Hi Kelley Researchers, Now if you get tired of this just let me know. Sincerely, Helen in Pa. THE KELLEY CLAN MAGAZINE Published Occasionally by: James O. Stewart, R.D. No. 1 Box 102, Brownsville, Pa. NUMBER Two July 4, 1937. Free and worth it. MISS ELIZABETH KELLEY On her sixty-sixth birthday, January 8, 1937. Miss Elizabeth Alice Kelley passed away at the Kelley Homestead near Jefferson, Penn'a. Her death was caused by bronchial trouble. She was a daughter of Freeman Kelley and Mary Ann (Sharpnack) Kelley. This Freeman Kelley was a son of Samuel Force Kelley and Alice (Carter) Kelley. Samuel Force Kelley was a son of our ancestor William Kelley, Senior. Miss Kelley is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Grant Kelley of Dormont, Pa., Mrs. Harry Victor Lucas of Uniontown, Pa., Miss Ida Mae Kelley at home and James Edward (our clan president) at home. She had been a member of the Carmichaels Presbyterian Church since the age of fifteen years and she was a lifelong worker in Sunday School and Church wherever she was located. On the afternoon of the Sunday after her death the funeral services were held in the new Presbyterian Church of Carmichaels in charge of Rev. I.N. Crooks and Rev. J.O. Miller. She was buried by the side of her parents in Laurel Point Cemetery at Carmichaels. Miss Kelley was one of the most widely known teachers in Southwestern Pennsylvania. She was a graduate of Greene Academy of Carmichaels in the class of 1888. It was probably in the winter of 1893-1894 that she taught the Heistersburg district school in Luzerne Township Fayette County, Pa. She roomed and boarded at the home of her Uncle Levi Kelley and Levi's son Emmor was one of her pupils. On the night of the last day of school she gave an old-fashioned district school exhibition. This consisted of recitations, music, dialogues, and charades. As a grand ending there were three tableaux posed by pupils in costume, while red lights burned at the front of the platform to give a spectacular effect. People for miles around came in their buggies to see the exhibition. It was during that winter and to a certain extent at the close of the preceding winter that the state began to furnish free books to the pupils. There was much discussion in the community as to the merits of the new plan. Levi said he was going to by Emmor's books even if the rest did get free books, as he thought it taught a boy to be careful of things if he owned his own books but he would become careless of the books if they were not his own. (Levi was not entirely wrong, I know, I used to be a teacher.). Miss Kelley, however, said she liked the new way for whenever she wanted to put a pupil into a new class she could do so right then without having to wait for the parents to buy books. In the year 1895 she graduated from the Southwestern State Normal School at California, Pa. as valedictorian of the class. Then she taught district schools. Next she taught at Shady Park School in North Braddock, Pa., as Principal and teacher for ten years. Harry W. Colmery, National Commander of the American Legion, was one of her pupils there for four years. Then she was principal and teacher at Mansfield School in Carnegie, Pa. for six years. She retired three years ago. ______Notes_______ Claude E. Santee is one of this years graduates of the Iowa Falls, Iowa, High School. He was on the football team, the baseball team and the track team. He made the National Honorary Society and the Thespian Society. Edgar C. Hastings has been elected superintendent of the Asbury M.E. Sunday School of Uniontown, Pa to succeed the late Alfred E. Jones. Mrs. Earl Kelley is Secretary of the Ladies' Aid Society of the M.E. Church of Carmichaels. Fred G. Kelley is Jr. Past Councilor of Uniontown Council No. 167 of the Jr. O.U.A.M. Mr. and Mrs. Cephas Kelley are now living on the Frank Garrett farm near Marianna. Mr. Kelley purchased this farm recently. Martha Fern Loos of California, Pa. is on the honor roll of the Eastern Pike Run Township High School. She is a granddaughter of Rev. Adam R. Rush. Arthur and Virginia Christopher were among the talented Fayette County children who helped to broadcast music from Station WJAS of Pittsburgh February 13th. They are the children of Ralph and Edith Antram Christopher. Congratulations and best wished to Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan Christopher of Rices Landing, recent newly weds. Mrs. Christopher is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Boger of Clarksville. Miss Christine Lucas was dramatic counselor at Camp Minnetoska, near Hutton, Maryland, last summer. She was so successful that the camp directors have appointed her head counselor for the summer of 1937. Miss Lucas teaches English in the Uniontown High School. Members of the clan will be interested in the announcement of the marriage of Miss Thelma Grace Crile and James Gordon Reed on Christmas Day 1935. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Crile of Washington, Pa. She is a graduate of the Washington High School in Washington, Pa. Mr. Reed is a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College in the class of 1936. Mr. and Mrs. Reed are living in New Kensington, Pa. where Mr. Reed is with the Goodrich Rubber Company. Miss Mary Stewart Kelley, one of our Brownsville teachers, is attending summer school at West Chester State Teachers College. Of course you are going to the Reunion which will be held at Hewitt Church in Rices Landing on Sunday before Labor Day. Mrs. Walter Crile and Mrs. Martha Anderson have contributed money to help pay the postage on these magazines. Many thanks to these patriotic ladies. Be sure to send a postal or note stating that you received this magazine. Even if you wrote before, write this time. Keep this magazine in the family bible. The historian is trying to learn if Oliver Hudson Kelley, who was one of the founders of the Grange, was connected with our clan. more to come...