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Preble
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Biographies
(Source: History of Preble County,
Ohio - H. Z. Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881)
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GEORGE KELLEY
settled in Gratis Township, and was among the earliest settlers
in the county. He came from Virginia, where he was born in
1782. His wife, Elizabeth (Harrell), was born in
Kentucky in 1787. They removed finally to Sullivan county,
Indiana, where they both died; he in 1868 , and she in 1876.
James Kelley, son of George Kelley, was born in
Gratis township in 1811, December 8th, and was married, in 1838,
to Hannah Goodlander, and has had a family of fifteen
children, eleven of whom are living. |
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JESSE KENWORTHY, SR., came
to Ohio and settled on section thirty-two of Gratis township,
where he died in 1858. He moved from North Carolina to
South Carolina, where he married Rachel Cook, a native of
that State. She was the daughter of Eli Cook, who
settled in 1805, on the same section as KENWORTH.
This colony came overland to Ohio, driving their own teams, and
making the best arrangements possible until they could build
their cabins. Jesse and Rachel Kenworthy had a
family of five children, viz: William, who married
for his first wife, Alice Ballard, and for his second
Ann Townsend; John, who married Lydia Jones; Mary,
who married first David Branson, and second, Daniel H.
Moon; Sally (deceased), and Jesse, jr. The
latter married Mary Langston, and has five children:
John R., Susan K., Rachel, Zimri and
Alvin L. Mr. Jesse Kenworthy, jr., was born in the
year 1817, and has lived all his life on the farm where he now
resides. He first started on his father's farm which had
been willed him. He made additions to this from time to
time until he is now the owner of seven hundred and forty-six
acres in Ohio, besides three hundred and sixty acres in
Illinois. He has made a specialty of stock raising,
particularly the raising of hogs, raising from three to four
hundred of the latter a year. His son, Zimri,
married Ann E. Lynn. They have had two children:
Francis Elmer and Frank E., both of whom are
deceased. |
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