Hi! Here's a lengthy obituary with a nice summary of the family (except for his wife and children). - Jean Griesan Colorado Died on Wednesday morning Nov. 20th, at 6 o'clock, Maj. CHARLES KELLEY, in the 66th year of his age, a well known citizen of Lawrence county. Major Kelley was born on Clinch river, in Russell Co., Va., in a frontier settlement, much harassed in the day of his childhood by Indian wars. He was the fourth child of Luke and Mary Kelley, who were both born and raised in what is now Page Co., Va., the former of Irish parents, and the latter (Mary Keyser) of German, and who were married quite young and quite poor; but who succeeded through their energy in acquiring a competency. Their children were John, now living below Union Landing, in his 77th year, hale and hearty; Elizabeth, deceased, the wife of Judge Nathaniel Davisson; Joseph, deceased, the father of W. D. Kelley, of Ironton; Charles, the subject of this notice; Joshua, now living near Union Landing, father of Rev. Jas. M. Kelley; Mary, married to Vincent Powell, of Greenup Co., Ky., and now the wife of Henry Hayes of that county, and Judge Reuben Kelley, now living near Plattsburg, Mo. In August 1798, when Charles was about 7 years old, his parents removed to the Northwest Territory, and settled near where they died, at Union Landing. The cabin was on the place now owned by S. W. Dempsey, and at that time there were but five other cabins in what is now Lawrence county, one opposite the mouth of Big Sandy, Luke Kelley's and four still lower down the river. The county was not then surveyed, and the residents were "squatters." It was thus in frontier settlements, amid hardships and privations, that Charles Kelley had his birth and raising. He grew up to be a stout athletic man. He was an enterprising citizen and a kind neighbor; and was a member of the Baptist Church for some forty years - and leaves a wide circle of relatives and friends. Ironton Register, November 27, 1856