History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 580. [Bourbon County] [Ruddel's Mills Precinct] GRIFFIN KELLY, farmer, P. O. Shawhan, was born in Clark County, Ky., Jan. 15, 1815; son of Griffin and Sarah (Sutton) Kelly, both of whom were from near Culpepper [sic] Court House, Va.; he, the father, was a stonemason by trade, and when the war of 1812 broke out enlisted in the service of his country and served gallantly till [six] the end of the struggle, when he removed to Kentucky, where he passed the rest of his life in farming, raising a family of six children, only one of whom is now living, Griffin, the youngest, the subject of this sketch, who at the age of seventeen began doing for himself, raising hemp on his father's farm, and who has continued farming ever since; Nov. 24, 1836, he was married to Miss Mary Cummins, born April 18, 1819, daughter of Nathaniel and Delilah (Hays) Cummins, of Bourbon County; the Cummins' family being natives of Virginia and the Hays of Maryland. Mrs. Hays' father was an old Revolutionary soldier, and one of the early settlers of Kentucky. Mr. Kelly has six children living: Sarah, Washington, Silas, William, Elizabeth and Gano; he lost one son, James N., in the late war, a member of Captain Bedford's Co., 5th Kentucky Cav. [sic]. Mr. Kelly owns over 100 acres of good land, upon which he has fine buildings, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church at Mt. Carmel. Kelly Sutton Cummins Hays = Clark-KY Culpeper-VA MD http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bourbon/kelly.g.txt