Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Allen County.

JAMES D. KELLEY, M. D., was born in Simpson County, Ky., July 24, 1839.  
He is a son of William and Martha (Covington) Kelley, who were also 
natives of Simpson County, and born in 1818 and 1816, respectively.  
They were married in 1836.  William Kelley was engaged in agricultural 
pursuits and stock trading; he was a man of considerable local 
prominence and held the office of magistrate in Simpson County for many 
years; he died in 1865, leaving three sons and one daughter, viz.:  
James D., Elizabeth M. (Pearson), John W. and Thomas H.  Mrs. Kelley 
survived her husband thirteen years.  He was a son of John Kelley, of 
North Carolina, who died in Simpson County, Ky., in 1824.  John was for 
many years a minister in the Methodist Church.  His wife was Miss Bond, 
whose parents resided in Buncombe County, on the Yadkin River.  She died 
in 1858, having survived her husband nearly thirty-four years.  Dr. J. 
D. Kelley, at the death of his father, took charge of the farm, and 
until he had completed his twenty-seventh year cared for his mother, and 
at that time took up the study of medicine, and read with Dr. Francis 
Hart Kelly for two years; then attended a course of lectures in 1869-70; 
then practiced until 1873, when he entered the University of Louisville, 
from which institution he graduated in medicine and surgery in 1874.  
That year he located in New Roe, Allen County, where he practiced his 
profession with success until 1884, when he removed to Scottsville, 
where he has continued to practice until this present time.  On the 6th 
of September, 1877, he was united in marriage with Euphili E. (Bradshaw) 
Caldwell, who was a resident of Covington, Ga.; she is a daughter of the 
Rev. James N. Bradshaw, an able divine of the Southern Presbyterian 
Church, and for several years, president of the Southern Masonic Female 
College at Covington, Ga.  Mrs. Anna J. (Brown) Bradshaw is a sister of 
Niel S. and Gen. John C. Brown.  Niel S. was governor of Tennessee in 
1855-56 and minister to Russia under President Buchanan.  John C. was a 
general in the Confederate Army and governor of Tennessee since the war.  
Both are able lawyers and reside at this time in Tennessee.  The Doctor 
and his wife are members of the Southern Presbyterian Church, in which 
he is an elder.  Their union was blessed with two children:  James E., 
deceased, and Mary Duncan, aged six years.  The Doctor is a member of 
the Masonic fraternity, and has filled the Master's chair for many 
years.  He is a Royal Arch Mason; is temperate in habits and his 
influence is in favor of the cause of temperance.  He is a Democrat, and 
bears the character of a public-spirited, citizen; his time is devoted 
to his profession and the good of the community in which he resides.

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