Keturah

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Keturah
     incense, the wife of Abraham, whom he married probably after
     Sarah's death (Gen. 25:1-6), by whom he had six sons, whom he
     sent away into the east country. Her nationality is unknown. She
     is styled "Abraham's concubine" (1 Chr. 1:32). Through the
     offshoots of the Keturah line Abraham became the "father of many


     nations."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Keturah, that makes the incense to fume