Kelley, Jessie B. b. 1856

KELLEY, CAMPBELL

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 2/15/2010 at 08:57:37

Mrs. Jessie B. Kelley Found Dead in Bed at 7 O’Clock Last Eve

Her Son, Att’y Roy Kelley Made Frightful Discovery When He Went To Supper

Heart Failure Was Probably Cause of Death

Had Cooked Dinner for Son at Noon – Apparently in Best of Health

Without a moment’s warning death came to Mrs. Jessie B. Kelley some time yesterday afternoon at her hom on South Market Street. The exact time of her death is unknown as her son, Att’y Roy Kelley of this city found his mother dead in bed when he went home last evening for supper.

Mrs. Kelley had been enjoying her usual health. She had attended the funeral of Mrs. Sayer Miles yesterday morning, had gone home and prepared dinner for herself and son and while she ate very little she didn’t make the slightest complaint. As was her custom she had probably gone to her room upstairs and had lain down to rest a while before beginning her afternoon work. The news paper lay on the bed beside her and was quite evident that she had read herself to sleep and had passed away without a pain and without being conscious of the approach of the death angel.

Att’y Kelley arrived home about 6:30 o’clock. He called for his mother when he entered the house but there was no answer. He started the kitchen fire and then went up stairs – thinking that probably his mother had fallen asleep. He looked in her room and in his own, but was not successful in finding her. He was not alarmed at her absence, thinking that possible she had gone to visit some of their relatives in the city. He then went to the garden, picked some strawberries and was making some little start on his supper with a view of surprising her with the headway he had made on the evening meal when she could come home. He then went upstairs a second time, looked in the two rooms and by chance looked in a third sleeping room where he made the frightful discovery that his mother was dead. She had very likely gone into this room for the reason that it was slightly cooler than her own.

Jessie B. Campbell Kelley was born July 13, 1856.

She was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, and in 1866 came to Keokuk County with her mother and a family of six boys. In 1868, Mrs. Campbell moved to a farm west of Newton in the neighborhood now known as the Sugar Grove locality and here the Campbell family was reared. Later the family moved to Mound Prairie Township where the Campbell Bros. now live. ~Newspaper unknown.