Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 763-764 [Fulton]

     RICHARD E. KELLY, who has been prominent in the farming
interests of Fulton county, Kentucky, for nearly a quarter of a
century, is a native Kentuckian and a gentleman of all the graces
and genial characteristics of the typical men of that Blue Grass
commonwealth.  In his younger years he was engaged in business in
the state, but since has been a prosperous representative of the
agricultural interests.  The success which has come to him has been
well deserved, for he began the battle of life early and has been a
hard worker ever since.  In his relations with his fellow men he has
gained the reputation for solid integrity and unimpeachable honesty
that are the best adornments for any man's life.  While the best
years and efforts of his career have been devoted to gaining an
honorable place in the world and a fair degree of material
prosperity, he has also been attentive to the public welfare, and
his ballot and influence have been cast on the side of progress and
civic good.  In his home, which is for all men the source of their
best life and for whose welfare they give their best efforts, he has
also good reason to be proud, for he has a family of bright young
men and women, several of whom are already equipped, through their
parents' care and wise provision, for the battle of life and give
promise of useful and honorable careers.
     R. E. Kelly was born in Calloway county, Kentucky, January 28,
1850.  His father, R. T. Kelly, was a native of Virginia; came to
Kentucky in early life, was one of a family of thirteen, seven sons
and six daughters, who settled in Warren county, Kentucky, near
Bowling Green and engaged in farming.  He was married to a Miss
Price at Russellville, Kentucky, and lived there several years.  He
had three daughters by that union: Annie E., Martha F. and Mary J. 
Annie E. was married to W. L. Harding, lived in St. Louis and Kansas
City, where Mr. Harding died, and lives now in Colorado Springs,
Colorado.  Martha F. married W. G. Wilson, of Russellville, and Mary
J. married a farmer in Logan county, Kentucky.  After the death of
his first wife R. T. Kelly came, in 1847, to Wadesboro in Calloway
county and engaged in the mercantile business and buying tobacco. 
He was married to R. E. Kelly's mother, in that year.  She was a
widow at that time.  She had married a Mr. Thompson and had one
daughter of Henry Brown, who was also a native of Virginia; and had
settled near Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he married, then moved
to a farm near Wadesboro in Calloway county, at which place Mr.
Kelly's mother was born.  Mr. Brown reared eight children, four sons
and four daughters, and died in 1849.  His wife, Mrs. Sallie Brown,
was a daughter of Edmund Card, who was the government land agent for
the Kentucky Purchase, with his office at old Wadesboro, where he
lived until the land was taken up and the county divided into
several smaller counties, after which he settled in the town of
Murray, where he died.  He was one of the very first settlers in
western Kentucky, owned large tracts of land -- over one hundred
quarter sections according to the original entry, one of which is
now Mr. Kelly's home, and which has never passed out of the family,
but has been handed down from one generation to another.  Mr.
Kelly's mother was married to Mr. C. Owen, of New Concord, Kentucky,
in 1856, and they had five children.  All died but two, William C.
and J. E., who are now merchants at Murray, Kentucky, and Buffalo,
Kentucky.  Both are married and have families, three children each. 
His mother died in 1892 at the age of sixty-five.
     Mr. Kelly enjoyed the educational advantages offered by the
schools of Murray, Kentucky, and of Eastman's Commercial College at
Poughkeepsie, New York.  After leaving school he became a clerk in the
dry-goods store of his step-father at New Concord, Kentucky.  He
remained at that occupation two years, was in the lumber business
one year, was a tobacco salesman in the state of Mississippi three
years, and leaving that state returned to New Concord, the old home,
and went into the dry-goods business at that place for two years. 
He closed that out and turned his attention to farming, near New
Concord and remained in Fulton county, Kentucky, which has been his
home since that time, nearly a quarter of a century.
     March 31, 1874, Mr. Kelly was married to Miss Almeda A.
Guerrant, daughter of Peter M. and Maria L. Guerrant, formerly of
Danville, Virginia, but later a farmer near Fulton, Kentucky.  Mr.
Guerrant died in July, 1903.  Mr. Kelly and his wife have seven
children: Edward O. Guerrant, the oldest, is a student at Kentucky
State College at Lexington, Kentucky; William Cobb Kelly was a cadet
at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in
1902, and is now finishing his education at Lexington, Kentucky;
Richard Henry is taking the mechanical engineering course at the
State College at Lexington; Mary L., Ed Brown, John Porter, and Carl
D. are being educated in the Fulton schools.  The family are all
members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and are stanch
Democrats.

Kelly Price Harding Wilson Thompson Brown Card Owen Guerrant
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Calloway-KY VA Warren-KY MO KS CO Logan-KY MS

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