Robert Garlick Hill Kean
Born: October 7, 1828
Birthplace: Mount Airy Plantation, Caroline County, Virginia
Father: John Vaughan Kean 1803 – 1876
Mother: Caroline M. Hill 1802 – 1831
(Buried: Hill Family Cemetery at Mount Airy, Ruther Glen, Virginia)
1st Wife: Jane Nicholas Randolph 1831 – 1868
(Buried: Monticello Graveyard, Albemarle County, Virginia)
2nd Wife: Adelaide Navarro Prescott 1845 – 1922
(Buried: Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia)
Children:
Lancelot Minor Kean 1856 – 1931
(Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana)
Pattie Cary Kean Morris 1858 – 1939
(Buried: Monticello Graveyard, Albemarle County, Virginia)
Brig. General Jefferson Randolph Kean 1860 – 1950
(Buried: Monticello Graveyard, Albemarle County, Virginia)
George Randolph Kean 1866 – 1869
(Buried: Monticello Graveyard, Albemarle County, Virginia)
Evelina Moore "Evie" Kean Wells 1875 – 1960
(Buried: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia)
Marshall Prescott Kean 1876 – 1959
(Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida)
Captain Otho Vaughan Kean 1881 – 1940
(Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia)
Caroline Hill Kean Gallup 1887 – 1962
(Buried: Sharon Memorial Park, Charlotte, North Carolina)
Political Party: Democratic Party
Education:
Graduated from University of Virginia
Occupation before War:
1853 – 1861: Attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia
Civil War Career:
1861 – 1862: Private in 11th Virginia Infantry Regiment
Served on the Staff of his wife's uncle George W. Randolph
Served as Confederate Chief of the Bureau of War
1865: Took Confederate War Department Papers to South Carolina
1865: Traveled thru the Back country to his home in Lynchburg after Lee's Surrender.
Occupation after War:
Attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia
Charter member and Second President of Virginia Bar Association
Member of the board of visitors for the University of Virginia
Member of the vestry of Saint Paul's Church
Died: June 13, 1898
Place of Death: Lynchburg, Virginia
Age at time of Death: 69 years old
Burial Place: Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia
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