MONTGOMERY COUNTY OHIO BIO: KELSEY, Cornelia A. (MESLER) (published 1882)
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"The History of Montgomery County, Ohio" by W.H. Beers & Co.  1882


Cornelia A.(Mesler) Kelsey, farmer, P.O. Waynesville, Warren Co.; born in New 
Jersey Nov. 24, 1813, and came to Ohio in 1832.  She married Mr. John S. Kelsey, 
November 2, 1837.  From this union were seven children, six of whom are living.
Names and birth of the children are as follows: Hester E., born August 17, 1838;
George Washington, born August 14, 1840; Wilhelmina, born February 19, 1842;
Eliza Melissa, born December 14, 1843; John Albert, born January 10, 1846; 
Jonathan Meeker, born January 14, 1848; Charles Edward, born November 5, 1851;
George Washington, died September 18, 1846; John S., died October 22, 1875. 
John S., son of Jessey and Hettie (Marsh) Kelsey, was born january 13, 1816. His
mother was a native of New Jersey, and his father of Pennsylvania.  Emigrated to
Kentucky, thence to Ohio, in an early day.  He married at the early age of 
twenty-eight; his wife at twenty.  Previous to his mariage, he followed school
teaching in a log house on his own land.  After that his principal occupation
was farming, and a very successful one, owning at one time in Washington 
Township 760 acres of land.  He commenced life here with about $100.  He was the
father of twelve children, nine sons and three daughters, three sons and one
daughter now living (July, 1881).  Mrs. Cornelia Kelsey, with two daughters and 
the assistance of the youngest son, continues to farm the homestead.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Kelsey were both members of the Sugar Creek Old School Baptist Church.  
Mr. Kelsey united with the church January 26, 1858, Mrs. Kelsey about on year
afterward.  The daughter, Eliza Melissa, is also a member of the same church. 
A request of Mr. John S. Kelsey on his death bed was that his widow purchase
and give each one of the children (except Charles), a family Bible as near like
the present one as she can procure, and after her death Charles to have the
present one.

  
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