Just happened across this - maybe it will help someone: "A Portrait and Biographical Record of Boone and Clinton Counties, Indiana", A.W. Bowen and Company, Chicago, Ill. KELLY, James, a wealthy and prominent citizen of Michigantown, Clinton county, Ind., and one of the oldest settlers, is of sterling Irish descent. His grandfather, James, came to America anterior to the Revolution. At the outbreak of that heroic struggle he cheerfully forsook his farm, and for eight years bore arms against Albion, the perfidious, in the war for American independence; when the war of 1812 was declared, his patriotic blood was again aroused and he was among the first to volunteer in the defense of his adopted country, and died in battle in 1813. His son, David, was but six years old when he lost his father, and, according to the law of the time, was bound out, and learned the baker's trade in Cincinnati, Ohio, then a backwoods village, composed of a few log cabins. After completing his apprenticeship, he married Nancy, the daughter of John and Elizabeth (SHAFFER) WHITEMAN, of Virginia, and of English descent. In 1829 Mr. Kelly came to Indiana and settled in what is now Clinton county, which he later assisted in organizing. To the union of David and Nancy KELLY were born eleven children, viz: James, Catherine, Henry, Elizabeth, Rebecca, John Jacob, William, Mary, and two that died in infancy. James KELLY, the subject proper of this sketch. was the seventh child born in Clinton county, and the third in Michigan township. His birth took place August 6, 1832, and this township has been his residence until the present hour. He was reared on his father's homestead and farming has been his vocation ever since. His education was acquired at one of the most primitive of log schoolhouses, an uncouth structure as compared with the modern brick of today. It had a clapboard door, a puncheon floor and greased paper for window-lights, together with rude slabs for seats. A huge fireplace occupied one end of the room, the chimney being constructed from mud and sticks. They burned small saw-logs in this fireplace-some five or six feet in length and a foot and a half in diameter, which it took all the large boys all the noon to roll on the fire. The master made the pens from the quill of a goose, and this was one of his principal tasks, as the old pioneer fathers insisted that their children should all write well. The teacher boarded around from house to house, not having any permanent abiding place. July 25, 1858, Mr. KELLY married Miss Sarah, daughter of James and Jane SCOTT - early settlers and prominent residents of the township. In 1859, Mr. Kelly settled on his present farm, comprising 270 acres, to which he has largely added and which he has so improved as to make it unexcelled by any other in the county. The children born to Mr. KELLY by his wife Sarah were named Thomas J., John S., James S., and India M. Mrs. Kelly died on December 24, 1869, and May 25, 1871, Mr. KELLY married Christina J. FISHER, daughter of David and Christina (SHIELDS) FISHER, and by this marriage the following children have been born: William D., Laura J., Ellis 0., Daisey M., Omer T., Arta R. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly are members of the Christian church, and in politics he is a populist. pages 741-742. Found on Ancestry.com: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/ViewStory.aspx?tid=4417942 <http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/ViewStory.aspx?tid=4417942&pid=-1606504490 &did=e3fdde8c-9422-4bb3-bcb8-ffa485b32457&src=search> &pid=-1606504490&did=e3fdde8c-9422-4bb3-bcb8-ffa485b32457&src=search Posted on Ancestry.com by: Vclarke65 http://community.ancestry.com/profile.aspx?cba=vclarke65 Paula Kelley Ward KELLEY List Admin since 1996 San Antonio, Texas chachalady@sbcglobal.net I'm always late. My ancestors arrived on the Juneflower.