This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kelley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CYm.2ACIB/3158 Message Board Post: Anyone have any idea who Beal Kelley's parents are? He was born (he says when applying for pension) in Md. in 1750. Many say his wife was Elizabeth, (could be, but it's not Ashley). Had a son James b. in Ky. in 1771. He had a dau. Mary Lauraina, who married Benjamin Majors & died enroute to Mo. about 1820. Tax records show him in Clark Co., Ky. in 1800, 1810 census shows him in Logan Co., Ky, he was Rev. soldier , he was with D. Boone at Boonesborough with Joseph and Benjamin Kelley. He signed marriage bond for his granddaughter Prudence Kelley when she married Dillingham Thacker in 1837 in Warren Co., Ky. He died sometime after that in 1837 in Logan Co. Also having trouble proving he was father of James Kelley who married Elizabeth Ashley in Clark Co. in 1807. Any clues would be appreciated. Thanks.