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Served: Onder Schoonspruit.

ABO (Burger J.P. de W. Keet). City Coins, December 2013,

Jacobus Petrus de Wet Keet bom circa June 1882 in Tulbagh, Cape Colony (the son of Gysbert Jacobus Keet and Aletta Susanna Jordaan). He was a teacher by profession and did Boer War service in the Potchefstroom Commando (Onder Schoonspruit Ward). He married first Herculina Johanna formerly Engelbrecht nee Meyer. There were no offspring.

Later he married Johanna Elizabeth Jacoba van Zyl. She was bom in the Heidelberg district circa November 1889 (the do. Frederick Jacobus Albertus van Zyl and Hester Christina Elizabeth). The couple were married in Greylingstad on 20 December 1910.

They had four children: Hester Christina Elizabeth (married Rogers), Gysbert Jacobus, Frederick van Zyl (b. 1918), Victor Jacobus (b. 21.3.1922). She died in 1937. Jacobus Petrus de Wet Keet died 7 May 1946.