Life History

Notes

• Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
  E C Kelley
  Gender Male, Age 26 (born abt 1881)
  Residence De Queen, Sevier County, Arkansas
  M L Smith, Gender Female, Age 23 (born abt 1884)
  Residence De Queen, Sevier, Arkansas
  Marriage 8 Sep 1907 Sevier County
  Marriage License Date 7 Sep 1907
  
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  Edward C Kelley
  BIRTH 6 Dec 1875 Lawrenceburg, Lawrence County, Tennessee, USA
  DEATH 18 Jan 1957 (aged 81) Caddo County, Oklahoma, USA
  BURIAL Alfalfa Cemetery, Alfalfa, Caddo County, Oklahoma
  
  The Carnegie Herald, January 23, 1957
  
  Edward C. Kelley Funeral Services Are Held Sunday
  
  Edward C. Kelley, pioneer resident of the Carnegie community, passed away at his home Friday night after a lengthy illness. He had been critically ill for several weeks.
  
  Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in the First Baptist church with Rev. W.F. Crow, pastor, in charge. Rev. Bob Williams, pastor of the Nazarene church, and Rev. Roy Lind, pastor of the pleasant View Baptist church, assisted. Interment was in the Alfalfa cemetery under the direction of the Pitcher Funeral Home. The Alfalfa IOOF lodge conducted graveside rites.
  
  Mr. Kelley was born December 6, 1875, in Lawrenceburg, Tenn. He grew to manhood in Tennessee and moved with his mother to De Queen, Ark., in 1899. He was married to Miss Mary Lee Smith September 8, 1907, at De Queen. The following year he and his wife moved to the community northwest of Carnegie. In 1913 he and his family moved to the Pleasant View community where he lived until he retired from farming in 1953 and moved to Carnegie.
  
  His wife preceded him in death in 1946 and one daughter, Mary Jane, died in infancy. He was also preceded in death by two grandchildren, Louis and Deborah Steele. He was converted in early manhood and joined the Baptist church at Prairie Lone, northeast of Carnegie. At the time of death, he was a member of the First Baptist church in Carnegie. Mr. Kelley had been a member of the Alfalfa IOOF lodge since shortly after coming to Oklahoma.
  
  Survivors include; five daughters, Mrs. Odessa Steele, Ridgecrest, Calif.; Mrs. Vera Johnson, Mrs. Pearl King and Mrs. Fannie Sue Halsted of Carnegie, and Mrs. Velma Koontz, Los Alamitos, Calif.; two sons, Henry and Otis, both of Carnegie; a niece whom he reared, Mrs. Doshie Davis of Buckeye, Ariz.; 29 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.
  
  Parents:
  Elizabeth Jane Scott Kelley 1857-1934
  
  Spouse Mary Lee Smith Kelley 1883-1946 (m. 1907)
  
  Sibling:
  John Melvin Kelley 1872-1954
  
  Children:
  Odessa Elizabeth Kelly Steele 1911-1981
  Vera L Kelley Johnson 1913-2004
  Pearl Kelley King 1915-1994
  Otis Elmer Kelley 1923-1992
  
  Created by Lillian 17 Aug 2010
  --  Find A Grave Memorial 57173114, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57173114#view-photo=73323675
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Sources

• 1. Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
• 2. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 3. Judy Oldziewski
• 4. Ancestry Trees
• 5. Social Security Death Index