BIO:  KELLAMS, John W., s/o Pleasant & Mary (Conley) Kellams

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

KELLAMS   CONLEY   ROBERTS

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885
Dubois County, Hall Twp, page 761

JOHN W. KELLAMS, a prominent farmer of Dubois County, Ind., was born October
24, 1839.  His parents, Pleasant and Mary (Conley) Kellams, natives of
Kentucky, were the parents of thirteen children.  The father was a farmer
all his life and was among the early settlers of Hall Township.  The mother
died November 1, and the father November 5, 1882.  Our subject received a
limited education owing to the underdeveloped school system of that period.
At the age of twenty years he went to Knox County, Ind., and worked on a 
farm for one year.  He then went on a flat-boat trip to New Orleans, and 
worked about in this manner for a year or so and when the war broke out,
enlisted in Company A, Forty-ninth Indiana Volunteers, and was discharged
in 1864.  He participated in the battles of Cumberland Gap, Memphis, in all
the fights before Vicksburg, Thompson's Hill and Champion Hill, and others
of lesser note.  Coming home from the war he bought forty acres of land and
began tilling the soil.  He has been very successful, now owning 443 acres
of land, 130 under good cultivation.  December 16, 1866 he married Mary
Roberts, who has borne him five children:  Wilbur, Charles, George, Lizzie
and Rosa.  He is a Democrat, and he and wife belong to the Methodist Church.
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