OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - Bio History of Kelley's Island - Irad Kelley's Family *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 May 9, 1999 *********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio The Kelley Family Book compiled by Hermon Alfred Kelley 1897 And Then They Went West by Darlene E. Kelley 1998 *********************************************** Irad Kelley and Harriet (Pease ) were married August 5th, 1819. She was born in Vermont, Sept 26,1800, died in Cleveland Feb11,1862, was the daughter of George and Esther (Thompson) Pease. She was of that family known as the Enfield Peases. Robert Pease, the progenitor of the Emfield Peases, was the son of Robert and Margaret Pease of Great Baddow, Essex Co., England. He came from Ipswich, England in the ship "Francis" in April1634, accompanied by his bother, John, and eldest son Robert. He settled at Salem, Mass., where he died 1644, aged 37 years. His son John settled in Enfield, Conn.,where his decendants have formed a considerable part of the population of the town ever since. George Pease, her father, removed from Enfield to Vermont, where Harriet was born, but soon after came to Hudson, Ohio with Squire Hudson. In the war of 1812 he was commissary for Gen'l Harrison. stationed at Sandusky. He was a fur trader, and died in New Orleans, when he had gone for the sale of pelts. The Pease family emigrating first to America came from England. Their name has been common there for the past three hundred years, or as far back as the registers have been kept to show it. The English Peases are said to be of German origin and their migration is placed at a much later period than when the Saxons made their conquest in England. They came from Germany some four or five hundred years ago. It would seem by the family coat of arms that the English Peases were in Germany as late as A.D.971, as Otho ll, was monarch of Germany from 972 to 981 A.D. Coats of arms granted by Otho ll, had as its crest an eagle head erased, the beak holding a stalk of pa-haulm, which makes it appear that the family had in some way been associated with the pea plant. Harriet Pease was of the eighth generation in descent from Gov. Wm Bradford. Her great grandmother, the wife of Ebenezer Pease, of the sixth generation was Mary Terry, who was the great grand daughter of Alice Bradford, the grand daughter of Wlliam Bradford, the governor of Plymouth Colony. The Terry's were military men, Mary Terry's father, grandfather and great grandfather all serving as officers in the Colonial militia, as major, captain, and Sergent, respectfully, while one of her brothers was a colonel in the Revoluntionary Army. Harriet's mother, Esther (Thompson ) Pease, wife of George Pease, was born in Goshen, Ct.,Feb. 24,1777. She was the daughter of Stephen and Mary Walter Thompson. She emigrated with her husband from Goshen, Conn.,to Hubbardston, Vt.,and thence to Hudson, Ohio, in 1800 and from Hudson to Cleveland about the close of war 0f 1812. She was the one of the first and oldest members of the First Presbyterian Church of Cleveland. For thirty years previous to her death, she made her home wth Irad and Harriet Kelley in Cleveland. In her eighty-fourth year she made a visit to her son in Cuyahoga Falls, whre she took sick and died April 16, 1860. Harriet (Pease) Kelley died Feb 11, 1862. the Chldren of Irad and Hariet are as follows; 1-- Gustavus bn;May 20,1820 was drowned October 11,1824. 2-- George- bn;Sept1,1822; died at Kelley's Island, Ohio, Mar 26,1894; Married Martha J. Eastland, daughter of Col. James and Mary (Swan) Eastland, of Sparta, Tenn., ( formally from Virginia), Nov. 18,1847; lived at Kelley's Island ,in a frame house, at the time of this writing was still standing, which was built on the site of the first log house of Datus Kelley.They had 7 Children. 4 which were still living at this writing. 3--Mary--bn;Nov 9,1824; d;Mar. 26,1825 4--Edwin--Bn;Aug 2,1826; d; Nov 15,1862 at Cleveland, Ohio, M; Mary A. Beebe, of Hudson, Ohio,Oct. 6,1852; she died Aug. 7,1872. Edwin was a physician. They had 2 daughters. 5--Charles--Bn; Sept.22,1828. D; Nov. 11, 1876. M; Ada (Prosser), of Marietta, Ohio, Feb 11, 1866. They lived at Kelley's Island. No children. 6--Franklin--Bn; Mar 5, 1831. D; Sept.29, 1871, never married. lived at Cleveland and Kelley's Island. 7--Martha Louisa-- bn; Feb.,23,1833, at time of this writing not married. 8--Norman--Bn;July 9,1836. M; Mattie (Hanna), daughter of John and Mary (Sterritt) Hanna,of Detroit, Micigan, Feb 7, 1872. They lived at Kelley's Island until1894,when they removed to Cleveland. 9--Laura Harriet--Bn; Mar 18,1839; m; William D. Hills, son of Nathan Cushman and Sabrina Ann (Loomis) Hills of Cleveland,Ohio, Dec1,1863. They had two children; Norman and Robert. 10-William Henry Harrison--Bn;May 27,1841.d; Oct. 1886. M; Rose (Spencer), daughter of T.P. and Mary (Reeve) Spencer, Oct. 10, 1866; William was a banker at Cleveland, Ohio. They had two children; Henry Harrison and Reeve Spencer.