E.H. Kelsoe, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

     E. H. KELSOE, of the firm of Kelsoe & Sandidge, at Boyce, began business
at this place in 1887 as one of the firm of J. H. Dawson & Co.  In the
spring of 1888 they dissolved partnership, and our subject bough the other
partner's stock, the latter retiring.  In June of 1889 he formed a
partnership with Mr. John T. Sandidge, and this firm has continued ever
since, under the title of Kelsoe & Sandidge.  E. H. Kelsoe, like many of
the prominent citizens of Rapides Parish. Owes his nativity to Alabama, his
birth occurring in 1860, and is a son of James A.  and Sarah (Presley)
Kelsoe, born in Georgia in 1832, and Alabama in 1836, respectively.  The
father followed  the life of a planter in Alabama, and removed to Grant
Parish, La., in 1875, where he now resides.  He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and Mrs. Kelsoe is a worthy member of the Baptist Church.  E.
H. Kelsoe secured a fair education in the common schools of Alabama and
Georgia, and after finishing, began clerking in a general mercantile house
in Montezuma, Ga.  From there he went to Montgomery, La., farmed one year,
and again clerked in a store from 1877 to 1879.  He then came to Boyce,
where he entered the employ of the firm of which he afterward became a
partner.  He spent the summer of 1885 in Georgia, but returned in December
of the same year.  In March, 1885, he was married to Miss Mary A. Borron,
daughter of James and Maria (Bonner) Borron, natives of England and
Louisiana, respectively.  Mr. Kelsoe has served as town council for some
time, and is a prominent citizen.  He is a member of the K. of H.,
Enterprise Lodge No. 3552. Mrs. Kelsoe is a member of the Episcopal Church.
 Their family consists of three children, all daughters.