This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hcB.2ACE/2578 Message Board Post: Hello, I am working on my deceased husband's family from South Carolina. I am looking to find information to confirm the children of Frances Kelley and their spouses. My information and research has Frances Kelley as a daughter of Daniel Calloway Kelley and Sarah Black. They lived in the Anderson area and married into several families there. I show her the mother of six (6) children: of which a John Richardson is reported to be the father of them all; just that he and Frances never married. She appears on Census records from 1850 through 1880 always head of the house with children and new children each census record and all retaining the surname of Kelley. Children were: 1) Sarah Ann b. about 1842 m? Jesse Langley?? 2) Benjamin Perry b. 2 Aug 1850 d. 23 Sep. 1932* my relation m. Matilda Caroline Sheriff. 3) John Kelley b. about 1854 - no further information. 4) Nancy Kelley b. 1857 d. 1906 m. Benjamin Durham Bryant 5) Mary Kelley b. about 1859 - no further information 6) George A. Kelley b. about 1865 - no further information. I have several contacts for this family and one question confuses me. That the oldest daughter Sarah married a Jesse Langley. When other information tells me that the widowed mother of #2's spouse married a Jesse Langley. So, if Ben's sister Sarah Kelley really married Jesse Langley, where are they and their family?? I have been to the grave of Benjamin Perry Kelley and his wife Matilda Caroline Sheriff Kelley in Six Mile Baptist Church. There in the family plot they are buried together and also in the family plot is a James Kelley, their son b. 1876 d. 1884. Then a Sarah, wife of Jesse Langley 1842-1912. Is this Sarah, Benjamin's sister Sarah Kelley who married Jesse Langley or Sarah Gambrell Sheriff, widow of John Sheriff and mother-in-law of Ben P. Kelley?? It seems tangled, but maybe someone out there knows the answer. I was new at learning cemetery research back in 1979 when I went there and saw their graves, and did not know all the family members. With the computer age I have found a child of Jesse Langley and a Sarah who fits to be the widow of John Sheriff and this child went by the name William Sheriff and Harrison Sheriff. CENSUS: 1880 Anderson Co., SC. Jesse Langley age 49 and wife Sarah age 41. Son Harrison Langley age 10. CENSUS: 1900 Pickens Co., SC - Sarah Langley age 68, living in the Rempy household, her daughter, Nannie and husband and son Dennis age 1, born July 1899. Married for 2 years, one child and one child living. Sarah's birth date says Sept 1831, which is about 10 years off. Harrison Sheriff m. Rosa Lee Rochester. Harrison died in 1915. I have used many listings from the 'OLD PENDLETON DATABASE,' which has given me much insight on these families. Corrections and additions appreciated. Share my information with you. Thank you. Leslie Kelly Royce