O'KELLY/O'KELLEY/KELLY GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr


O'Kelly appears to be a Scotch-Irish name as is Garvin, McEver, and some of the other names I am tracing.

I have a book called Four O'Kelly Sons by Alethia Jane Macon, which covers an O'Kelly family in Georgia that lived near mine, but I cannot find a link to that family. However those "other" O'Kellys intermarried with the Dodson and Stamps families which are related to my Rose and Dodson families, so I am connected to those other O'Kellys, but so far not through the O'Kelly line.

On some of the census records in Georgia and Mississippi, it appears that some of this family dropped the "O" from their name. In some cases this may have just been a scribal error or misunderstanding on the part of the census takers. But relatives in Mississippi say that family members there actually did drop the "O" from their name. Also, many times in my own branch of the family the name is spelled O'Kelley. I have just recently (January 1999) learned of my connection to the Redwine family of Georgia. The Redwines intermarried frequently with the Ballinger, Sartain, Bond, Wade, and other families of Georgia and Mississippi, so it is no wonder that I found this connection to the Redwines. Hopefully this will help me to find out more about the O'Kellys.

Here is my O'KELLEY lineage as far as is proven:

  1. James O'KELLEY, b. ca. 1797 GA, d. aft. 1850 MS; md. prob. Madison Co., GA to Cynthia REDWINE b. ca. 1801 NC, d. MS
  2. Elizabeth O'KELLEY, b. ca. 1816 Madison Co., GA, d. ca. 1843 Lafayette Co., MS; md. ca. 1832 Madison Co., GA to Micajah Martin GARVIN, b. ca. 1812 VA, d. 29 Dec. 1870 Red River Co., TX
  3. Henry Washington GARVIN, b. 28 June 1833 Madison Co., GA, d. 21 Feb. 1909 Garvin Co., OK; md. 16 May 1851 Lafayette Co., MS to Elizabeth Ann SARTAIN, b. 30 July 1837 Madison Co., GA, d. 29 Oct. 1921 Katie, Garvin Co., OK (both buried in the Katie Cemetery)
  4. McCager Martin GARVIN, b. 19 Oct. 1856 Newton Co., MS, d. 17 Dec. 1920 Frederick, Tillman Co., OK (buried in the Hackberry Cemetery near Frederick, OK); md. 12 Dec. 1888 Jack Co., TX to Maizie Elmira Catherine SARTAIN, b. 7 Dec. 1871 Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., MS, d. 15 Mar. 1954 Morton, Bailey Co., TX (1st cousins on the Sartain side) (buried in the Morton Cemetery)
  5. Orpha Antonia Hazel GARVIN, b. 11 Nov. 1895 Jack Co., TX, d. 21 Dec. 1979 Cortez, Montezuma Co., CO; md. 12 Dec 1915 Parker Co., TX to William Earl HARRIS, b. 8 Aug. 1895 McNairy Co., TN, d. 5 Jan. 1967 Cortez, Montezuma Co., CO (both buried in the Dove Creek Cemetery, Dove Creek, CO) *These are my grandparents.


OKELLY E-MAIL LIST


If you have queries concerning the OKELLY surname, you may post these at the Okelly Family Genealogy List which is a part of the Rootsweb e-mail discussion lists. It offers free queries and discussion on the Okelly surname and variant spellings.

To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected]
Leave subject line blank (This will be ignored).
In the body of the message type: subscribe

Then a welcome message will be sent telling how to post messages. Once you are subscribed, you may send a query to everyone on the list by sending e-mail to: [email protected]

Archived postings to the Okelly e-mail list can be found on the WEB at:

    https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/

When prompted, type in OKELLY for the name of the list. A second screen will appear where you can choose a year and type in a search word(s). If you type in OKELLY you would probably get all the previous postings to the list. You can also type in a person's name instead or a locality to narrow your search. If you wish to do a search by date, try entering it in quotation marks with the day and then the month as "01 Mar" using single digit dates preceded by a zero and only the first three letters of the month.



ROOTSWEB OKELLY MESSAGE BOARDS

There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the OKELLY surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Okelly Message Boards.

Query Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any OKELLY name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.




An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the OKELLY family on GenForum. It can be found at the following address:

    http://genforum.familytreemaker.com/okelly

***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the OKELLY lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.


Tex Dick's Web Page, (has much info. on the descendants of Cynthia Redwine who married James O'Kelly of GA and MS and families they intermarried with such as Bond, Ballinger, Sartain, and Wade) maintained by Tex Dick.



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Last updated June 1, 2003.


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