Griffin Kelly was born on 15. Jan. 1815 at Clark County, Kentucky. He was the son of
Griffin Kelly and
Sarah Sutton. Griffin Kelly married
Rebecca Kennedy Jones, daughter of
Thomas Jones and
Martha Ashurst, on 5. Jul. 1887 at Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. Griffin Kelly died on 25. Aug. 1893 at Shawhan, Bourbon County, Kentucky, at age 78.
GRIFFIN KELLY, farmer; P. O. Shawhan; was born in Clark County, Ky., Jan. 15, 1815; son of Griffin and Sarah (Sutton) Kelly, both of whom were from near Culpepper Court House, Va; he, the father, was a stonemason by trade, and when the war of 1812 broke out enlisted in the service of his country and served gallantly till the end of the struggle, when he removed to Kentucky, where he passed the rest of his life in farming, raising a family of six children, only one of whom is now living, Griffin, the youngest, the subject of this sketch, who at the age of seventeen began doing for himself, raising hemp on his father's farm, and who has continued farming ever since; Nov. 24, 1836, he was married to Miss Mary Cummins, born April 18, 1819, daughter of Nathaniel and Delilah (Hays) Cummins, of Bourbon County; the Cummins' family being natives of Virginia and the Hays of Maryland. Mrs. Hays' father was an old Revolutionary soldier, and one of the early settlers of Kentucky. Mr. Kelly has six children living: Sarah, Washington, Silas, William, Elizabeth and Gano; he lost one son, James N., in the late war, a member of Captain Bedford's Co., 5th Kentucky Cav. Mr. Kelly owns over 100 acres of good land, upon which he has fine buildings, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church at Mt. Carmel.
History of County, Chicago, 1882, p. 580Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin &.