Benjamin HARRISON Kellar

KELLAR, MILLER, COFFEY, DAVIS

Posted By: Susan Kellar Ratcliffe <Skrat@midohio.net>
Date: 11/22/2002 at 11:07:34

History Book of Warren County, Iowa, 1879; p. 669: "Jefferson Township - Kellar, H., Farmer, Sec. 10, P.O. Lothrop, was born in Washington City, D.C., in the year 1816, and was taken by his parents to Ohio when young and lived in this state until 1871; he enlisted in the late war in 1863, and served until the close [Author has found no reference to Harrison having ever served in the Civil War]; he came to this county in 1871, and owns 170 acres of land; he married Miss C.A. Miller, born in 1822, she was a native of Shenandoah County, Virginia; their family consists of six children, Henderson, Thomas, William C., John F., Nancy E., and Virginia." [The birth order is incorrect.]

Ibid., p. 739: "Kellar, H., married to Miss C.A. [Catharine Ann] Miller, has a family of six children living; John F., Nancy E. (now the wife of James Coffey, of Ohio), Virginia (wife of Thomas Davis), Henderson, Thomas, and W.C. [William Cooper]. His son, John F. [John Francis], enlisted in the late war, in the State of Ohio, in the fall of 1863, and served till its close [as a bodyguard to President Abraham Lincoln]. Mr. Kellar was ordained a Minister of the Gospel, March 24, 1862, [Noble Co., OH] by Bishop Edward R. Ames of the M.E. Church."

Michael Kellar and Catharine Monroe of Fairfax Co., VA 1760
 

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