History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
647.

JOHN C. KELLEM was born in Bell County, Ky., Sept. 4, 1857, and was a 
son of James and Emily (Colson) Kellem, both natives of Bell County, his 
father born about 1834 and his mother in 1840.  His father enlisted in 
the Twelfth Kentucky Infantry, and died while in the army, in 1862, and 
was buried at Louisville.  Mr. Kellem had one brother, George, born in 
1858.  In 1863 his mother married George H. Lucas and came to Daviess 
County.  They have no children.  Mr. Kellem is a carpenter, having 
learned the trade in 1877.  Politically he is a Republican.  He and his 
step-father, Mr. Lucas, own the property where they reside, a mile west 
of Owensboro, valued at $4,000.

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