Biographies
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GEORGE KELLEY settled in Gratis Township, and was among the earliest settlers in the county.  He came from Virginia, where he was born in 1782.  His wife, Elizabeth (Harrell), was born in Kentucky in 1787.  They removed finally to Sullivan county, Indiana, where they both died; he in 1868 , and she in 1876.  James Kelley, son of George Kelley, was born in Gratis township in 1811, December 8th, and was married, in 1838, to Hannah Goodlander, and has had a family of fifteen children, eleven of whom are living. Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881 - Page 187

JESSE KENWORTHY, SR., came to Ohio and settled on section thirty-two of Gratis township, where he died in 1858.  He moved from North Carolina to South Carolina, where he married Rachel Cook, a native of that State.  She was the daughter of Eli Cook, who settled in 1805, on the same section as KENWORTH.  This colony came overland to Ohio, driving their own teams, and making the best arrangements possible until they could build their cabins.  Jesse and Rachel Kenworthy had a family of five children, viz:  William, who married for his first wife, Alice Ballard, and for his second Ann Townsend; John, who married Lydia Jones; Mary, who married first David Branson, and second, Daniel H. Moon; Sally (deceased), and Jesse, jr.  The latter married Mary Langston, and has five children:  John R., Susan K., Rachel, Zimri and Alvin L.  Mr. Jesse Kenworthy, jr., was born in the year 1817, and has lived all his life on the farm where he now resides.  He first started on his father's farm which had been willed him.  He made additions to this from time to time until he is now the owner of seven hundred and forty-six acres in Ohio, besides three hundred and sixty acres in Illinois.  He has made a specialty of stock raising, particularly the raising of hogs, raising from three to four hundred of the latter a year.  His son, Zimri, married Ann E. Lynn.  They have had two children:  Francis Elmer and Frank E., both of whom are deceased. Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881 - Page 188

G. F. DETER KESLING was born in Virginia, from which State he moved to Kentucky, and finally settled in Ohio, in Warren county, in the year 1805, where he died in 1852.  He was drafted into the War of 1812, but escaped service by sending a substitute.  During his life he was a farmer and distiller.  His wife was Margaret Null. Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881 - Page 193

DR. ISAAC KESLING is now a resident of Winchester, Gratis township.  He is a successful practitioner of the Eclectic school, having graduated at the Cincinnati Eclectic College of Medicine.  Dr. Kesling married Eliza Ann, daughter of John Potterf, an old family in Preble.  The township of Gasper was named from Gasper Potterf, one of this family. Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881 - Page 193

WILLIAM KESLING was married twice - first, to Martha Lyons, by whom he had eight children, and after her death, to to Mary Doley. Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z. Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881 - Page 193

 

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