DAVID KELLEY, miller, was born in Jackson County, Ind., December 11, 1827,
son of James and Ann (Smith) Kelley, natives of Virginia, but early settlers
of Jackson County.   The father of subject dying when he was eleven years of
age, he left home at thirteen to make his way in the world.  He worked at
farming till seventeen, when he was bound to the tailor's trade.  In 1848 he
located in the tailoring trade at Vienna, and about 1850 took a contract for
grading a railroad.  He was engaged in clerking and running stores at
different points till 1857, when he settled in Mitchell, and in 1862 left
his stock of goods and entered the army of the Union, he having raised
Company H, Sixty-seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry.  He was
promoted to Major and thus served till his term expired.  He was in the
battle of Munfordville, where he was captured and paroled;  at Arkansas
Post, siege of Vicksburg, receiving the officer bearing the flag of truce to
Gen. Grant;  was at Jackson, Miss., and in the Red River expedition, and was
captured at Grand Coteau and held prisoner two months.  He afterward served
as Provost Marshal of River Department at New Orleans;  was at the capture
of Mobile and discharged at Galveston in July, 1865, after which he returned
to Mitchell and erected his present mill.  He was married in Washington
County, Ind., June 18, 1857, to Caroline Kelley, daughter of John and
Minerva (Jenks) Kelley.  Miss Kelley was born in Lawrence County in July,
1831, and by this union four children have been born:  John C., Jesse E. and
James E., living and Lillian L., dead.  The family are Baptists and he is an
I. O. O. F., a G. A. R. and a Republican, having cast his fist vote for
Fremont.  He owns 600 acres of fine land and produces 25,000 bushels of lime
per year.


Data Entry Volunteer:  Diana Flynn  "ivie@tima.com"