History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 600. [Scott County] [Georgetown City and Precinct] THOMAS C. KELLY, Georgetown; was born in Fauquier County, Va., on Christmas Day, 1799, he was educated in private schools of Virginia; in the spring of 1822, he came to Kentucky and stopped in the vicinity of Georgetown; he was accompanied by his brother, George P., and a classmate; they came on horseback, the journey lasting fourteen days. It was not his intention to remain here, but the loveliness of the country induced him to do so; he taught two years in Franklin, and in 1825 married a Miss Kelly; then he returned to Virginia, and after a year's stay, came back to Georgetown, where he taught school one year. In 1829, he started to Texas, but his wife took sick at New Orleans and he returned to Franklin County, Ky., where he farmed and taught school until 1833, when he moved to Georgetown and closed up the estate of his father-in-law and bought a farm. In 1844 he settled in Georgetown and conducted the County Clerk's office for John T. Johnson until 1852, when he went to New Orleans and formed a partnership with Preston Thompson in the cotton business, continuing until 1854, in the spring of which year he went to Covington, Ky., when he conducted the office of Circuit Clerk for Major Bartlett until 1863. He was a Union man. His great-grandfather came to Virginia about the time of the settlement of Jamestown, and he and the subject's grandfather were in the Revolutionary war under General Washington, at the taking of Cornwallis; his father was a Lieutenant and his grandfather a Captain in the same war. Mr. Kelly's health being impaired, he is not now engaged in any active pursuit; his wife died in 1840 and left one child, James Y. Kelly, present cashier of the Deposit Bank, of Georgetown. Kelly Thompson Bartlett = Franklin-KY Kenton-KY Fauquier-VA LA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/scott/kelly.tc.txt