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wood and they had two children. In the 1920s
he moved his family to Washington state
where most of his descendants still live. He
is buried at Smith Bend-Coon Creek Ceme-
tery.
(6) Effie Rosetta (1891-1977) married
Benjamin Andrew Purcell, 1912. They had
two children and lived most of their married
life near Cranfills Gap. She is buried in Boggy
Cemetery near Clifton.
(7) James Monroe (1894-1970) married
Maggie Strickland, 1911. They had two
children and lived in Waco most of their adult
lives. He is buried at Smith Bend-Coon Creek
Cemetery. Dick and Vina had a total of
thirty-one grandchildren. Grandchildren of
James Monroe and Vina Kelly:
(1) Children of Johnnie Lee and Cynthia
Eulala Kelly: Pearl, Mannie, Etta, Elga,
Viola, Ina Mae and Claud.
(2) Children of Lonnie Monroe and Nellie
Kelly: Leroy, Frances, Floyd and Lonnie
Morris.
(3) Children of Andrew and Nevada Kelly:
Nina, Ambrus, Clovis R. (Sam) and Bell.
(4) Children of Jessie Wood and Hettie
Kelly: Bill, Irene, Ernest, H.B., Iva Dell,
Odell and Rufus.
(5) Children of Waddie and Lula Kelly:
Effie Myrtle, Willie Mae, Harvey. Children
of Waddie and Bessie Kelly: Lula Pearl and
Waddie Ted.
(6) Children of Effie K. and Andrew
Purcell: Benjamin Malvin, Rachel.
(7) Children of Monroe and Maggie Kelly:
Wilson, Lillie Bell.
There are now on record 290 descendants
of James Monroe and Vina F. Morris Kelly
who began their life together in 1874 in
Bosque County, Texas.
by Pearl Kelly CookKELLY, DANIEL STUART
F656
My grandfather, Daniel Stuart Kelly, was
born in North Carolina in 1846. His parents,
Neal and Mary Stuart Kelly, died when he
was very young; his only brother also died
young. Daniel lived with two aunts, Celia and
Janet McNeal, sisters of his mother. They
sent him to medical school, but he ran away
and joined the Confederate Army when he
was 16 years old.
We have copies of his enlistment papers
with his signature. He served from 1862 to
1864. His horse was valued at two hundred
dollars and was allowed $24 for each two
months' feed.
After the war, Daniel came to Valley Mills.
The following excerpt is from the "Memoirs
of Mrs. Alex McNeill," of Valley Mills. Her
father was Dr. E.P. Booth.
Dr. Booth opened a drug store in Old
Valley Mills. Dan Kelly was his clerk and
collector; he also lived in the Booth home. Dr.
Booth's health began to fail, so Dan Kelly got
up at night when the doctor had a call to
saddle his horse or hitch up the buggy for
him. One rainy night, Dan Kelly begged the
doctor not to go, saying, "I'll bet you are as
sick as the patient."
The doctor replied, "He is suffering, and
it's my duty to relieve him." In desperation,
Dan Kelly said, "I'd let him die and go to hell
before I'd go out on such a night, sick as you
are. He never paid you a cent anyhow!" Thatmade no difference to the doctor, but Mr.
Kelly was a true friend.
Then Dan Kelly owned his own drug store
in "old" Valley Mills for several years. About
1879, he married Amanda Tennessee
McKenzie, daughter of John and Laura
Cornelia McKenzie. John McKenzie, a Civil
War veteran, owned and operated a wagon
yard and a travelers' stop for meals and mail
handling. Amanda was fifteen years old. Her
mother had died, so she and her two younger
sisters did the cooking for the dining room.
Dan Kelly and his wife Amanda had two
children, Neal and Jim, when he sold his drug
store and bought ranch land in Mills County,
near Goldthwaite. Eight more children were
born to them. Dan Kelly died in 1910;
Amanda Kelly, born 1862, died in 1934. They
are both buried in the Mullen Cemetery near
Goldthwaite.
My father, Harve Lymon Kelly, the sixth
child, married Pearl Kolb of Calf Creek,
McCullough County, Texas. She was born in
1897, and died in 1920; she is buried in the
Calf Creek Cemetery. Harve Kelly, born in
1889, died in 1947, and is buried in the Valley
Mills Cemetery.
Their two children are Evesta Kelly Dans-
by Ringness of Clifton and June Kelly Morris
of Valley Mills.
Evesta, born in 1916, married C.E. Dansby,
Jr., in 1940. C.E. Dansby, Jr. died in 1964, and
is buried in the Valley Mills Cemetery. Their
twin sons, born in 1944, are Ronald D. and
Donald R. Dansby. Their marriages and
families are recorded in the Charles E.
Dansby family history.
June Kelly, born in 1919, married Vinson
Clemons. Their children were Robert and
Barbara. Later, June married Jim Fussell,
and Brenda Jane was born in 1950 in
Meridian.
In 1965, Evesta K. Dansby married Glen
Ringness of Clifton, and June K. Fussell
married Jaime Morris of Valley Mills in 1967.
by Evesta Kelly Ringness
KELM, DELBERT KENNETH
F657Delbert K. Kelm family, 1984. Sherry D. Kelm
holding Mandy Lynn and Delbert K. Kelm holding
Maegan Leigh.
Delbert Kenneth Kelm was born in 1957,
in Hico, Texas, to Habert and Winnie Pearl
Kelm of Hamilton. Delbert, youngest of three
children, has one brother, Dudley Kelm of
Clarendon, and one sister, Christy Murphy of
Belton. Delbert grew up on a farm in the
Shive community of Hamilton County.
After graduating from Hamilton HighSchool in 1975 where he was active in all
sports and activities of the school, Delbert
attended Tarleton State University in Ste-
phenville. In 1979 he graduated with a
Bachelor of Science Degree in physical
education, health, math, and history. He
received a Master's degree in Education in
1982. Beginning in the fall of 1979, Delbert
began his career in coaching and teaching in
the Breckenridge School system. In 1980, he
came to the Clifton School system where he
coached and taught math for two years. He
presently is at Comanche High School,
teaching math and coaching football, track,
and powerlifting teams.
In 1980, Delbert married Sherry Denise
Finstad, daughter of J.M. and Darlene
Finstad of Clifton. Sherry has two brothers,
Keith Finstad of Hillsobro, and Kevin Fin-
stad of Clifton. She was born in 1960, at the
Goodall-Witcher Hospital in Clifton.
Sherry received her education at the
Clifton schools and graduated from the
Clifton High School in 1978. She was active
in basketball, track, and other activities of
the school. She also was a cheerleader in
Junior High and High School. In 1981, Sherry
graduated from Tarleton State University in
Stephenville with a Bachelor of Science
Degree in elementary education and physical
education. She presently teaches Junior High
science, health, and language arts in the
Comanche School system. Other jobs during
her high school and college days were working
for Goodall-Witcher Hospital in Clifton and
the Stephenville Hospital in the Medical
Records departments.
The couple has been blessed with two
daughters. Mandy Lynn, born in 1982, in
Waco and, Maegan Leigh, born in 1983, in
Clifton.
The Kelms are members of Trinity Lu-
theran Church in Clifton. Their hobbies
include all types of outdoor activities. They
keep scrapbooks of their activities in sports
competition and also of their family's activi-
ties.
by Delbert K. Kelm
KEMP, DR. JOSEPH FAMILY
F658
Joseph Kemp was born in Louisiana, in
1842, where his father's family had moved
from Georgia in 1808. He was the third son
of John Taylor and Mary Ann Roberts Kemp.
When the Civil War came, he enlisted and
was sent to the front in Virginia, where he
served under Stonewall Jackson in the first
battle of Bull Run. Later he was wounded at
the battle of Winchester in the Shenandoah
Valley.
In 1868 he began the study of medicine and
entered the medical department of Tulane
University, where he graduated in both
medicine and pharmacy in 1872. That same
year, he came to Texas, where he practiced
in both Smith and Rusk Counties. In 1876,
he lived in old Larissa, Cherokee County, and
moved to Walnut Springs in January 1885,
where he lived the rest of his life, except for
a year or so in Thorp Springs, when he served
as college physician for Add-Ran College,
which later became Texas Christian Univer-
sity. In 1875, he was married to Leila Stamps
of Fort Worth, Texas. She was the daughter433
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Bosque County History Book Committee. Bosque County: Land and People (A History of Bosque County, Texas), book, 1985; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91038/m1/449/?q=campbell: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.