Anna Ursula Keess (?), single woman of Stiltzhausen, and Peter Keess of Klotten were her baptismal sponsors. Peter Keess was born in 1732. He married Anna Kraemer of Klotten, daughter of Michael Kraemer of Wirfus and Margaretha Spies of Klotten, in 1758 and Anna Barbara Laubach, sister of Johann Peter, in 1787.