OBIT: James KELLY, 1880, Hollidaysburg, Blair County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB

Copyright 2009.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/
_________________________________________ 

ANOTHER OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S SLAVES DEAD.

  On Friday night James Kelly, Hollidaysburg's oldest citizen, died, 
aged 104 years.  Mr. Kelly was in early life a slave in Virginia and 
always maintained that he was raised at Mount Vernon and owned by 
George Washington.  Any person who has seen the venerable man would 
have no doubt but that he was at least a centenarian.  Our oldest 
citizens remember him for many years and say he was "Old Doctor Kelly" 
fifty years ago.  When asked recently how he managed to prolong life he 
replied, "The Lord kept me to make good medicine to cure the sick."  He 
was buried yesterday at 2 o'clock.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, April 5, 1880