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William Harvey Kelley

1845-1933 · Kentucky
Born 1845, Pike County, Kentucky
Died 1933
Mother: William Kelly
Children include Causby

William Harvey Kelley, known as Harvey, was born on 8 August 1845, in Pike County, Kentucky, a son of William Kelly. He served in the Civil War as a private in Company C of the 39th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, a Union regiment raised in the Big Sandy valley of eastern Kentucky in 1862 and later mounted.

On 28 September 1867 he married Sallie Mullins. They lived first in Russell County, Virginia, where their daughter Causby Jane was born in 1871, and then on the land around Clintwood and Freeling that became Dickenson County in 1880. Thirteen children were born to them. Among them were Caroline Amanda, Causby Jane, Louisa, Lilburn, Christopher Columbus, Mary, Walter and Alice.

His old father William lived out his life in Harvey's house near Freeling and died there in January 1914, thought to be near one hundred. About 1893 Harvey joined the Old Regular Baptist Church at Little Zion, and he kept his seat there as long as he could get to it.

Sallie died on 1 May 1927, after nearly sixty years of marriage. Harvey died on 20 January 1933, aged eighty-seven. Six days later his son-in-law Cas Johnson died at Jenkins after a fall from a truck. Harvey was buried in the Kelley graveyard near Clintwood beside Sallie. That June his son Lilburn Kelley applied to the War Department for the free marble headstone owed to a Union veteran.

Parents

William Kelly 1825-1914

Children

Causby Jane Kelley 1871-1945

Sources

Find a Grave memorial 83773445, William Harvey Kelley, Company Cemetery, Dickenson County, Virginia; photograph captioned "TAnn Wright facebook".
Find a Grave memorial 83773445, William Harvey Kelley; photograph posted 2023.
War Department, Office of the Quartermaster General, application for headstone, Harvey Kelley, 1933; image posted on Find a Grave memorial 83773445, William Harvey Kelley.
The Big Stone Gap Post (Big Stone Gap, Virginia), 14 January 1914, page 1; clipping posted on Find a Grave memorial 83773445.
Church minute book memorial, "Harvey Kelly", by Lula Pearl Mullins, 1933; image posted on Find a Grave memorial 83773445.
Virginia, Death Certificates, 1912-1987, Dickenson County, certificate 8019, registration district 250B, Sallie Kelley, 1927; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:QVBJ-1XZF, image 3:1:3QS7-99GL-BQWP.
Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935, Wise County, 1868; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:DMRH-CDW2; also Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940, ark 61903/1:1:X5YJ-9T7.
Richmond Times-Dispatch, 7 February 1904, page 7; Virginia Chronicle, Library of Virginia, page TD19040207.1.7.
Dickenson County Herald (Clintwood, Virginia), 18 January 1945, page 1, "Former County Woman Dies at Burdine, Ky."; Virginia Chronicle, page DCH19450118.1.1.
United States census 1910, Clintwood district (13), Dickenson County, Virginia, sheet 19B; NARA T624; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:MPL5-6WY.
United States census 1910, Clintwood district, Dickenson County, Virginia, ED 13, sheet 19B, lines 99 and 100; NARA T624; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:MPL5-6WY, image 3:1:33SQ-GYYT-94S7.
War Department application for headstone, Harvey Kelley, Co. C, 39th Ky. Vol. Inf., 7 June 1933 (image posted on Find a Grave); church minute book memorial by Lula Pearl Mullins, 1933 (image posted on Find a Grave); The Big Stone Gap Post, 14 January 1914, page 1; Kentucky Deaths, Cosby Jane Johnson, 1945, FamilySearch ark 1:1:N9CK-6YC (father Harve Kelley); Find a Grave memorial 83773445, William Harvey Kelley, Company Cemetery.; Virginia county marriage registers, Wise County, 29 September 1868, FamilySearch ark 1:1:DMRH-CDW2; Virginia death certificate 8019, Sallie Kelley, 1927, ark 1:1:QVBJ-1XZF; Richmond Times-Dispatch, 7 February 1904, page 7; Dickenson County Herald, 18 January 1945, page 1.

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