| KELLY, GRESHAM.
Widow of this Revolutionary soldier who received pay as a
captain on militia duty for two hundred and forty days in South
Carolina in 1781 and 1782, removed to Alabama with her family
before 1818. Captain Kelly died on October 1, 1799, having
married January 17, 1769, B----- Tatum. She died August 19,
1830. The Census of Jefferson County for 1830 shows a female
aged between eighty and ninety in the home of Isham Harrison.
This, no doubt, was the mother of Mrs. Harrison, as Isham
Harrison's mother, Elizabeth Hampton Harrison, had died in South
Carolina in 1799. Children of this couple, all born in South
Carolina: Ann Kelly, born January 25, 1771; died March 15, 1805,
married a Mr. Cobb; James, born March 23, 1773, died November
11, 1804; Moses, born October 8, 1775, died January 9, 1837,
major in War of 1812, first chief justice of Blount County and
of Jefferson County; Mary, born January 25, 1779, died November
15, 1806; married Mr. Tarrant; Elizabeth, born February 25,
1781, died May 16, 1813, married Mr. Townsend; Jane, born August
6, 1783, died November 22, 1816, married Mr. Thomason; William,
born September 22, 1786, died August 24, 1834, represented
Alabama in both the House and Senate, U. S. Congress; Harriett,
born July 15, 1789, died July 1, 1856, Monroe County, Miss.;
married Isham Harrison.�Owen, A Genealogy of the Kelly Family,
p. 3.
KELLY, PETER, aged 83, and a resident of Wilcox County; private, S.C. Continental Line; enrolled on June 24, 1834, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, pavement to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance, $50.�Revolutionary Pension Roll, in Vol. xiv, Sen. Doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess., 1833-34.
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