My most wanted Kelly would be James Kelly, father of John McNeill Kelly, born 21 Jan 1875 in Clarkton, NC. A great uncle (John McNeill Kelly, Jr.) says James and his family were in Bladen County NC in both the 1860 and 1875 census, but were gone in 1880 and show up again in Georgia in 1890. James' children are thought to be (in no particular order): John McNeill (my line) William (founded/co-founded Consolidated Naval Stores of Jacksonville & was officer of Barnett Bank until his death at work in the 1930s) Donald Claude (Became MD and lived and died in Hartford, CT. Treated many children burned in fire in an orphanage) Jeannette (sp?) Mary Margaret James (middle unknown) Kelly died and was buried in 1910 in Valdosta, GA. John M. Kelly and family after that settled in the panhandle of Florida and in the West Palm Beach area. I have lots of information on the decendants of John McNeill and his wife Annie Holloway (b. Flora Home 7 May 1878), but have nothing on James, his spouse, siblings or parents. Anecdotal evidence has my Kellys marrying into the McNeills (lineage of James Abbott McNeill Whistler) in or near Brown Marsh Station (nowBladen County), NC in the mid 1800s. But I don't know whether they immigrated there or moved there from some other part of the US. I know the past four generations of Kellys have carried the McNeill name, and we've been predominantly Presbyterian, but I'm open to suggestions, corrections and comments. Can anyone direct me to a line of Kellys and McNeills or to something that would put me in close proximity to James, his wife and his past? Thanks! Ernie Kelly Orlando