Keating Ancestry

  This is my (our) great, great, great grandmother, Felicite Constant Motier, who was born in 1783 in the Louisiana Territory and died in 1873 in Davenport, Iowa.   This is a photo taken of her in 1871 when she was almost 90 and gave an interview about her early life as a settler in the Louisiana Territory.  At the time of the photo, she was living in Davenport with her son, Joseph and his wife Mary, as well as several of their children, including my dad’s grandmother, Eleanor Motier Keating (who was 2 years old in 1871).   Here is the text that goes with the photograph:  “An economic depression in the East had caused heavy immigration into the former territor of Haute-Louisiane (Missouri), newly acquired from France. The new settlements had pushed farther and farther into the ancestral bunting grounds of the Indians, thus provoking their uprisings and retaliatory raids. At Portage des Sioux, the Indians told the French men and women that their lives would be spared if they identified