Polk County, Missouri Biographies - William C. KELLEY
History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties,
Missouri;1889, published by Goodspeed, Pgs. 661, 662
Polk County Biographies Section

    William C. Kelley, a prominent resident and native of Polk
County, Mo., was born January 4, 1852, and is a son of George W.
and Elizabeth (Orendorff) Kelley, the former of whom was born 
in the "Old North State," and the latter in Kentucky, and died
in Polk County, Mo., the father in 1869, at the age of eighty-one
years, and the mother October 14, 1850.  They were married in 
Logan County, Ill., July 17, 1822, and came to Missouri in 1836.  
The father, whose birth occurred July 25, 1789 was a blacksmith 
by trade.  He and his brothers were the first white men to settle
in Springfield, Ill, building the first log huts in that now 
prosperous city.  After coming to Missouri, he turned his attention
to farming and stock raising, and was very successful until 1852, 
when he lost all his property by a cyclone, and never recovered 
his losses.  Of four sons and four daughters born to his marriage, 
only two children are now living: William C. and Russell W.  The 
former was educated in the district schools of Polk County, and 
remained under the shelter of the parental roof until July, 1862, 
when he enlisted in Company E., Twenty-sixth Missouri Enrolled 
Militia, with which he served seven months, and was then transferred
to Captain Price's company of the same regiment, of which he 
remained a member until peace was declared.  Since that time he 
has given his attention to farming and stock raising, and is now
the owner of 300 acres of excellent farming land.  Mr. Kelley 
is a member of the Republican party, a member of the Agricultural 
Wheel, and is one of the well respected and enterprising citizens 
of that county.  December 14, 1870, he was married to Mary V. 
Watson, a daughter of Leander Watson.  She was born in Webster 
County, Mo., March 10, 1851, and is the mother of three children: 
Amanda Annis, born October 18, 1871; William M., born March 7, 
1874; and George L., born July 26, 1876.
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