Kellar, Benjamin H. (1816-1880)

KELLAR

Posted By: Susan Kellar Ratcliffe (email)
Date: 11/22/2002 at 11:07:34

Benjamin Harrison Kellar

History Book of Warren County, Iowa, 1879; p. 739: Union Township - Kellar, H., farmer, Sec 10; P.O. Lothrop; was born in Washington City, D. C., in the year 1816; his parents removed to Ohio when he was quite young, and in 1871 he came from there to this State; he was married to Miss C. A. [Catherine Ann] Miller, a native of Shenandoah County, Virginia, and 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.; he owns a farm of 170 acres. 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 County, Ohio], by Bishop Edward R. Ames, of the M. E. [Methodist Episcopal] Church.[Harrison Kellar is buried in Linn Grove Cemetery, Warren County, Iowa.]

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

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