal military staff of Gov. Edward A. O'Neal. His commission was announced in The Greenville Advocate (Greenville, Alabama) on March 28, 1883. Capt Arthur Henley Keller BIRTH 5 Feb 1836, Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Alabama, USA DEATH 29 Aug 1896 (aged 60), Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Alabama, USA BURIAL Oakwood Cemetery, Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Alabama, USA Civil War Confederate Army Officer. He was the father of Helen Keller
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Dr. Arthur H. Keller, Hot Springs, Ark. Health is the most precious gift of Nature, and how to retain it and how to regain it when lost, are matters of vital moment. Some seek health in travel, and others in physical recreation. Both are no doubt beneficial, but they do not always accomplish the object in view. Medical science must be resorted to, and, if possible, the best physicians employed. In the possession of first-class physicians Hot Springs stands second to no other city in Arkansas. Among those who, although young in years, have made for themselves a name, and been unusually successful in their practice, is Dr. Arthur H. Keller, a native of Beaver Dam Springs, Tenn., born August 23, 1857. He is the son of Dr. Thomas Fairfax and Susan (Warren) Keller, the father a native of Virginia, and the mother of Ireland. The subject of this sketch, having lost his parents at an early age, was left to face the hardships of the world utterly penniless. In obedience to the expressed wish of his father upon his death-bed, that he (Arthur) study medicine, it now dis
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Helen Adams Keller was born a healthy child on June 27, 1880, to Captain Arthur H. and Kate Adams Keller of Tuscumbia. Her father, Arthur H. Keller, was a retired Confederate Army captain and editor of the local newspaper. Her mother, Kate Keller, was an educated young woman from Memphis.
When Helen Keller was 19 months old, she was afflicted by an unknown illness, possibly scarlet fever or meningitis, which left her deaf and blind.
Helen was quite intelligent and tried to learn in her own way with taste, feel and smell. She developed a rudimentary sign language with which to communicate, but soon she realized that her family members could communicate with their mouths instead of signing. This left her isolated, unruly and prone to wild tantrums. Some members of her family considered institutionalizing her.
Keller would later write in her autobiography, “the need of some means of communication became so urgent that these outbursts occurred daily, sometimes hourly.”
Seeking to improve her condition, in 1886 Helen and her parents traveled from their Alabama home to B
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