Bio: Beverly A. Kelly, Bossier Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker




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BEVERLY A. KELLY, clerk of the district court, ex-officio recorder and
notary public, at Bellevue, La., was born in what is now Webster Parish,
La., July 9, 1851, to William A. and Martha A. (DeLoach) Kelly, who were
born in South Carolina and Georgia, in 1815 and 1821, respectively, their
marriage taking place in Montgomery County, Ala., and resulting in the
birth of eleven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the sixth,
two sons and two daughters now living.  In 1843 or 1844 William A. Kelley
removed with his family to Union Parish, and two years later to what is now
Webster Parish, being then part of Bossier Parish, and in 1856 to Bellevue,
where he conducted a hotel and managed a wagon shop until his death, in
1868.  He was a member of the police jury for some years, and was parish
treasurer during the war, and until 1867 or 1868 after the war.  He was a
member of the F. & A. M., a Methodist, but his widow, who died in 1886, was
a Baptist.  The subject of this sketch was reared and educated at Bellevue,
the parish seat of Bossier, and for three or four years following his
sixteenth year was in a printing office, after which he clerked and kept
books in a store for five or six years, and during 1870 and again in 1876,
he held the office of deputy clerk.  In 1880 he engaged in the mercantile
business for himself at Bellevue for seven or eight years; and the same
year he was elected parish treasurer and ex-officio school treasurer, which
positions he filled until 1890.  In December, 1889, he was appointed
district clerk for Bossier Parish, and these positions he filled to the
satisfaction of all concerned.  In January, 1878, he was married to
Eudocia, the daughter of Judge Benjamin F. and Virginia E. Fort, natives of
Georgia, who came to Bossier Parish about 1851, their deaths occurring here
in 1881 and 1887, respectively.  Judge Fort was a successful lawyer, and
filled the positions of parish judge from 1874 to 1878, and parish
treasurer for some years before the war.  The wife of Mr. Kelly  has 245
acres of improved land, and about 400 acres unimproved on Red River; also
several tracts of hill land, and has the satisfaction of knowing that this
property has been earned by his own efforts.  He is a secretary of the
Farmers' Alliance, but belongs to no church denomination.  He is a member
of the K. of P., having filled several positions in order, including that
of chancellor commander.  He is a member of the L. of H., and fills the
position in his lodge of commander.  Mr. Kelly has worked himself up in the
positions he has filled by his own efforts mainly, as he had but little
educational advantages.  On account of the death of his father, he was
necessarily taken away from school at the early age of sixteen years, and
what information he acquired since was by self application.