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/an/CYm.2ACIB/3164.1 Message Board Post: I am not sure if there is a connection here or not, but my great-great-great grandfather, Nicholas Kelley and wife Sarah, son Parley, were members of the Mormon Battalion. All the other men joined about a month earlier at Council Bluffs, IA. But Nicholas's enlistment was different in that he joined about a month later, in August 1846, at Council Grove KS. In your message, the date plus the surname made me think maybe there was a connection.