Catching up on back mail, and ran across this I'd saved. If duplicate, sorry!! Sheila // Firehair George Kellam posting of 24 Mar 2000 Date: 9/9/00 11:54:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: lastof@horizon.hit.net To: Firehair2@aol.com I am not a member of your mailing list, but occasionally read some of the letters,came across the above. I furnish this info for whatever interest it might be. Based on census and other entries, George, son of Gilbert Sr, was born ca 1769, prob PA; d 3 Dec 1818, Breckinridge Co, KY, leaving a nun-cupative will witnessed by neighbors (possibly relatives) Littleton Martin and Elisha Johnston (see names of George's children). His son William, whom you do not name, was executor. George's wife was "Jinsey," (prob Jane with a nickname), born ca 1778. George and Jinsey had: William, b ca 1796, prob TN; Hiram, b ca 1798, TN; Melinda, b 2 Apr 1801, prob TN; James, b ca 1803, TN; Littleton Martin, b ca 1806, TN; Elisha Johnston, b ca 1809, KY; Son (unidentified), b 1811-1820, KY; Leodicia, b 1811-1820, KY, Mary Ann, b 1811-1820, KY; Elizabeth Jane, b `1811-1820. KY, (possibly posthumously and possibly by a different father) {see 1850 census info below}. Pertinent tax and census entries were: George Kellums (along with Gilbert Collum), Lee Co, VA, petition, 1792. George Killum (along with Gilbert Killums), Lee Co, VA, petition, 1794. George Kelms, 1810 fed census, Breckinridge Co, KY. George Kelms, Breckinridge Co, KY tax roll, 1811-12 George Killum, -do- 1813 George Kelliums, -do- 1814 George Kelms, -do- 1815 George Kellums, -do- 1816 George Killms, -do- 1817 Jensey Killiums was on 1821 tax roll, Breckinridge Co with 1 black over 16 and 2 horses. Similar listings were made in subsequent years. On 23 Jan 1823 Jency Kellums signed a Deed Gift in which she named her children, excepting William. Apparently trouble occurred over the settlement of George's estate in 1818, because Hiram was called in to make additional bond. On 22 Mar 1824, William Kallam deeded to Elisha F.Johnston and Hiram Kallam, for $1 twenty-five acres on Indian Creek inBreckinridge Co, all his tools, household furniture, cattle, etc., and his interest in his father's estate. He disappeared from the scene after that. When Hiram was counted in Daviess Co, KY, in the 1850 census, included in his household was Jane Kellam, 72, b VA. This is undoubtedly his mother, usually known as Jinsey, birth year computed @ ca 1778. Listed in the same census, but in the household of Powhatan Ellis, was Elizabeth Kellams, 27, b KY. PA is deduced as birthplace for George because two sons of his next older brother, Gilbert Jr., gave that as their own father's birthplace, and Gilbert Sr (Gilbert Collams) did not take up land in Rockbridge Co, VA, until 1773. It is an assumption that he didn't stop anywhere in between. Richard